A Transmigrator’s Life as a Widow’s Maid

This is a novel whose title doesn't do it justice. When I first saw the title, I thought it was one of those terrible novels, but I was looking for something to read lately, so I opened it and found it wasn't. Haha, it's pretty good.

I've read it several times and I really like this type of female protagonist. She's easygoing, faces reality head-on, and is very down-to-earth. She doesn't rely on any special abilities, doesn't complain or blame others, and isn't extreme or cowardly. She simply lives her own life, doesn't dwell on unrealistic things, lives in the present, and is kind, simple, and free. It's a great novel.

The female protagonist transmigrates into the body of a maid named Chun Tao. Entrusted by the lady she serves, she flees with the young master. They then settle in the countryside as a widow and work hard to make a living and become wealthy. The beginning of the story is quite good.

The book's setting shifts after the Tang Dynasty, not to the Song Dynasty, but to the Zhou Dynasty! This means history takes a turn from here. So here's the question: Xue, the concubine of the wealthy Zhou family, is also a time traveler, just like the protagonist. She warned the protagonist that he would die in battle and knew the drought would last until October (how could she have known this beforehand, given the changed historical trajectory?). Is this a flaw? A logical error?

The beginning was quite good, with farming, raising children, and harmonious prosperity. But it got less appealing later on. Every child had a mysterious past (Yu'er's biological father, Wenxuan's mother's background), and there were multiple transmigrators, some awful characters on the male lead's side, etc. It felt like they were trying to do too much and ending up with a mess.

I've read up to chapter 24, and I can't help but complain: The female lead impersonates someone else, using a fake identity prepared for her—Wang Linshan's wife—and even has a "son." The strange thing is, everyone who knows Wang Linshan, including his uncles, aunts, and cousins ​​from the same village, doesn't show the slightest bit of doubt or surprise about this suddenly appearing…

One way to distinguish between male and female ducks is that female ducks quack loudly, while male ducks don't quack and only make a clicking sound like their throats are being squeezed.

Every time I read Chapter 55, I laugh until my stomach hurts!

Who said we can take a bath during postpartum confinement in our time? The female lead immediately proved them wrong. 🙂🙂🙂

I've read several hundred chapters, so let me share my thoughts. The beginning was alright, including the management aspects, but honestly, it lacked a sense of conflict. It wasn't conflict for the sake of conflict, but rather a lack of real solutions to the major crises the protagonist should have faced. Almost all the responses were all bark and no bite…