I was thinking about we all often forget that Shuli, in her current body, is 16 and I'm wondering how shocking it would be for the characters in the story when they also remember she's like 16 and still has so much authority/charisma.
On that note, I'm actually so happy that this series made her her actual mental age. Most time travel stories completely disregard that aspect. Most of the time I feel that the time travel/reincarnation aspect of stories is really pointless and exists purely to add more conflict however in this story it's really appropriate. It shows that Shuli was always capable of this type of critical thinking in the political world however because she lacked the emotional maturity and drive in the first timeline, she could never showcase this talent to the world. Having her mentally 20+ in her 16 year-old body really adds such a nice twist in the story that makes logical sense. It makes me really glad that we all forget she's 16 in the second timeline because it means the author wrote a mentally mature/time travel character correctly.
I'm also kinda wondering about Shuli and the late marquis's relationship. I feel like they had a very teacher-student relationship but it would be so nice to know if they saw each other as like father-daughter too. (if anyone has spoilers hehehehe...)