Title: Vicious male partner must do whatever he wants* / 恶毒男配就要为所欲为
Author: 甜椒最甜 / Bell peppers are the sweetest
Year of release: 2020
# of chapters: 225
Status: Completed
Link to NU: n/a
Tags: quick pass, drama
*all names, titles etc. are an edited version of MTL, not an official translation
Summary: Lu Bai is bound with a system and must travel to different worlds to first collect favorability of the target and become a White Moonlight in these people's hearts. But Lu Bai doesn't follow the script as recommended, slowly unflding conspiracy behind the reason why he was sent to transmigrate.
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It's that type of branch that snapped under too much tension.
I will start from the ending to unwind the whole idea of this novel. Not surprisingly, another greedy god decides to use a powerful soul for nourishment, the target is out MC. In his original world he suffers greatly, as the story goes on we find out that he changed 6 goldmasters and they are all weird maniacs with their own desire for a stand-in. Lu Bai has been trained since early days, but was too young and unfortunate to being practically exchanged and get from one golden prison to the other. But the secret to these people obsessions is the White Moonlight in their heart, which ended up being Lu Bai himself, since Lu Bai travels to six worlds in all of them he finds one person like his goldmaster, they are main god's tentacles which are put into worlds to make, as it is know later, Lu Bai's reincarnation suffer in those worlds and nourish the soul through suffering. When Lu Bai in the end crushed the worlds he returned to original world where all 6 lived and helped to arrest them, because only in original world we find out that Lu Bai actually went to do it volunteerly and became police's informant. All six actually remembered Lu Bai from other worlds and Lu Bai became their White Moonlight from the on. And crushing them down also brought the main god down and Lu Bai changed places with him.
But. This novel after reading this amount of drama makes you feel - will Lu Bai be able to return as a normal person. The novel says that yes, since Lu Bai is so strong, but from other point reading all that makes you doubt the possibility of it. The ending was anti-climatic due to excess of drama on the way too.
CHARACTERS:
Lu Bai - our MC. He was left at the orphanage where he was picked up by first goldmaster. He had tough time growing up, but prevailed. System chose him, but first of all MC did not follow system's suggestion of catering perpetrators and repeating the script and later only when relationship between him and system got better shared the fact how some characters in those worlds are same as goldmasters in the original. He goes through enough suffering to finally reach the end and have his own happy ending, finding home and finding a beloved person.
ML - represents law. He is sent by the Heavenly Dao to supervize, since Dao noticed main god's moves and thus bound MC to deal with it, but ML is the law that can be used only when MC has no protection, he can usually be only a support. He and Lu Bai go through all worlds when finally reaching the cleaning of 6 goldmasters and being together.
System - takes little space, only serves as a support, has many limitations. Later changed contract of binding with Lu Bai to share soul pain with him.
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ARC 1
Tbh the 1st arc started not that great. It felt like other novels where character are too brain-dead for one seemingly weak person they want to protect, basically green tea bitch.
Original story: Lu Bai is a long lost son, he grew up for 20 years when he found he actually was mixed at birth, he came to look for original family, but for outsiders he wasn't only never aknowledged by his brothers but everyone thought he was a suitor. Lu Bai was bullied to no end and in the end had a bitter end. Later they aknowledge that he was a brother, but it didn't change much.
Lu Bai story: Lu Bai arrives when original host already lived at the Lu house for half a year, he was met with constant ridicule and bullying from his brothers and everyone around. This includes more serious stuff like hitting Lu Bai with a car, leaving him to live in a modly cold room, left alone in remote places and has to walk back home by feet etc.
Lu Bai leaves the Lu house and retalliates against the Lu brother and unfolds the mystery of original story, it has a great twist where Lu Bai finally uncovers the truth of his life in front of two brothers (one is a target) who did care about him. The mystery is that his father knew he was mixed, since he did it himself, so his weak son can be cared for, he used cold shoulder to treat Lu Bai all his life and even used his own life to cause psychological damage by comitting suicide next day after Lu Bai's b-day, he also left a loan on his head that might have ruined the boy's life. He also proves that not only the youngest brother they all were afraid would not be able to survive outside knew about it from young age, but that he knew his father, their parents knew, but didn't care and these two brothers were manipulated by the eldest brother into making Lu Bai's life unbearable, making them be his arms and feet in punishment but not doing it himself. This eldest had unclean thoughts towards the youngest brother, both knew they were not related by blood and by the end the youngest used it so the eldest would care about him for entire life and asked to deal with Lu Bai, but they were caught red-handed. Although this part was quite thrilling, but the ending of the arc was pretty smudged and hurried. As a result Lu family reputation was damaged, all brothers were detained for different charges, including attempted murder. Lu Bai due to body trauma didn't live beyond 35 years and became a world-renowned painter.
ARC 2
Arc 2 is more like a thriller story, although again has this feeling of too much which comes from the character behavior, almost all secondary characters act either really bad or minority has a good heart and it feels really flat.
Original story: The target - Xu Rui - has a White Moonlight of 10 years who went abroad for a long time, when he came back, Lu Bai, who acted as a stand-in, was ruined and spent, disappearing into nothingness.
Lu Bai story: Lu Bai crosses when the scandal breaks out, he is pitted by the so-called friend, but actually this friend was the one who brought Lu Bai to be a stand-in originally. The target happened to be a type of psychopath, for his idealistic image of White Moonlight he used to train children into the perfect stand-in. Lu Bai was trained with other 19 children from time he was 16, he debuted at 20 and had such a life of a copy before White Moonlight man turned back. But instead of falling Lu Bai became very aggressive almost pitting everyone around him using either black material or other stuff, since almost everyone around him used his status as a toy of a gold master to humiliate him. White Moonlight guy is actually a fake one, he just pushed those idealistic things for good image, but this became a template by which Lu Bai lived, his body was tortured, he was drugged to submit and even had electric pads for control (which already sounds too much). He also scared the White Moonlight with the love of this gold master to the point of him leaving to go abroad again and gold master leaving to chase as well, which opened Lu Bai a path and time to try and catch target's handle. And his aggressive image of course became more tempting in the eyes of the target who by now knew that White Moonlight lied about his leave to foreign country and that instead of recuperation after a case (which was fabricated), he married a wealthy man and waited for his death to inherit. The image of clean person was destroyed. On Lu Bai's side he uncovered the case of 19 boys who disappeared under Xu Rui's care, they all failed the test to become perfect and were actually burned alive and the ashes were to be used to create diamonds for the ring, which he will present his White Moonlight. It ended with Lu Bai's victory of course, of him stepping out of th shadow and finally realizing the dream of original host, but because his body was badly injured previously, Lu Bai in this world didn't live past 30.
This arc made me question the character building, since many acted very one-dimensional. Plus it was kind of weird that all subordinates took part in killing children, it was justified that Xu Rui had a handle, but I don't understand what type of handle one must have to exchange for 19 lives. To me it sounds weird how almost entire company has a handle in the arms of Xu Rui, but no one did anything with him, everyone was so passive.
ARC 3
This is where things started to get weird, because after finishing I can say for sure that my intelligence wasn't enough to understand why author wrote the way they did. 3rd world is an ABO world and it has pretty weird structure and law enforcement.
Original story: Lu Bai is one of the twins, his parents, he and the twin brother get into a plane crash, but only he survives, the fiancee of his twin brother retalliates against him, damages his gland, never helps with heat periods and in two years when twin brother arrives Lu Bai is pushed into asylum from which he escapes in few years but caught again, the end.
Lu Bai story: Lu Bai starts from the asylum escape with other people, he helps them to escape safely, but realizes that the team has a traitor, at one point he separates the team and goes into an experiment which is directed to helpt the equality rights between Alpha, Beta and Omega, which was carried out in a special prison (really weird setting tbh). And Lu Bai was put together with others, including Alphas, the experiment was broadcasted live. He came the winner of it and joined as a new part of Omega Association and created a special task force, Omega Association changed from the place that helps omegas to one of a deep waters. Lu Bai works to destroy the chess game against the target - Long Xiao, who puts traps at every corner for him. But Lu Bai concluded that this Long Xiao isn't the original Alpha, so he plays to revenge for all the harm done. In the end he uncovered a big case that it all started from fake Long Xiao's mother who got pregnant from Long family father, she also carried human experiments for gland transplantation (which I think would have ended illegal, since otherwise too many people woul suffer) and fake Long Xiao grew up under such care and thoughts that everyone is not even human formed. Later fake Long Xiao took place of the real heir and continued his mother's experiments in his desire to become the real Alpha (which make me question again, there was almost 300 children victims and no one has noticed for so long). Original twin Lu Yuan who framed his brother did it all for the money and fame, but didn't expect that as Lu Bai's value grew in Long Xiao's mind, less he will be needed. Long Xiao lost, real Long Xiao was saved, in time Lu Bai created a drug that will help omega to cope with heat and period after washing the mark. He lived far longer in this life honored with glory.
This arc Lu Bai guessed why he was put into reincarnation, since originally worlds and his original host should have served as nourishment for Lord God, but Heaven Dao intervened and chose Lu Bai who has a tough soul and won't act accordingly original script that is filled with humiliation. The connection of worlds Lu Bai concluded since people he comes across look exactly as ones from his original world he suspects not to be real too.
I had most questions for this arc, since I don't really see logic in such world-building, that first we go to prove Omegas can and only after create a drug. Because to prove equal right Omega was to be put into prison with others, despite the heat periods, not given inhibitors etc. Basically proving their point of strong Omega at the price of Omega's health, since it directly damaged Lu Bai's health and he later said he won't leave pass 40 years. Second question of mine was that there is a great number of pharmacist as mentioned, but no one is searching for a drug that might help the Omegas. The other question was about Long Xiao who has such deep roots and has people everywhere which sounded over the top, since as described he started planning early on and placed his people in many establishments, which come in conveniently in the story and this convenience seems out of proportion. And another thing concerning the storyline, it felt weird how the story spent enough time at first on secondary characters, but when it came to the villain he was dealt with pretty fast.
ARC 4
The vacation world where Lu Bai could let it go and act like a scum without much effort.
ARC 5
In this arc I felt that the reason for Lu Bai's suffering was pretty... cheap.
Origial story: Lu Bai got driven mad by his husband who used him as a talent to share burden of opening company and as a cashcow when it came to doing ads. It was a big conspiracy in which his husband had a love relationship with his White Moonlight, and intersex person, and they also had a kid and both aimed to drive Lu Bai mad.
Lu Bai's story: LB managed to overturn his overtrashed image and become a sad person who was neglected by cold domesting violance and was drown in his fantasies where he had a loving husband. In this world villain used hypnosis and psychological suggestions to slowly drive Lu Bai insane. ML could not be present, but he appeared as Lu Bai's hallucination, which only added realism to LB's play. Though it is obvious that White Moonlight is also used by the villain, but still the whole idea of driving people mad sounds so over the top. Sure thing the more mad the better for the main god, but the ending just fell flat because of that. In this world Lu Bai managed to drag the villain out, many people witnessed husband's derailment even during their still married status. He managed to drive the person to thec cliff and destroy his empire that was built on LB. LB didn't live long in this world due to mental illness and comitted suicide early to go to next world.
ARC 6
This is a school campus story. Again has a bit too brain-dead characters. Like why they keep appearing -_-
Original sotry: In this world Lu Bai has been bullied by protag at school, but since the status of the bully was so high many cases were scrapped under the rug. MC never got justice and comitted suicide leaving his diary and evidence which blew up, making bully leave abroad going through bullying too and returning to China where he met MC's younger brother, who became psychologist and helped him cope with trauma and slowly fell madly in love only later realize his lover was the one who drove his brother to suicide. He had accident, but was reborn and went to protag to "save" him, but with butterfly effect his brother who could have been saved was sealed in a barrel and slowly suffocated leaving no perpetrators.
Lu Bai's story: LB travels to moment where he was sealed, he was badly wounded, his kneecap destroyed, he managed to smash the barrel and use phone to attract attention of police, call ambulance etc. His braindead brother was with protag at this moment. Later even accused LB as one who tried to ruin these childrens' lives doing such a selfish thing as caling police etc. Of course he got his share of suffering in the end realizing the truth about protag and life too. Since no one listened LB tried to uncover the truth in his own way, by the way due to effect of rebirth now protag realized that he bullies LB so much since he is in love with him, he wants to see him bend and beg. That's why he used the little brother as a substitute, what this idiot later finally figured out after being practically tortured and almost shared with a group of people. As it happened LB's birth has a secret that is he is not the pro son, but was asked to be brought up (the reason why his case was sold for money originally), he belongs to a Lu family and later used their power to slowly chip off all bullies, including bending the protag's family (partially thanks to braindead brother who still promised to be with protag, but helped with colelcting evidence against protag family, later moved with his parents a lot and in the end was sold). Mostly LB used other people's hands. In this world main god wanted to get to LB portraying ML as a silent listener of MC's suffering, but it passed. LB had later a successful life helping others who went through school violence etc.
ORIGINAL WORLD:
LB gets back, helps deal with all six masters, who each have an arm too deep in some shady business. He also gets recuperated, honor for his service and has a lovely life before leaving this world at the end of his life and going to main space and finding main god who lost vitality due to all worlds being cut off and main god disappeared. MC and ML became what you call immortal and the system also turned into human.
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And after reading I had several questionable places. Like that amount of drama all the time made the ending insignificant. And in general it bare the amount of too much. Sometimes motivations were so... like really cheap or weird. Just for the amount of suffering MC goes through motivations like just getting expensive sounds unequal. Although I doubt that MC could return to being at least somehow normal, but it was justified that his soul is really strong, ok, though under such psychological burden it is hard to imagine, since basically he was most influenced by physical reactions/conditions of the bodies he got. Next is how in the original world he gets to smash all 6 masters at once, like why they were left like that was skipped.
The only satisfying thing was to finally see MC happy. He waited for who 6 worlds to get into his original body to fairly be with ML. But by this time I was honestly exhausted.
RATE: 3,5/5.
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