Title: Cannon fodder stand-in alliance* / 炮灰替身联盟
Author: 八爷党
Year of release: 2021
# of chapters: 120 (+extras)
Status: Complete
Tags: transmigration, one world task, starting business, entetrainment
*all titles, names are an edited MTL version
Summary: Cheng Lang travels to a world of a book to become a stand-in among others to become a background decorum in an abusive relationship between two protags. The overbearing president Lu Chengxuan, who never knew ill, found that all the fish in the pond managed to escape his sight and his "white moonlight" was among them.
Storyline: This novel is different from transmigration novels among others, the point is it describes only one mission world and I think it's great, I really liked this idea where you can incorporate some things of the transmigrator among fully developed storyline of the world. Alternatively, CL is given this mission because this world kept collapsing. In the original storyline Shen Huaiyu, the protag shou, had his parents lost in an accident and his brother become a vegetable. He came to work in a night club to earn money where he met Lu Chengxuan, his perpetrator and started the abusive relationship with him. LC acted like an overbearing foreceful president, he pestered SH all the time and basically forced him into relationship. Rumors of SH to work in a night club also reached the uni, but since his personality was introverted he never explained himself. Other stand-ins like Cheng Lang's character were also destroyed by LC being in their way. Due time SH's defenses and personality were completely destroyed and he as a person as well. CL took action and reversed everything, since he never acted according to the script. I loved his motivation that he didn't want to leave scumbags like LC alive and kicking, this was not love, it was abuse and it was disgusting.
CL rushed in like a star, he grabed on many opportunities, becoming member allowed on stage in the club where he used his best skill cross-talk and he aslo sang well, but his ambitions were much higher. He befriended SH slowly opening him up, he helped him with money his uncle swindled out of him to help pay medical bills otherwise he'd have taken from LC. He also cleared rumors and such. They slowly started a small business and he used SH's talents as a literari soul in this case, their milk tea shop with varous gimmicks and promotions as well as their own style and great taste swayed more and more customers and their business slowly expanded. On the way CL also met with other cannon fodder people who he helped out of predicament, but also used this to help himself and their company grow and show what he's capable of (vivid example is how he made a listed company lose a great fortune in the market after the exposure of their dealings in a talent show where one of the cannon fodders, a singer from same night club, was a contestant). Many customers from the same club were actually swoon by CL, not in a romantic way, but they foud him hillarious and those who saw and took part in the market play found that he is capable, so he won't stay in the club for long. CL's idea was slowly but surely taking shape and you could understand why he actually started a tea business, it's a business that SH could support due to his knowledge, CL was slowly teaching him to walk out from te shadows and become confident in himself, despite the past and everything LC did to him and become self-dependent. Which SH did by the end of the story. Which completed the reverse of making LC and SH basically switch positions of president and a pauper. All points of the storyline were completed beautifully with alternatives.
Due to story being very much concentrating on several relationships with CL being the center of it, the only part that suffered was the romance between MC and ML.
Few words about the ML. He's although an iceberg, but is a nice and righteous person inside. He is actually the "white moonlight", not SH, just so we're clear. LC was coveting Qin Mu (ML) for a very long time. But in the end he used SH as a spare. Qin Mu was instantly attracted to Cheng Lang when he saw him and after few meetings they had a relationship contract ready, but unlike LC who abused and humiliated SH, QM was seeing CL with the mind of getting married. Our snow leopard (cute nickname he got), was all out after his wife. And they came together early and were a power couple though their relaionship after getting a strong lock of "through thick and thin", after this "thin" part os one night event, their relationship moved to the background a bit, but it was mentioned and shown from time to time. The most wonderful thing, although it was not clear how Mr Snow Leopard and especially CL fell so hard in love, but CL's intentions were clear, he decided to take QM with him. QM in the story was actually not a significant character, so his absence and such were not threatening to the world itself.
Unlike many transmigration novels I've read before, it is reoccuring theme where MC becomes someone who is served on a platter by ML, but lately I see more and more hard-working MCs. CL is no exception, he didn't want to involve QM and be noticed by the world's consciousness, so he brought their small tea shop in the beginning to become a new upstart company with prospects by himself and his decisive rule.
It's a very fast-paced, easy to digest novel, it has its' own twists and turns and before you know it it's over. CL is righteous and hilarious and decisive at the same time. Although he is considered orthodox and different from other taskers, but your heart is with him on his ideas. I liked the idea of this novel and the executions, it fully completed what it wanted to present.
RATE: 5/5.
No comments:
Post a Comment