[Chinese BG novel] 受气包她不干了[快穿]

I loved it! Instant rate: 5/5.

Title that Google translate offers sounds like "she quits being an air bag". Def not correct :'D The author of this novel is: 三花夕拾. Date of release: 2020. Genre: world hopping.

Premise: Ning Chuxia is a hostess of a mediation program where she brings many family/social problems for discussion between parties. Then after a car accident a system offered to bind her and to return back alive she must travel worlds and through doing tasks solving the original hosts' problems, to accumulate enough and get back.

The summary is very simple and it sounds like many other stories, but damn I'm happy that I stayed, because what changed my mind were actually those stories that brought up different angles of social life and family problems. What bought me was the character of NCX who grew with her travels, but never changed her goodness, compassion and doing good deeds. She's a truly strong female character that is very appealing.

Now onto the fangirling~!

Worlds:

• I'd like to point out one thing that comes evident when you read it. Almost all stories are set in modern times, only one or two in ancient and not so distant future. And this is the part I found exceptionally particular, since I've read at least 4 or 5 novels of same genre, which more or less harbored the same style of world, since you always could find: village/educated youth story, ancient/harem story, future/interstellar story, modern/entertainment story, apocalypse/zombie setting story. All of these were present in all of those I've read, but not in this case. This novel basically picks up family drama and social issues as a setting as a result we see a completely different picture. Yes indeed NCX travels to different times, but they more or less concentrate on modern times. But the stories do not become weird or boring because of these settings, on the contrary, the writing and premises of some stories are diverse and interesting, it also has enough humor, dialogues and such are well-written to me. Yes, we do not escape from cliche settings at times (novel-y stereotypes that the story will have a vicious female second etc.), but the style of writing and what author managed to bring out are really interesting.

Characters:

• Ning Chuxia. From a get-go we know from descriptions that NCX is a strong-willed person. She came to her position from hard work. And as a result she worked as a hostess and met a lot of people, the description of some people she met could be shortly described as "hating iron for not becoming steel", it wasn't malicious in any way, more importantly for her this journey and through her travel when she first-handedly experienced many tragic stories of original hosts we can see and understand that some situation inexplicably just shape a situation or a person's temperament that leads them to their bad ending. In each world NCX reached a certain height in her career, but also I really liked the emphasis at some point that "in order to talk you must take a position high enough to be able to make changes", which was basically in worlds where NCX wanted to turn around some social issues that were prominent in original host's tragic story. So we have our strong female lead who experiences different settings and slowly but surely grows with it. Btw, this so far is the only novel where I liked how NCX and her relationships were handled. This novel is a solo stage, getting married is not in the consideration, but actually not ruled out, the main point is that NCX can get married in some worlds, but these relationships are so in the backgrounds and it's not annoying. There were at least 3 novels which I remember made me cringe how relationships were handled and it was almost as if female leads were playing with feelings of others. Here, despite the rarity of it, all parties are truly respectful good background partners)))).
• Original hosts. Due to this genre being one of my favorite I've read enough stories both BL (mostly) and BG. And I must say, in the specific category where MCs are asked to live a better life and change their destiny I sometimes noticed the absolute garbage handling of original hosts. For example when original hosts make fool of themselves or do things out of line etc. I hear MCs expressing a bit of disdain towards them, that's why I think, or it's just my imagination, through NCX and the story we could see that even if sometimes she's helpless because of original hosts due to her having a strong personality, but we can see that it's exactly due to environment and upbringing and the complexity of social interactions that original hosts suffered. Also I'd like to point out one thing I liked, original hosts may have the same name - Ning Chuxia - but they're all different, their appearance and age, their social status. Sometime NCX may be a young and beautiful woman, another time she's an ordinary girl even a little fat. Which in my opinion also helps to actually point out on many things that women have to deal with because of their appearance.
• World characters. Each world is different, each situation is different, each family is different. In the end we get a variety of characters to pick and choose from. Many of them with their own motivation and thinking. What I find fascinating is that the stories don't actually divide in only good or bad characters, some of them get a redemption part and are influenced to change. Some of course stay bad till the end. Refreshing part is the formation of sisterhood, friendship and parenting that we come across in different worlds. I like how some relationships came to be.

Short summuries (no spoilers on how situation turned around, who between characters changed and what NCX did):

• World 1. Original host was cheated on by her husband with her best friend. She's a housewife whose work was never appreciated and this hard work wore her out to become less attractive in the eyes of her husband.
• World 2. Original host is a left-behind child who had no idea how to get along with her father who became one of the richest men and finally took her back. She was taken advantage of by her "best friend", who destroyed her ability to reverse and used her as ATM in the end.
• World 3. Original host is a retiree. Both her children continued to suck blood from their elderly mother, basically cheated all her savings and abandoned her in poverty when there was nothing left.
• World 4. Original host is one of three children who live in a village. Since the eldest is a son and the youngest was always a frail girl, most of the work depended on her. In the end her wishes were neglected and she was the only one who stayed behind in the village to live a mundane life and never got affirmation of her sacrifice.
• World 5. Original host is in love with movies and is an actress, but her character is a bit blunt and withdrawn as well. She was used by her best friend for hype and was plotted against, in the end had to give up all the opportunities and leave the circle and not even being able to choose from movie-related jobs.
• World 6. Original host was replaced by her mother at birth. Her mother is a cold-blooded selfish person who was given ultimatum that if she gives birth to a son she will be able to enter the family. OH was treated badly by the family who found the truth, she was basically refused everywhere and couldn't complete her long-lost dream. 
• World 7. Original host (ancient setting) is an orphan with two younger brothers, due to their age and no one covering for them they were cheated of all their property left by a scholary father. In the end she was sold to marriage and the promise to bring up younger brothers became unfulfilled.
• World 8. It's a technical world. OH is actually a really smart person, but she met someone who used her as a spare, always hanging her and using what she could bring. She basically left her research work for this person, yet always helped in the lab, no one knew how much she paid for it and wasted years. In the end with all the effort invested she found out that the one she did all of this did not even bring any words of thanks, but was grateful to his true love and thanked for having a child making OH feel like she was shielded from everything and no one took care to clear things up.
• World 9. OH became an agent, the artist under her is a reborn person who basically had no real talent and used all future songs as his own to become unparalleled. He also squeezed all worth from OH, used her weakness of being isolated, yet was one who joked about her weight the most (OH is heavier in this one).
• World 10. OH lived with her bf for years without marriage who used all kinds of excuses to escape. In the end she had no idea he had a white moonlight in his heart which made him reluctant. Basically she became the vicious female partner who ruined "true love", but it was too late for her since years passed and she got nothing, while he used quite a lot resources from OH's family.
• World 11. A story about ordinary OH. The influence of her parents was a big deal for OH who was always told that she can't do anything, she is mediocre to achieve bigger things, she has to stay on the safer side etc. In the end she was made to work in a company of a relative, be squeezed by a superior, live unhappily, called "willful" when wanting to quit and becoming more than ordinary.
• World 12. The OH is a mother to "vicious female partner". But the premise is pretty tragic. Her first husband failed in business and later indulged in domestic violence, in the end was lucky to jump a wealthy family but took the daughter away who slowly became a waste. Wanting to buy her daughter back OH agreed to another marriage but was even unluckier, new husband was even worse and in the end OH died of abusse.
• World 13. OH was a left-behind child who stayed with her grandpa while parents left to start business, they also gave birth to another daughter, in the end both daughters lived in different environment which shaped their character. In the end OH who was brought back could not fit in with her family, she was isolated in class, but also was plotted against by her classmates, where they pretended to be a boy she liked.
• World 14. OH lost her parents and was left with younger brother and grandparents. She worked hard to achieve greater success, but it distanced her from her younger brother and she failed to save him from being deceived and used as a life meal ticket by a fellow university classmate. In the edn she was also refused by her bf who she always supported in his director career.
• World 15. OH was plotted against by a reborn roommate who used a pretext of caring and feeding to first ruin OH's body and later ruined her chances for future development when exposing an internet dating scandal where she used her own pretty photographs and insisted OH used them to cheat in online dating.
• World 16. OH is one of 15 underground lovers (as we find out). She paid a lot for her love, was coaxed to become nothing, lose everything and later had no evidence to prove the relationship and went through online violence with others, while the sea king bf enjoyed the fame and fortune. The bf has a system btw.
• World 17. OH suffered from cold violence. What she believed was a happy marriage turned out to be a nightmare filled with indifference. She was shaped into a marionette, was deprived of her personality and was filled with self-doubts through brainwashing from her husband, in the end was divorced with bad reputaion and was replaced by a "perfect lover".

IMPORTANT. Although it feels late, but better later than never ;D Anyway, although the story has some tw, but what I'd like to mention is that not all stories ended with a dead end for OHs. Yes, there were deaths, but not always. Most of the "ruined" life is expressed in actually living unhappily, wasting youth and resources, being muddle-headed and confused, filled with self-doubt and depression. This what I think also makes this different from other novels, because I saw way too often stories where OHs were plotted against, but their ending was truly miserable, but I actually liked how author handled it here, that not all BE should be assosiacted with death or poverty, sometimes it's just such unhappiness and loss. I really liked the premise of these worlds, they all pick up on different family situations and it was interesting to watch how NCX handled it all. Most of the time she followed the path that OHs would choose according to their wishes.

The last thing I'd like to say after all the praise are the things that almost prevented me from reading. The thing is that I don't like when the system requires "no OOC", this I find not interesting at all, especially when author doesn't actually follow this setting in the later parts, yes at times NCX does follow the character of OH, but most of the time she simply does it for a while and then tries to naturally change or at other times changes quite quickly. But it's the problem of the summary, the original summary was talking about no OOC and I thought of not reading it, I also skipped the first arc which I might in the end re-read in full. But I'm glad I preserved and kept reading, in the end to me it became such a great novel.