[Chinese BG novel] 当大佬拿了女配剧本(快穿) / When the boss takes on a supporting female script

Before I start, I'd say I agree with the rate of 8.5 on JJ.

We follow our female lead - QingLi - she's a traverser who changes the fates of characters who ended up badly. Most of the time they're victims, so QingLi is sent to allevate their grievances, so basically it's a revenge and face-slap type of novel. I partially started like/dislike with these novels, since if it's written well or just is appealing to me I don't mind that the novel might follow routine, but if it's no fun to me then I can't help but criticize. With this novel it's not that it's written badly, you can feel attentiveness of the author and the novel is readable, but from the other side in many cases I really couldn't feel the thrill and it didn't bring new things to the plate. It also lacked diversity of characters too, which eventually bothered me. Now, a little bit about those worlds and my sudden need to talk about copy-pasting of world hopping novels:

• World 1. We start with an ancient world (btw, unlike others here almost half the stories are about ancient times, not just one or two harem fights). In this world the character of QingLi lived a happy married life, her husband promised to never take a concubine, since the wife was in poor health and was hard to have a child. Her husband took off with the help of her family, but met an accident during which he lost memory and met the heroine, they lived together and husband decided to be responsible after recovering memories, which of course was met negatively by original owner. Original owner was treated badly in this family and had a bad ending due to framing of mother-in-law and consequent abuse through years which dulled her temperament, QingLi used many things like reputation and rumors to proceed with changing the fate of original owner and successfully divorced later not tolerating things like they did in their family. Btw QingLi retaliates against all people who did bad things to original owner, but that's why I find it rigid, since it's the same miserable ending for many "villains". Anyway, not really a common setting, I don't think I saw such combo of memory loss+concubine. But it was a bit slacky arc in terms of being thrilling, QL stayed along to retaliate and toss people, but also find out who killed original owner previously, which only sounds cool, but I wasn't as engaged.
• World 2. This was a boring one actually. Modern world. Original is an orphan, but she actually has a grandpa who is too ashamed to be in front of her because of the past, so he made a deal with a friend, sold patents in exchange for taking care about his granddaughter. Yet didn't really check how she was, he believed in reports made by this friend. So she became a child bride and was hated by the family and was always feeling inferior and suffered from all sides and also bullying. Taking over QL took off from their sphere of influence, became excellent in studying on her own and basically became a scientist like her grandpa, but because grandpa trusted too much into strangers that's why original owner had such bleak end. Tbh QL wanted to retaliate and such, but I couldn't understand the reasoning of appearing in front of her grandpa in all the glowy way, because otherwise she thought he wouldn't believe she was bullied and so he could uncover the truth how she was treated...honestly she could have arranged it differently and I kinda felt bad for grandpa too, because his character is shallow we don't really know if he's so awkward, but he lives with guilt, after QL was done she basically never contacted this grandpa since he caused her grievances... but why really making it so rigid.
• World 3. Again ancient script. In this one original owner was conspired against by her husband. This husband wanted to earn money on the road, but was retaliated by bandits, instead he used this as "saving beauty" plan against original owner and basically milked everything from their family that could be used and wrapped it as his now disability they should pay for. QL later was involved in teaching students who passed the imperial examination cutting path of of her husband's brother who they cultivated for nothing. Anyway, she safely divorced when uncovered conspiracy and later the husband and his family ended up badly.
• World 4. More modern script, but mostly again 70-80'ss. In this one original owner becomes an orphan due to sudden accident of her father, she was talked into a marriage, pension left by father was taken away, she became a step-mom to three devil kids who were against her. In original beautiful script a heroine travels back in time and defeats three devils with her care and love, but from original owner's pov it was a lifeless marriage, as soon as she was married husband left for army and came back not often, three kids were ruleless and often pranked original owner, in the end the accident made her lose a child, while others didn't think it was the children's fault, but accident, she retaliated with violence, which caused children to really deviate. But in this life QL left quickly, it was a trial marriage, new hostess came sooner and married the guy with kids, but things changed, they were same devils and her education didn't help, they were left unattanded since childhood and were lawless. QL instead took back money, started business, adopted a girl, later found a good guy to marry into the door and developed. What is different is that heroine couldn't handle the children and divorced, in the end she was supported with initial capital by QL, since she was sympathetic to the situation, no abs and handsome guy will relief the grief to educate the children. So they both reached success, which those kids regretted in the end their behavior and childish yet dangerous thoughts.
• World 5. In this one we have a reborn supporting role, in original text the original owner should be a heroine, but because of reborn supporting role she had more bleak end. Supporting role set off her excellence and superior background to be always compared with original owner, due to intensive suppression from all sides, plus husband who was moved in heart and never really understood her sacrifice. But it's just a supporting role play, since she wanted to infatuate the guy yet stayed with her boyfriend who loved her in last life. Instead QL divorced and became a dazzling star who didn't care. In the end things became a mess, company crisis of her parents company made supporting role temporarily switch, yet she still hated the male lead. She even wanted to raise child of other man with him, but it accidentally uncovered. Some things actually sound bizarre when you read them, like this loyal dog, he kidnapped the supporting role girl before the wedding and decided to kill them both but on camera, which is..weird, like why camera? Only because for everyone to know the truth.
• World 6. Maybe around 60-70'ss. Original owner had pretty short life, she was sold at the age of ten as a child bride to a fool, in three years was made to give birth and died. All because of the family situation. This is a story of deep pampering with quite often used setting of a late child, a baby daughter, which is pampered to no end. Thus this little aunt is too arrogant and basically because of her playing around and breaking leg family lacked money, parents talked their second son to sell their daughter. QL in this one escaped to mountains for some time, later she developed her mother's thinking to get divorce since her father was this unreliable. And because of this enlightment mother was able to call the police when things happened, in the end father and two parents were convicted and sent to reform. Mother and QL divorced and left. QL made enough money to build a house and started achieving success being technically capable. In the end she did a great job and helped a lot. This little aunt with disappearance of her parents didn't think much, but she hated hardships and only knew how to entangle, in the end was married off, yet hated this marriage and framed mother and son together, in the end she was retaliated for this and was killed, she always lived crookedly and always wanted to get shortcuts.
• World 7. The second child type of story. Similar setting I've read in other novel, just different details and development after birth, but in general same themes. This concerns second child policy. Original owner has quite old parents who decided to have a second child in advanced age. They thought beautifully with their traditional thinking and in that trajectory was a bleak story of a student who had to drop out because both parents had accidents and bringing up her younger brother was on her, she also got married for the money and often took money from family, which estranged her from children and husband. In the end original owner got divorced but was scorned by parents for being divorced and not welcomed by younger brother who never cared how much she paid. QL basically dumped both parents, earned her tuition, became a lawyer, only occasionally appeared to nourish parents, but basically never paid as they thought she would, in the end they became quite old parents and were accused by their son for being poor. Btw this guy actually was reborn. As often in such settings the pampered son was causing all the troubles and never appreciated what parents did for him. Parents also regretted the second child due to pressure to give birth to a son from outside world and opinion of others. So their retirement was suffocating. Once again QL was quite cruel, like paying for nanny yes, but if the nanny does a good job or if they're comfortable - never. This is all based that for years parents did not give her face. Yet in such stories the thing that bothers me the most is the fact that this is a different timeline and people might change, but she just gives a chance or two, but doesn't enlighten too much and in the end she dumps ppl like no biggie. She retaliates for actions of previous life in this life while things were a bit different.
• World 8. In this one original owner is like a tool person. Her marriage was only to help the husband get up from ashes, yet he had a sweetheart in his mind, so in original story the wife was slowly dying and then had to welcome her own cousine who became a consubine, never knowing that it was her husband who changed medicine for her to fall ill for so long. For this one I support that QL retaliated quite a lot, especially with similar medicine. QL nourished her health, pretended to be blind with how her husband treated cousine, later to be "virtuous" she welcomed several concubines, mixed herbs so husband will be active, since she planned to leave children yet become widow. Not forgetting to stumble her husband. The cousine didn't really care that she steals the meal, but later regretted it, especially after the husband was bound to bed. What was shocking because this girl did not want to be bound as a maid always taking care of this man, she eventually killed him and was convicted for this. QL was left a rich widow with a bunch of kids and concubines who treated her as best person.
• World 9. In this one QL supposed to play a heroine role of deep chasing crematorium. Original owner had leukemia, and in her stay at hospital connected with a boy downstairs through wire. But the boy who wanted to find her found the girl who stayed in same room and used QL's name as if it was her, in the end ML admitted wrong person. Later he met this girl again and became bf and gf, but original owner was left with nothing yet fell in love not knowing it's this boy. ML was prejudiced, yet later since the white moonlight actually took money from his family and went abroad, he eventually married original owner, but when the white moonlight came back he quickly dumped her. Only later he realized that he fell in love with his wife, it was her who saved him. But there was a bug, this fake white moonlight found out the future and basically used it to her advances, wanting to be the wife of a rich family, since she always was vane. QL dumped this husband and started her career. Eventually the truth resurfaced in her interview and ex-husband was shocked and realized that he was played around and only because the fake was pregnant with his child what saved her from retaliation. QL in this world is a capable business woman who found herself a new husband who was way cuter, she managed to retaliate against ex-husband and watch him lose. Later the fake left child and husband, since she wanted a rich life, not hardships.
• World 10. QingLi comes to cold palace, she is a daughter of demoted concubine. Now only her and a little brother were left and were on the verge of bad ending, thanks to QL's cultivating her own body and origial mother being taoist she gained taent to calculate things. In this world she should have married instead of a popular and cherished princess and have a bleak end, basically becoming a chess piece in the game and thinking she was cherished but actually not, but now QL used metaphysics to become a national teacher step by step, retaliated against all who originally conspired against her two siblings and ended victorious.
• World 11. In this world QL is a screenwriter and scum is her director husband. He is a DINK and they have more than 10 years age difference. They always lived childless, but she was a shadow of her husband. This was a different arc, since QL crosses two times. First time she avoids being stabbed and losing ability to give birth when catching her husband cheating in the club, instead it was her husband who was implicated. Later she crosses few years later when the plot kicks off. Her husband supported niece of a woman, with whom her husband almost cheated with. Originally she should have been betrayed by husband and nephew she took care of all those years, but in this one she basically chased all of them away as QL crossed. This new actress was actually a reborn person and wanted to enter entertainment and earn fame. Both husband of original owner and nephew were on her side in original trajectory, but original owner was chased away and also because of the wound should have lost ability to give birth, yet her husband decided he wants kids, so this led to betrayal. QL kicked them all away, became the director and screenwriter herself and did all the jobs. Basically she was always head to head with scum husband who eventually became ex-husband. Nephew's career hit bottom, since QL did not shy away saying she fed all those good years to a dog. All the scandals of that year were brought up, so all parties were implicated and public was on the side of QL in this. So it was the loud slap in the face personally and also in their career. Eventually everyone has a gloomy ending.
• World 12. In this one original owner grew up only having a father who had only career in his mind. So even if he knew that his daughter was framed, but yet he sent her to exchange anyway. Original owner in the reality show was often in the pit dug by the program, so she performed badly and was like a rat crossing the street, her father was also disappointed. So later he sent her away. This sending to a program for reform also a setting that can be met here and there. QL who arrived first performed well, but when it was time for reward used the phone to call police which triggered many things. But it made her father notice her more and started to teach and appreciate her. QL did things beautifully and enterted company and did a good job, making herself a next heir quite quickly. The cousine who dug a pit for her originally was tossed, but instead her was aggiated and attacked the father of original owner, which led to hospitalization and long recuperation. While QL was earning money like mad only for onw thing, bankrupt the whole company. And she did it. She later repayed all debts and travelled, but it made the father realize why she did it, but also he saw the dream where his daughter was framed, implicated and later met her worst end and he regretted that the little girl who was waiting for his protection became basically a tool and was not treated as a daughter, but realization was too late.
• Last world. Was quite short. Here QL is a daguhter of supporting role. Her father has a first love he can't forget, this first love was married to a welathy man, yet she later had unhappy marriage due to husband's cheating, she had an early death and as a soul she saw this person visiting her year after year and confessing his feelings, so when she was reborn she decided to switch to him to become happy. QL enlightened her mother and made her start a career, while they stopped caring about the scumbag father who already emotionally did not belong to this family. In the end both were divorced, yet the mother was safe and also changed her way of thinking. Yet for husband and little three, their scandal was known and even if they married later, because the little three wanted to jump from one wealthy family to another when things weren't going well she divorced again without nostalgia.

Anyway. Despite the novel not being brain-dead sometimes I really was a bit bored, YET! I wondered why it all comes to revenge and face slapping despite possible nuances. I just ask myself, why no line of retaliation deviates, because it is already a new timeline and things might change, but at times ppl get all the shit when they didn't do anything horrible in this timeline. Some scumbags indeed deserved bad ending, but not all ppl, sometimes it felt a bit.. too cruel? There is no enlightment at times for these peopl from QL's side, just revenge. But in general it's an ok story with its' own details. Oh yeah this one has no ML, sometimes QL can marry, other times not, can have kids or may adopt or be childless, depending on situation and original owner. SO it's a one-man show through and through. If I'm not wrong it's only one of the novels where QingLi is the main character. But I don't think I want to read the rest.

RATE: 3,5/5.