[Chinese BG novel] 重生之顶级超模 / Rebirth of the top supermodel

This novel gave me such a strange feeling after reading it for a while. I have so many things to comment on (funnily, people in the comment section share this aspiration). I'm on chapter 199 when this novel has a plenty 531 chapters in total. It's a rebirth novel which is also about transmigrating. It's hard to understand without describing in more details, so here we go.

Kong Ling had a particularly hard life and tragic death (like author really dumped all the possible tragediec on her to make her life experience this bad). Kong Ling was a result of a one-night of her mother with unknown man, this was a shame that stuck with her mother all her life, she also was unfortunate because mother and daughter were trafficked to a village and returned back home when Kong Ling was around 9 (I think it was 9, it was mentioned in the text briefly). Since then she was scorned by the grandmother in her family and her mother was always under verbal abuse. Since no one wanted such a "wasted" and "used" product like her mother, even if she didn't want to she re-married to a man who also had a son. What she did not expect, but in the end never stopped was the advances of her new husband towards her own daughter. This broke out in a tragedy (tbh again I think it was mentioned, but the language and thus mtl was so garbled that it was hard to understand). Kong Ling died, but was also dropped under a cliff. Here she came into contact with some unknown grass, which helped her to be reborn, she traveled back when she was still 16 and her mother was about to re-marry and she could change things for herself, her idea of being independent and far away from this family was almost haunting her. But while she was reborn at unknown time she opens her eyes and finds herself in a different world, with a different identity, she lives these lives, gains experience and goes back to real life before the next transmigration arrives. Thus when in real life she was only 16, but she already lived few extra lifetimes, gained extra experience which could help her leave this hellish place, so she looked 16 yet had a conflicting mature air around her and was profecient in different things no one knows when she was able to learn.

Now, why I have a bad impression of it. Before we start let's mention one important thing - the typos. Even the comments were mentioning it constantly that  the writing is messy and there's ton of typos. I agree with that, since at times mtl was unbearable, it's often messed up and you have to spend extra brain cell to get what author meant by this or that. Also there's no indication that the novel will be switching between rl and other worlds like that, I only got it after reading for a while.

The first thing I couldn't get is why give the heroine such a tragic life experience that is filled with filth. Of course she managed ot get rid off her family, but in a different way, she basically lied that she had a lover who will pamper her and she's ready for such rich life, thus the family cut ties with her, since they were the most ashamed of her and she needed independence, while she went to university and basically never wanted to see them again. Oh yeah, btw since she's the heroine who travels she has become smarter and remembers things better so she finished high school earlier and entered university to study finance. But of course those lives gave her experience and we must blow it out of proportion. She is always described as insightful and others are impressed by her ability to look at people and control the field and talks, but tbh it also felt like a lot of catering to her personality or her experience, which tbh resulted in a mess of things. To give an example let's look at her experience: in one of her lives she played stocks and became profecient with such things, in reality she used this knowledge when came to the dean of their department to become a disciple, she also played stocks in rl and later she came into contact with one of the richest people - Xiao. Nothing bad about their relationship, simply partnership in the end (what I did not understand in how many gossip surrounded them, while she's still underage, it was gross). She figured out his big plan in a play between companies, so she took part and later entered the field of giants. Many people thought she was just a vase since she has a mixed race face and is also really-really beautiful. Yet only those who came into contact with her realized her wisdom. But also in other lives she had different experience, what I couldn't get why it was used at times. One thing is like ability to speak foreign language, which is a peaceful skill and that's it, but there was a show she filmed and they traveled to a foreign country where they became hostages and she pulled off blockbuster stunts she learnt in a previous life, so it's basically really a scheme of life experience that is applied in a real life instantly. 

One of the biggest things that bothered me was Kong Ling's messy ambition.

At first she was seeking financial independence, but at times I could not understand her urgency like someone is chasing after her if she doesn't reach the peak, and trust me her ambition is really high. How high? Politics. You may ask - but where is the top supermodel came from? I also can't figure her out why she sticks to everything. Simple EVERYTHING.

Kong Ling's first job was to be a model, she got her first money which she used for tutoring in university. She later took photos which also gave her first nickname - Peacock. She later goes to university and has a loose "contract", which can hardly be called that with a company that follows her modeling career. She chose modeling since it's quick money and she needed a starting capital. Why she'd need it? For her ambition tbh, she always gives the feeling of I want more and I want to be in a position that nobody can touch me. But with her modeling career she can hardly be called dedicated, she had only a handful of jobs while other offers were pushed back. She also mainly aimed to get a better oppotunities to raise her price too. She also came into contact with the Xiao family through president Xiao himself. She played within the company he led, they also played around before being laid off (which was also one of the big plans involving Xiao family matters). Due to one of the lives where she learned computers she came back and started a game company with Xiao, but she basically started it, put it on track and later left not really mentioning it unless she modeled for the game they created. Again, why she would need that is unknown to me, you have a company here, have shares there, in general she's very successful, but keeps on going and often goes into dangerous risky operations. She also keeps up with her modeling career and they opened an entertainment studio making her model/star of some sorts. She is basically a public figure, but with little to no experience and shaky foundation tbh, since she had almost no works that should support her "greatness", her being part of the company was also something strange in a combo, like I'm a model, but I'm also here managing a huge company. Tbh it just looked bizarre because she kind of like grabbed things, partially did them or not and went along like that. After one of her lives where she experienced what it's like to manage the country she was inspired to enter the politics arena. I kid you not I was like - WHY?! And not herself, she pushed Xiao to do it. Tbh Xiao never mentioned he wanted to enter politics, she just decided these things on her own.

As for the stories she goes through.. I must say they're completely nothing new. They're also can be long or short and start at the weirdest point (like really suddenly). So she goes through these worlds, the grass on her ankle blooms (LOL forgot to say, the grass landed on her ankle and it grows with each life, so it is nourished by this experience I guess) and it has some purpose. It is also evident that she's not the only one like that, in one of her lives she met a person (so I suspect it's going to be a romance story instead of No CP, but who knows), this person also helped her out in one of her lives where she died unexpectedly. But it's still a mystery to me what's the purpose and who is that man, since I'm still reading and I'm very far from the end.

In a short form, her messy ambition of grabbing here and there, starting this and that and dragging all this buggage along is what made me feel strange about this novel. Too many rainbow farts for Kong Ling really left me with a subtle emotion, since the execution of her greatness was questionable to me. Many things it feels are created just to cater her and not be an organic and nicely put together story. So I'm here with only few words of "anything and everything" left in my head after reading.

RATE: 2/5 so far. It's just messy to me. Nothing horrendous about it, it's simply messy.