[SHORT REVIEWS] #3

Short reviews again, for a reason hat I read it quite some time ago, but I'm going through bookmarks and try to put a summary for all the novels I apparently missed way-way-way before and those which are not on NU atm.

夺位[重生]

(mtl: Take the position)

I remember this novel was pretty wild. The MC Bian Yi was replaced by a traveller who looked exactly like him, he was also trapped in some weird place where he could only watch what was happening with his husband and also his son. His marriage life was ruined, since the husband's head was green and the son also had traumatic experience of molestation. Bian Yi went completely crazy and after years of this imprisonment he died. He was reborn in the first year of his imprisonment and what he did? Bought a knife and went home threatening his husband for blindness, but what he heard from his husband - It's been 17 years, you're finally back. Why I say this shit is crazy is because both these individuals were mentally unstable for some time, Bian Yi also had trust issues, since he knew what he saw, but later on there was doubt in that, because the main point of what was shown to him is to drive him mad. Like the interactions between husbands was fake, his husband knew this was a fake, but the whoring of the fake Bian Yi was real. The assualt on his child was faked too. If I'm not wrong it's all about making the fake pay and also come in terms with each other after some time. Anyway, quite a crazy novel.

你是我宝贝[重生]

(mtl: You are my baby)

Again, this was from long time ago and I have a vague memory of it, but have a residue feeling of mainly what it was. Basically Jiang Suifeng is the true third master of the Qin family. He had a crush for ten years and loved Lu Xiye dearly, but never got a response. What he didn't know is that there was a misunderstanding between them, Lu Xiye had someone in his heart, but he misunderstood Jiang Suifeng (later Qin Moyan in the novel), he was the one he was searching for so desperately, but had no idea the person he was looking for was always close to him. When it came to truth it was already too late. Jiang Suifeng goes back to the past, he decided to live for himself now, but the Lu Xiye he knew now acts the opposite and chases him. I remember that I had a feeling that this novel was a bit long, there was enough entangeling between the two. There is also a slight entertainment aspect to this novel, but not entirely. But also what I remember (if I'm not wrong lol) is that I had a feeling that all of MC's friends whom he helped had way better career than the one he had. This novel is tagged as "drama" and it's true it has that melodramatic feel. But judging from my short notes I said it's okay (yeah my notes can be such a short note).

反派炮灰攻只想咸鱼

(mtl: The villain cannon fodder just wants to be a salted fish)

God, how many novels and their titles sound the same. But this one is really, a bit of an eye-opener. Okay why I say it is because of the gong, he basically pretended to be an offender on a bus two times and scared MC, but before I have to explain the situation and not for the sake of justifying ML, no, his actions were a no-no. Yu Xian was sick in a hospital and read an inexplicable novel where a cannon fodder had the same name as him before he passed from hospital to novel. This novel is a heartthrob novel with no logic where Shen Mang is the protagonist with many men trying to carry favor and get him. While the novel Yu Xian is nothing more but a vile, obsessive and onscene illegitimate fan, who got a short lifespan in the novel, because he drugged Shen Mang and was caught in the end. Yu Xian traveled at the moment where the tragic path of this cannon fodder kicked off. He was in the room, Shen Man was already drugged and even handcuffed. Yu Xian pleads guilty and basically lies down for Shen Mang to take his anger on him, in the end they have a long night full of xxx. Yu Xian escapes early and isn't caught. But he still was caught up with other two people connected to Shen Mang, one of them is obsessed president Qin Yu and the other is not blood-related brother from the reformed marriage. Yu Xian worked in QY's company, he was fired because QY caught him lying about a small thing. YX switched to teaching where he met Gu Xing, the younger brother. He had no idea he was the brother, so they became like friends. It all sounds peaceful, but from the other side we should mention Shen Mang, he is the one with questions. First of all, I hate such settings. No matter how things and people change, but previous Yu Xiang existed in this world and he was a damn pervert, authors when they put such settings don't really have good ways to resolve previous behavior, like okay gong found out through various things like writing and behavior that two seems opposite, but others know nothing of it, his past was even used against Yu Xian for Qin Yu to make a move. But this is not the weirdest part, what I find weird in such situations that gongs are quite easy to change and sleep with someone who disgusted them just a moment ago. Later he took a close note of Yu Xian when he found who he is, but the weirdest and most bizzare part was how Shen Mang went to molest Yu Xian on the bus covering himself up so he won't be recognized. For him this was fun, he had fun watching Yu Xian, but this was something else. Of course Yu Xian haven't recognized and it left him with fear (I "love" how Yu Xian is described as a big-hearted person and forgot about molestation on the next day, but when he rode on the bus again and met Shen Mang again it wasn't that easy again). But what really gets to me how authors allow themselves to write protags who think of a one-night stand in such situation and get a tiniest response, I don't mention later when he was out cold under the influence of drugs and it was obvious that Shen Mang helped him to relief he dreamed of white snake (though he doesn't know Shen Mang keeps a white snake at home), he kept remembering the snake and thought it was his inner desire. Anyway there's so many questions, even the novel is full of questions too from other users, lol ppl are awake and don't buy such thing. And it's the third part of entire novel and I don't think I'd like to continue, because later the entire novel (as I took a peak of several last chapters) is all about the love show where Yu Xian takes part in it (of course falling in love with Shen Mang, though not until the end I must say). Everyone needs therapy. Even if Shen Mang is a reborn character and yeah he has psychological burdens and you can understand him, but they all need therapy.

与病娇男二he

(mtl: My HE with a villain)

It's a BG novel. I'm in the process of reading, so I can't say for sure, but so far I'm liking it. Although it smells like a shoujo manga at times, but for some characters it fits. Anyway, the story is about a modern girl traveling through the book. Meng Xian (or Meng Yuan, I don't know Chn so I have no idea what name is right it translates as both) comes from a divorced parents household, of course none of the parents wanted her, so she stayed with grandma, the life was hard, when she grew up it was harder. Traveling through the book and being a daughter of a sect master, being righ second generation in cultivation she thought she can distance herself from the plot and live a happy life. But before she could do anything she met a near-death experience scene, right where her cannon fodder was going to receive the lunchbox. She knew the second male lead - Si Zhuo - was near and she knew from the book what he needed, so she threw her trump card making Si Zhuo save her. Yet before she could breathe and go back she was dragged by Si Zhuo, who couldn't trust this woman who suddenly changed her attitude, through adventures that weren't for her poor heart and low cultivation level. easy to guess that Si Zhuo is our ML. He's from the ancient bloodline of monsters (smth like winged snakes), but had an accident during cultivation and now he needed several items that could help him recover. Meng Xian knew one or two from the book, thus she was taken on adventure she didn't want to follow, but who made this man so villainous. In the book Si Zhou is described loving the heroine Ning Zhen, but MX while reading could not agree, this SZ often cheated other people, was a complete mystey in general. As she could see for herself it was true, his main goal was to heal himself and the reast didn't matter. But due to their entanglement with Meng Xian he started to feel what he never felt before. This part is very shoujo, but tbh it is consistent with his character, he's a monster, he never loved, he doesn't know what love is, so all his actions depend on mood and thoughts. And the plot itself isn't bad either, there's world of cultivation, there's a conspiracy, anyway despite that it's a real slow burn, it's not that bad. Anyway, I'm going to do a full review on this one.

豪门真少爷他满级回来了

(mtl: The real young master of the welthy family is back at full level)

This one was in bookmarks and I never made a review on it, so my memory is hazy, but I remember the overall thing. Ning Changqing is our MC, his first life was ruined at a young age and he bound a system to travel, he now returns to the first life (which is where the plot of this story kicks off) and first of all refutes the obvious public accusation from the person in front of him. If I'm not wrong this was a set-up from the fake young master who knew the news. Anyway NCQ is the real deal, but before he became one he was set up like this, now he can turn things back and fix them. Also the best things NCQ was capable of after returning was healing. And he wanted to heal only one person, but to prove that he's not a quack he also managed to heal several influential people (smth like comatose person, one with leg problemts etc.). The person he wants to heal and him have a past, in this past Lin Heng was kidnapped and NCQ happened to witness it, he worked really hard and wanted to escape together, but in the end Lin Heng asked him to escape first and call for help, which NCQ did. Yet this kidnapping case and suffering left a root of disease in Lin heng. Also before the saved Lin Heng could reconnect with NCQ after the accident the fate parted their ways. So NCQ has a certain goal when it comes to healing one person. And this healing process brought them together. This was an okay story to me actually. Nothing over the top, just a normal storyline, fine characters.

万人嫌阴郁受重生了

(mtl: Thousands of people feel gloomy and are reborn)

Funny thing!! This has really high ratings on jjwxc, but I dropped it :'D

But indeed the title of this novel should say it all and coincide with my notes - everyone is suffering, it's too gloomy. I understand it's a drama, but still I'm not the one who goes for suffering without an end.

What I remember from this one, which is again one of bookrmarked novels that I never reviewed, is that the original Chun Di returns to his house, he was switched at birth, but now that he was back with joy and trepidation, no one was actually waiting for him. He was like a black stain everyone refused to admit having on their clothes. In the end Chun Di became gloomier and gloomier. He wasn't talented, but mainly how could he be expected to achieve heights when he never learned. And he was despised for it, which was truly dumb and rang the bell for me. The one who was switched with him - Lin Zhongtan - on the other hand was really talented. He was accepted by many, while Chun Di was isolated. You would not expect him to end well, right? He even went to seduce Lin Zhongtan, which resulted LZT having several poems made public under the name of ChunDi, but he was exposed in public and Lin Zhongtan looked at him coldy, this was the evening when Chun Di died, thrown into the river and drowned. Unlike rebirth text we follow a character who was returned to the place he should have belonged to and we follow all the hopes being crashed and burnt all the inferiority magnified, the depression growing. He used the relationship between the two to feel a little bit of advantage, yet it spread that he whored around and everyone laughed at him, although everything is said as first person, but from the replies you could hear that Lin Zhongtan is sincere and also he gave poems for him alone, but he spread them and they became his own as a result, he felt vain a little but later couldn't stop the spread, so he was exposed because of it and he ended up on river's bottom. It is the first part of the novel (around 30ch), before Chun Di is reborn, and he is reborn into the body of the ninth prince. And not long after I dropped it, because it just squeezed the drama too much, sometimes authors don't know how to balance things. ChunDi who returned had such a mass of negative feelings from all the neglect and ridicule that was going around him. The person he came together and started feeling something for him betrayed him as he thought. Not a single soul was on his side, so you can expect it's all sharp knives and makes you cry. And too much crying makes my head hurt, so I start being irritable. But yeah, too much gloom. This is the reason for me droppong it, but you can read it, it really has surprisingly high ratings. usually with BL it's ok to have like 8.6, but this one was 9.6 at the time of me checking.