[SHORT REVIEWS] #2

 男神黑化之前[快穿]

(mtl: Before the male lead blackens)

Author: 唐宓. BG. First reaction is - unhh what? Because it's pointless, takes itself too seriously. Ridiculous to the max. I spent time only on reading arc 1, I can tell I won't really like the rest of it.

Arc 1 tells this: Wen Nuan (our heroine) gets hired as a nanny for the heir of Feng group - Feng Yue, who is in the state of paralyzed with meds person. He was planned by his "best brother", a friend who was fed since childood by his father that if it wasn't for Feng father he would be successful, though he simply did not manage to invest correctly himself thus failed in business and this failure basically broke him mentally, he abused his wife and son. Thus his son grew up hating everything, he was poor and shunned by everyone, so he hated Feng Yue, in the end he managed to plan him and not after accident Feng Yue was fed meds that kept him from moving. His "fiance" was an orphan who was brought in by Feng mother, but she basically did nothing and played victim to jastify her immoral behavior when this good brother used her as a bed partner (even in front of Feng Yue). Anyway Wen Nuan comes here and basically changes the situation slowly. My pet peeve number one, FY feels good towards WN right away, though always was more on a suspicious side. Next pet peeve is how in these novels you can't really get if the heroine is good or bad, she plays a character or she is really this silly white. She basically did nothing, only accompanied him and changed meds to vitamins. But it was all sunshine in this dark world of course. Anyway, the disgusting part that almost entire arc it's all fiance and good brother humping in every corner, basically good brother wants to get a reaction from FY. When he realized that FY doesn't really care about fiance then he switch to the bunny, though he didn't say he would make a move. It's so tasteless, like it's a short arc with only 12 chapters, most spent in a villa, few scenes that should bring the warming up (not only emotionally but physically too), but they feel gaudy, the situation is simply unimaginable that a heir to a huge group won't have any decent loyal assistant or other person smart enough to see the design, that he was like this. And only his friend doctor found out his situation and helped him, but it was all like help in secret...what? The finale is stupid af, where during fiance's b-day dinner good brother proposes to WN thinking no sane woman would choose person in a wheelchair, but he miscalculated, also suddenly the band that was playing while all fuckery was going on are police who wanted to witness firsthand before arrest. This is so stupid that I'm speechless. Like before that if one knew that meds are changed, that's the evidence. You can force him out and recuperate. It's so pointlessly written. I'm simply shocked, good thing arc is short with all the happy ending etc. But I just wanted to drop it into book hell where it belongs. Haven't read something so stupid in a long time. I join everyone who was confused in comments under this novel on jjwxc - why is this in recommended. And also where are the ratings coming from? RATE: 1/5.

为了吃饱我嫁给了新帝

(mtl: To get a meal ticket I married the new emperor)

Author: 逸烛. BL. Dropped this one after several chapters. I might be wrong, but honestly, I have prejudice towards novels that have characters traveling from end of times to ancient or modern times that have abundance of food. What I do not believe is their reaction. Because it's always the same, I met several novels like that and they all start the same, MCs start gobbling food and they kept eating and it became their daily activity, which isn't anything fun number one. But also they act to me like people who saw oasis in the desert. I can accept their oversaturation with food within the first contact, but I can't completely believe how they consume food constantly after that. First of all, at first they can consume psychologically, but physically they overstrain the body they travelled to, by far haven't seen one author who would actually describe a stomachache from overeating. Secondly, I think there's part of adaptability to new environment. Anyway, it's my take on it. Authors can write as they want, but they all write the same.

As for the story itself, well, MC goes back to his first life, if I'm not wrong I stopped paying attention. He can't remember shit though. He is married to a king who in the future will be new Emperor, also has a pretty notorious reutation, but he actually wants revenge on his family who were falsely accused by the emperor who was simply afraid of the military power. This king witnessed the aftermath of the execution and went berserk, met a cute child who helped him and figured out the child is MC because the sachet with crokked embroidery was the same. I know it should be interesting and I was also hooked up by the summary, but honestly it was eating, eating and almost always eating at all times, I can't handle it. I don't even want to figure out that MC might be really cool at other times, but so far he had no redeemable sides to him, just eating. Bye.

和死对头协议结婚后怀崽了

(mtl: Getting pregnant after marrying my rival)

Author: 森木666. BL (mpreg). I wanted to sigh when I started this. Again I see MC with no redeemable sides to him. I could not get why ML fell in love with him, but it was described as love at first sight and that's it, deeply rooted emotion. I started it and read last chapters and it was enough. This novel is short and is basically starting like this: MC's family is going bankrupt, MC's nemesis, as he calls him, offers help, which is accepted by MC's family. Their business is saved but also they have to get married. MC always hated on ML, but this hate to me is pretty childish. MC is basically a dude, no motivation, only acts like a cool dude and fights. He fell in love with a girl who friend-zoned him and said she liked ML, which sparkled hate. Basically it's like excellence of one person made you dislike them and MC went to fight time and time again, though was defeated a lot. That's why I think it's childish, he should be an adult by this time, he went to their family's company to work, but still acted like that, while ML was already handling a huge family business. ML is basically the one in love and that's why he wanted the marriage to be held, so he could tie the person he loves and slowly warm his heart. Well, actually the bed was warmed up first, but mostly thanks to MC, he forgot how he got drunk and so on. In general there is nothing interesting about such storyline, MC with his character doesn't help, I like more motivated MCs, like the one reviewed previously is full of love for life and wants to have his own business and works for it. Maybe it was mentioned here too, but I simply skipped the middle and went to the end. In general from what was said you could understand that most of the time was spent on accepting the baby and despite the danger trying to give birth to it, but also the whole situation was put out in public by a person who was in love with ML. 

It's the third mpreg novel (I was on a spree) which I read and it had similar situation of finding the MC is pregnant, the doctor says it's very dangerous that can endanger life. The rest is of course different, but what is similar like a template is the same danger to life, getting specialists from abroad etc.

Well, there is also this last one I'd like to mention - 豪门假少爷又炸毛了, but will continue reading it later, one day.. and it deserves a separate post actually, since it has a great character motivation and depiction of emotions.