[SHORT REVIEWS] #9

回溯 by 二月竹

(mtl: Backtracking)

[BL] On-going. Summary: Xu Huizhou's mother committed suicide when he was 4 and his father left the same way when he was 5, he was tossed around, family was emptied out and he was thrown into orphanage. Soon rumors spread that he had a suicide gene. Only four close friends from the orphanage reached out to him. He really considered them the closest people, but they were the ones who killed him.

The permise of this story is refreshing. XHZ did not die in a true sense and also had no idea who pushed him from the cliff during the outing (not really possible for all four, too crowded?), but all four testified that he committed suicide and all four brought his "suicide note". But XHZ actually did not die, he spent a lot of time under the cliff and was found, thus he survived. XHZ knew it was impossible to return back home like this, no one will believe that he was plotted against, thus he decided to wait for the best opportunity. Ten years later the former four friends became "prominent", one was a famous singer, another married a wealthy family, third one owned a company and the last was famous in the field of psychiatry. Seemingly well-off people built their hapinness on the bones of one person. If there is a murder there must be a motive. Initial hint is that XHZ must have uncovered their "secrets", but what those secrets are is not known at the beginning, only small episodes are thrown out. But there is also an undertone of morbid obsession of at least 3 of the above-mentioned (one keeps a lover with the same eyes, one keeps a pen and another also has a souvenir).

Ten years later at 28 Xu Huizhou comes back to China to implement his plan of revenge. He does not confront anyone openly, but lays out his actions cleverly. You know he had collected a huge amount of information about these four people and now will deal with them according to long-term observation and calculation. I think the way it is slowly revealed is quite fascinating, so I have quite some expecations towards it. This type of novel brings a lot of satisfaction factor when it comes to bringing foes to justice.

女配开始发疯以后 by 挠时光

(*mtl: After female supporting role starts to go crazy)

[BG] Completed. Summary: Lu Fanning felt that her life was a disaster. Her parents after the birth of the oldest daughter felt they would be happy to have a boy and waited for a boy, but when Fanning was born as a girl they were filled with disappointment. For this reason they preferred the eldest daughter and constantly PUA'd the youngest, even the oldest daughter herself put herself into a higher position. But then Fanning had a dream where she was told that she is a peacock blood and should release her inner self from shackles that others put on her. So her family noticed that Fanning changed, no longer caring about the family of three who wanted to use her. Fanning used to work in the editorial, the work her famly insisted on instead of fashion design she so longed for before, while her sister joined entertainment industry and was praised from top to bottom by their parents. She married Ying Shaoyuan for some time, but their marriage was empty and at some point the divorce seemed to be imminent, but she had no idea that her husband had a problem of severe social fear. So peacock and social fear joined hands. The family is quite unreasonable in this novel, they want benefits, but are not ready to share some warmth, even insist of leaving everything to the eldest. Her sister also wanted to become popular, while parents were praising her to heaven she was not as popular as they said, but later overturned as a Neptune raising fish (thanks to Shaoyuan). In general it's a short story that Fanning changed her ways, stopped being a pushover, she also figured out things about her husband and basically helped him to adapt, eventually they fell in love. So it's a HE. Anyway, I stopped midway and then read the ending to get the gist of it, because at some point I felt a little bored. Some of the books I will mention in this post will be the same. I found them all on the last search, since it's been a while since I made a new finds search. After all books are updated frequently. RATE: 3/5. Good relationship, but I can't judge the entertainment value, after all I got bored myself and used the skip.

维持女配的尊严 by 淅和

(*mtl: Maintaining the image of the female supporting role)

[BG] Completed. Summary: Wen Shuangmu was reborn, finding out that she is in the campus novel with constant Shura field among heroine admirers. Because it's a campus novel I'm wary of it a bit. The moment Shuangmu opens her eyes she is at the point of teh car accident and rushes towards the school to take the exam. A bit extreme beginning. But also what makes me wary is the presence of the system. I'm not a huge fan when the system has tasks to do. The summary also mentions that it's a villain growth system and also female supporting system used by the ML. What I don't like with the systems that require doing tasks is when it comes to emotions. FL might do tasks, but it doesn't mean she loves the target, while the target might really fall in love with her, so I find such relationships appearing out of nowhere tbh.

和三个叛逆弟弟一起上综艺 by 竹外疏狂

(*mtl: Being on a variety show with three rebellious brothers)

[BG] On-going. From the author of the "all villain show" that I loved a lot. Here we have Gu Qi who comes to the show in view of rumors about her involvement with three men. Who are actually her relatives, thus the book title. Because it's still on-going and had a small stumble along the way, I'm simply waiting for it to be finished to start reading. I've been burnt by several on-going novels that were on hiatus for too long, so I try to wait for completion. At least I have some expectations.

路人甲心声泄露后被反派全家团宠了 by 夕朝南歌

(mtl: After the passerby's innermost feelings were leaked, he was favored by the villain's entire family)

[BL] On-going. Summary: Ye Leyao died suddenly after staying up late. And he traveled to a world full of books. Good news is that each family member is a boss, bad news is that all of the have bad ending. One day the entire Huo family suddenly started hearing the inner voice of their youngest adopted son, but what they heard shocked them to the core. What does it mean their second brother is not the biological father of his white moonlight's child, what does it mean that the third son will get into trouble and where does this childhood sweetheart that comes to break up their parents even comes from?! Day after day Leyao was eating melons that were connected to different plots and.. the entire Huo family was inadvertantly eating those melons along with him. Strange thing, not only the Huo family was hearing Leyao, but also the acclaimed actor Qin Yao. Might not sound new and I also recently found a BG novel with similar premise, but there is a difference. Leyao actually eats melons that concern himself and his family, occasionally when he joined a variety show he could eat melons of others, but at least there is some connection between him and it progresses even the connection between him and Qin Yao, unlike the BG novel I've mentioned, there the girl just eats melons of other people.

炮灰美人他不干了[重生] by 甘洄

(mtl: He quits being a cannon fodder beauty)

[BL] On-going. Summary: The novel itself is more serious than its' cover. I don't know why author decided to choose such an anime-style cover when the content can be called depressing. Ye Zhiqiu is reborn 10 years back in time, right before the fateful night when he saw his future husband Qi Xin. This was originally a day of glamour and celebration for the flamboyant, but it was also his beginning to disappearing out of fashion circle, spending 10 hard years supporting husband's brand and in the end getting divorce papers, since his husband who grew up sucking his blood and PUA'd him did not need him anymore. Only much later Ye Zhiqiu found out who was a friend and who was an enemy. He grew up under the care of his stepmother and she was the biggest villain in his life who slowly ruined him. So this is what the novel is about. Ye Zhiqiu comes back and wants to drive everyone who acted against him mad, he wants revenge. This novel has potential in being satisfying, because unlike one-dimensional villains of such stories, this stepmother is truly disgusting, she came along when Zhiqiu was really young and from the early days she controlled him psychologically, even under the guise of care no one would be able to say a word against her. Though many wealthy people would not bye her narrative. Zhiqiu truly cared for his family, but who knew they would treat him like that in the end. Thus Zhiqiu decided to use some tricks of carrot and stick against them too. He first took off with his career, stepping in and helping a declining company in need, next found allies who would help him to develop in new energy field and become rivals with his father's company, then he used the sent Qi Xin who acted for the sake of investment and trained him as a dog, not to mention how he walked around other members. Patience and calculation. The initial chapters are satisfying. I'm waiting for it to be completed for further reading. Oh yeah, ML appears quite early, his name is Qin Jianhe, a big boss of a big brand.

虚情真爱 by 板栗子

(mtl: False love)

[BG] Completed. Another story by Chestnut. Summary: Yu Shi had a job in her university, being Fu Yishi's fake girlfriend to escape marriage. Then one day Yu Shi disappeared and Mr. Fu believed that she took money from his mother and disappeared. A year after disappearance Mr. Fu travels to an island and finds a restaurant opened by none other than the missing girlfriend. Mr. Fu may have faked relationship, but he fell in love with his fake girlfriend. Anyway, I've been waiting for it to be completed and as a result it is quite short (only 55ch long), so I may read it in the nearest future, if I won't stick to something else.