(mtl: Female suppoting role in the love variety shows who decided to act badly)
[BG] On-going. Summary: Lin Enjing is captured by the system because she is "capable" and is offered to travel worlds and save the wronged cannon fodders. Because she herself is one, she paved her own way from poverty to being a wife of a wealthy husband, but soon her husband will cheat on her with White Moonlight and she is a hated character. While Lin Enjing herself doesn't mind, husband's company is full of her own people, it's not certain who owns the company. She felt that travelling worlds will help her accumulate the experience, so she agreed.
You could call it a story of a leech. Because this is how I viewed the FMC by the end of the first arc/world. There is a big difference between a cold-hearted person who is cool and a selfish bitch that smooches off others and even applies their achievements to herself. She uses everyone's feelings for her own boost in life and her own satisfaction, highly egoistic personality that proclaims to love freedom, but just has no responsibility except for herself. Even if the author warns you that FMC is a "bad" woman and you need to watch out if you're a moralist, but she has no redeeming qualities to handle the image of this femme fatale.
What is annoying is the portrayal of FMC, there is nothing eye-catching except that probably her farts smell better for all males and even if she turns, moves or breathes is a "moment" and they can't help but notice her. Some people do have a tempting temperament, but honestly the males figured her out that she's a "bad" woman, but they are still tempted by her and can't help but dry like a laundry under the summer sun after her till the end of times. To make her look not as bad by the contrast a lot of love she receives is also interspersed with possessiveness, as if those males are also not perfect. But she's an emotional scum and this is why I don't like such FMC.
The other big problem is the format and style and the writing and the plot...meaning, everything is so-so. Arcs are long, uneventful, but we should be ready to be impressed by FMC doing basic shit. Because every arc is a variety show where FMC tries to change the destiny of original host. It is said she plays "badly" but actually she is reactional in terms of changing her own image and make it better, you can feel that she basically used everything at her disposal to promote her own career. She used men and their knowledge to use it for her own business growth. There is a black technology (another point I want to slap author in the face with words like - you don't know what to write about, then don't write - since it's such a brain-dead utopian description of some things I'm surprised the author decided to touch) that is developed by one of the males, but it was used for her company and even if you know the person might get a kick off of it, it still had a sacrificial feel. She dates one person, then marries another, then can divorce if she doesn't like something. As I said she is a pure egoist, so you won't be able to wait for a compromise from her.
I've read a conclusion of the second arc (honestly they have the same style, almost a summary-type of chapters of what happened after the show) and it is still the same patterns, dates one, marries another, uses men to become first in the world as this and this, but her knowledge come not from her own years of experiments, but from everything she got from men. But she has such a style like she deserves it all, they gave it her and it was fine. Another angle to catch her pure selfishness.
But honestly I couldn't care less about the technology, it was such a sharp twist from her wanting just to create a 3D game and the it progressed so much that they created virtual reality and people transferred their consciousness into it, like (?_?) miss mam, do you have any idea what you talk about? It may sound cool, to a kid, but can you imagine this bs in real life?
Anyway, I was impressed.
Status: DNF with a speed of sound.
我的巨富妈妈[快穿] by 危酒
(mtl: I have a super rich mom)
[BG] Completed. Summary: Zhong Chu as a gold employee of the Quick Transmigration Department is tasked with the savior of some cannon fodders and her role is their "mom".
Another embarrassing garbage. I'd say abomination. I'm so critical because the first arc is unnecessary xenophobic from the get-go. Not to mention that this story is not anything exciting and I found it pretty boring. OP FMC who has a super rich system always has a chance to get rich in each world, she either has a personality that is adjusted by the system that can be tempered with or she gets a lucky chance (like a lottery) so she can become rich in a second. The way they showcase the getting rich process is another topic. It is also brainlesslu Su. Just to make an example. First world starts from a disaster relief. The one she needs to protect is a kid who lost his entire family. She is a heir to some huge wealth with tenths of hospitals abroad and all other stuff at her disposal, she appears like with the scene of great number of helicopters flying. She was abroad? And then she quickly appeared at the disaster place? And they released some black technology of some saving robots, so of course this is where xenophobic part starts, as if the country she came from (no need to play dumb to figure out analogy) is making a fuss during the sacing operation okay? Anyway. All those helicopters flying and saving people, all the personnel is tranformed here and they worked 24/7 and became big saviors. The kid she needs to save become her only "relative". I stopped reading from there, not to mention I was not impressed by xenophobic moods, but also it felt just too stupid.
Status: DNF.
穿成豪门后爸我哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 by 忘书
(mtl: Wearing a risch stepfather hahahahaha)
[BL] Completed. Summary: After waking up Xi Ling figured he's a vicious stepfather in a novel, a cannon fodder character who abused his stepson, while his husband was away and stepson grew into the vicious villain and offed his own stepfather first on the list. But Xi Ling who had been poor saw all the money and thought - how could it is to be rich? I have a cute son, my husband is a walking ATM and I can wake up laughing ahahahaha.
I will say right away, for me it was too much.
First of all I didn't like the style and portrayal. The storyline often jumped from something serious into some extreme comedy in the span of a sentence, it was awkward to see some serious or should-be-touching moment ending up with something ridiculous. Even their intimacy became a butt of the joke and I don't mention the description is just so meh.
Character portrayal suffered from this too. Like Xi Ling should be silly and positive goose that is always smiling and always optimistic. Sounds good. But this silliness is brought to extreme sometimes. Also the storyline affected character a lot, because author tried to do a salto.
I'm spoiling the entire thing. What I say too much is that Xi Ling believes that he is from another world and this is a book. But then he has dreams he does not remeber of course that vaguely tell him the story of him and ML. The truth is after Xi Ling was born in mountains and was seen by kid ML, they became friends. But ML's family isn't simple and we find out that Xi Ling was trafficked by his own parents after instigation, he had a fever and a hit on the head, this is why he might have forgotten his own parents, new adoptive parents did not treat him well too (basic situation when a kid is brought in but like the next year the couple gives birth to their own son). So Xi Ling escapes when he became an adult and lives in some deserted factory. Where he meets kidnapped ML (what a coincidence), but then he is hit on the head (again). When the story starts he is a poor worker with no education, he again had a hit on the head which "woke him up" and he is baffled how he could be this gambling jerk who is stuck to his sister (so you can guess that he and bad Xi Ling switched places for few years and then Xi Ling returns into his original body). Do you know how the memory finally returned? I will let you guess, it is connected with hitting your head. So it helped Xi Ling remember all his memories of this world. But too much hitting on the head for a single story. Then this is not the end. ML Huo Siyi is supposed to be the child of the Huo family, but there is enmity and he is considered illegitimate, but then we find out that Huo family has some black dealings (I think like growing clones, some black lab) and partially Mrs Huo aquised to it because her own children were weak. And there is a hint that Huo Siyi is the same experimental object, because he has several "defects", for examle like with emotions, but health-wise he faints at the sight of blood (which was made into the joke a lot..). Huo Siyi was targetted by his morbid brother, Xi Ling was trafficked because of his instigation and basically all the blackening and other things happened because of this brother, so the story has such crazy parts.
But do you think it's just that simple crazy, it's not over yet. The child - baby villain- belongs to another family completely, but everyone thinks he belongs to ML before the truth comes out. But this also starts another chain effect, because Xi Ling does not belong to the mountain village family at all, he was trafficked 2 times! His family is a couple Cen who came for baby villain but found Xi Ling who looks like his mother when she was young, they do a test and bam Xi Ling is their biological son, baby villain was crated from the stem cells of their daughter (Xi Ling's biological sister) so now they're not only adoptive family, but biological uncle and nephew. The original protagonist who is now a baby too and took part in a baby show with Xi Ling and baby villain is actually a blood relative too, because his father is Cen coupl younger brother, but this brother is worse than a beast, in original story to consolidate his position he took the child forecefully, allowed his little lover to bully the father of his child (yeah mpreg). But he was also the one who designed the car accident when Xi Ling was a child and was sold off by his subordinate. So there's a lot to unpack, but I think it's really too many twists and turns for one story. Not to mention some baby parts are good and lovely, other parts jump around from serious to jokes and it's tiring to read it like that.
Another annoying part is the internet barrage, boy I hate this stuff in novels, because Xi Ling is fully black at the beginning, everyone is like a rumonmonger without a brain. But Huo Siyi and Xi Ling don't clarify (which felt weird at first but then the explanation arrived later) and rumors became so exaggerated. In the end Xi Ling does change his character and people notice changes and then the opinion about him is subverted. But the next thing you know even his own husband is considered a lover, because everyone only heard rumors with no evidence but they still believed that Huo Siyi is some old dude... I mean even one cell can do better than this.
I just feels it's such a pity, some of this story had potential to be better, but the writing is just that.
Status: skimmed through and threw it away.
相亲当天错选星际最强Alpha后 by 且拂
(mtl: Choosing the strongest Alpha on the blind date by mistake)
[BL] Completed. Summary: Ji Anli lived a prosperous life before a disaster. After he turned 18 his parents disappeared, his uncle seized the power and also his report as Omega was funky. His cousin stepped on him and his fiance turned to his cousin. But then he changed into 3S-level Omega and top leaders attached great importance to Ji Anli, so they decided to get together all the top Alphas on a blind date. But Ji Anli saved someone before coming to blind date, someone who was not included. Both reached agreement, Ji Anli helps deal Lin Jing not to get out of control and in return he got the strongest Alpha.
This deserves the line from a song titled "Bored" by Laufey. "Baby, I'm bored~".
You have no idea, I felt like I'm that image of Tom who tries to stick matches into eyelids to prevent them from closing. This was so unimaginably boring to read that I can't even convey the level. Although it felt like nothing bad is actually happening and you can read it with ease, but I still couldn't help myself from falling asleep from it.
Status: DNF.
Maybe it's wrong to call them all 'evil' but the first two are definitely are, the third is a missed opportunity to me and the last just brings boredom. It feels like there is no new worthy catch came my way for a period of time. Maybe time to switch gears again.
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