I feel like I've been lucky, few of these are on-going, so it's more like first impressions (but I crave to read more). I wish they'll end up as good as the beginning.
I actually took a new hobby of updating old "short reviews" posts where I add the progress, especially if things changed.
NOVELS
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[BG] 穿书后反派将我视若珍宝 by 今妤希 *JJ
(mtl: After transmigrating into a book, the villain treated me like a treasure)
Status: Completed
Year: 2025
Summary: Lin Zhiyu travels to a book, but she read only spoilers and does not know much of the plot, she thinks she got the protagonist with her, but Shen Yanli happens to be the villain of the story.
Abandoning the idea of helping the protagonist Zhiyu starts to help the villain become the final winner.
I honestly simplified the contents of the summary and also of course did not write or copy the official summary which looks commercialized.
This story is quite compelling and is quite emotional from the very beginning. It does nothing spectacular in terms of prose (though what would I know, I read the mtl :) ), but it hit me in the heart while reading. It's very concise and does not dwell much, so I consider it fast-paced enough. Like the initial misunderstanding, the realization that this plot isn't simple, realizing she married a villain, abandoning the protagonist and vowing to fight with Shen Yanli happens in first 10+ chapters.
What I mean by not simple plot is that you realize pretty soon that this is not first, but a second timeline. In the first timeline I assume Zhiyu misunderstood the villain and still married him, but later tried to strike a deal with the protag (who is a scumbag, big douch I tell you) and confessed to her knowledge, was used, she also was used against Shen Yanli who fell for her and this is why in that timeline she died and the villain lost. Now she returned to the very beginning. At first she had no memory, maybe doesn't realize her dreams are her memories, but it punches in the gut the way it is described. She was too far into this deal to separate herself and the protag can easily dirty his hands with kidnapping or murder. The protag actually had his entrance into the story and already acted disgustingly. Even then FMC was like - I want to talk to him. At which point I honestly was on the edge, I was hoping author would not go that way and author did not disappoint. First of all, she had those dreams and was overfilled with emotions towards Shen Yanli, so most likely this will be love from the very beginning. Second of all, protag created an incident thus basically putting Zhiyu on the opposite side.
Zhiyu actually confessed to everything about the plot to Yanli, but he answered that he does not believe in fate. Yet both joined hands and plan to deal with protag together.
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[BG] 白月光和替身联手整顿虐文[娱乐圈] by 雪龄 *JJ
(mtl: White moonlight and her stand-in team up to clean up the messy angsty romance novel)
Status: On-going
Summary: An Suiqing found out that she is a white moonlight in a tragic romance novel.
An Suiqing: Who? Me?
She is now bound to a system that forces her to follow the script. She was pretty fine by herself, she moved abroad, she had a company, but because of this system her luck crashed into negative and to restore everything she has to follow the script.
But it doesn't mean she can't completely deviate, right?
With time everyone waited how she and the girl will fight each other for a man, but as a result the two became besties and Bai Qianqian would not allow anyone to badmouth her friend Qingqing.
IF YOU HATE FORCED PLOTS I KNOW GIRL I HATE THEM TOO BUT!!! HeAR Me OUT!!
Things change rather quickly, it won't take long before things start to change and the bond starts to form in first chapters between the two.
I also was so disappointed when I saw the fact that the system intervened into Qingqing's life. MY LIVER ACHED! It was so infuriating!! But then things changed rapidly and I sighed with relief, since I hate forced plots and following the plot the most, on paper it's not funny at all.
The situation is as follows. An Suiqing indeed dated the man in question, but she moved on and moved out. Later QianQian and her ex came together, so now everyone is clammoring that she is a mistress who came to destroy a good marriage. The secret to their relationship is that both of the girls sat at the same desk in school, so they know each other.
With the involvement of Qingqing she kinda follows the prompts, but she also does things outside of that and it changes the plot instantly.
The female friendship, we're waiting for it!!
So far I have no idea if there will be romance for any of them, because it may be as well as veiled lily or no CP, but again authors choose romance genre, even it may not end up this way.
(god, this author chose these elaborate colors, but I heard it reminds people of some product, brand? anyway)
[BL] 权臣穿进豪门养子文学 by 二月竹 *JJ
(mtl: Powerful minister transmigrates and becomes anadopted son of a wealthy family)
note: usually on-going novels get their titles changed during publishing time, so this may not end up being the final title, just saying.
Status: On-going (very fresh at the time of me posting this)
Summary: Why the latest novels I pick up have longer and longer titles. I think only the romance section has a lot of short, normal sounding titles.
Anyway THIS IS MESSY, I tell you, this is DRAMAtic circumstances. My favorite author knows how to do things ahahaha
So the MC is called Xiao Lanyue (hope I didn't butcher his name), he was a powerful minister in ancient times, but because he was crippled in an accident he drank poison. His accident was man-made and his place was given to one of his brothers, but he himself asked to be a teacher to unloved prince - Lu Ao (ML).
Both eventually rose to prominence with him teaching and strategizing, so MC is very intelligent and beautiful (I wish the emphasis on his beauty will be toned down tbh).
He knew Lu Ao was gay, but he was oblivious that the person he loved was himself.
Lanyue transmigrates and here is the MESSY situation he's in.
His father is gay and he and his ex-boyfriend both entered marriages for obvious reasons (basically to swindle kids). Almost at the same time their wives had children. His ex was dying and asked to take care of his son. Here comes the disgusting idea to his head, he changes the children (though it shouldn't have happened so easily, they were birthed at different time, like months apart?) he takes the child of his ex home, later he takes his own son home and reveals as if his son is his illegitimate son, so the entire family will hate him, but will love the child of his ex. While he himself pretends to shower Lanyue with fake affection just to make matters worse. No one doubted anything. No one even knows that this disgusting piece of shit covets the child of his ex. And this is how Lanyue died, he was drowned by his own father because that witnessed him jacking off to Anfeng (the ex's kid).
On top of that, his eldest brother knew the truth but because he fell for Anfeng he continued to conceal it.
Their mother always thought he was a mistress' child, so she actually poisoned him for years.
Anfeng always acted hurt, though he was emotionally hurt for real thinking his dad didn't love him. Not realizing what hides behind the scenes.
I WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS. This is horrible, but it's exciting at the same time.
Lanyue is very assertive and strategic, he is very meticulous about his actions and words, so I want to see him as he slowly gets revenge for the young man who was wronged for all these years. I root for him. No one should be spared lol.
On the other hand Lu Ao has transmigrated too.
Esciting, right? I think so too.
[BG] 我都要死了，打你怎么了！ by 千萌 *JJ
(*mtl: I'm going to die, so what if I hit you?!)
Status: On-going
note: it is a free novel and it is on-going (I know the status changed to complete, but there is no indication it was abandoned and the story is far from over), but I must warn anyone, at the moment of me typing this the novel had no updates for quite some time and who knows if it'll ever be finished.
Summary: Qi Qingzhu endured it all, but what she got was a diagnosis, she has little time left to live and her endurance was all for nothing. Her biased mother, her hypocritical father, her crazed brother and hypocritical adopted daughter. She wants to see it burn. She doesn't care to keep up with this facade.
The situation in this family is really messy~ Philandering father brought back the illegitimate daughter with his "true love" who died. This daughter has no idea she's a biological child, she is always preoccupied this is why she wants to secure her future and seduce her brother she thinks is non-biological one. Mother knows that this daughter is the illegitimate daughter, but she always fawns over her because her life depends on her philandering husband. Brother is of course in love with adopted daughter, but he doesn't know and has no idea why both parents are so protective of this daughter. Thing is, both siblings will go south when it comes to compare them and illegitimate daughter. FMC knows the secret, she wanted to keep the two together, since she knew it was immoral, but now.. she actually condones it, wants to see them dig deeper into this mess.
A lot of time is also spent on Qingzhu's best friend, who changed and became love-obsessed woman, but I honestly liked this part since the portrayal of their relationship was good. Although Qingzhu said she won't let it bother her anymore, but she still had some human feelings for this relationship and gave few chances to her friend before giving up, since she always was there for her when she was beaten up by her bf, yet she still returned to him.
The ML of this story is the step-brother of FMC's best friend. They knew each other since they were little, had a separation time when both cared for school but now they got closer again. To FMC his home is a safe haven, since her own home is a mess and she doesn't want to deal with them. She told no one that she is terminally ill, since she doesn't want to be surrounded by their hypocritical care.
As for her fiance. Basically she was sold off to this family, she was chosen among others as a good wife candidate. Both she and her fiance had an agreement that even if it's a business marriage they will live their own life. Actually, their agreement is quite steady, since they don't care about each other. Well of course the guy starts to care later, but it's a different story. basically they wanted to drag it on and choose time when to separate. FMC wanted to go abroad, but now those plans are meaningless.
Although the plot and relationships sound so melodramatic there is actually enough care for caracter development and relationships.
[BL] 科研大佬魂穿假二代 by 词酒 *JJ
(mtl: Top researcher's soul transmigrates into a fake second-generation rich kid)
Status: Completed
I knew I started this one, I can also tell I never finished. I was checking bookmarks and saw that several don't have a mark on them if I added them to short reviews or posted reviews on NU. But I also did not remember a single thing about it before I read first few chapters.
To me this book is rather boring. I'm not against tech texts, it's just random to me. But the biggest question mark to me is actually the insta-love situation between two protagonists, not to mention they don't really have a basis for such strong feelings but they went from 0 to a 100.
So Zhou Cheng was tossed out from his family, because the real master demanded he leaves. Zhou Cheng changed his core at this moment and didn't care for these parents unlike the original. So he is tech savvy and can do what he wants. He goes to school and also slowly integrates into this world, while commenting how backword it is and which path to choose, since he wants to help every field to grow seeds of science (commendable tbh). While he lives in a rented apartment the landlady is a friend of his adoptive mother, he befriends or more like tutors her son - Cheng Yuan (ML). I don't understand medicine but Cheng Yuan has to stop doing sports due to the condition of his bones and instead will take exam like everyone else. During tutoring actually nothing happens much. But then MC notices ML (both are in high school mind btw, but he is older if we talk about years he lived) who is not so subtle. It felt more physical. And later when they wanted to come out to Yuan's mom, she separated them and here we have a shortest separation ever, since Yuan had a fight with his mom and she later came to her senses knowing how her son loves Zhou Cheng. But honestly it felt like this love came out of nowhere.
And considering that the plot with all the random tech moments is not exciting at all I had to put it down right at the same moment where I left last time. This part made me remember why I ever dnf'd it.
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ANIME
Skip to Loafer / スキップとローファー
I added this one to Tongari, which is the only anime I planned to watch this season, I'll try if it's good, I wanted to try another school romance, which I don't like and usually when I watch any of them I close it even before finishing the 1st episode. Illogical to hear me describe it like that, I am aware ahaha. But this one had good vibes. I felt for the FMC, such a nervous wreck. me too sis, me too.
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