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So having read a majority of the stories on here I decided after some recommendations to have a look at romance/josei stories and something that instantly struck me is that almost all of them have the exact same settings most of them using the same "young master" or slapping troupe like in the xiaxian and wuxia stories I do understand both are chinese so maybe I shouldn't be suprised.
What does surprise me however is that in almost all of them the female MC will almost always be super rich/powerful but hiding it, or she is from a super rich/powerful family but somehow all of it is controlled by a relative or some random ppl who's adopted her.
Spoiler: A bit of a rantMost often the settings will be that the evil relative or whoever sends ppl to sabotage/beat up/rape/kidnap/kill the MC and how do they fund this? Why of course with the MC's money that they for some obscure reason controls. Then they will keep doing this for multiple times until finally the MC confronts them. But then their all family so she will only threaten them, even though they might have been behind the MC's parents dying (and the MC knows this for a fact) and tried to kill them multiple times. Eventually she gets sick and then she decides to take it to court since it's all her money and she would easily win. They get all nervous or pull up some will left behind by her parents that will usually proclaim that she has to get a child or get married before the age of 26-30 (or something) or everything will be given to the grandparents or relatives. MC get's scared/depressed and really nervous that she will lose everything and the relatives or whatnot will laugh at her and then they get to keep everything.
Which is kind of a huge plot hole in my eyes since the will they almost always present actually means that "everything" and I mean everything belongs to the MC and only if at that age she hasn't done what is included in the will can they start a process to transfer ownership. But yeah they all get to keep the money and then keep using it against the MC.
In short are all the stories not really about romance but more about the struggle between families and everyone (most often including the MC herself) trying to keep something between the MC and the love interest?
What does surprise me however is that in almost all of them the female MC will almost always be super rich/powerful but hiding it, or she is from a super rich/powerful family but somehow all of it is controlled by a relative or some random ppl who's adopted her.
Spoiler: A bit of a rantMost often the settings will be that the evil relative or whoever sends ppl to sabotage/beat up/rape/kidnap/kill the MC and how do they fund this? Why of course with the MC's money that they for some obscure reason controls. Then they will keep doing this for multiple times until finally the MC confronts them. But then their all family so she will only threaten them, even though they might have been behind the MC's parents dying (and the MC knows this for a fact) and tried to kill them multiple times. Eventually she gets sick and then she decides to take it to court since it's all her money and she would easily win. They get all nervous or pull up some will left behind by her parents that will usually proclaim that she has to get a child or get married before the age of 26-30 (or something) or everything will be given to the grandparents or relatives. MC get's scared/depressed and really nervous that she will lose everything and the relatives or whatnot will laugh at her and then they get to keep everything.
Which is kind of a huge plot hole in my eyes since the will they almost always present actually means that "everything" and I mean everything belongs to the MC and only if at that age she hasn't done what is included in the will can they start a process to transfer ownership. But yeah they all get to keep the money and then keep using it against the MC.
In short are all the stories not really about romance but more about the struggle between families and everyone (most often including the MC herself) trying to keep something between the MC and the love interest?
