Quick Transmigration System: Male God, Come Here Chapter 241 Discussion

Gaslighting: The Novel

I usually don't write reviews because I can't be bothered and I'm also not very good at them but this novel annoyed me so much that I felt compelled to write one.

One of the reasons why I hate fast transmigration stories where the mission is to make somebody fall in love with the MC is that the target is usually made to fall in love with an idea of their perfect soulmate. This novel is also the same. In each arc, main character acts out the version of the kind of a girl she thinks ML will like and manipulates him to fall in love with her, often even by gaslighting.

Spoiler

In one of the arcs, og MC saved ML from being executed with his family (which she herself caused iirc) because he liked his looks or something and wanted to leave him next to her as an eunuch but when MC transmigrates she gaslights him into thinking that she did it because she genuinely wanted to help him and loved him

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In each arc, she lies to the man who has his own valid reasons to be the way he is, manipulates him and gaslights him to get her way, only to leave him utterly broken when she inevitably dies.

It was such an unpleasant and hollow read each time that I simply couldn't muster up any sliver of emotional investment in the characters. Oh god, the characters.

Characters are extremely shallow, unlikable and very cartoonish. They feel like caricatures of characters from hispanic soap operas, and as you might now, latter is already a caricature of real in itself.

MC is narcissistic, shallow and dumb. System is useless. Sister is cartoonishly evil. Father is also very dumb. ML probably needs therapy.

Story arcs are very repetitive. You've seen it once, you've seen them all. Each one pretty much ends the same way. I don't know how my sanity can endure reading over 3000 chapters of essentially the same plot so I stopped at 200-ish chapters.

In conclusion, if you like a romantic story where MC makes ML fall in love with her with manipulation, lying and a literal gaslighting, then this novel is for you.

If you want to read a genuine love story, look somewhere else.