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I couldn't continue the story. It's too dull and pointless. The author tried so hard to portray MC as a "calm, mature" person by repeatedly telling us that she's calm and all. But her actions are contradictory, after finding out it was a "misunderstanding", she never gave ML any chance to explain himself, and just made assumptions on her own and blocked his number. How is this calm+mature? Also, she gets super anxious because she couldn't go home to change her dress before a dinner, doesn't know how to explain to her mother, and doesn't speak her concerns to ML. Again how is this mature?Her interactions with her "friends" are also flat. Author tried to make Tang Xiao and Liu Ling seem like interesting people, yet all they seem to talk about with MC is about boring/cliche stuff. And sometimes similar conversations are repeated with no conclusion or any point jn them. Author also did not describe any of them, whether their appearances, or what style of clothes they like to wear, or what kind of atmosphere they give off. All these descriptions are important in giving an impression of a character yet none of this is described. In fact, none of the characters have any specific description to them even the MC. After 20 chapters, I still have no idea what the MC looks like, how long her hair is, what color her eyes are, what type of clothes she like etc. Also she keeps talking about liking art and stuff, yet we have not seen her drawing or doing anything that she likes. Author could've potentially made a scene of her painting something in order to keep herself calm, reminisce about her past life, or how she's grateful to be alive and is free to live as she want, and those could be how she expresses herself, but none of this happens.The fact that she is in a novel is also irrelevant. If the MC doesn't know/care, why should the readers care? And don't get me started on the parents. The way her parents were introduced as caring and wanting her to be free of arranged marriage YET her mom keeps hinting and rushing to talk to her about blind dates every chance she gets. Also based on how her mom thinks, it seems as if she's treating her daughter as some sort of tool to impress people with.This story is filled with flaws and has no slice-of-life healing factor at all. The premise seemed fine, yet the author basically has no idea how to execute a story, heck the author doesn't even seem like she/he wants to tell a story. At it's core, it's empty.
