The Healer Demands Payment! Chapter 99part2 Discussion

I suppose my feelings towards this novel are that I love the FL, but generally hate the ML's. The FL has a real personality and backstory, and her motivations are very well fleshed out. She makes the dumpster truck that IMO the rest of the novel becomes actually bearable, although I imagine some might disagree. I don't fault the novel for being the pill-popping insanity all Chinese cultivation novels are, with the FL downing dozens of pills a day, making thousands off selling pills on the black market (i.e. Whatever this back alley Black Heaven place is), throwing all her money away the next day buying grass to make new pills, and generally showing all young readers that drugs are A-OK because they make all the bad stuff go away or they'll make you cool and strong (until the drugs/pills wear off, in which case go buy some more!). IMO, all Chinese cultivation novels give off this vibe of insanity, so I don't fault this novel for feeling the same. The ML's were a bit creepy as they're originally introduced, always stalking the FL, manhandling her physically, begging her desperately to order them around or treat them like s*aves, or forcefully signing soul oaths that they'll be her manservant for the rest of his life without her consent (and, in the case of the first ML, despite her explicit disapproval). The thing that drove me over the edge was ~c26, with it was revealed that

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all the ML's actually have memories of their old life, just like the FL. In other words, they're chasing after the FL not because of actual feelings of love or respect, but because their guilty conscience is chaining them to throwing themselves at her feet in apology. It ruins the whole point of the novel, that the FL is actively changing the world, because now half a dozen hot guys are stalking her (some via 24/7 live feeds of her every movement) and doing a significant part of the heavy lifting for her. Why all of them act so arrogant towards her, or why all of them turned out to be masochist stalkers is beyond me. I also really question many of their morality - despite all of them knowing the tragedy of the demon invasion, all of them decide not to do anything to stop it or even withdraw from the frontline faking injury because they want to spend a little more time with the FL. A man abandoning his duties and willfully letting thousands of people die just so he can flirt with a girl who doesn't even like him isn't cool - he's crazy.

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I'm dropping the novel after c99, mostly because of the further BS in c96 where

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the author felt the "main ML" didn't get enough screen time (TBH, he's been stalking her 24/7 and controlling all the people around her so she doesn't run into other men or any "bad bugs", so he wasn't my top pick anyway IMO), so the author wrote a cataclysmic event where the world ripped itself open right where the FL was standing and dumped her in a place only the main ML could reach. The novel has a ton of plot armor anyway, but this really takes the cake.

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