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I read the translation, then went to read the raw because I got impatient.This is definitely rather weird series. It tries to have the MC act logically with no OP cheat despite being tied to a system. However, once she starts getting powers it immediately falls into the OP trap. Like, acupuncture can damage nerves, I guess, but in stories set in modern day somehow the damage caused acupuncture still cannot be detected by modern medicine. I object to this because the acupuncture is described as normal acupuncture. It only has catastrophic results because the MC is "skilled". It's one thing if modern medicine detects nerve damages and refused to treat it because it's too severe. However, not being able to find anything wrong ia asinine. Normally I would just shrug and move on, but the author makes a point to have the MC act logically with logical "realistic" consequences, so this woowoo nonsense sticks out painfully.On that note, this author also falls into the typical pithole of underestimating the time and effort it took to gain certain skills. Many transmigration authors do this, and it's very s*upid. I guess this is the one thing that the author isn't actually aware as being s*upid. Ningshu encounters a Heroine who brings modern skills to the "prehistoric" setting, and I don't think she ever accuses this as being absurd. And as such the author happily went and had Ningshu do the same. Spoiler
Ningshu could easily reproduce multiple lengthy novels off the top of her head to compete against a man whose system cheat allows him to view the entirety of the text in his head. Like, sure, the setting allows for lower standards so she doesn't hace to reproduce the novels perfectly. It's just still too much material to be able to be written out from memory. I am a fan of Harry Potter but I wouldn't be able to reproduce even one Harry Potter book.
[collapse]She also once became a full fledged lawyer with highly acclaimed reputation in just two years. Knowing that lawsuits can drag on for 5+ years, I don't know what this author thought was doable within just 2 years.Another issue is the weird juxtaposition between female empowerment and very conservative Chinese ideals. In nearly all the stories that involved the requester escaping a horrid partner, the stories never ended with the body finding a new love. It's a progressive "I need no man" mindset. On the other hand, the MC often berates the targets of her counterattacks for not adhering to Confucian or other Chinese traditional ideals. It's not like both can't coexist, mind you. You can be a strong independent woman who still adheres to conservative ideals, but it's just not held together well in this series.There were moments where it came across as "Chinese magic is better than Western magic". Ningshu might just be a higher tiered agent by this point, so her skills are above normal. But the Taoist exorcism methods and the Martial Arts technique she had trumps the Western style magic employed by the story universe she entered, so it just looks a bit off in many ways. Also, the "logic" eventually crumbles altogether once the MC powers up enought. She becomes a typical unapologetically horrid overpowered heroine just like the other typical series. At first she seemed to really stick to her morals, like in the early arcs it was repeatedly pointed out that she doesn't want to go overvoard with the counterattack. But eventually it just goes poof, and she juat casually destroys entire towns to feed her own powerbases. Her excuse is that "these people are evil anyway". Again, typical poorly written overpowered Mary Sue trope.I know this is a webnovel with no editors so I shouldn't expect quality writing. It's just that the MC keeps on lampshading how s*upid "other" transmigration MCs and/or stories are (a lot of the stories being "attacked" in these series are actual existing novels) that the shortcomings in this novel becomes obnoxious and hypocritical.
