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Me reading the first 2 chapters: I really hate moms who uphold the patriarchy.... I just hate the patriarchy. Sorry not sorry. But I'm tired of hearing b*tching about a women who got married and has to stay in her new home properly waiting for her new husband to come back or else god forbid ruining the families' reputation. Whatever rich families. Idc. get over it. She has feet -- god forbid she use them /rant.
[collapse]I think the ML is very reasonable so if you're looking for a placeholder type of read, you could enjoy this in pastime. But I find the overall structure of the novel not particularly to my liking and the novel is basically the minimum requirement for decent storytelling. Not too many details, mostly easily fixed or glossed over. Heavily based in rich family marriage social pressures. I don't mind that but this one has more implicit patriarchal / classist themes I dislike from the surrounding characters so far. But yes the ML is a good guy so there's that. But I'm gonna say people, This is why you gotta read for urself.... Bc sometimes reviewers are missing things? Spoilerso one review is saying all these inconsistencies that I'm not really seeing???:
- she was a female eunuch (yea I accept this one but it's fiction baby) and how that even happened is ridiculous
- she's more feminist than others despite coming from ancient china (fair point but also.. kinda not bc u have to remember people are not monoliths; you only have the rights u have today bc several people in time periods when it was impossible, fought to have them aka even if ppl never said it aloud, there existed ppl in the past who could have had different thinking from their time period. Rare probably but highly possible.)
- that she magically know how to do all the technology and texting so easily (... I mean no. The writing is not that great but it mentions that off camera of this novel, she had spent several days getting used to her phone and appliances before the 1st ch. And later, it distinctly will write oh yea she doesn't know a computer, car, texting, and will have multiple times where it is written she is still learning.)
- for the finance thing, it is bad writing but the explanation is still there. It is brief but existant. It said she had like a memory of how to do it as she was learning to do it so it helped her to learn it quickly -- this is probably referencing how her mind naturally remembers this from her college studies even though she doesn't explicitly have any memories from the past owner. I mean first of all u are reading a transmigration novel, are u looking for a realistic explanation? I mean as far as it goes this explanation makes enough sense for me. It's a lazy way out yes, but plausible and thus acceptable imo.
Moral of the story, I did not see what they were talking about and thus, this gives credit to reading things for yourself bc sometimes people are not reading it carefully enough. I mean disclaimer I mtled but I still got the novel more. But maybe I'm wrong.
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