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DISCLAIMER!!! I might sound like I really hate this novel. But like I said, the interactions are fluffy and fun to read, and if you're okay with not thinking too much into your entertainment, like I am, then I think you'll enjoy this novel, despite the bewildering setting, and slightly cliche points that I will point out below.
I mean, the MC was switched/stolen as a baby from a rich family, and her baby switching mother was emotionally abusive. If you dwell on that for 15 seconds, you will rapidly start wondering why the fake mom even kept her around. Since she's given her real child a better place to live already, why raise the one that isn't yours. The fake mom is pretty cold, so keeping the baby was weird. If she's worried about how to dispose of a baby, newborns dying isn't hard, because babies are REALLY fragile. And fake-mom doesn't really have a conscience when it comes to MC, as is shown pretty early in the story. Not to mention that that the girl she got switched with turns out to be a horrible person that develops a huge inferiority complex due to realizing that she isn't blood related to her parents. Like normally one would think that parents that have poured so much love into you wouldn't take you for less just because you turned out to be not related. But no, she becomes a spoiled villains brat.
Also, like many CN "transmigration" novels, you start forgetting that the MC is transmigrated real soon. And then the story will bring it back jarringly to give the MC some special ability that would have been impossible for the original person to have. In this novel, the part that has to be forced in is the MC's godly music skill. Since if anyone has taken music lessons (which most people take to become skilled in an instrument as opposed to learning off YouTube.) you will know that generally it's pretty damn expensive. Especially violin and piano. A good quality instrument is also incredibly costly (and there's really no reason to get a cheap one if you're already investing the money for the aforementioned expensive lessons). Now with our originally-suffering-from-childhood-neglect MC, her fake mom probably wouldn't be much willing to spend money on her, much less invest in her musical education enough to develop god-level skills. Insert transmigration. "Oh right, MC isn't the actual mother of the child that she dotes on for 80% of the chapters. She's actually a genius musician that easily gets over leaving her whole world behind and is not taken aback by basically adopting and caring for a child on the merit that now the child has no mother, because I'm in his mom's body. And the world is a novel, so MC knows that the family is actually fake, even though no one remembers what the plot of the novel was and it's pretty generally irrelevant." And to add the proverbial cherry on top, the ML is pretty stereotypically perfect as of now. Handsome, indifferent cold, like all Chinese CEOs (even though the guy's an actor, but he's a major shareholder in the MC's company and does some pretty typical CEO moves to pull a few strings here and there.)
Well, a subverted trope is that the baby, while bright, isn't a genius who's taking care of his mom. Like I said, the mom-son interactions are cute. It shows the good side of taking care of children. (Well, though I seem to remember all the frustrations of taking care of my little sister a lot more, and I didn't even do really anything compared to a mother. For reference, we only have a six year age gap so there wasn't that much I could do in the first place...)
[collapse]It's a fun read and good for when you brain is on low power mode. No complicated plots or politics. Bonus low power mode stat for not having that many characters so you aren't suck with name confusion. I like reading this when I'm stuck in a tough essay, when I just want to turn my brain off for a bit and take a bit of a mental break.
