- #1
I meant to rate this 1 star but accidentally hit two. Let me be clear. This novel is one star.
- The concept of the MC transmigrating into a manhua instead of a novel, and one she herself created, was interesting enough but the logic of it all makes no sense. Like, when she first meets the Novel!FL she doesn't recognise her... you drew her? You design and drew her? Manhua is a visual medium, how do you not recognise her? And the Lu family is this super powerful family that is involved in business, military, and politics, but the MC just made them a random background feature in her manhua - a manhua that is specifically described as being a dogblood Mary-Sue drama. LMAO, show me one dogblood Mary-Sue drama where the ML doesn't come from the biggest and most powerful family (y'know, like this novel itself?). The setup just feels so incredibly incidental, there's no difference between the MC transmigrating into a random webnovel she read vs. transmigrating into her own manhua, it's so wasted.
- Incredibly ableist. Incredibly ableist. Chinese webnovels constantly throw around the word "autism" without understanding anything about ASD, when more often than not most autistic characters in these works can be more described as being very shy, having trauma, or having social phobia. I realise it's rooted in the way the culture there views mental illness and development disorders, so I've put to bed my frustration with the complete display of ignorance in novels that pull this. But this one is just especially upsetting because there's so much contempt and dehumanisation. Eg.Spoiler
Since Yu Ling told her about Beibei's autism last time, Siyu felt that she's very pitiful. She was obviously a smart and bright child, but she could not live like a normal child completely due to some defects.
[collapse]Hey. This is disgusting. This is a disgusting way to talk about anyone with autism. Austism is not a "defect", and talking about how sad and pitiful it is that someone can't be "normal" because of it is absolutely wild behaviour. That's not how you talk about people. Even when it comes to autism cases like non-verbal communication, research has shown that these people with non-verbal autism CAN communicate themselves very well, they just need different avenues of being able to do that. There is no case of defects, and the attitude of treating autism like a defect that needs to be fixed in order to "save" the child just does far more damage in the long-term. Children with autism put into conversion centres trying to "cure" autism have suffered trauma that exacerbates things and some have even DIED. Chinese webnovels are terrible when it comes to understanding autism, but let me tell you: this one absolutely took the cake for me. - The ML is bad. Overbearing, controlling, yandere MLs are dime-a-dozen, that's not what I'm talking about. This ML literally causes the MC to become sick, her health to worsen, makes her cough up blood, makes her almost pass out just be being near her. Does he do it on purpose? No. Does he know? No. But it was an author choice to make a male lead whose very presence near the MC is detrimental to her health and threatens her life and it's a pretty frickin' weird choice if you ask me! Their first meeting he: grabs her, manhandles her, basically gropes her while she's coughing up blood, kidnaps her, threatens her, while she is literally sobbing in tears begging him to let her go. The description the author puts into describing how physically weak and limp she gets around him as he sucks her life force out of her like an energy vampire has big "this will get so r*pey" vibes so I clocked out.