The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife Chapter 951 Discussion

I wanted to like this more but something about it just didn't draw me in. The fact I even finish the main story is basically done by sheer willpower.

All the characters are fine but for some reason I couldn't get attach to any one of them. The MC is fine, the ML is fine, the kid is nice, all the side character are good characters. They are all good but not great character is basically my take.

The MC is a mary sue. And having a mary sue do rob you away from plot development since mary sue has a naturally thick plot armor. For example,

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mid-way in the story where the MC has a vision of rebellious husband of the grand princess, basically the sister of the emperor, where they will cripple her oldest brother (of her current identity), kill her other brother and grandfather, and she decided to embarked on a revenge path to kill all who's going to hurt her brother. She brute force her way into the evil guy's territory without a clear plan, fought against their elite fighter, "died" in the snow, and then miraculously miraculously stayed alive out in the cold in a weaken state and was saved by princess' husband who against his better judgment decided to take her back instead of letting her die there. Again this is with the knowledge she wreaking havoc in his territory. There was a very lame flimsy excuse as to why he decided to take her back but it was so unconvincing I didn't even remember it. And of course she was infected with plague the evil guy was trying to use against the emperor's foce and infected them instead. A wild series of plot development.

This is the point where you realize she didn't need any concrete plan or scheme to take on any challenges, she just need to go gun blazing and everything will fall into places naturally. Author just now made everything very low stake.

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At that point is when I realized no matter what she did, everything will fall into place and goes her way. No matter what danger she's in, she come out unscathed. That's the problem with mary sue character, it robs you away so much of any potential gripping or high stake situation and turns it into a normal chance encounter. You are never concern about her safety or any surprise powerful villian appearing. I never again felt she is ever in any danger after that point.

And these transmigration type storyline, the interest and intrigue lies in their "golden finger", basically naturally cheat item or ability that only the MC can utilize. If done well these golden finger could be the most interesting point of the story. Unfortunately, the golden finger here is a bit boring and uninteresting. Here, the MC, has basically 1 cheat item and 1 cheat ability. Her cheat item is a medicine chest that can magically give her modern medicine, item, and device that can heal anyone at the point she needs it. A overuse cheat item and nothing special. And her cheat abilty is a her dream that can predict the future or a possible future which lets her identify and recognize upcoming villian character before they're exposed.

Again, these cheat item and skill, if done well could be very cool and interesting. Here it's mainly used in a way to save MC from having to come up with any serious investigation or clever way to tackle any problem or challenges. The medicine box is basically the reason why she's so reckless in facing any powerful character. She's basically always "i'll fight them head on and heal myself with any magical medicine that comes out of my box" against everyone and anyone. Never felt the need to lay low or hide herself. And the dream is her way to recognize and evil character or scheme before they're exposed. Like in the beginning she used it to save her husband, the ML, several time. How? The dream basically show the exact time and method people used to hurt him. Nothing new here, a common plot device for these type of story. It doesn't bother me that author use these, just that I find it a bit boring.

So what's the major plus of this story.

1. It is complete, the author do make an effort to complete the story and tie up all the loose end. Although whether I'm satisfy with the result is another thing.
2. All the characters are likable. There are basically no annoying character. There's no cartoony villain characters that annoys the heck out of you.
3. Most of the major characters has interesting background stories. Although I'm not particularly attached to any single character here, it is cool to learn about the background of different characters as the story progresses.

There these are my initial hot take. Again, I think it could've been great had the story been developed better. As of now, it's basically a story I'll completely forget after a few weeks. Leaving a review here will help me remember what this story is about.