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TLDR at the bottomNot very original and really just recycles a lot of the typical tropes of the genre, but at least has some interesting things going for it with the martial arts and magic elements, but those are WAY in the background even at this point in the story.My main problem with the story is first that nobody, not even the FL gets any real personality, let alone character development. So first is the FL who, as per usual, is almost literally perfect. But the author sets up something actually interesting because Spoiler
She isn't really "transmigrated" so much as she has remembered her past life and regained past life abilities. But she still carries emotional damage from her current and past life, and the author literally only once brought up how they may come into conflict. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder later and the only reaction was "yeah that sounds about right." Like come on, the author wasn't even attempting to put in work into making the FL interesting.
[collapse] Besides her, every side character (mostly the women btw) barely are talked about unless they are irrationally angry or scheming, and even then they still have zero actual character.This gets into my second problem with this novel, which isn't unique to this novel AT ALL as CN novels go, is that THERE ARE NO LIKEABLE FEMALE CHARACTERS AT ALL BESIDES THE MC. All the ones that get any attention are crazy/evil/greedy/ (insert negative trait here), and any that are supposed to be good are ignored unless they happen to be in the room with the MC. It's a novel with a female protagonist, I don't understand why effort is taken to cut out any meaningful positive role for a woman role-model or friend or family, who the MC is more likely to interact with in the first place. Mother? S*upid. Aunt? Irrationally evil. Grandma? Cruel and then yeeted from the story (not a spoiler she literally just is not talked about anymore). Every other named female relative/peer/random stranger or named character (accept for literally one) ? Hostile for no discernable reason. Again this isn't unique to this novel, the problem is just WAY MORE transparent in this one.Tldr: Mediocre novel overall with boring plot, some interesting world elements, wasted potential with MC, and extremely boring side-characters and "antagonists". Don't need to read it, you've probably read something exactly like it before.