The Exhausting Reality of Novel Transmigration Chapter 192 Discussion

It isn't a masterpiece, but surely not a tr*sh either. It's quite enjoyable to read, and is pretty good storywise. I read it in Korean, tho, so I can't vouch for the translations. However, it is good enough for me to read from beginning to end.

As usual, I don't read side stories if the main story isn't wonderful enough. And as you can see, I didn't read the side stories. Still, the story itself is definitely to my liking, I just don't think this is a wonderful book.

Anyway, MC is broken, transmigrated woman. She's broken enough that she's cold and calculative, but not broken enough to be unfeeling. She found a resolve to protect his new sister as soon as she woke up in her new body, just because she didn't want what happened to her happens to her new sister. She's kind even if she tried not to show it.

As for the male lead, he's pretty passive and only followed MC's commands for the most part, but he also did his parts. Calling him ornament is clearly too much. Spoiler

He fought against monsters and saved MC at one point of the story, for example.

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Honestly, the writing execution of his character isn't very well done at first. There's one like him, that Prince Perez from the novel with Lombardi family. Yet, unlike Perez, in my opinion, Cassion is a bit bland in the beginning. He does have a character development, tho, and he's gotten better by the end of the story.

The side characters aren't all that great either. Most of them don't feel alive most of the time, and some are plain annoying. The early story villain was almost comically evil, and the late story villains weren't all better. The characters could be better, really, but the author seems to put more efforts in other things.

Then, there are many parts of the book where it was dedicated to create mystery about who the real villain was. It failed big time for me, as it was apparent from the beginning that this certain man is the real villain. Yet, the author kept on trying to direct my suspicions the other way, like, WAAAAYY too much. Had they stopped doing that and instead do some more works on the characters, it would have been better.

Anyway, there's one thing bothering me after reading some reviews here. See;

When people reads a time-travel or transmigration novels, they often forget that the description of each characters in the "original novel" should always be something that is untrustworthy. Sometime because the original novel was written from the original main character's viewpoint, sometime because the original novel's author was partial toward the main characters/male leads, and sometime because the descriptions used were for the future main characters.

There would always be inconsistency between the original novel description vs the "real world" person the transmigrator entered in. If you think this is ridiculous, then I think you failed to understand that.

Outside interferences should also be considered when it comes to these inconsistencies. For example, the "male lead" who is "supposed to be evil mastermind" becomes a "weak and shy ornament" (he's not an ornament down the line by the way but whatever), is because OUR MAIN CHARACTER literally interfered and saved him. That made the male lead lose his potential to become evil, because MC literally showed him kindness.

You need to know that the "male lead" becomes "villain" in the original story because nobody helped him. He was corrupted by loneliness and hatred. But in this timeline where MC helped him, he had lost that opportunity.

This "inconsistency" also shows up with Alicia (MC's sister). She was supposed to be a dumb weakling coward female lead, but she showed courage in the early chapters and throughout the story because MC showed her courage and kindness first. She's grown stronger, albeit not smarter.

Thus, I can easily say that these are NOT inconsistency, but growth or change or alterations.

The original Male Lead, tho, has always been a sadist, manipulative villain. Even in the original. Spoiler

He tried to kill Cassion, his own brother who didn't even do anything to him. He poisoned his father alongside his mother. He manipulated Alicia just so he can have her. He let monsters loose in the hunting event in the original and killed them all just so he can become a hero. He wasn't supposed to be a hero, he was a villain who disguised himself as hero. It's always been like that in the original novel. There's no inconsistency.

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So, whatever "inconsistency" that one review mentioned, those are all bull.