Don’t Pick Up Boyfriends From the T*ash Bin Chapter 92 part2 Discussion

I usually try not to leave reviews for novels I actually like until I've finished them since it's easier to extol their virtues that way, but Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the tr*sh Bin is so unimpeachably good that I'm making an exception.

For any well-reviewed, popular novel, the fear is always that it doesn't live up to the hype, but this one absolutely does. It is the single, best quick transmigration novel I've ever read, bar none, and by itself, it stands in my top three favorite webnovels I've ever read. It completely elevates its genre, and simultaneously makes me want to read more QT novels and also never read another QT novel again because nothing can possibly top this. It's that good!

As for why, others have given detailed reasons already, many of which I agree with 100%, but I'm going to join in the love parade here, because I want to gush.

1. 1. While this is nominally a revenge story, the focus for the main character really isn't on the revenge aspect. Our protagonist Xiaochi truly, genuinely cares about the people's bodies he inhabits, and his primary goal is never to get revenge for them but rather to help them pave a new future for themselves. He works to his utmost through every world doing this, even going so far as to hold off leaving the world until he's sure he's created new, better choices for the person to take. It's super heartwarming to see.
   2. The actual revenge itself is always perfectly constructed, not just in the sense that it's a brilliant plan (which it always is) but that it's also the perfect degree of revenge. Unlike other revenge stories, nothing that happens to the antagonists ever feels lukewarm or, as is often the case with these face-slapping novels, way too excessive. Xiaochi actually always leaves a way out for these antagonists (i.e. If they choose not the do the terrible thing they did in the previous timeline, disaster wouldn't befall them), though of course most scum still do those things (which is why they're scum), but still. Even the revenge is always the pitch perfect degree of "what goes around comes around" with punishments that always feel like genuinely earned recompense rather than some revenge fantasy. And no deaths! So they can spend a lifetime repenting! Whoo!
   3. The villains feel like actual villains that exist in the world while not being sympathetic at all. They never felt like cartoon, disney villains, but they also never felt like the poor, misunderstood anti-heroes that hollywood is so fond of either. They're actual, real shitty people, with real-life (shitty) reasoning for why they do what they do. Good villains are extremely hard to do, and it just goes to show how great the writing of this is that it feels effortless every time.
   4. This feels like a huge middle finger to the traditional martyr complex/suicidal ideation tendencies of these kinds of stories. Xiaochi, and the overall narrative arc, is heavily critical of those who choose to foster regret through su*cide because the most important thing is living, after the fact. What's the point of getting back at someone if you're dead! That's really what puts this story miles (and miles and miles) above others -- it's absolute belief that life is worth living above all. Even while it remains sympathetic to those who've suffered, it also has absolute faith in their ability to, when given a chance, live a good, fulfilling life.
   5. Oh, and the romance is good too, I guess? The side couple in the figure-skating arc is super sweet, and the main pairing is nice too. (No overbearing, yandere male leads here!) Not what I come here for, but it's worth a mention.

TLDR; if you haven't read this yet, do. It blows almost every other danmei out of the water, and then some.