Wonderful Life After Exchanging Fate Chapter 91 Discussion

Ah unfortunate, I loved almost every novel I've read from Explore. This one started out amazing, but it got boring very soon. And it's not like I don't read slice of life, I live for this genre!

It's very similar to another novel I'm following, Chang'an Small Restaurant, but I think the other novel executes the story a little better. Both are girls from the modern world who first worked as maids in a high status family. After extricating themselves, they open a stall and later upgrade it into a whole store due to the popularity of their food. Likewise, there's a bigger restaurant that want to knock down their place, but fails. Both MLs are high ranking officials, but I'm not a big fan of ice bergs so -1 for Wonderful Life After Exchanging Fate.

But I think the difference is where what makes Chang'an Small Restaurant prevail as the better novel. Firstly, there's a lot of family members and starving people the MC of Wonderful Life After Exchanging Fate extends a helping hand at. Don't get me wrong, it's a kind gesture, but the amount of people present in the novel after 60 chapters is so many I don't even know who's who anymore. I feel like these characters are added just to pad the story, some of them don't even make a difference in the story later. There's way less people in Chang'an Small Restaurant, and even better, not many share the same surnames.

Also everyone hides their thoughts, there's much more push and pull in this novel. I'm not a fan of that. Also her greedy sister is a turn off, there's nothing redeeming about her, she's flat, just a greedy pretty girl. As someone who's lives through a lifetime already, I would expect both girls to be a little more mature. There's actually quite a few 2D people in this story now that I think about it. Even the MC is a little flat, she only knows to cook and avoid people of status, I still don't have a clue what she likes other than cooking. We, as the readers, rarely get a peak at the character's thoughts, there's no foreshadowing, and everything is just written out right, I think that's why its so difficult for me to like this novel. I think many of the reviews agree, since there's only a limited amount of 5 stars, this novel is just passable.

The translator really tried, but I do think she may have a easier time tling non-ancient genre novels. There's some information I think are missed or idioms unexplained, which leaves me a curious and unfulfilled. But she really did a good job otherwise, there's a lot of obvious effort put into this novel. I suggest perhaps recruiting an editor, or running your work through an AI to improve some of the wording.