An Unexpected Turn: Villain Becomes Dad Chapter 13 Discussion

It's the usual kind of reincarnated ass a villain story that fails to establish characters.

No character is really a character mearly a tool to advance the plot.

The only 'unique' thing that it has is that the love interest already had a child with someone else.

Which of course is to facilitate the story setup at the cost of making the already uninteresting heroine extremely unapealing. From what I could glimpse as of now he is very much so her actual son she had with another dude.

Funnily enough the novel seems to hope the reader would forget about that fact, trying to both have it's cake and eat it.

That said, if you don't mind that it still is simply an extremely generic (and not well executed) story with barebones characters.

Edit: I feel like I need to clarify myself. Because my last line can apply to almost any of this type of novel. The whole ''Villain slaps mc's and gets all the women'' novels. Thing is, quite a few of them are actually fun reads. Their simpleness is exactly their appeal, they are essentially ''Groschennovels''. It's just that this novels is actually bad at executing that plot. It feels like it just wants to rattle down what happens but forgets to actually give the characters proper interaction. Sure, the characters in such novels are rarely deep but surprisingly often they tend to be at least amusing to see interact. In this one most teasing and so one just feels wooden as f*ck.

Part of that has to do with what I mentioned earlier, the whole having the cake and eating it thing. For those that don't know, most chinese novels are even more extreme than Japanese or Korean novels with having the love interests be absolute pure virg*ns. Here is the thing with this novel, the women quite clearly isn't. But well... the novel really just hopes the reader forget that. Things like the dudes father or such are simply... never mentioned. There are a few stories that do it like that, they want to have a Mother as a love interest but also want all their heroines to be pure so they kind of just act like there was never a father. Acknowledging that the women has a child but refusing to acknowledge how said child would have come to be. That is the case with this novel as well and it makes the already wooden conversations even more awkward.

So yeah, it's not bad because of what type of novel it is but because it's really bad at being that type of novel.