Typical tropes: transmigratted FMC with a bun, atrocious family members, cold rich tall jadelike male lead (of course he has to be rich enough to buy everyone's soul) cute kid, FMC has to be beautiful that everyone wants to marry or f*** her (very typical FMCs in CN novel they could smell and act like sh*t but CN author would find a way to justify it) only difference from other novel is the "system" the very typical netizens comments will make up for lazy writing.
I only read it for the cute bun. The pacing of the story is good, it has an okay FMC. There are other CN novels out here with similar tropes that are worth reading and investing your time IMO. Only read it for fun, the little bun and don't take it seriously which was my mistake.
What I didn't like though is the author's way of depicting of "how hard working mother the FMC is but she still can be clumsy when raising a kid", she didn't do it enough justice that to me it seemed like child neglect. There was one scene where she got delayed due to reasons and the kid was left alone in the house locked in, and the kid thought his mother didn't want him so he started crying which prompted one neighbor to destroy the door, that could've easily been taken out of context specially in the 80's where basically single mothers are often castigated and looked down upon. At end of the chapter the author put a note that the FMC is just human she makes mistakes, which seemed non chalant to me. Sure everyone makes mistakes but dude, that could've been traumatic for the kid, that lone incident could easily result to the kid developing separation anxiety. My point is if the author want to bring "being human" to provide a context of reality into it, why didn't they also write in the fact that she could be castigated or drowned in spit as was the practice during those times, as a result of this?To me the author doesn't really now how to encorporate scenes in their novel that would solidify their characters design. This novel has a good plot even with the myriad of typical tropes I mentioned above this could've been easily a good novel had the author know how to write well enough to create scenes that would make this novel enjoyable to read. It lacks character development. Most of the scenes fell flat and unessential to the characters development. Spoiler
the little bun deserve better parents in my opinion, it's just atrocious how the author wrote in a child and subject him into scenarios that would then be explained later on as his mother/fathers care or love for him here's an example it's an MTL: As soon as he finished speaking, there was a person crossing the road in front of the vehicle. In an emergency, Huo Mingwang stepped on the brakes. Yuhui was not prepared and flew directly from the seat to the chair behind Huo Mingwang, hitting him full in the chest. The tip of the little guy's nose felt sore from being hit by the hard object, and tears welled up in an instant. He whimpered softly and hummed like a puppy. - Like what!? The dad didn't even fasten the kids seatbelt! I already mentioned that his mother once left him in the house alone right? Now his father saw him with mother who collapsed in the road and took his mother away to get her to the hospital ignoring the crying child and just drove off with his mom. Then at the hospital the mom woke up and somehow convinced the father to come and bring the child back. This was the scene after that. Prior to that the focus our good author was pushing was not the urgency of a caring mother finding her son, or the crisis that a mother should feel having left her child alone in the middle of the street, but the persistence of a gossipy nurse having the MCs mistaken as a couple offering unwanted relationship advice, an a so called caring mother adamantly denying the relationship. Wow parents of the year! - Bit*h your son got left alone for nth time and your arguing for the wrong thing! She should've smack the ml's head and shout to move his dumbass and get the kid! Coz that's what mothers do!
I hate authors like this who doesn't know how to work in a romantic scene at an appropriate time. Timing is everything. Wrong timing can convey a different ideal and thought. It makes the reader hate or question the MCs characterization as a loving mother and ML as a reliable, capable father and husband. For context you wouldn't greet someone joyfully happy birthday when you see them devastated coz they just found right there and then that they got stage 4 brain cancer right? I mean you'd still greet them but you just gotta find the right timing.
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