Daily Life of Raising Cubs in the 1980s Chapter Completed Discussion

My rating would be 3.5-4. It's a very drama free slice of life story with some fantasy elements like a broadcasting channel appearing on her phone when she transmigrates to the past. The FL can actually livestream whatever she's doing with a phone that has 100% battery all the time. It's also a slice of life story with minimal rags to riches element, and childcaring as she has an adorable 4 year old baby boy. The story is quite angst free and not much family drama, honestly it gets resolved quite quickly. The only real conflict or drama is the mystery surrounding the FL and ML and their relationship.

We first find FL transmigrating to the past and realizing that her family is a bunch of bloodsuckers and biased to the younger brother. FL has a phone with magical livestreaming abilities from an app called Chumi Live (From the MTL) and she livestreams her daily activities, telling viewers that she has gone back to the past. She will be able to give evidences on this and when people give gifts online, she gets a partial amount of the money.

Using that money, FL then leaves the family, and then rents a home for herself and her son. She then opens up a dessert shop. The thing is, she can actually buy items from the apps in her phone and they magically appear lol. So she buys ovens and other materials to make desserts with. It's hilarious. This story just doesn't take itself seriously.

ML appears and he doesn't outright harasses her. He merely tries to give her small troubles. But when FL collapses one day from tiredness and he's the cause of it (he makes her bake a lot overnight for an unreasonable large order of biscuits) and ML then regrets it. He brings her to the hospital and helps her through it. He thinks the FL has amnesia, which is why she doesn't remember him. And after some inner turmoil, ML will be like, "Since she has amnesia, I'll chase her again! I'll forgive everything she has ever done to me!"

And this mysterious vibe of WHAT ON EARTH DID THE FL DO TO THE ML goes on till ~10 chapters to the end before we finally figure out what happened between them.

Spoiler

FL was an educated youth sent to the countryside when she was 17. At that time, the oriFL which was selfish and arrogant fell and died. FL then transmigrated back. Upon going back, she obviously had a change of personality and was a good, kind person. She then falls in love with ML who was a villager, and they actually got married. However, due to a SYSTEM ERROR from the Chumi Live app - they did not explain if her phone also went back in time - FL was sent back to the future where she came from but with loss of memories and also a missing soul. I don't understand this part, but basically her soul was split and one part of it went back to the future with no memories, and another one stayed in the past. But this soul fragment that was in the past was not complete and merged with oriFL's personality which was selfish, deep desire to go back to the city and arrogant. So this fragment of FL's soul broke it off with the ML harshly and went back to the city. She was pregnant at the time. The System couldn't send the FL back to merge the souls for some reason. I don't really understand the MTL at this point. Something about the unborn child and also how the System didn't expect FL to fall in love?? No clue. Anyway, that soul fragment could only last for four years which is why FL then transmigrated back to the 80s and meets the ML again. ML just thinks that FL has some illness and personality disorder which is why her personality changed so much and then changed back again to her sweet self. It's very confusing lol. So yeah, all that problem and trauma for so many people due to a damn SYSTEM ERROR lol. FL never recovers her memories from those years and merely reads about it from an infodump by the System. ML still loves her regardless.

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Other than that 'mystery', the rest of the novel basically focuses on FL taking care of her baby boy who is adorable. Baby boy has some trauma from the terrible living conditions before FL transmigrates and he had social anxiety. FL's loving care has eased a lot of baby's fears and he gradually opens up to be a cheerful baby boy.

The story is okay for a casual read but don't take it too seriously. The fantastical elements are not really well-written imo. The drama between the two leads also wasn't really told in flashbacks. It was an infodump. I think it could've been better if FL gradually remembered what happened. But to the end, she merely gets an infodump and not really memories. Which is what I didn't like as I felt the ML bore a lot of the pain from whatever happened. I also feel like the ending is quite abrupt and we never really find out about the livestream app again. Like how it affects the future etc. Even the last line in the extra was so weird. Like, I expected more after that sentence. Oh well. Just read it for the cute baby.