The Legitimate Daughter Doesn’t Care! Chapter - Discussion

This translator even beat Flying Lines team in their fashion of splitting chapters. Make 89 into almost 450!! That's a talent, okay?

Must confess, I haven't fully finished reading this novel, basically read the first part and then the ending. It's one of those novels when I put it down, leaving it for later and never picked up again basically. Skimming through first few chapters it downed on me why exactly I did that.

I wish the novel would have dropped the "switching babies at birth" plot and concentrated only on the "swapping bodies". Swapping bodies has potential, while switching babies is fully cliche and routine in this novel that my head hurts.

Note: I'm not against the plot of switching babies itself, but the Mu family acts like one-cell villains (as they are though), which unfortunately are abundant in such plots. They even use same catchphrases. And it entirely lacks any humanity, any individuality and asically it's bad. It's almost my pet peeve when in such family they act and say things that contradict themselves. They righteously say that - our blood should not live outside, or another example is - we owe the girl who lived outside. But in general it's just giving financial support, while owing things is simply ridiculous, these children always get some shameful status, which is scrutinized by others and they never get justice. I understand that not all people are kind and are ready to welcome their lost child (Mu family is such an example), but if you're a**holes, then be them with your head held high, don't bring the child back or better - ask your child if they want to get back. At least try, instead of the overall prejudice. The process of Mu family reason and actions are really flushed and have no detail, but the reason behind Xiundo's actions is even more far-fetched. I almost have a dislike for her acting smart and s*upid at the same time. Why? Simply because she and Tong Yan swap bodies. I understand that some people don't like to owe things, but what is wrong with owing? Do you live so far in the sky that it's so hard to owe the one closest to you. I understand it may be like a burden, but that depends on who you owe to. Especially if it's Tong Yan. With his status it was simply easy to use any eaxcuse to help grandma Xu. After all he grew up under her care and he's half her grandchild, he has all the right to help and he also has resources to do so, but the misplaced babies plot wouldn't move if everything was so logical. She comes back and has to be together with people who are openly hostile, but act under the banner of - ah, it's our blood after all. Honestly, so brain-dead.

That's why I wish this novel only had the body swap plot, body swap always has potential and humor. After all both of them swap bodies and lives, it's really hard to treat same people differently when being in two different bodies. Also initially have different social status, not to mention gender. One is a typical boy who acts like a monkey and the other is a girl who thanks to ML's parents felt what it's like to be cared for by a mother. They have very different lives, but a very special experience of swapping bodies. They can truly understand each other.. from inside out :'D after all like all FLs Xiundo has crazy menstrual cramps and she can share it with her bestie Tong Yan.. Waking up up to the morning wood and other intimate physical things... Jokes aside, basically this shaped how they act a lot. I can't say that Tong Yan became less boyish, he's more sensitive and accepting to girl stuff, while Xiundo is less talkative and sometimes more boyish, because she grew up as a boy and had to act like a boy and had to keep her identity swap a secret, which became a habit. He happily free-wheeled in her body enjoying the freedom of the village children and she could do things she would never come in touch with, Inevitable that because they care about each other eventually with the awakening of adolescence they woke up to feelings as well. But when this plot could have more development, potential etc. it had to squeeze with that damn swapping babies brain-dead part. Sigh. Ugh my blood pressure is soaring.