The Legitimate Daughter Doesn’t Care! Chapter 374 Discussion

(Honestly, after writing this review I realized I sound like I love MQYao) But rlly its bc the author makes her evil actions seem so forced like Spoiler

when she literally mu*ders Father Mu bc hes useless w/o money.

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It's like the author half-assed the story by making the villain extremely s*upid, incompetent, and villainous while the MC is perfect, capable, and moral. The novel started off well, but atp i've forgotten what it was like. Usually I get it and love how overdramatic and exaggerated it is, but am I the only one who feels pity for MQYao???

1. The author continuously acts like you SHOULD favour a biological stranger over someone you raised, simply because of blood relations. The Mu Family can start getting to know XXD, but this doesn't mean they should shun/kick out MQYao who they raised. This just makes the familial relationship superficial :).

It was not her fault in the first place that she was switched, and she wasn't the one to make the decision to hide XXD's identity either. She was just glad for the decision: she wasnt gonna be replaced. Obv somebody would feel an inferiority complex/imposter syndrome if you realized everything you have was "supposed" to be someone else's.

Even MQYi's immediate shunning of MQYao feels forced; its ok to have a slow realization yk. Most ppl dont break off 16 yr relationships that quickly.

2. I saw someone say MQYi was also spoiled the same way, but lets not forget that MQYao is a girl, and would obviously be treated differently (especially when you look at how much of a b**** father Mu is). She's already objectified, kept just because of her marriage. You can tell from how Father Mu keeps talking about daughters being useless unless she marries rich.

I'm not talking about her actions; they are wrong, but the author makes them feel so forced. She's being deliberately made into someone unforgivable, simply bc she was dealt a bad hand.

It also just doesn't make sense that she only sees her family for the money?? She did grow up with them for 17 years or so?? Do you really think it makes sense that she has only greed, no attachment, if not some familial love? She's made out to be unfilial just bc she's unbiological, as if she wasn't treated as a biological daughter for over a decade.

In the end, Father Mu's actions are basically brushed over: he has some regret, Spoiler

gets stabbed

[collapse], idk what happens after, but him being the main problem is overshadowed bc MQYao is made into a lunatic. ?.About the mc;

I like her, she's nice & perfect, she's basically morally right all the time. I love Mary Sue fls; they're usually my favourite, but only when it's interesting and with the bare minimum of a flaw. There's barely any character development for XXD, bc she's already perfect. Her personality isn't all that interesting besides being a genius, cold outside cute inside, and these random "cool" skills acquired bc of the body swap trope. Nothing showed her struggling to get what she has. Her lazily-built perfectness make no significant contributions to the plot, except to make it easier for the author and to make the "biological daughter favoured over raised" trope justified.

The villains are extremely villainous, morally corrupted psycho and all, the MC is perfect (w a barely justified reason) so everything gets solved in 200 words, and everything else is unmemorable. I even forgot ab the body swap part bc it isn't even mentioned much in the later chapters.

I can praise the relationships tho; XXD's complex towards TY's spendings makes a lot of sense. I lovee Yin Hua, I lovee LYT and I lovee SQH. There are so many likeable side characters, actually. The Mus, aside from the father and the made-evil QYao, aren't all terrible. They weren't villainously evil initially either; just didn't deal w the situation well.

Overall, its a typical, ok face slapping read that requires you to shut off ur brain sometimes. It's probably not as terrible as it sounds from my review, and I see how a lot of ppl are enjoying it. Have I read too much face slapping novels that my brain cant digest more? Idk. But it you do enjoy them very much, and if u feel u might disagree w my opinion, I hope u don't get influenced by me and go ahead to read! I can see why people enjoy it so much, but its just not my cup of tea