The Ex-Wife of the Educated Youth is Reborn Chapter 21 Discussion

I’ve read another with similar setting before that was good but left me quite unsatisfied so I was hoping this one would deliver. It did not.

I love homey vibes, slice of life, romance, child rearing, a sprinkle of drama. With all those genres present in this one it was utterly lacklustre.

The sense of realism is true but the narrative’s boring and the atmosphere nonexistent. It’s just very lacking in depth. I mean the narrative structure is literally like:

• “Li Xia took a nap, went shopping in the afternoon, ate, slept, and made dumplings.”
• ”Li Xia finished working. She washed up and went to bed. The next morning she made breakfast.”
• “The feeling between the two is good. Shen Haiyang is still recovering and felt unwell after a while. For the first time Li Xia was on top. After finishing she helped Shen Haiyang clean up and laid down..”

The other two are paraphrased but the first one is not; literally the same structure. Their first time so was utterly un-f*cking-romantic. So do their second, third, etc. I’m not looking for full blown smut but I literally didn’t feel a drop of chemistry at. All.

Actually it already gave away from the start, when it felt like the author just can’t wait to get grandma out of the picture, cramming out the Shen’s history out of her mouth then killing her off. It all feels hasty going scene to scene but never actually staying long enough to establish whatever vibe/feel/atmosphere there should’ve been.

My experience the whole 21 chapters felt like listening to unemotional first gen AI narration.