Daily Life After Marriage in the 1960s Chapter 13 Discussion

I've only read a few chapters but I just really really can't like the MC. The only thing she has going for her is being beautiful and maybe can even cook pretty well. But she is just so superficial and annoying that it's hard to like her. Like, the author clearly means for them to get together and it's very reasonable given both their backgrounds but the MC literally takes 5 chapters to agree even after knowing she has no better choice. Like, it's so dumb, she obviously likes his looks and ogles him when he's drinking water but then tries to be pretentious and say she doesn't know him well, etc. And this goes on and on through all 13 chapters. MC is trying to act like a strong woman but yet, author has to write ML in to save MC because MC literally, is not that interesting herself and contradicts herself constantly. Like, the way it's written is so annoying that I cannot read anymore and decided to drop it. Maybe it will get better later but the MC's character is just too much for me right now.

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In the beginning, the original MC is hit so hard she ends up dying and the current MC either transmigrates into her or she recalls her previous life's memories (it's not clear in the translations). She sees her previous life in which she married the man her evil aunt proposes in order to give her and her brother a better life. However, that man beat her to death and her brother is kicked out and dies under a bridge. So she's determined not to do this again and tries to find a way out instead. However, she doesn't have any special abilities like other transmigrated MCs, has no money, and is not very smart. Then her brother gives her a letter their dad wrote before he died which tells her she had a private engagement when she was younger with his old friend and, after writing to this old friend, the engagement still stands and the friend's son will come to marry her. MC brings up a lot of good points like what is the son already had someone else he likes? or it's been over 2 months with no one showing up so maybe he's already rejected it? Then she puts it in the back of her head and tries to figure out what to do to provide for her and her brother.

Then you see from the ML's side and find out he's a solider that's been gone for 3 months and just recently came back. He's very handsome and brave and most importantly, doesn't like being close to women which causes a lot of people around him to want to arrange blind dates. Then he gets the letters his dad and MC's father wrote and finds out about MC and her dilemma. He immediately agrees to this and hops on a train to MC. When he's almost at her house, you see the MC's aunt came to visit her with the factory director's son (the same man who beat MC to death during her flashback). MC's aunt and man tries to get MC to agree to marry him but MC does not want to and verbally humiliates him saying he's too short, and he must have problems not being able to get married at 27-28. Ok, this is fine no need to be nice to people who are rude to you but like, the author kept saying how weak MC and her younger brother is, how much people look down on them and how they are unable to survive, etc. and then MC goes and humiliates the son of a factory director who can, quiet literally, make her and her brother's life miserable??? Ok, if MC had a backup or something to rely on then sure she can say what she wants, BUT SHE DOESN'T. Anyone can beat her and her brother up and they have no one to care for them. The only person who is nice to them is the little old lady next door. And to make it worse, the MC acknowledges this. She literally said she knows she's in deep trouble if she offends people yet she offends them anyways??? Later she's like, it would have been bad if ML didn't show up because the bad guy could have forced himself on her.... like are you serious? And of course ML shows up in the nick of time to throw them out. But then that leads to the questions, where was ML in her last life????

Like, if nothing had changed then why did the previous her not see the letter her dad wrote and not see the MC at the same time her aunt and the bad guy showed up?? And don't try explaining to me that oh it's because MC didn't agree this time so she delayed enough for ML to arrive. Just saying a few more sentences made ML show up in time??? You've got to be kidding me. And even if she had agreed, why can't she change her mind after ML showed up in the previous life? Are you saying, she agreed right away to marry this director's son and he just took her and her brother away from the house so fast, they didn't see ML on the way? Or they didn't pack up anything or like, sell the house etc and so they missed ML? You're saying, previous MC didn't even stall to think about it for a bit??? Yeah, I don't buy it. If you're trying to make MC seem like a strong character then at least give her a way to beat back the bad guys for a day or so then have ML show up. Having her try to act tough only to be saved by ML is not saying anything except MC is not that smart and needs a man to support her.

And speaking about supporting her, after meeting ML, the MC goes on the typical, oh so handsome solider brother that probably has tight abs and drinks water so sexy she can't look away. She admits she likes his looks yet spends about 5 chapters thinking of ways other than marrying ML only to finally just marry MC. Like, please don't be so pretentious ok. He took her and her brother out to eat, bought a ton of stuff for them, paid back her hospital bills, and here she is saying she needs to think about it. Then after agreeing, she's asking him if he likes her and if he'll listen to whatever she says to which he's like, I'll do the reasonable things but if it's unreasonable then I'll reason with you first. And she GETS MAD AT HIM FOR THAT. For being honest and saying something that makes sense, she's upset. And she's like, "do you know that answering like this makes it hard to find a girlfriend?" Like, OMG girl, you don't want a man you want a s*ave. Sure it's sweet that some guys will say they'll do whatever their girlfriends want, but IT'S ALSO SWEET TO FIND A MAN WHO'S TRUTHFUL. Like, this is set in the 60's, men at that time aren't like men of today's generations. It's not easy for people back then to show their emotions, and yet this idiot girl is trying to bring modern thinking to a man who's trying his best to take care of her after only knowing each other for a day or so?? And the author had the nerve to say "fortunately, she wasn't the type to throw a tantrum" yet later admitting that MC was angry but "she knew that getting upset... would only hurt herself". Ok princess. MC makes passive aggressive remarks like this saying she's not angry when she is and when ML askes her what her plans are the next day, she says "I'm just idly wasting time.... what could I have to do?" etc. Maybe it's just me or not, but she's literally acting like a child to her savior. Like, why did the author have to say that?? He was just asking a question, why did the author have to answer it in that way???

And what made me drop this is when they decided to get their marriage certificate the next day and she's amazed that now she's married. So she muttered to herself "I can't believe I'm now a part of the early marriage group. Yesterday I was a super youthful girl, and today I'm a married women stepping into the grave of marriage". MC is 19, ML is 24. This is set in the 1960's. I thought 19 was a perfectly normal age to be married at that time. I thought arranged marriages were normal too. I thought her, being an orphan and having a younger brother to take care of, would find it perfectly fine to marry someone to protect her. And I thought, she wanted to get married because she had no other skills or support. These reasonings are literally what the author has been writing to the readers to brainwash us that it was ok for them to get married. But then the authors does a 180 and says MC is too young, she's getting married too early, and ML is too old, etc. Girl, you literally only have looks going for you that will attract so many vultures and you even admit it yourself. You admit you are obsessed over good looking men like the ML. Yet, why do you keep doing something and then regretting it??? It is soooo annoying reading the author reason with one thing and then in the next sentence, tries to un-reason herself. I got so upset with this that I just stopped reading and here I am, writing a long review to complain. I have never seen such an undecided author who is trying so hard to convivence her readers of one thing and then try to discredit that later. OMG so frustrating!

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