I Help the Richest Man Spend Money to Prevent Disasters Chapter -- Discussion

tr*shy soap opera vanity novel.

The story tries a bit too hard to be emotionally deep when it's shallow AF.

Narration is overall very on the nose, treats readers very idiotic, and is annoyingly repetitive in making statements/points/shining neon signs on foreshadowing.

Definitely not meant for re-reads, gave it a 2 star after attempting to chew through 100 chapters, and now looking at it again 2 years later at my second attempt to finish this pile of mess, the story became even more unbearable. I hate how parenthood is portrayed here, like in so many others. Filial piety is a social concept, it depends on how the individuals treat their offspring and build up a relationship with them that makes families work out, you don't automatically get a good parent badge by conceiving and pushing out a baby. Spoiler

Or do the bare minimum of satisfying their financial needs and wants, but neglect everything else on the emotional and educational front. OgFL (magpie sibling/AKA villain) turns out to be a brainless cannon fodder who has bad morals and values only money. I absolutely loathe this pattern, it's mostly always the parents' fault.

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The connection between mother and child isn't magical when they barely know each other. And what kind of a spiritual connection is the mom feeling there anyway, the soul is a different one.

The MC has a strong white lotus image. Bullied by the magpie sibling, always apologetic towards ML, when she causes harm without thinking it's all forgiven because of how sorry she is and how bad she feels to the point you had to feel bad for her even though she is the one not reflecting at her own mistakes.

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Spending money on ML even though both she and ML were told to spend it in the right place and the wrong way would be counterproductive as his very recent accident has proven.

Yet both continue down the path of doom multiple of times till they had to be told AGAIN for them to realize "Oh right, he did say that, we were told of this fact." ML, as a skeptic, can be put aside. MC, however, knows of his death in 1 year, believes in the misfortune and change of karma somewhat after the first one or two accidents, but continuously drags ML into accidents by spending more and more money on him. Even going as far as taking him bungee jumping/cliff diving (some kind of extreme thrill stuff).

So coupled with the fact how nonchalant she was about ignoring the fortune teller's warning/advice and her taking him to dangerous places (it's now yesterday's news that he's accident prone, why getting him to the edge of the cliff or into the seas???) her intentions seem far far more darker than one lets on. I can't get it out of my mind that she just wants to be a black widow.

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