I Help the Richest Man Spend Money to Prevent Disasters Chapter 382 Discussion

There is no irony in the novel's title. The author really and truly holds the kind of shallow worldview where love is nourished on materialism and social status, and all kinds of unethical behaviour is allowed as long as you are rich enough to justify your self-serving purposes with 'good intentions'. The values and aspirations of this novel shows the ignorance of a not-very-reflective young woman of the lower-middle class, written for the pleasure of people whose headspace is of the same size.

The character whom I consider the biggest villainess of the book gets sympathetic framing and a happy ending. Spoiler

Despite her indignation at her young daughter being trafficked, MC's biological mother indulges in a lite version of child trafficking herself, and absolves herself of all responsibility for destroying the life of a little girl with her insincerity and frankly sh*t parenting. The author seems unexpectedly tolerant of people who regard children as purchasable stress toys as long as the child's material needs are exceeded without boundary. Nie Jiqing's careless and deliberate cruelty to the daughter who craves her approval desperately, whom she chose to legally adopt and whom she watched grow up, is WAY ABOVE the level of abandoning your own dog for biting the pedigree kitten outside and then kicking it repeatedly for good measure. Somehow all of this is handwaved as deserved. How, in what way, and to what end is anything like this EVER okay? For this type of monster mother to be lionised as a caring and desirable parent in a book with such heavy-handed moral overtones is worse than pathetic, and reading the paragraphs devoted to this Chinese Umbridge's precious feelings

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made me want to vomit right on the author's keyboard.

Compared to that kind of self-centred evil, the designated villainess's kindergarten level malice is just peanuts. I'd read a novel where Sheng Man gets to redo her life Spoiler

and walk out of her awful parents' and fake parents' shadows -- even better if she could tear them a new as*hole on her way out.

[collapse] You know a story's not quite up to scratch when people have thoughts like that.

There's even a homily on how valuable it is to heroically fight human trafficking in Chapter 377, when anyone with one brain cell could tell that the MC and ML couldn't give a flying f*ck about it if they weren't pursuing private revenge. Those victims were just rescued in passing to Spoiler

strengthen their own legal case against the one trafficker who kidnapped MC donkey years ago.

[collapse] What's there to praise about this? But the author just had to squeeze it to make them look better than they should. Utter poison for the mind.

As for the rest? It's just two Mary McSues getting together in a world made of cheese, where nobody else has a right to human dignity -- or displays human sentience -- because they aren't the richest couple on the planet. The parade of Western brand names are the main characters. The prose is flavourless and repetitive, with MANY plot holes. An AI could churn out a more intellectually responsible novel.

The author is also not above skin-crawling lines like

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"Ye Zhi was like an extremely bright rose— she was as compassionate as she was beautiful. However, when the night took over and someone else took the initiative to provoke her, she would spread all her thorns and defend her rights fearlessly." (Chapter 381)

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So, eh. Read if you like this sort of thing. What's important is that you know what you'll be spending your attention on before you commit. I've already read far more than I should in order to write this review, and it just keeps getting worse.

1 star.