Female lead’s Delusion of Starting Over Chapter 37 Discussion

4.2 out of 5 stars

General Review:

This story starts off with a very unexpected and pleasing "story beat" that catches everyone's attention.

Unfortunately, the rest of the story does not follow this example. The story does not build on the crazy "premise" that it started.

Don't get it wrong, the rest of the story is well written (and well translated, no mistakes at all), but it is a shame that the story couldn't naturally flow from the expectations it set from the first few chapters. This change of "tone" makes the reading jarring and makes the rest of the story feel generic, when it is objectively more than that.

Characters:

MC: Li Lu is a transmigrated person, but he actually was the person who experienced the trauma/betrayal of the stuff. This distinction, personally, is important as I always feel a bit more satisfied when the actual person gets to live their "vengeance/comeuppance" second life, rather than a random reader who transmigrated. MC as a character is jumps from "Ruthless, One-Track Mind Vengeance " to "I don't care, I'm just living my 2nd life". From how the story started, you would assume that MC would be a scheming villain who would get rid of everyone who wronged him soon, but as stated before, this story does a slight tone shift. You can write this off as "subtlety, the MC is not just a short revenge fantasy", but it could just be well written padding. Previous Female Lead: Zhang Ziqin Spoiler

She is someone who remembers the past as well and realizes her mistake. However, she is doing all the "I was tr*sh, but now I want to reform", but has done absolutely nothing. This is a typical move from these types of stories, so that you don't actually have to feel bad about her. If she was actively trying for redemption, it would be harder for the MC to just be, "Mean Girl is mean, so I don't like her". It's too soon to judge, but the way it's going seems typical in my eyes.

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