Folding Moon Chapter 38 Discussion

reading this because I absolutely loved Sang Yan from First Frost and I thought Fu Shizhe is the same playful and chatty type as him.

i was really, REALLY wrong. Spoiler

he's so asocial and withdrawn and I think it's related to his past?

[collapse] I only managed to survive through chapter 38 with MTL. and no, the reason I dropped this is not because of the ML. the FL is my main problem here.

FL was described as introverted and shy especially to strangers (which I can heavily relate to), but she's quite clear in the head at times. emphasis on at times. sadly, her IQ and EQ seem to fall lower when it comes to ML whose EQ is also low considering his mysterious past. FL sometimes behaves like such a naive maiden I forgot she's already a postgraduate student and not a high school girl in love.

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one example is how she figured the ML refused her advances because of his words "I don't want to fall in love (for now), " and she was, understandably, very sad. but her sadness lasts for such a long time it will make you think that she has a hidden illness and will d!e soon if her confession is not accepted instead. at least that's what I feel from her emotion and thinking process. she's also kind of wishy washy and really like making herself feels pitiful with the "he doesn't like me, but I love him so much, he's the light of my teenage life..." mindset.

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normally, I wouldn't mind reading this kind of angst plot since it makes my heart clenches painfully the way I like (this sounds masochistic LOL), but that is if the one who thinks about it is a teenager and not a freaking adult/young adult who already got her bachelor's degree. I mean, for a woman who survived at least four years of stress-inducing study in a university, FL sure thinks and behaves childishly.

maybe this is because I subconsciously compared the FL to Wen Yifan from First Frost (since both have the same author), or maybe it's thanks to the MTL that burned my brain. I'm unable to enjoy the plot at least far enough until I can finally know what happened to ML and pity him. all in all, this one started very good to me, but ended up as something I will remember as a waste of time for me to read (at least until I'm bored enough to read this again in the far future).