The Big Bosses Are Not What I Expected After I Transmigrated Into A Book Chapter 77 Discussion

I'm on chapter 77 of 95 and honestly I'm starting to get tired and annoyed.

The story starts very good, quite interesting, very cute and has a lot of very funny parts without being too silly. However, as the story progresses, things keep popping up that are a bit problematic.

The story is not as fluffy and the couple is not as healthy as the story claims to be. It might be different further in the story, who knows, but at this point, it's already annoying me.

A lot of people might not realize or mind these little things that I'm about to point out, but these are things that are problematic and therefore take from the fluffiness of the story, at least for me.

This story perpetuates the romanticism of jealousy. Jealousy is not a good thing. I'll tolerate some jealousy because it means you are afraid of losing the person you like, especially if it's before the couple gets together or when the couple just starts dating, but I really don't like raging jealousy. ML is crazy jealous. Yes, a lot of MLs in Chinese novels get jealous easily and I'm not a fan, but this ML is not like other MLs. Other MLs get jealous easily but will only just sulk for a bit or just be more insistent during bedroom activities. This ML though, gets so jealous it's almost scary. We know he won't do anything to the MC because he loves him too much, but just barely.

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Like when ML saw MC talking on the phone with his "sworn brother". ML raged with jealousy and just grabbed MC causing MC to drop the phone. He held MC, not letting MC move and keeping MC from picking up his phone. ML was crazily jealous of MC's "sworn brother", so he didn't want MC to talk to him, even though the MC's "sworn brother" was very worried and thought something happened to MC when he heard the phone dropping. Plus, MC and his "sworn brother" were on the phone discussing something really urgent at the time, but ML didn't give two f*cks. ML didn't want MC to talk to his "sworn brother", so he held on until MC was starting to get really angry. (I say it was MC's "sworn brother" because the guy was MC's actual biological brother in their past lives, but they aren't related in this life, so they tell others they are sworn brothers)

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I don't like how they romanticize possessiveness in Chinese novels and how they use s*x as a method to possess a person. This novel does that. ML wants to have s*x with MC to make him completely his instead of wanting to do it to be closer and express their connection in a more intimate level.

The couple's relationship is based on lies. ML and MC keep using various tricks to manipulate each other into doing what they want. It's not as blatantly obvious in the story, but if you think about it, that's really what they are doing. So I'll put it plainly with these examples:

Example 1:

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ML approaches MC by pretending he wanted to be "friends" with him and uses the excuse that MC's his only friend to do various things for him. This one I don't really mind too much because he really couldn't come onto the MC too strongly because that would've scared MC away, but a few things here and there were manipulative.

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Example 2:

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MC gets jealous because a famous actor who likes ML takes a role in ML's project in order to get between MC and ML and steal ML away. What does MC do? Instead of directly telling ML that the actor has shady intentions, he pretends to be the actor's fan and acts like an obsessed fan in front of ML to make ML rage with jealousy and not give the role to the actor. MC did this knowing how jealous the ML can get and how much his actions can affect ML, but MC didn't care about how he would make ML feel. MC just cared about venting his anger on ML for hiring a guy who was in love with ML (even though ML didn't know about this) and MC's own pride, because MC couldn't let ML know MC was jealous, because "it would be too embarrassing" according to MC.

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Example 3:

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MC promised to have s*x with ML for the first time, but when the time comes, he's actually quite tired and not completely prepared mentally. Instead of talking it out and discussing it with ML, MC pretends to be drunk and make ML worry about him and take care of him.

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Another thing that bothers me from this novel (that others might not mind) is how it portrays vices like they aren't a big deal at all. The MC's body's original owner wasn't a smoker, so when MC transmigrated into that body, the body shouldn't have been craving cigarettes. MC even said his throat hurt the first time he smoked. But did he use that opportunity to stop smoking? NO. MC even promised his brother he would try not to smoke when he was caught smoking, but MC doesn't stop and turned his new, younger and healthy body into a smoker. The reason quitting smoking is so difficult is because the body gets addicted to it, but he just made his new body addicted too. All Chinese novels have protagonists with perfect looks and perfect teeth. You can't have perfect teeth if you smoke. PERIOD. The other vice this novel portrays as something that's ok? Drinking. MC has a drinking problem. I have no problem with his hobby of collecting rare antique bottles of alcohol and enjoying tasting them, but MC not only does that, he keeps failing to stop when he's had enough and keeps trying to drown his emotions with alcohol. Absolutely unhealthy.

The fact that MC is so freaking oblivious is also annoying. It might be funny when some characters are a bit oblivious, but there's a point where it starts to get annoying.

So, yeah. I'm getting annoyed so I'm just gonna drop it.