Mini Reviews: Travel Through Time and Become His Stupid Ex-wife, Trapped in a Typical Idol Drama, Heroine Saves A Gentleman

Title: Travel Through Time and Become His Stupid Ex-wife
Author: Zhǐ Zhǐ Bù Zuì
Chapters: 89 chapters + 3 side stories
Publication: 2019
Summary from Novel Updates:

Xue Jiayue travelled through time and became the s*upid female supporting role of a book which was about a bossy man’s love story.

This s*upid woman was adopted by the Xu family when she was a child. Since then, she grew up with the hero, Xu Yanwen, and called him brother but later married him.

However, she was so unruly and did many s*upid things. Xu Yanwen’s grandpa, who had loved her so much, was even too angry and then passed away. As a result, Xu Yanwen divorced her. Worse still, she finally was sent into a mental hospital!

Xue Jiayue, who had traveled through time, was looking at the man standing in front of her. She quietly stepped back, thinking: The male role wanted to be happy with the female role. But she just wanted the money not him!

However, Xu Yanwen indifferently butted her against the corner of the wall and gnawed fiercely at her lips. “You want it! You have to!” he growled.

2 STARS - IT WAS OKAY

MY REVIEW: 

This was pretty boring. The original owner had a lot of misunderstandings with her husband, which I wasn't that interesting in uncovering either. I kept on reading it wondering if it'd get better or more interesting, but the story's just okay. 

Also, what was with the side couple? The author at first was working up to it and even said in the author's note that they played an important role to the main couple's relationship, but then they never appear again until at the end in the extras. I guess readers really weren't interested in the side couple so the author removed that plot point.

Title: Trapped in a Typical Idol Drama
Author: Ash River
Chapters: 52 chapters 
Publication: N/A
Summary from Novel Updates:

Ye Xi crossed over into a typical idol romance novel as the villainess.

For the sake of her safety, she decided to distance herself from the male and female protagonists while silently observing their real-life version of a school idol drama. Everyday, she would repeatedly ridicule the main protagonists in her thoughts, along with their group of friends and fans.

It’s not surprising, however, that the male protagonist’s special ability is to hear the voices of other people’s thoughts. So he listened to all kinds of curses that Ye Xi secretly harbored and recorded them one by one.

Expressionless Male Protagonist: the future is long, your debts will slowly be collected.

Ye Xi covers her ears: I’m not listening, not listening, *recites Wang Ba’s Sutras*

2 STARS - IT WAS OKAY

MY REVIEW: 

The writing at the beginning was very amateurish, which made it hard to power through at first. However, it got better throughout the story. 

Watching Ye Xi trying to be a passerby/matchmaker was entertaining at first. It was also especially funny seeing the male lead's reaction to hearing Ye Xi's thoughts and subverting her ideas, but the romance seemed to come out of nowhere. You could see the male lead's gradual feelings for her, but Ye Xi's realization came out of nowhere?? There was no lead up or foreshadowing!

Also, like Ye Xi stated later on in the novel, "I thought this was a campus idol drama!" The climax was so random and unexpected! The climax was solved abruptly and inexplicably, too. There was no sense of success. Some of the characters' endings were so abrupt. The actual ending was also left on a cliffhanger. I couldn't find any other sites that continued after that last chapter other than one which had a couple of extra chapters, but they were just repeated chapters. 

Overall, I don't recommend this book to anyone unless you're not easily frustrated by cliffhanger endings lol.

Title: Heroine Saves A Gentleman
Author: 龚心文
Chapters: 49 chapters 
Publication: 2018
Summary from Novel Updates:

Zhou Xiaoxiao, an ordinary fine arts student, transmigrates over to a strange ancient world. She becomes an insignificant character who is highly skilled in martial arts.

Zhou Xiaoxiao was determined to escape her lowly identity as a henchman and live independently. However, she suddenly comes across the exquisitely handsome scholar Yu Xingzhi, who was tormented until he was on his dying breath.

Since staying alive in this dog eat dog world is already difficult, will she rescue him or will she go down her own path? And can she possibly return to the modern world?

This is an unlikely romance story between a heroic woman and a frail yet beautiful scholar.

3 STARS - I LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

This is by the same author as Let the Villain Go and Apocalypse Arrival. Similar to those books, the female lead is the more active one in their relationship while male lead is too shy and embarrassed to do it due to his refined upbringing. It's super cute watching their interactions because of that. 

Even though this book was short, there was a lot of romance, politics, and drama that made it fulfilling to read. I liked that the book had a twist about Zhou Xiaoiao's transmigration, so it was interesting seeing how that played out. I feel like her dilemma wasn't fully explored with no fixed resolution because certain things happened at the end that only gave her one option. 

I wished there were some extras that talked about their future because that would have definitely answered some questions instead of leaving it open ended. Overall, not a bad read.