Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Webnovel Review: Transmigrating as a Mary Sue Character by 一夜从灯

Title:
 Transmigrating as a Mary Sue Character
Author: 一夜从灯
Chapters: 90 chapters + 5 extras
Publication: 2020
Summary from Novel Updates:

Shi Ning transmigrated into a story in a book.

She transmigrated as a female supporting character in a school-life novel named “F4 and Their Little Fairy”

In the book, Shi Ning was a daughter of a rich family who grew up with four male childhood friends. She was their pampered princess and they showered her with love. However, in the original book setting because she had feelings for the male lead, she was overly envious of the heroine and staged a series of events to hurt her. This caused the four male leads to break ties with her. Since then, everyone shunned her and she ended up being miserable.

After Shi Ning learnt the flow of the story—she felt elated and satisfied!

It’s better to transmigrate as a female supporting character. Falling in love was a matter that only involved the male and female lead and had nothing to do with her.

As long as she stayed away from those protagonists and made sure to do everything to avoid her death, she wouldn’t turn into a cannon fodder.

She could finally study with peace of mind. She could finally make her dreams come true and be admitted to Peking University.

But there seemed to be something wrong with the current script—

How did this F4, who supposedly only loved the heroine, became like this;

Her brother, Shi Chen, who was originally disappointed in her: ‘Those three boys, don’t pay attention to them. This brother of yours will support you for life.’

The hot and honest top student: ‘Shi Ning , you never noticed that I have loved you for many years…’

The future top idol in the entertainment industry: ‘Who the hell wants to be your brother? I want to be your boyfriend instead.’

The most outrageous was Nan Xiao, the supposed male protagonist of the story, who almost destroyed her appearance for the sake of the heroine in the original script.

In the corner of an aisle where no one else was present, Nan Xiao grabbed her hand and kabedoned her against the corner of the wall.

The possessiveness and desires of love were so strong that it couldn’t be suppressed. He grabbed her waist and with a fiery gaze asked,

“Shi Ning, why do you ignore this Laozi*?”

Shi Ning’s inner thoughts retorted: ‘Because your name is Nan Xiao, not learning.’

The male lead would be decided on as the new plot continued to unravel.

#The whole world loves the heroine, but the heroine only loves learning#

* arrogant term to address himself

3 STARS - I LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

The beginning was a little hard to read. You could tell that the author's writing style was immature and relied on having the melon eaters in the story to hype or roast the main characters to show who was popular and who was not. 

The gossip style of focusing on every little move of the infamous people in the school got really boring and almost made me want to quit. However, Shi Ning and her brother's interactions kept me hooked. I really liked how their relationship improved and how Shi Chen slowly showed his tsundere character! I'm glad he got a happier ending compared to the book's original ending. He originally had a sis complex, but it only got worse after they mended their relationship lol. 

Shi Ning in general was the main reason why kept on reading. I loved how because she treasured her life and still wanted to achieve her dream of attending a prestigious university. She only cared about going to university so much so that she didn't care about love or relationships and only focused on studying. She wanted to break ties with all of the main characters so she wouldn't have the same canon fodder death like in the original book, but all of the male leads kept on entangling with her after she "changed" and so the plot drastically changed lol.

In addition to all of the studying , I also liked how she maturely handled some situations and made up for the original owner's past mistakes. Even though she never bullied anyone, the previous owner was a notorious bully in the name of love. However, because Shi Ning now occupied the body, she felt it was her duty to make up for the past owner's mistakes, which was really nice of her and showed some depth in the side characters.

The love interest is hinted at throughout the book (and you have to guess because it's a reverse harem), but it isn't realized until the almost at the end, and I'm not mad about it! It really showed how much Shi Ning was only focused on studying. Like everyone said, she's super smart intellectually but is an idiot with emotions lol. Overall, a good book to read once you get over the beginning chapters.

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