Monday, July 22, 2024

Mini Review: A Non-Aloof President is Not a Good Male Lead; Stepmother Sees The Bullet Screen; I Hope to be Hated By the Protagonist, But I Will Always Be Confessed By the Protagonist

Title: A Non-Aloof President is Not a Good Male Lead
Author: N/A
Chapters: 58 chapters 
Publication: N/A
Summary from Wattpad:

Upon waking up, as the chief secretary of a Fortune 500 company's CEO, Fang Mo miraculously discovered that she could hear her boss's inner thoughts as long as she was within one meter of him.

During a shareholders' meeting,

While the CEO wore a serious expression, attentively listening to the work reports from the subordinates, Fang Mo heard:

[Damn it, who turned the air conditioning so low? Is it necessary for the air vent to blow directly on my back? I'm freezing!]

Fang Mo: "..."

Silently, she adjusted the temperature and changed the airflow direction.

During a charity dinner,

The CEO, clad in an expensive tailored suit, engaged in a conversation with a prominent figure about the investment direction for the next quarter, earning admiration from the surrounding individuals. However, what Fang Mo heard was:

[I really want to eat that strawberry cake I just saw! When will this conversation be over?! This suit is so uncomfortable!]

Fang Mo: "..."

After the dinner ended, the CEO spotted the casual attire prepared by Fang Mo and a strawberry cake that was supposedly mistakenly ordered in the car.

After some time passed, upon hearing her boss's complaints again, Fang Mo silently changed the office's curtains that he found distasteful and tacky. Then she overheard this remark:

[Secretary Fang really understands me. Is this what they call a soulmate in novels? What should I do? Should I start thinking about baby names?]

Fang Mo: "..."

Resignation! Right now!

3.5 STARS - I LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

First, I didn't realize that ChatGPT could translate a story so well compared to the usual broken English that Google Translate gives you. 

Second, this was hilarious! I loved Yuan Huaijing and Zhao Yan's friendship where they like to hurt each other in private lmao. 

And Fang Mo's reaction to Yuan Huajing's internal thoughts were also funny. There's nothing like watching your boss's image collapse in front of you day by day until you're used to it and want to start playing around as well lol.


Title: Stepmother Sees The Bullet Screen
Author: N/A
Chapters: 268 chapters 
Publication: N/A
Summary from Wattpad:

Jiang Shulan is the only daughter in three generations of the Jiang family. She was spoiled by her parents and brothers, but because she was too beautiful, she was targeted by a second-rate son.

After being introduced, Shu Lan went on a blind date in the city with a divorced factory director with kids but accidentally saw the bullet screen.

[Why did you go and marry a married old man? Not to mention the premature decline of baldness and kidney deficiency, you have to raise children for others and in the end, wasn't  even allowed to be buried next to him!]

Shu Lan: ?

Only then did she know that she was just a stepmother of a play. Her role was to serve her husband and raise his children. When the child's mother came back, she was swept out of the house by them.

Shu Lan, who woke up, looked at the handsome blind date in front of her, "I heard that older men are prone to baldness and premature deficiency. Don't you have it?"

Zhou Zhongfeng has a high family background and is young and talented. As soon as he returned, he received a telegram from his family. Grandpa was critically ill and hoped that he would get married and have children.

According to the introduction, the educated youth graduated from Yanjing University and is gentle and knowledgeable.

But as soon as they met, he was sprayed with blood.

Zhou Zhongfeng: ?

Ten minutes later, a few lines floated again.

[Date with the wrong person? But he is a little familiar. Isn't he the boss that appeared later?]

[Wait! Does Shu Shu know that the other party is the boss, so she's seducing him in a special way?]

Jiang Shulan: ?

Jiang Shulan accidentally had a blind date with the top boss Zhou Zhongfeng.

Years later:

Shu Lan relied on the bullet screen to marry a boss, gave birth to a genius, won the top scorer in the college entrance examination, and became the winner of life. Others asked her secrets.

She smiled without saying anything.

Barrage (tears): Kneel down and shout 666 for the boss!

4 STARS - I REALLY LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

The beginning was pretty draggy because it over-emphasized a lot of redundant information to drag out the eventual face slapping event. However, I'm glad that I powered through because the rest of the book was good! If you like slice of life and a slow burn romance with occasional face slapping and great side characters, you'll like this book.


Title: I Hope to be Hated By the Protagonist, But I Will Always Be Confessed By the Protagonist
Author: Southern Festival
Chapters: 77 chapters 
Publication: N/A
Summary from Wattpad:

"Queen Wendy" is a western magic novel, which tells the bloody storm caused by three best men competing for a woman. The length of the story, the magic of magic, and the bizarre plot are all amazing. 

As for Ling Yun, he was transmigrated into this book. However, he was neither a male supporting role nor a villain. He was just an unlucky cannon fodder, and a cannon fodder with an extremely miserable and hateful end. The system told him that he needs to collect dislike points on the premise of not cheating on the character, and he can leave as long as he collects 1 million dislike points. 

It's hard to be liked, but much easier to be hated, he agreed. 

However, after he got in, he found out that the plot was a bit of a pit... He was arrogant and domineering, causing trouble, bullying men and women, Ling Yun concluded that he would be able to complete the task satisfactorily or even exceed the quota! 

But the result is that no matter what he does, he will be misunderstood as kind and arrogant: "Shocked, Young Master Ling openly defended the common people in front of other nobles, such nobles who are close to the people are rare!" "Shocked, business district Young Master Ling has ordered people to quietly pay for the things that were damaged in the war, and the common people have no loss. Such selfless nobles are rare." "Young Master Ling did not hesitate to offend other nobles in order to rescue the slaves from the bullies. , Such kind-hearted nobles are rare." 

Suddenly, the imperial dandy was well received by the public, and even the emperor praised him. Ling Yun: Emmm, a group of fish-lipped humans, I'd better find the protagonists! However... 

Prince Tsundere: "Since you like me so much, I will reluctantly like you a little, just a little bit."

Genius pharmacist: "Brother Yun, you love me, I love you, we are heart to heart."

The villain major general: "My dear fiance, when are we getting married?"

Ling Yun: "...Please hate me, my hate value has almost cleared!"

2.5 STARS - I LIKED IT ENOUGH

MY REVIEW: 

I was hesitating back and forth on dropping this book around the middle to near end of this book because I felt like it was too draggy. There were certain moments that definitely kept me interested, but the back and forth between the protagonists with Ling Yun got boring after a while. 

Fortunately, the plot picked up eventually, but part of what I was looking forward to was the second part of the summary where the masses misunderstood him as kind and arrogant. However, only one of those instances happened in the book, and it wasn't even mentioned much. 

I felt disappointed realizing that those mentioned misunderstandings weren't actually an important (and probably hilarious) plot point as implied by the summary. So yeah, although I liked the ending and the pairing, I was still a little disappointed with this book.

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