The real daughter of the Mu family was switched by the nanny since she was a child. The Mu family didn’t bring her back from countryside until 17 years later!
After the true daughter returned – There was no affection, only sympathy.
The Mu family parents asked her, “We have a deep relationship with Yaoyao. We can’t let her lose face. We can only announce you as an adopted daughter to the outside world. You won’t blame us, right?”
Her fiancée also said: “My fiancée can only be Yaoyao! Get out of here country bumpkin.”
The attitude of her older brother Mu Qingyi was even more complicated.
Yet despite all that, the real daughter, Xu Xinduo, said indifferently, “It doesn’t matter.”
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From a young age Xu Xinduo could swap bodies with a certain teenager. That teenager would always exclaim in an annoyed tone, “Let’s switch bodies, I just don’t feel like taking piano lessons.
Xu Xinduo helped the teenager to win various trophies, become a top student and honed his noble temperament and talent after taking over his body.
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At a banquet, everyone in the Mu family watched as a rich young master strode towards Xu Xinduo and said, “Be my girlfriend, although you are from a small family… you are very beautiful.”
With a smile Xu Xinduo replied, “I’m starting to miss my parents already.”
Such a quick change of attitude?!
The romantic story of the indifferent real daughter x a filthy rich despotic young master
[Translator Note: Here “switching bodies” means swapping of souls. It’s temporary and don’t involve any physical changes.]
DNF at 11%. No idea what chapter that is because the translator broke the original 89 plus 4 extra chapters into 442 pieces. O_O
I was really looking forward to this book based on the high rating on Novelupdates. And I was horribly disappointed. What I’ve read of this book felt like fanfiction from the 2000s. The high schooler characters are very immature. Feels more like middle schoolers? The chuuni is strong with this one! They all act unreasonably and have no consideration for anyone’s feelings beyond their own. The relationships feel fake fake fake. I dislike every single character including the supposedly good new friends and the leads themselves. I’m having to stop myself from grimacing as I try to speed read. It didn’t work. The writing itself is incoherent, I’m almost amazed by it. From what I’ve seen from other reviewers, the original Chinese is the same.
It really doesn’t help that I’ve recently finished the last of 轻云淡’s novels. They are an amazing writer with extremely smart characters and intricate little plots. I don’t require this book to be on that level at all, but at least some decent flow would be good.
The premise of this story was interesting, but I just couldn't handle the characters 1/4 of the way through.
Perhaps I've read too many novels with the "switched at birth" trope, but this novel creates an especially unpleasant mc. I guess because she has routinely switched places with the ml throughout her life, she handles her problems in a very stereotypical male-cancer kind of way. She is stoic and un-communicative about what she actually wants or feels. She tells everyone she doesn't care or doesn't want something but then quietly throws people away when they don't realize she actually does care and does want something. I don't particularly like the dad, but he is right - they've been trying to treat her as well as they can, why doesn't she try to understand their situation? What do they actually owe her? It's the person who switched her that owes her, but somehow she seems to get more disgusted by her biological family than the maid. What's wrong with trying to promote a consensual relationship that could benefit the family business? What's wrong with not arranging a private driver immediately? What's wrong with trying to have a conversion during dinner? I was quite baffled by these secret scores that the mc seemed to be calculating. The author tries to portray her as forced into reciprocating her family's indifference, but her brother and mother seem to actually care for her. Or at least try to care for her. It's sort of hard to do that though when the person they're trying to interact with has already scored them and found them lacking.
Then, the mc mentions wanting to not owe too much and be on equal footing with the ml, but she was never in equal footing. Everything impressive about her is because switching bodies gave her an opportunity to learn through his resources. He regularly helps her out, and she regularly contributes her diligence to burnishing his image. Before she was accepted into her biological family, she had no hope of actually living in his circle without his help. After being taken back home, she at least is in his same school, but still doesn't have the same freedom as he does.
I also think this story's focus on superficial things like appearances, money, and status was over-the-top in a boring way. Intelligence isn't really a quality that anyone values or possesses in this story.
Anyways , the translations are fine, but I just couldn't finish this story.
The main couple Tong Yan and Xu Xindou have been able to mysteriously swap bodies since they were seven years old. They've grown accustomed to it. At first, they live apart, separated by distance and social class but now those barriers have been erased and they are able to stand on equal footing together.
I quite liked this. There are strong themes of soulmates and red strings of fate in this one, which I am a sucker for.
I liked almost everything about this book actually. The main characters and the sides were all interesting. Not all were likeable but you definitely want to read what happens to them. In the end, they all felt like they were my real mates and not just characters. The world-building, although not perfect, was good enough to drag me in and keep me in till the book was done.
The most refreshing part of this story is that, rather than focusing on why and how to stop such the phenomenon of body swapping, the main leads both just take it in stride and decide that the other's body is half theirs and their things are dual property. It's literally a case of one soul occupying two bodies. It's so sweet and adorable. Most of the story is about their relationship with each other, their friends, their families, and how they grow as people. In fact, we never do find out why exactly they start switching. But it doesn't really matter in their world and in this story.
It does take some time (most of the book) for them to officially get together, but there aren't any third parties or extreme angst moments. There's only a lot of cute unconscious flirting, touching moments of vulnerability, and lots of smiles.
The story was surprisingly better than expected. I read a translation that had only the original 89 chapters and not 400+ sliced and diced chapters. So it was a pleasant experience.
The couple’s relationship was good. Their characters were well developed. The storyline was enhanced with the soul swapping between them. I like that it addressed some of the inherent monthly pain of being female from the perspective of the soul swapping. It should have addressed the young male issues a bit more to balance that story.
The secondary characters were typical with parents using their children’s marriage as tools to enhance their businesses, jealous love rivals causing dramas and the classic green teas spreading poison.
The story closed the plot holes in the end. Worth reading once