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The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

3 reviews

tamo's review

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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evarinyah's review

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funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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adhdru's review

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adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A metastory – or more specifically, transmigration – by MXTX was bound to be excellent and so far, it has not disappointed!

I found the main characters easy to love: 
  • Shen Qingqiu (Peerless Cucumber) with his 'anti' attitude toward the book and the author, always criticising the logic of events or naming within the novel, and always bantering with the system and his absolute (unconscious) weakness for Binghe
  • Luo Binghe being a real 'white lotus', remaining kind-hearted after all the abuse and pain he suffered in such a short life, even going beyond forgiving his Shizhun and completely devoting himself to him after only a couple shows of kindness (or plain human decency, to be honest)

This book touches on deep subjects like bullying, child abuse, socio-economic injustice, etc., in a way that – in my opinion – both acknowledges how important and terribly wrong they are, while still staying hilarious for the most part.
 
One thing that bothered me a lot was the sexism painted all over the novel portraying women – with a couple of exceptions – as weak and vain and in need to uphold absurd standards of purity and propriety lest they be undesirable to men... Which, unlike many of the things within the novel, did not strike me to be written in an ironic or mocking fashion, but rather in an unchecked internalised sexism kinda way.

I do wish, however, we'd gotten to see a bit more of
17-yo Luo Binghe before he was sent off to the Endless Abyss. Don't get me wrong, the bits we got from him as an older teen were great, seeing him being flirty and jealous was both funny and endearing, but we don't get much more information about his development beyond that, since the rest – being endlessly selfish, reliable, willing-to-put-his-whole-trust-and-devotion-on and in-need-of-the-approval-of Shen Qingqiu – we had already seen after the OOC was activated.


There's obviously the hint of a developing romance between the leads which could be disturbing for some as it's technically an adult/minor relationship, however, nothing of a sexual or romantic nature happens between them yet. This is really just setting the ground for what's to come, with the only signs of characters being conscious about this aspect coming from the minor (Luo Binghe) and not the adult.

DO READ CONTENT WARNINGS BEFORE PICKING THIS UP, ITS THEMES AND TROPES ARE DEFINITELY NOT FOR EVERYONE
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