Non-BL Reading List (BG novels, Non-Romance)

137. I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

Translator: Fringe Capybara

Chapters: 94 + 6 Extras

Tags: modern, school life, genius MC

Synopsis:

Lin Xi spent 14 years at this family and never did figure out why she had always been mistreated.

She finally learned that she was living in a cliché novel with radical moral standards.

Her mother was the female lead and her "father" was the male lead. Before the male lead fell in love with the female lead, he had belittled and was abusive to her in all sorts of ways. He even offered her up to others and, finally, the female lead had intimate relationship with a strange man.

The male lead fell head over heel in love with the female lead after that and expressed that he did not mind the child. Nevertheless, the existence of said child was a like a thorn in male and female leads' hearts and it reminded them of their past constantly.

Unfortunately, Lin Xi was this child that should never had been born.

In the extra, Lin Xi tried to set up her sister out of envy but it backfired on herself and she ended up strangled. The male lead was able to locate the man who had intimacy with the female lead and ruined both his reputation and family fortune.

After 10 seconds of hesitation, Lin Xi decided to leave the family where she was not loved and go live with her own father.

Impressions: This is very very very similar to My Whole Family Are Villains. This came out after MWFAV btw.

So our MC learns that she was a vicious cannonfodder in a book, always trying to frame her half-sister, the daughter of the Book Male Lead and Female Lead. She learnt that she was actually not her  Father's (the Book Male Lead) child but a product from her mother's (Book Female Lead) accident with another man so her whole family treated her as an outsider, and being hostike to her. After knowing that she will have a bad ending in the book cos of her family, she decided to look for her biological Dad to raise her, at least until adulthood. The rest is MC's and his Dad's family life, MC's school life as a genius and then his Dad taking action against their family's enemies and cleaning up the Book Male Lead btw.

Like I said, it's very very similar to MWFAV, but I still prefer that cos the family interactions feel a bit sweeter to me. Sure, our MC here has a lot of male cousins, and she's the only little Princess in their family, but I feet like MWFAV's twin brother also does a good job of being a Big Brother by himself. It's not necessarily better just because there are more of them. Uhmm... anyways... Dad is also cold-faced, and he slooowwwlllly warms up to our MC, he actually begins to be affected by her early, but its only clear to others (seeing him post parent-child articles) or the readers (since we see his POV) but since his actions to MC are still the same, it feels so slow. MC's genius halo is also there, in MWFAV, the MC there is a hacker, and joined a hacker competition. While here, they also join a future technology competition and their technology is more advanced. (AI, Live broadcast with taster/smell etc). It is different, but essentially the same. The MC is a genius student.

I guess, it's probably the villains (the Book Male Lead/Female Lead) that worsened my impression. It's like they're just being evil for the sake of being evil. First, I can't believed such problematic characters are actually the hero/heroine of a story(?) . Also, the logic. They can't wait to get rid of our constant-reminder-of-green-hat-MC but they're still keeping her around. Why wait for 14 years before sending her to the village? MC is just a little older than their 'true love' child, they could have easily sent her away when she was wee old who knows nothing. They are already treating her as an outsider, why send her to a prestigious school too? The true love daughter is suck a fake white lotus---and she's not actually very white too since the other students know about her true face; and MC is such an excellent student who have won awards on behalf of the school, even if there is no preferential treatment but the school should not turn a blind eye to their top student/signboard being slandered??? It's just weird for me.... And the rumors that MC can get a top score in exams cos she has a relationship with the Boss of the print shop??? It's just so...ridiculous. I can't believe there are no students with normal brains in MC's previous school.

Anyways, ignoring the very evil family who allowed our MC to grow up in cold violence for 14 years. (Did the book ML/FL think of this: Let's endure the nausea and constant reminder of green hat just so we can make her grow up feeling unloved at our home!! Come, hurt each other!!). Uhm, ignoring them, the advanced technology is pretty cool~~ And the other characters are okay/normal (like the Book Male Lead's white moonlight). Read this for genius girl living happily with her Farher~