The names are English and the girl on the cover looks like Emma Watson....

Coincidence... I think not

Regardless of all that, the plot is good, the female MC is reasonable and doesn't act unrealistically or have any unexplained supernatural skills. The relationship between the FL and ML progresses without excessive frustration. their fights last normal lengths of time and dont turn into vengeful cold wars. I like how the FL wont cross her bottom line for revenge either, the idea of killing others doesnt come naturally to her (and thank... more>> god for that)

The main lead is particularly amazing. he started as the stereotypical jerk CEO arranged husband but he's pretty honest about his feelings, which is nice bc other novels have their ML doing insanely cruel stuff to the FL since they're unable to accept their feelings for her. <<less

solid 2 stars. story is ok. characters ok.

Author seriously needs a talented editor though. There are a lot of repetitive things (how she studied psychology, micro expressions, how FL is intelligent but also excessively naively dumb, how villains are being villainy but still surprised with how evil they are... etc.). And I'm still waiting for the last paragraph in the description despite reading more than 50 chaps.

PS: I don't understand how anyone could rate this novel 5 stars. Do you believe that this novel is perfect??? (because that's what 5... more>> stars mean you know) or do you just have lower standards????smh <<less

I'm not used to the American names, I prefer chinese names but regardless, this is a good read. Charles and Linda make up a really interesting pair with their short temper and stubborn personalities. He's definitely very self guarded, into himself and thinks everyone has a motive towards him, including Linda. But I love how the MC has so much sass and spunk, where she's not afraid to rebel. Throw in some cute bickering, denials and flirty teases and you've got a pretty good casual read.

It's pretty good, until it isn't. As far as action soap operas go the first 100 chapters or so are very good. It's just by that point the novel has painted itself into a corner and has no room left to one up itself. The characters all seem to have their IQs taken off line, the enemies are all have insane motivations and the plot devices are all from cuckoo land.

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Spoiler

In the mid 100s to derail the MC her fake stepsister, that has been turned into a drug addicted s*x s*ave is given plastic surgery to replace her. Never mind they have spent maybe 20 hours together and sister is as dim as a 1 watt bulb.

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There are also far too many points where the universe is against her for no particular reason <<less