Review Detail of AlleyCatSunflower in Beauty and the Beasts

I really like the idea behind this story, but that's as much credit as I can give it. Bai Qingqing reads like a textbook Mary Sue, mostly because the author repeatedly insists that she's "just an ordinary high-school girl" despite giving her knowledge and skills (e.g. wine-making) that literally no ordinary high-schooler should have. She has NO character development, mostly due to the fact that the story is arranged so that every one of her plans works flawlessly the first time and she therefore has no legitimate learning experiences to further her growth as a person. Some of the logic is just incredible, like her saying that because her family had a dog, she therefore knows how to care for leopard cubs. (This dog, by the way, is not mentioned until that point. She may as well not have had a past at all before she was dropped into this world.) Most annoying of all, the author pulls out all the stops to tell us what a ~*good person*~ Qingqing is at every turn, despite consistently portraying her as as self-centered and judgmental. Hasn't the author ever heard of showing and not telling? If I have to read one more paragraph about how Qingqing's skin is still white as snow a year after the story begins, even though she's been living out in the wild and spending a significant amount of time outdoors for quite some time by the current point, I'm going to lose it. And all the issues with Qingqing aren't even getting into the two male leads. I keep reading comments and reviews saying how hot they are and I honestly have to say I'm appalled. They have both threatened Qingqing with physical harm. One of them abducts her. One of them LITERALLY RAPES HER. At no point does she question whether she should actually be letting them do any of this, especially since in this universe, she's the one who's supposedly in control of the relationship! And to top it off, when encountering males who are actually well-behaved and offer themselves to her, she rejects them out of hand with absolutely no second thoughts and compares them *unfavorably* to her abusive mates. Like, are you kidding me? People who legitimately think that the leads' kind of behavior is forgivable just because they're "hot" are frankly brain-dead. Finally, throughout the story, the author imposes their own (East Asian) beauty standards on the (implied Western-ish) culture of this fictional world. Qingqing's slenderness is somehow supposed to be attractive despite the fact that people in-universe also call it out as unhealthy. (Also, she somehow has D cups despite being sixteen and skinny, and that just rubs me the wrong way on a whole nother level.) Freckles are allegedly ugly, too, despite often being considered attractive in Western society. The author is also incredibly colorist and basically uses any skin darker than Qingqing's as a reason why everyone else is less pretty than her. It's just bizarre how this author created an entire universe only to have little enough imagination that they can't even think about different beauty standards from the ones they're used to. TL;DR: I genuinely *want* to like this story because the universe is so promising, but I just… can't. Nor can I even recommend this to anyone but the most dedicated fanfiction authors doing research, because it takes so much effort to get through and retain your sanity. Let me know if you write anything for it. I guarantee it'll be better than the source material.