Review Detail of Aeris_1357 in Who Is the Real Daughter: Miss Lin Takes No Nonsense After Her Rebirth

Incredibly interesting read! This story is quite a bit more depraved than what I usually read but it’s really quite thought provoking and engaging. It depicts an extreme, but unfortunately true, picture of the sex industry, human trafficking, and objectification of women and children. The characters are, realistic, as in they are realists. Each character has a particular moral code of what they find acceptable, and what they’ll turn a blind eye too. The female lead pursues revenge but stands against injustice. Injustice mainly for the small voices who are trampled and silenced under the weight of those in power. However, her motivation comes from BEING one of those small voices in her previous life. She stands against injustice, but does so by being even more ruthless and cold-blooded than the villains, trampling the powerful villains under her might and forcing them to bear the same suffering of the small voices they once trampled. Is her approach wrong? Morally and ethically? Absolutely. Legally? Yes! In the grand scheme of things? Technically, no. An efficiency standpoint? Nope! Her methods are… dubious, to say the least. In 350-ish chapters the female lead has had a direct hand in multiple people’s deaths. Initially she was in it for the long haul. Everything was meticulously planned to force the evil-doers into tripping themselves up and revealing their wrongdoings to be punished by the law. However, there was a tipping point for her that turned it into “no-holds barred” mode. Once that tipping point came the female lead realized that she couldn’t wait for them to trip the trap at the expense of the truly innocent, so she started forcibly shoving people in her traps. She is directly involved in at least 3 murders, but hey, through those murders she was able to convict a few people to death row who had performed thousands of murders, rapes, pimping, and other heinous crimes. And that is what makes it so interesting! The characters are so complex! Both the heroes and villains have clear motivations, goals, and influences. No one is really “good” or “bad.” The protagonists have a mountain of really terrible faults, but I totally understand the reason they do bad, sometimes illegal, things. I understand why some of these “good” characters pretend not to see dark and dirty side of society, while other “good” characters use the dirty side to fight for “justice”. However, the female lead’s past life and her memory of the terrible things these people did in that timeline, really does not excuse the downright horrendous events and tragic endings she put some of her enemies through. But I get why she does it! Conversely, the major villains, really are pretty terrible people. Some of them are exactly that, villains, and deserve the horrible endings that they have the same way that some criminals deserve execution, because these villains are, in every sense of the word, criminals. Unfortunately, some of these villians are really just morally skewed, but backed by wealth, power, arrogance, and/or terrible role models, they might eventually turn into criminals. For some of them, it’s really too late by the time the female lead returns to the past. For others, the female lead directly pushes them into the pit based on her past life, she doesn’t give them the chance to change and acts as judge and executioner for crimes they might commit in the future. Let’s take one of the main antagonists as an example, the ”fake” rich daughter. She is not a good person. She has a twisted way of thinking and is a manipulative little liar. She makes things difficult for the protagonist as part of a superiority complex and is the main cause of the female lead’s incredibly tragic suffering in their first life. In round two, the protagonist is smarter and won’t fall for her petty tricks this time, so the protagonist starts tripping up the fake sister and pushing her into the mud. Their roles in this life are reversed. Does the sister deserve it? To a certain extent, yes. But I honestly feel a little bad for her. Although her personality isn’t the best (yours wouldn’t be either with parents like that) she is really forced by circumstances to make bad choices, leading to mental torment, and further skewed patterns of thought lead her to make even worse choices. Again, I totally understand why this antagonist does what she does and why she’s so hostile in the first place. Almost all the characters in this novel are simultaneously victims and perpetrators. Except …three at least, those three really are straight up unrepentant criminals. They deserve to die. I’m still waiting for two of them to be properly punished… From a psychological standpoint, the writing is fascinating. It’s really hard to strike that balance in portraying realistic characters that can be sympathized with and understood no matter which side of the conflict they’re on.