Should Shu Yao be the heroine of a salvation story? Wouldn't that be too cruel to everyone else in the book?
Even if plenty of people in real life love orbiting around her, that doesn't change the fact that she's a mean-tongued, awful little girl.
Shu Yao knows it herself: if she weren't pretty, with that personality, everyone she met would want to trip her up.
In stories about saving gloomy, tortured male leads, reforming playboy male seconds, and awakening affection in cold, dysfunctional families, Shu Yao is the one who hits hardest.
Follow the plot and save everyone? Hold on, Sis is going blonde first, then she can join your little game.
An insecure male lead desperate for love needs a guiding lover? Sorry, the System has matched you with Shu Yao, a dog trainer with sky-high self-esteem and a taste for emotional manipulation. The male lead can obediently get led away by this blonde and become a hopeless romantic.
The male second doesn't believe in love because of his parents' relationship, so he plays the field? Okay. Shu Yao detects his lack of virtue, instantly sprouts a braid and a beard, and starts humiliating him with BDSM. She dyes her hair the wildest colors and says the nastiest things.
A bitter tale of love and hate in an East Asian family? The golden-haired American girl Shu Yao immediately fights magic with magic. She doesn't respect her elders or care for the young. Anyone who wants to be a family's willing accomplice has to be more sinister than her first.
As the story keeps veering off course, even the System is powerless to stop it.
This Shu Yao is a downright evil golden-shaded cat, okay? She's bleached every strand of hair on her head, and not one of them is kind. No, no, no.
(Few villains, but lots of brutal verbal takedowns. Consider this your advance warning. It's a satisfying power fantasy, but not a conventional revenge story. Don't get hung up on whether the heroine counts as truly saving anyone from other people's perspectives. She herself refuses to play that role in anyone else's life, so this is not a salvation story.)
Theme: Salvation? Don't be so sinister.
Damn, is the other one still updated? [Hold your chin]