Um you're complaining about villains being cookie cutter versions of each other in one breath then in the next you're complaining about villains having more than the rare thought bubble. Talk about cookie cutters. Gabdab.
No, what I'm complaining about is that there's no buildup. The author literally just lays all the villains cards on the table right out the gate without establishing anything. Having less thought bubbles from characters that don't blatantly tell you their devious plans let's the reader have room to interpret and theorize at least for a little while, without plot devices being shoved down their throat 24/7. If you go to any creative writing professor and ask if less is more, then they will say every single time that over saturating the plot is just a quick way for your novel to flop. In creative writing, less is always more. Having a villain who shows rather than just telling is far less cookie cutter. And plus there's nothing necessarily wrong with having a cookie cutter trope villain, it just becomes a problem when they are completely interchangeable. I can think of about 20 different Chinese manhuas with an evil step mother and sister and they all are literally the same character because their only role is to be assholes with no justification other than "I don't like FL"
I can put up with some shit writing especially with revenge stories, but I honestly can't put up with writing this bad. It's like an 8th grader wrote it honestly because of how quickly it just gets to the meat and potatoes. If it was just this one individual story, and the rest of chinese manhua were generally fine then I wouldn't be ranting. But no, almost every single Chinese manhua has a little bit of this aspect of telling about how devious somebody and when they do show it, it about has the subtly of a brick hitting you in the face so that you feel bad for the heroine in the most surface level way. Hence the whole, walking in on my ex and my best friend/sister cheating together trope right at the first chapter.
Sorry this was a long winder response. I'm just frustrated because I actually really like these tropes a lot, but it becomes ruined because they're over used and done horribly.
This seems to be consistent in terms of all Chinese webtoons. Theres no buildup, they have fl or ml just hand it to everyone one right out the gate without any context and they always make the step mother and step sister (or half sister) be the most cookie cutter and one dimensional. They're interchangeable characters that could easily be swapped because they don't have any real personality other than being assholes.
Also something that's small but I absolutely hate is when we see the villain or the opposing person thinking something that's important. For example, when the mother thinks: "i should've killed her when I had the chance!"
Thats fucking cringe writing. Thought bubbles that don't come from mc should be rare, and here they are in the second chapter throwing them left and right. This is utter garbage (╬￣皿￣)凸