This started off as Cheating Men Must Die, and now it's only targeting women with some dud...

I mean it takes two for an affair to happen. If you're gonna teach the guy a lesson, why let the girl off? ╮(￣▽￣)╭

While I agree with your statement, this is hardly my point at all.

This manga started by sticking it up to toxic male leads and misogynistic tropes that put women against each other while the trashy dude got away scotch free.

Now it's just yet another story where women are put in the one-dimensional villainess spot while men just play a secondary role and, worse yet, are portrayed in a way where you feel bad for them, sometimes even transferring the blame for their bullshit to the villainess.

It started as girl vs patriarchy, now it's just yet another female rivalry story where the vilainess is sadistically punished at the end while the dudes get a poetic moral lesson.

Dudes were also one-dimensional villains here, so girl or a boy they both are the same to me. At least girls seem more interesting because it’s usually about out-smarting other girls, while with dudes it was always just about seducing them and then trampling on their balls.

If you don't see the misogyny pointed out by my comment and in your own comment, I don't know how else I can draw it for you.

just so you know they said the accurate title fornit is actually is "Scum must die"

I was thinking the same thing!?!?! Like now it's just about beating cheating women with men as the side pieces instead of how the other stories had the women as sidepieces. Still enjoying it though, it makes the story interesting (≧∀≦)

Yeah it did. But it's more of a mixed bag ig. Not much have changed since first arc. It was mostly female vs female in the first arc too. Some have rotten men and woman while others have good people as the love intrest. It's probably taking turns so it won't get super repetitive since it's already is repetitive. And honestly I just enjoy characters getting obliterated when they think they own the world lmao

I can see that also, but honestly FL herself has never judged or even hated any of her female counterparts. She even respected how cutthroat some of them are. Just wanna point that out.

To avoid being repetitive (which is really easy in these multi-verse novels) they had FL fight other girls with systems. From what I've seen, guys rarely get systems to build harems, that's usually the just a bonus with their strength building, heaven smashing whatever. It would be strange imo if the author gave shitty guys powerful systems to battle with FL. That being said, I also don't like how they pitt girls against each other but tbf, I see this in stories with male protagonists also. It's more about showcasing how OP and cool the MC is bc heaven forbid someone else is actually more beautiful/intelligent/stronger or even remotely interesting. It's a common plague of these face-slapping chinese stories and I don't see it as a gender issue since they add a variety of characters who are overall huge pieces of shit regardless of gender.

Well the translation is kinda off it more so means cheating scum must die. Not guys in specific. So yh I think rather than focusing on the stereotypical cheating guys, and honestly poorly disguised misandry then recognising that it ain't always the guy who is at fault.

(I'm a girl btw in case you think I'm a misogynistic male, and I personally despise both misogyny and misandry) ^.^

Imo I prefer this style of narrative better it would be repetitive if the author only targeted/focused on cheating guys. <3

Her mission is literaly to avenge the ppl wronged by the tranmigrator.. and sinse in most novel the trancmigrator is a woman who came to another "world" story and affected the main story.. ofcorse she is going to focus on the cause aka the female tramsmigrator and then the cheater later who is normaly the Ml..
What were you expecting? like 70% - 80% of novels with transmigrator are literaly females.. all she is doing is going into the novels where the trasmigrator is screveing up the "world" of said novel by either making grudges or causing death.

actually! there is a side story to this manhua where su luxia has to fight a scum guy who has a system as well.

tbf, i feel like it's not pitting woman against woman or su luxia vs women, and more like su luxia vs everyone, and i feel like it's always been like that since the beginning. if i remember correctly, in every arc, there was usually a female antagonist as well, they just weren't the main scumbag since it was usually some guy su luxia was focused on dragging down. like not saying you're wrong, i do sometimes get vague : vibes (such as the stereotype of rich women being snobs/the fatphobia. though, the manhua doesn't rlly discriminate upon gender with making any rich people snobbish, at least).

also, su luxia only talks shit about people who truly were real scummy, but she has nothing against peoples' methods, she only judges them based on the consequences of their actions. such as in the previous arc, where to a certain extent, she had respected the female antagonist, and only thought her to be despicable because she did hurt innocent people (though, su luxia never had a problem with her using the system against the male leads, since they were assholes too). like i see where you're coming from, but i also feel like nothing's changed much from the first arc, and su luxia's grey moral area was always consistent throughout the manhua, and never shifted.

this and the author arc are the only arcs thus far that dont have shitty men iirc. last arc all the men are also shitty, and while they werent the focus, they got their due punishment. theres only so much you can do with the same premise again and again, so i get why the author is trying out different things. at the very least, the female antagonists are never as dumb as their male counterpart in this series lmao.