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Women support and protect each other in this one. FL is not afraid to take the fight to her friend's and family's abusers. She has a lot of female friends who are just as beautiful, almost as influential and almost as talented as her, thankfully. So, their relationship is not a master/servant but more of a true friendship.
FL really IS the boss in this. My number 1 for a reason.
There are bad and catty women but they're ever so slightly less dumb than other manhua "villaine
Ugh. I love this.
I usually adore these kinds of characters and situations, but my eyebrows were in my hairline at this point. We're not allowed to forget Qin Yunge is Not Like Other Girls. Therefore, as a prerequisite, she doesn't have meaningful friendships with another girl of similar age. If one pops up they're just tools and plot devices.
She would've been my perfect Mary Sue if she had attractive, talented female friends in the same socioeconomic class as she is but no.
False harem tag. Currently @ ch. 186. No harem I can see.
Also, the FL here is not as charismatic as the others in this list but she still ticks off a lot of the Cold, Calm and Confident Mary Sue boxes.
This one is interesting in that it's not the FL who is the genius surgeon or Western medical doctor here but the Male Lead. In all the others the FL is almost always the Western medical prodigy. The FL is definitely a genius Eastern/traditional medicine herbalist and acupuncturist though.
Unlike the others, this FL has not been regressed, possessed another's body, reincarnated or has had any other time related, supernatural shenanigans happen to her. She was bad ass from the get-go.
Not as domineering, arrogant and confident from the get-go, but this FL slowly becomes a Girl Boss aaaaaalmost on par with the others in this very specific subgenre full of unapologetic, competent and cool Mary Sues.
The Queen Starts as an A-Lister