I’m Not Shouldering This Blame

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One day, the stuntman found that acquaintances and unfamiliar people were looking for him through various channels. Even someone from a certain department of the country came—

Team Leader of an abilities group: Comrade Jian Hua, on behalf of the nation, I want to tell you about a newly discovered world secret.

Protagonist: What?

Team Leader of an abilities group: In fact, our world is a book.

Protagonist: WTF?

Team Leader of an abilities group: And you will be the last villain of the seven volume novel series.

Protagonist: …

See title for the protagonist’s mood.

Book Character A: You and I are good childhood friends. Shouldn’t I be the white moonlight in your heart?

Protagonist: …

Book Character B: I treated you kindly, so shouldn’t you trust me completely?

Protagonist: …

Book Character C: I’m so considerate while busy. As good friends, shouldn’t we be rolling around on first base?

Protagonist: …

See title for the protagonist’s mood.

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Date Group Release
12/31/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c175 (end)
12/30/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c174
12/29/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c173
12/28/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c172
12/05/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c171
11/03/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c170
10/31/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c169
10/30/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c168
10/29/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c167
10/28/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c166
10/26/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c165
10/25/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c164
10/23/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c163
10/22/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c162
10/21/19 Cha’s Spoilerish... c161
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Kyaaaaaaaaa
Kyaaaaaaaaa
January 8, 2022
Status: c58
The storyline is great don't get me wrong. It's an interesting premise. What if you were a S-Class ability holder who found his life to be living as the end game villain of a popular book? On top of that, there's a bunch of people who transmigrated into your world trying to take advantage of that. There's also apocalypse elements that are quite interesting.

But the translation is just too confusing. I'm losing brain cells. It's also the author's lack of ability to portray scenes well (I'm assuming it to be... more>> since all the translators MTLed). She is unable to properly "show not tell". These elements added up make it feel so tedious to understand what is going on with the plot, much less get immersed in it.

So I'm dropping it. Not rating it because I didn't finish it. Call me weak-willed but I simply cannot surmise why I would struggle through reading this novel. It has potential though, I give you that. I look forward to the authors future works that hopefully have better execution. <<less
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MongMongMonaLi
MongMongMonaLi rated it
January 5, 2022
Status: Completed
The Story is so interesting, thrilling and funny!!!

As mentioned by someone else:

There is living, breathing plot!!!

And let me say: I just love this story!

After reading some reviews I nearly would have missed this gem!!!

Someone wrote, that the descriptions are so confusing, so the things happening aren't clear. I didn't come across this problem at all! I'm just so happy that I listend to the positive reviews!
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Milli_Mey
Milli_Mey rated it
November 21, 2021
Status: c35
The story is very interesting so far. But as others mentioned, the translation is not very good.

HOWEVER Cha's spoilerish translation is in fact editing the whole story currently. So if the translation quality is important to you, I would recommend to wait a bit. The novel itself is definitely worth it and the tl (hopefully soon) will be too.

I already can't wait to pick up the story again~~
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mikumiku_100
mikumiku_100 rated it
March 14, 2021
Status: Completed
Mannn, there's a lot going on with this novel but I find it very unique. I really like the dynamic and the development of the relationship between the MC and ML. I like the realistic approach. Tbh, I was confused at first but as I was so used to sci-fi, fantasy or QT tropes, I find that it somehow all made sense as the plot progresses. Imo, the story could still be expanded and be explained more in-depth but I'm thankful that the author just made it like this, just... more>> entangled enough hahahaha (cause mannn it might lost the bl aspect okay).

I admit the first 50 chapters somewhat made me lost interest because as a bl fan I always look forward to the bl part xD. But yeah, I get it why the pacing of the romance is like that, there's a lot of mysteries going on on the first half that I'm even surprised that the author managed to resolve those and end the novel lol. Anyways, at first I plan to just give it a rating of 4 but then because of the story's world structure uniqueness (or atleast that's how it seems to me) I'll give it 5 instead. At the start of reading it, I already felt how difficult it would be to conclude this kind of novel as an author, but the author managed to do it so kudos for that.

I wouldn't consider this novel as one of the best BLs as this is a very plot-heavy story or something but it is guchi for those who are looking for the kind of genre that this story has. <<less
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k24_isavid
k24_isavid rated it
March 6, 2021
Status: Completed
I've always wanted to read this book because it's always in my recommendations. Now that I have, all I can say is that it didn't disappoint me. Those who enjoyed Earth is online will like this.

For the books I didn't like I didn't even bother writing a review. Trust me on this one.

Make sure to read the extra chapters. The Abandoned world ended with the main story but the extra shows their life without the abilities.

One of the best MC I have ever read. His mentality is totally... more>> a mood.

Some reviews here say that the ending is abrupt, I say that its perfect. The abandoned world came so suddenly and of course it will leave suddenly.
Spoiler

If we drag it for ten years according to the original novel the world is based on, we will have to read a thousand chapters ah!!!

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Some spoilers other people might find useful

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      The MC is bottom. Had to search this in the middle of the story cause the MC is top material. Not that their bed position really mattered

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      healthy dose of smut.

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red_planet31
red_planet31 rated it
August 16, 2020
Status: c175
I love this novel. The worldbuilding is really intriguing and the plot is really interesting to me (ppl in book realize their world is a book and the plot completely goes into a different direction). I also really like how the relationship between MC and ML develops. The story is a bit more on the serious side with lots of action similar to the post-apocalyptic/zombie genre style but with a twist. This novel will also make you look at mushrooms and corgis in a different way :D

Read it for the... more>> plot! Stay for the love between MC and ml, superpowered pets, and capable side characters. <<less
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Geroker
Geroker
May 5, 2020
Status: c12
Thus far it's very good, but wow, does the tone of the novel (very serious and suspenseful) not match the summary AT ALL. Summary totally made me assume this would be a comedy. It's very much not.
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Aachiin0914
Aachiin0914 rated it
January 20, 2020
Status: Completed
The novel is very well written.

It has a very detailed plot and story line. Although there's many plot holes and many things left unexplain. It was very well written.

Well it focused mainly on romance. I think that's why there is many unexplain things and many events left unresolved. The novel can be expanded more; with my exp in reading novels with it's plot and story line it can expand more up to 500 to 1000 ch. I also think that the ending is hastily done.

They killed off... more>> the villains way to easily, like gathering them in place and killing at once.

Well...

They have satisfying ending and I think it worth it.

Hahaha...

If I'm going to connect this to an anime/ manga. This novel should be the prologue of 'My hero Academia'.

Hahaha... <<less
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rhianirory
rhianirory rated it
February 12, 2019
Status: Completed
i liked the love story which was a bit slow but steady, but I really hate stories that end with
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and they all lose their powers and go back to being "normal" people. Asian stories seem to love this kind of ending, maybe because of the pressure for everyone to fit in and be the same rather than the western ideal of individualism. Dunno, don't care. This kind of ending will always piss me off, though at least the mushrooms are cute

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the Abandoned World will sound pretty familiar to those who've played the Persona series of games, it's a lot like the Midnight Hour (monsters included) though the ability users are more like those from the manga Psyren.
if I was rating this just on the love story side this would be about a four but that whole ability thing at the end dropped it another star for me.
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trash_generalist
trash_generalist rated it
April 16, 2022
Status: c48
This is not bad! The translation (at Wuxiaworld) is pretty good as well (I think it may have recently been edited from the original MTL). I was hesitant to read it at first because all the reviews were pretty negative, but it ended up being interesting. I ended up not finishing it because I lost interest in between the draggy parts, but I liked it enough that I would be more than willing to come back to it later to try it out again.

CHARACTERS:

  • Jian Hua (MC) : After going out at night to see the movie of the actor he was the stunt double for, Jian Hua ends up being transported into the Abandoned World and Awakening his abilities. He’s very stoic. Doesn’t seem to care about much, but he actually has strong likes and dislikes, he just doesn’t show it.
Minor Spoilers: ... more>>
Spoiler

Jian Hua has the power of mushrooms LOL. It sounds silly, but as the big bad BOSS in the original novel, these mushrooms earned him the nickname “The Devourer”.

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  • Li Fei (ML) : Li Fei is the actor that Jian Hua worked as a stunt double for. He’s very popular, and is even called the Emperor of Movies. Much like Jian Hua he has no knowledge of what’s to come, but he has strong abilities to allow him to partner up with Jian Hua. Oh, and as an actor, he has many faces!
Minor Spoilers:
Spoiler

Almost immediately after meeting Li Fei, Jian Hua confesses that he has a crush on him... well on the character he played LOL. In the end, it’s Li Fei that ends up having a genuine crush. He’s also a villain in the original novel!

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This world is rich with side-characters and they’re all given their time to shine. I didn’t really have much interest in them tho, which led me to slowly burning out.

SETTING:

The Abandoned world is described as a parallel world in the novel. It can pull in those with potential for abilities and help them awaken while separating the normal people (who do not appear in the abandoned world.) This world is not completely separate from the real world though. Even though ordinary people aren’t pulled in, any damages sustained in the original world will be replicated in the real world (i.e.) If you start a fire in a building in the Abandoned world, that fire, if not put out, will continue burning (killing everyone inside.)

Awakeners cannot control when they go in and out. If they’re caught in an overlap space, they’ll get pulled in. Once pulled in, they’ll have to fight the monsters in that realm. All while everything in their surroundings is stopped (they can’t even eat anything not on their person, so it’s easy to starve).

PLOT:

The two main characters are independent, so they’re hesitant to start working with the special forces, even when the dangers of the other world and the potential plots from other countries and the insiders (aka the transmigrators). A lot of people want to hug the MC’s thighs, but he’s not easily convinced. Even to his ‘crush’, the ML, the partnership is shaky and based on the foundation of them working on a film.

It’s hard to say if the two will remain independent though! Especially since so many people know of what’s to come, and because neither of them are the original protagonist of the world.

RATING:

For now, I give this a solid 3/5!! Shows a lot of premise, but the fact that I lost interest so early on keeps me from giving it any higher score. When I reread, I shall adjust as necessary. <<less
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Shortk
Shortk rated it
April 15, 2022
Status: c32
I actually don't hate this or anything. Its not my taste. On one hand you could say this is satire on the narrative that Americans like to make China the bad guy in novels.

That actually would have been interesting, but sometimes it really matters how you go into that: is it with the subtlety genius of a pin point needle or is it just creating groups of people into one generalization (aka bad/stereotyping) ?

I mean, I guess basic bit*h American novels/movies will generalize Chinese, etc. Very often, so arguably it's... more>> fair to do the same thing back with this kind of rebirth novel. Tbh those American novels/movies suck too for their generalizations. But either way it's not doing anything to push anything but nationalistic values and generalizations about America v. China etc. Maybe you don't see it, but I think it's pretty obvious this is leaning on a real life narrative the Chinese government is pushing against America for the readership in china to enjoy this novel and is the motivation why you feel the leads/china must win.

You can put your blinders on and totally enjoy this for what it is imo. But idk it's just surreal reading this while knowing China is actually pushing the narrative America is the villain as well as their political agenda irl (esp for the Ukraine thing). Yeah nationalism is bit hard to read in most cases anyways <<less
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Imortal fox
Imortal fox rated it
February 22, 2022
Status: Completed
This story is among my top 20 favorites without a doubt. I think my biggest passion for the plot is the well-constructed world; the couple that is neither fast nor slow, but definitely true and endless (I was even surprised to be honest, they love each other to death) ; besides how cute I find the other characters (the government agents and the original protagonist who appears in the middle/end along with his "uncle") . I can't say it's a writing that got me intoxicated, but it makes me glazed... more>> by its more "dry/serious" writing (I don't know if it's possible to understand this, but I mean it's not very sentimental, but it has its warm and cute moments yes, even more this couple is perfect). BUT my favorite point is the way it demonstrates the different human facet. SUMMARY: Just read with no regrets. The synopsis does not demonstrate the true essence of the story as it is not as cute, light and adorable as it seems. JUST READ! (I couldn't summarize it better because it's been years since I read this novel) <<less
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Morfzine
Morfzine rated it
October 28, 2021
Status: Completed
HOLY SH*T, I LOVE THIS NOVEL, I LOVE THE AUTHOR, I LOVE THEIR WORKS. Ok, alright, cuz others already write about the general story, I will talk about the things that makes this novel great. I have read a lot of sci-fi/modern fantasy BL (translated and untranslated) but nothing can replace this is my heart. Sorry if I made some mistakes cuz it already been 1 year since I have finished this novel. Multiple transmigrator is uncommon already, but thousands of them ? And most of them striving to change... more>> the world for their own personal "ending" ? Well at least I only see it in this novel.

The transmigrator arrival varies, some already did 10 years ago, some just recently, which makes it even harder for the natives to identify them. How far they have read is also different from each other, they also have their own interpretation, theories, and even fanfics of the story/character in the "book". Therefore it's fascinating to see how far their guesses is from the actual fact lol.
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The amount of people that haven't realize that in original timeline MC and ML is dating, that's why one them goes batsh*it crazy when the other died is A LOT, by I mean is lot is more people ship ML x his company director/CEO that's some sort of his godfather. They think MC x ML is a parody thing, so they only reach enlightenment later in the story

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Now let's talk about the MC, do keep in mind some of the things I write are based on my own personal interpretation
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He is cold, smart, indifferent, lowkey depressed, and a control freak, though got toned down a lot because of his unfortunate circumstances, an example of high intelligence but low wisdom. In the past, he's the son of rich family, but I think his father died and his mother killed herself, therefore making him from the proud son of heaven, to a nobody that can't even finish middle school and had to be a construction worker (and then a stand in because of his good martial art). Because with his condition he don't have anything that he can absolutely control, he choose to control the only thing he can, which is his life. Therefore he shuts himself from other people, he has no preference nor hobby, his apartement has no distinctive furniture other than the must have one like chair and table, didn't fight back when wronged in his previous film, just to keep his life within his control. After that, the abandoned world came and I'm pretty sure he's having an internal rage when realize this phenomena is not just a one time thing. He has a bit of gap moe too, he's a fan of the character that ML is playing as (but not ML himself), so he tried to hide his poster (but still failed) so ML doesn't get jealous. Oh, plus he's a bit lazy too, that's why he don't want to be top (even though ML already offers himself) and don't go abroad to get married with ML legally. And I'm very curious how MC and ML dynamic will be if he's still a rich guy, like we know how his personality will be, which is similar to the character that ML is playing, but that's mean they will strive to control each other if they still end up dating hmmm

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ML is sociable outside, cold inside, a bit pessimistic with the world, in conclusion has a perfect chemistry with MC if we look at their dynamic. Especially in the original timeline
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two people that were abandoned by the world help each other to find their reason to keep on living, finally can't escape their fate to be killed by the world itself

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His first time loving someone, he took it very seriously and tried to open up the MC with his tempered psychology skill. He took it as a challenge to open up the seemingly blank paper MC and finally succeed by letting him choose his preferred porridge lol. ML's ability to interpret MC's micro but obvious expression is cute. He also tried to pamper MC a lot even though he can't cook, so he just use money.

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BTW, every scenes MC is saving ML from assassination attempt/getting killed is so sexy, especially the party one, like his arrival followed by white filament for each steps is horror but uhhh, *h**ny grips*

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The setting with the abandoned world is not complex, but when put into a story, it's really enthralling. The random time stop with random time intervals, location, and even time difference are like a fantasy the first time they experience it, but the cause that it do are real. It's like a more extreme version of unlimited flow world of korean's dungeons world. The feeling of helplessness not knowing when you will get out, how far can the rations you brought will kept you from starving, the terror of monsters especially if you haven't awakened your power.
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After that is the mania that were caused by their dissatisfaction with ordinary people because they out there living their lives peacefully while you having ptsd every night. Which is why I love back to the real world massacre part. And then some how you lose your power after all that you been through, well it's kinda understandable and realist than most fantasy, at the ending they all have to go to psychology counseling except for MC and ML cuz they don't really like their superpowers lol

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This author usually put some unusual/uncommon set of character and dynamic
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for example the director/CEO that remarried etc

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which put a little bit more flavor to the story.

While I do loves this novel with all of my heart, it do have some minor problem (some of them are major spoiler) :

some barely xenophobia plot point (eh, it's really mild though, with CN has the most S superpowers so all the other countries want to kill MC/ML, CN implicitly shown as the strongest with a lot of powerful ability holders and the author dissing american authors being unreasonably proud with their country)

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Freaking hate all superpowers gone and the world goes back to normal trope. But the redeeming thing is, there no amnesia bullsh*it, and the damage it done is real and can't be fixed in a short time + there's a foreshadowing that it might come back

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which lead to so many unanswered question, I get that the author perhaps want to write horror of the unknown vibe, but it's so interesting though, I hope there will be a sequel, I DON'T NEED SLEEP, I NEED ANSWER, like, if this not a BL, the setting itself can make enough material for 1000 chapters
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HELLO YOU MAKE A MULTIPLE UNIVERSE SETTING AND A MC THAT CAN USE LOOPHOLE TO OBSERVE IT, but no follow up to it ? That's just mean man

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The rock star being the only transmigrator conveniently surviving is a bit eh

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Again, no follow up, no sequel, but so many foreshadowing is just down right EVIL

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This novel is not the most innovative even if you compare it with the author other works, but this is the one that always marked in my mind. Just saying, but the author new work "paradise exile" is really good, I don't know why nobodies translating it (well it haven't completed yet, but there's already 150 chapter + tho). It has more profound sci-fi, 20 chapters in you already thrown a bunch of mind blowing plot twist, and it also an apocalyptic genre albeit 'atypical'. <<less
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twobada
twobada rated it
March 9, 2021
Status: --
Hmm how do I say it... ambitious plot but the writing ability could not keep up?

This had so much potential but we are greeted with walls and walls of passive text, explaining the details, actions, and even thought processes. The reader is treated as brain-dead who cannot think of these things on their own. Like a baby being force-fed mashed vegetables. It was numbing.
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btsdynamiteAUG21
btsdynamiteAUG21 rated it
February 24, 2021
Status: Completed
This kind of plot is very new and refreshing apart from same QT novels I have read. It piqued my interest and have read smoothly so far.
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secondthots
secondthots rated it
January 16, 2021
Status: cc22
Confused? Me too!

Maybe I’m desperate for a QT novel or some sort of action-packed plot with a hot main CP. The premise is nice, but the execution, the overall layout of the world- simply put, it sucks. Will have to shelve this one away
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darkelf01
darkelf01 rated it
January 15, 2021
Status: c3
I'm sorry that I can't persevere past the third chapter. There are many reviews applauding this novel for its novelty (pun very much intended ;D) but it looks like this isn't my cup of tea.

At best, I can only praise it for having a good translator and unique setting. You can only find a small amount of similar novels nowadays.

At worst, this novel is trying too hard to be edgy and cool that it ended up being nauseatingly pretentious instead.
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Corny
Corny rated it
January 8, 2021
Status: Completed
Due to this being one of my alltime favorites which I have already reread I decided to leave a review at least!
First comes first: A big thanks to the translator. In the beginning, it sometimes a little bumpy concerning the grammer but it's not that bad. It also get's better with the progress of the chapters.

So why do I like this so much? Hm, I guess its mainly becaus of the interesting main characters and really good placed and interesting plot. The basic idea is really good and coherent. The MC is prone to numbness regarding his lifestyle. I know that sounds strange but... just imagine someone who doesn't want anything from life but being left in peace, someone without many ambitions and perks in his life. That's the MC. That may be sound dull but it isn't! I feel you can really empatize with him and his thoughts. It's said (also by the ML) that he has a tendency to get depression with his characteristics in the book and I feel that is 100% true. And the ML... he's completely different. A proud, perfectionistic peacock. I can see, how he could easyily blacken, for he is also quite scheming and likes the thrill. The ML knows that himself. In this he's completely different from the MC, which in my book shouldn't even blacken in the "alternative plot". It feels more that he's got depression and is tired of life.

Strangely, this completely different ML really likes the MC (and quite a lot). He himselfs doesn't know why, being really clear on the characteristics of the other, which he never thought would be his type. But well, that's love for you. The smut scenes are not too few and not to much and cleverly worded. Nicely done by the author.

Regarding the plot... I feel I can't say too much without spoilering. Just imagine, you one day get some power that you can't really crasp yourself and also don't really like and then someone from the military knocks on the door of your simple, cheap flat, eyes you warily and says: "Excuse me, but according to our information, you're going to be quite powerful and villainious in the future." And you're like "WTF I was just minding my own business, not doing anything, I'm a normal person, leave me alone Q.Q". Yeah. That's basically how it is.
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Aisztitania
Aisztitania rated it
December 25, 2020
Status: Completed
I love this novel. The feeling when reading this similar with The Earth is Online & Global University Entrance Examination. I love to read a story which MC is strong and able to protect ML & not only depend on ML to protect him. So it worth 5 stars from me.
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Yumeru
Yumeru
October 24, 2020
Status: c24
Just leaving a review here before I forgot. I got bored at the story then stopped at 24. Like there are many descriptions about world building chuchuchu thats that. Maybe if I got more time to waste I might continue reading this. Yes start of the story is kinda messy then realllly slow plot.
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