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Shi Qingyang, a commoner, had climbed up to be one of two strongest Rank 9 rad-energy fighters in whole country. However, he had focused too much on training strength when he was younger and dangerous flaws were hidden inside his body. Eventually, those he trusted betrayed him after a decisive battle. Then, his body collapsed and he turned into a waste, abandoned by fair-weather friends and loved ones.

After his death, Shi Qingyang opened his eyes again. He had returned to the year when his parents died. He vowed that he would never make the same mistakes again and he would never lightly forgive those who had harmed him. But now, his first and foremost task was to fill up his belly.

As for where to find food… In the past, he had refused the help of others because of his so-called pride. This time, he needed to hold on to the Cheng family gentleman who was a waste! At least, he wouldn’t be hungry like he had been in his previous life!

Obtaining food, exercise equipment, opportunities to become stronger, and finally, even a wife…

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Trọng Lâm Điên Phong
重临巅峰
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earlgreyt
earlgreyt rated it
July 26, 2020
Status: Completed
I've retranslated the story summary so it's not copy pasted MTL.

I quite like this author's other stories (especially their seme protags), so started this one.

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This story is based on the premise that the Earth went through some kind of radiation apocalypse that destroyed the majority of the population and forced people to develop technology and "powers" based on radiation energy (rad-energy). All sorts of creatures went extinct or mutated heavily from the event (especially insects... now GIANT insects!!). So now, 1000 years into the future, the MC is a reborn rad-energy warrior defending cities from giant mutated animals.

The radiation energy is very very similar in use to cultivating qi in xianxia/wuxia novels, so people use rad-energy to form special attacks and families/clans are powerful depending on what rank rad-energy users their family has. There are also pharmacists who use rad-energy to create potions that help the warriors (exactly like the "pill refiners/alchemists" in wuxia/xianxia).

Most of the big and powerful families want their successors to achieve as high a rank as possible to continue the family's prosperity. It's a very interesting worldbuilding mix of ability users and sci-fi (there are tech implants and adv. science).

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Likes:

  • Fairly interesting worldbuilding around radiation energy (even though it takes many concepts from cultivation novels, the twist with sci-fi makes it pretty original)
    • There are underground and mobile (moving) cities like in Arknights
  • Seme protag, power couple with ML (ML starts off a seemingly useless person but is super smart and has a really mysterious genetic modification background)
  • Overarching plot with mystery around the large beast tide that destroyed the capital city in MC's previous life
  • Leveling-up type story where MC really focuses on slowly building his power base
    • Hiding power trope as well
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      MC has to hide his "genius" training for some time because he has no backing

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  • Established relationship trope, with MC and ML taking turns to show off
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      MC and ML get married before halfway mark and are super cute domestic husbandos

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  • Pleasantly, less cutthroat competition, more "thinking about the bigger picture" than your typical cultivation novel
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      ML opens a series of pubs to support, educate, and improve the ability of regular rad-energy warriors, openly sharing many of his skills and knowledge

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  • ML's hilarious grandpa
  • Good pacing, also enough face-slapping for it to be satisfactory but not too extreme/cruel or disgusting
I do enjoy this author's stories a lot and I like power couples, so I'd recommend giving this a go!

I read the Chinese but I think MTL should be fairly understandable if you look at the author's other works. <<less
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teagsho
teagsho rated it
April 1, 2021
Status: Completed
I just want to say that this is really good. The MTL is easy to understand...

the MC and ML are really fond of each other and spreading dog food everywhere, both of them are very decisive about their feeling too.

No misunderstanding, misscommunication because both of them have a full trust in each other!

Most importantly, the MC is a SEME/GONG! My favourite troupe ❤️

I think other reviews are enough to explain how I feel after finishing this story.

Absolutely Recommended,

100/10.
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Ppkk85
Ppkk85 rated it
July 10, 2022
Status: c48
I dropped it at ch48. It's sooooo BORING. You'll think that since the story revolve around being a Rad warrior fighting radioactive insect that the author will include a that in the story???? So far it's just MC chatting online, with ML's grandpa and making money. The little sweet moments between MC and ML felt like a story being told by a narrator vs the event actually occurring. I'm moving on to a better novel.
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paulinhakawaii
paulinhakawaii rated it
August 2, 2020
Status: Completed
I read everything using MTL, but it's worthy because despite it being MTL the text was pretty understandable and you could follow the plot easily.

This story is GOOD. The character development is pretty good too. The shou ML goes from a simple minded to a major sidekick, who was smart and powerful.

It's worth a read.
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Devrai
Devrai rated it
August 1, 2022
Status: Completed
Earth has been contaminated by radiation for a long time and humankind somewhat acclimated and evolved. People gather in cities that are protected by huge shilds against the radiation or live underground. Lots of people are able to withstand and even use the radiation energy to enhance and fight the mutated animals outside the safety zone. Shi Qingyang (MC) was detected with mediocre ability but somehow overcame it and became a 8lvl master. To find out how he did it, his "friends" betrayed him and put him in an... more>> illegal research center. When a beast tide surprised the city and annihilated it, he died in that research center but then... he woke up again at the time his parents just died, he was daily struggling, hungry and it was the worst time in his life. This time he will not be too proud to let people know his bad situation, it is more important to have a good body and retain himself. Reliving some of his former life and changing a lot. Especially when he decides to get his former class mate (ML) as his own little gold master... he finds the missing peace in his life, which will change the whole future. (ML doesn't stay weak either)

Like all novels written by this author, it is a great writing which draws you in and let you experience the adventure. At the beginning it is more a slice of life. Then there is a time jump of 1 year, then 6 years and later some in-between. If you are afraid that MC and ML will part during those times jumps, you don't need to be. Their relationship is steady without any ups and downs. They establish it really early and get even married rather soon. The story focus is the leveling up, the discovery of something special (that I do not want to spoiler) and the therein following consequences.

MC and ML have great communications, even MCs secret about his rebirth will be shared.

The side character are so so. Some are fleshed out good but some just disappear after a short time. Even the more prominent side character somewhat fade out near the end.

The ending itself is.... not especially my cup of tea so I took one star off for it.

The translation is edited mtl but really good done. Even the unedited mtl is rather smoothly readable.

I would recommend to read this novel at least once. I most likely are going to reread it as soon the translation is totally done. <<less
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ike_00000
ike_00000 rated it
November 15, 2020
Status: Completed
Very interesting and also very easy to MTL! Idk why on earth the rating is so low.

Basically, it's like a mix of zombie apocalypse and cultivation world. I won't go too in depth because another reviewer already explained the background. I love this story a lot! The plot is interesting and intricate, all the characters are great, the growth progression is fun, romance is sweet & fluffy, overall a fascinating story.

Plus, seme protagonist! Highly recommend, even through MTL!
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YoYoSama
YoYoSama
October 20, 2022
Status: c21
unbelievable how boring it is. This novel uses the words radiation, radiation warriors, tanks, and mutant insects. And how can he be so boring with such a vocabulary? This is chapter 21, but we haven't killed the bug yet. So I can accept the shiny system of this world, like I could accept Mad Max and the powerful war machines in Gurren Lagann, but I can't accept how secondary this content is. MC is reborn again at 16, he needs to rise to the top, and well, it's not fast,... more>> but damn. There are lines like, "It took him x months to get there, but he (the MC) got it in x minutes!". Eh, if I was given a bottle of beer every time I see these lines, I'd be asleep by now. Okay, it's a reincarnator dream here, similar lines, and incredible online popularity thanks to future technologies - the standard. But why is there so little of the truly original? Thieving classmate = unicellular creature, MC eats and trains with the future in mind, and all these s*upid divisions into ranks, classes and such. And me, who thinks that at this rate we'll kill the first bug in only 50 chapters. Why didn't the author abandon him at the very moment when he found himself in the anthill? Action, from the very beginning, the MC realizes that irreparable damage to the body has already been done, but the force is with him again and he remembers the apocalypse... I just want to skip the boring training part and see battle tanks in battle with insects, but I already sure that even that will happen, the writing is boring. What about romance? I don't know, ML is cute and kind of smart and they just seem to be having a peaceful relationship. I didn't feel a particular wave of their dynamic when I was reading. <<less
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Ouryane00
Ouryane00 rated it
August 30, 2022
Status: c20
Note to self:
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3.5 ⭐️, it’s kinda good but not interesting enough for me to continue. I tried to push through and give this a chance but I just kinda feel like it’s kinda boring. To reread? No

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timma
timma rated it
July 21, 2021
Status: Completed
Probably one of the smoothest MTLs I've ever encountered. Great read.

u: 2021 Dec 8

Will probably reread in half a year.
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Amamiya
Amamiya rated it
April 9, 2021
Status: Completed
This is the fifth novel I read by this author and, as always, she doesn't disappoint me! I have loved all her stories, and this one was the same.

ML is so cute!!! I completely understand why MC fell in love with him. At the beginning of the novel, all the time, I wanted to bite ML's cheek ;-; ML's innocence is soooo cute ~ ML's interactions with MC are cute and funny at the same time.

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There's a scene on chapter 31 that ML asks MC if he should climb on the MC's bed.
But ML has lived away from people his whole life, without access to internet content. ML has no knowledge of s*x and things like it.
The things that ML says without knowing anything are very funny hahahahaha the reactions of ML's grandfather's (who takes care of him) are also very funny.

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So, I love ML so so soooooo much. I really wanted to hug him.

But, I missed more extras at the end. I wanted to know more about the things the author explained at the end of the novel. The only thing I didn't like about the novel was the small amount of extras :/ I really want to read more! <<less
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FlowingWater
FlowingWater rated it
November 14, 2023
Status: c150
My rating is more of a 3.5. If you were looking for action/fighting, it's not going to happen here. At most, five moves were named and explained within 2 sentences. It's a nice quick read; though, the ending does leave you hanging a bit and a bit open. I enjoyed it for the most part due to the interactions between MC and ML. There wasn't a lot but they were sweet moments. The deductions were mostly for the ending and the awkward worldbuilding.

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Spoiler

Alien existence was thrown in during the latter half of the novel when ML's background was looked into with more detail. ML was a product of a cloning experiment from an alien species and the ending has the parents of the original arrive on Earth. Then Earth gets introduced to the interstellar space. The aliens were supposedly the cause of the whole apocalypse and abilities, but nothing really references it or gave that indication. There was a more focus on the revenge aspect. Either way, a bit confusing and sort of quickly wrapped up.

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puregarnet
puregarnet rated it
September 29, 2023
Status: Completed
3.77 Stars

Writing/Translation: 4/5

The translation I read is from Inky Dragon Translation up to C22 and the rest by Ars BL Translation up to C91. The first one was a bit spotty and the 2nd was better. Both are far better than MTL.

... more>> Pacing: 3.6/5

The pacing is a bit uneven. There are some small timeskips between each arc or event, and that is a bit sudden.

Plot: 3.6/5

The exciting parts are actually nice. The ant nest part was rather exciting and my favourite part of the story, surprisingly. However, all the buildup or mystery of the bad guys felt almost self-sabotaged by the author. The MC doesn't know, and when I read it, I felt like, wow, so mysterious. Who killed the parents? Who is the big bad? What is up with the ML’s background? And then the author shows the bad guys pov and they explain all the mystery then. So I already got the answer, while the MC didn't. Felt a bit weird.

Romance: 3.5/5

I just don't find the romantic relationship compelling so I have this odd aversion to them. I have read other stories by this author before and some of them have this kind of shou. The quiet, timid or naive type of shou that instantly devotes themselves to the MC until I feel it is too overly dependent. And then the shou grows or gains character development not typical of a shou in BL, becomes powerful and then uses this new-found strength to wholeheartedly please the MC. This makes the relationship feel a bit stiff and kinda make believe a little bit. The author made the reasons for the romance so obvious, I cannot get into it lol.

Setting/Worldbuilding: 4/5

The setting is kind of cool. I just wish it all felt as vibrant and real as in the Stone Age Raising husband journal story. That was so vivid haha. But this has worldbuilding and cool monsters.

Characters: 4/5

Personal Enjoyment: 3.7/5

My Created Lists (I include my rating and review in the list itself XD)

  • All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating - Where I ranked every single novel I read on novelupdates.
  • Family/Village/Wealth Building, Poor to Rich, Business Management - lots of nothing to something type of stories, like this one!
  • Heartwarming or Feel Good or Wholesome Stories I Liked - As stated hah
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