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Faraway Wanderers
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5 | 66% (411 votes) |
4 | 18% (114 votes) |
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2 | 3% (21 votes) |
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WN: 77 Chapters + 4 Extras (Completed)
LN: 2 Volumes (Completed)
LN: 2 Volumes (Completed)
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All Time Rank: #1312
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.A tale about the former leader of a special organization that served under royalty, now leaving his past life behind and unintentionally getting involved with the martial world.
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One entry per lineThiên Nhai Khách [Vietnamese]
Tian Ya Ke
Tiānyá kè
Tyk
Word of Honor/山河令 [Drama]
นักรบพเนจรสุดขอบฟ้า
天涯客
천애객
Tian Ya Ke
Tiānyá kè
Tyk
Word of Honor/山河令 [Drama]
นักรบพเนจรสุดขอบฟ้า
天涯客
천애객
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To preface this review, I started reading Faraway Wanderers after I watched the Drama. I've watched The Untamed and read MDZS before, and thus had a preconceived expectation that the book would be better than the drama. Unfortunately, this was not the case. In my infinite luck, I've managed to find a novel whose drama adaptation managed to exceed the source material on all accounts.
Plot overview:
MC (Zhao Xu) decides to give up his ambitions of being the head of an assassin org working for the regional prince and wander the countryside instead. He meets a young kid that reminds him of his mentee in the past and decides to protect him. Along the way, he meets ML (Wen Ke Xing), who is the mysterious head of the ghost valley. ML decides to drop everything to follow MC around and sexually harass him for 40 chapters. They do nothing that matters for the duration of the novels until MC and ML manage to mu*der all the villains after the villains spent the entire novel basically plotting against themselves.
Some might disagree, but strongly believe that the MC and ML had so little impact on the plot that if you took out MC and ML and only stuck them in at the end to kill off the final villain, the general outcome of the novel would have been the same. Sure ML set things in motion before the book started, but after that, the villains basically did everything to themselves.
My Take:
Usually, books contain insightful internal dialogues for deeper characterization, more nuanced plotlines that cannot be intricately drawn out in an episodic format, or more fantastical imagery that can be described in words but not easily translated into reality. This novel conatained none of the above. The characters in the book are one dimensional. Every major character is either a sassy know-it-all or a naive youth. If you did not label the dialogue as spoken by MC or ML, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Whoever wrote and directed the drama should get a raise. The drama spent a lot of time fleshing out the side characters and villains, creating depth and storylines for them that are not in the book. Entire plotlines are cut and new situations are created. As opposed to this book, where the side characters are caricatures at best and received very little screentime. After reading to complete, I still neither understood why people did the things they did nor felt sorry for them during their eventual demise.
As with all priest books. She spends a lot of time quoting poetry and trying to sound sophisticated via archaic language, but the novel itself has very little substance. The relationship between the MC and ML is forced and lukewarm at best. Why does WKX like MC? Who knows? He's pretty? Love at first sight? Curiosity? Why does MC, who spends the first half of the novel flirting with girls respond to WKX's stalkerish/rapist-like demands? Who knows. The supposed "affinity" between the characters is constantly stated in print, we are reminded of it all the time. However, this is a classic case of "tell not show". If this wasn't stated, I wouldn't be able to feel it at all.
Instead of wasting your time reading this book, I recommend you watch the show. If you came here after watching the show, don't bother with this disappointment.
Faraway Wanderes starts as an interesting story that contains action, humor and a good amount of mystery that piques your interest like 'what is going on exactly?' But its not that much at the start. You'll just think its slightly interesting and keep going but oh boii when you keep reading ahead and see for yourself how the mystery unravels itself and the foreshadowing that was in the previous chapters, you just can't help yourself but be in awe of this work! The praise given to it in the top review is not exaggerated at all! What the author does is give you ideas about the plot, mystery and her characters and when you think you've got them all figured out and thats all there is to them, She deconstruts it all brilliantly leaving you speechless! I'm in total love with the main characters!I've been a fan of bickering couples and am proud to inform you that their bickering and flirting did not tamper down till the end! And Thats exactly why I adore this couple who had me all smiles whenever I read their interactions! The MC Zhou Zhishu is intelligent, cunning, shameless and strong. Yes, you heard it right strong! Strong enough to protect himself and strong enough to stand on equal standing with the ML and I stannn that! But putting him aside, I just wanna praise the author for the character setting, deconstruction and development of the ML Wen Kexing! Like I think most of the novels just give all the spotlight to the MC, making my favourite MCs list grow and the ML is like just there just for the MC in that novels no matter how gentle, playful or cool he might be.I might like these MLs but I don't have many in my favourite ML list. But Wen Kexing just totally won my heart. His playful shameless casanova like personality, his flirting, his funny acting, his love, his obsession... The author did an awesome job on that! And then when she deconstructed him revealing his true thoughts and past. THAT WAS BRAVO! Like I totally love him now and he's definitely one of my favourites! He felt... real! Like it truly felt like I was reading about a person's story! He wasn't there just for the romance with the MC rather he was a character of his own with his own story, goals and feelings! You have my praise for this author! There are several side characters in this and I loved all of them and also liked how the author gave all of them their own stories and screentime but it didn't feel like it was even a bit excessive! Like I truly fell in love with Zhang Chengling this cutie! Gu Xiang, Cao Wanning and Ye Baiyi! I love the ending so much! The author just packed all the revelations and angst in the last chapters making me tear up a lot and making me totally speechless! And then she gave us such a warm ending that made me smile happily to no end and pulled at my heartstrings!
i was tearing up a lot when Wen Kexing said that he wanted to live just because A-Xu was in this world and that hit me so deep! And like super glad that Zhang Changling remained with them cause it's like he's their child raised by them!