The Overflowing Fragrance of the Fish

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Being an extremely ambitious fish with great aspirations,

A Lian’s only wish in her entire lifetime was to become the main dish of the most beautiful man in the Celestial Realm – Rong Lin, the God of War.

A Lian invested enormous amounts of effort into eating, successfully grooming herself into becoming an extremely white and plump fish. However, just when she thought she would finally get cooked —

A Lian: Supreme God, do you like to eat braised fish or steamed fish?

Rong Lin: …I’m a vegetarian.

A Lian: QAQ

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The Fish’s Overflowing Fragrance
鱼香四溢
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Tikkitumble
Tikkitumble rated it
October 30, 2017
Status: c12
Novel is cute and somewhat funny.

MC is a fish-spirit/demon. She was once saved by our ML, one of the High Deities and became determined to win his favor by becoming part of his world.

Due to her passionate nature, naivete and incredible beauty, of course he was won over by her. But he doesn't know it and doesn't want to admit it, causing a lot of black-belly moments between the two. Poor ML never had a woman so openly and shamelessly woo him and even sexually harass him (funny thing is,... more>> this 'shameless' pursual is all in the ML's head... we never see MC plotting against him. It's a case of him reading way more into things than she is, but it's cute & endearing because he still allows it to happen... grudgingly.) He also gets insanely jealous whenever any guys show her attention or affection, which is par for the course of a typical dominant male lead. She also causes him all kinds of 'problems, ' by saying things like how he caused her neck injury when he squeezed her between his legs, making him borrow sanitary pads from other women, fighting disciples thinking they boiled her for soup, etc.

It's a bit of slice of life and romance added together. Sometimes the way the ML treat MC is a little aggravating, but he always make up for it in some way. A very cute and satisfying read.

Edit: I pretty much read this whole novel. And I think a lot of the plot could be shortened. The main male character is a bit too short tempered for my taste and the girl is too compliant to the point of boredom, but overall it is still a cute read. I would give it three-and-a-half to four stars. <<less
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RoseAmethyst remembrance
RoseAmethyst remembrance rated it
June 19, 2020
Status: Completed
A simplistic and a watered-down version of Meow Meow Meow. Even the comedy pales in comparison. This novel has a lot of cute moments but overall it's flat.

The world in Meow Meow Meow is very fascinating and imaginative with a whole slew of minor characters with their own unique personalities. While this novel retains a bit of that fantasy element, the side characters in this novel are rather...... bland. Sometimes this novel seems more like a high school drama than a fantasy novel about gods and animal shape shifters.

    • The MC is a 300 year old silver carp. Supposedly, she is one of the most beautiful characters in the novel, but she's kind of dumb and she's of a low status. Many of her peers looks down on her for this reason. It's kind of frustrating that their opinions turn to admiration for being able to attract the attention of the elusive ML rather than proving her own worth. So yeah, the lack of character growth is another reason why I prefer Meow Meow Meow.
    • The ML is a high God and a 30, 000 year old golden phoenix. He's seen as a stoic and unapproachable god, but is tender towards the MC.
I've seen quite a number of novels come up with interesting slang terms for the word p*nis and this novel is one of them

    • "very large dragon" - from The Overflowing Fragrance of the Fish
    • "turtle" - from Meow Meow Meow
    • "ugly stick" - from Xiao Qi, Wait

    • "sky pillar" - from Scum Villian Self-Saving System (a BL novel)
One of the funnier quirks of this novel is that the MC often makes innocent comments that comes off as s*xual to the ML.

Spoiler

Here's a few examples:

    • "High God, I'm wet" - The MC had accidentally spilled water on her skirt, but the ML thought she was talking about being aroused, lmao!
    • "High God, I'm about to lay eggs" - lol the ML has a pregnancy kink. The MC was talking about her ovulation cycle that fish have
    • "High God, do you like to eat fish?"
      - The ML interpreted

      "eating" as a slang for oral s*x, but the MC mean eating quite literally as food consumption

    • "I am not afraid of pain in order to be with High God." - ML probably thought she was talking about losing v**ginity being painful, but the MC is talking about death being painful (what a morbid comparison)
    • "I washed it myself before coming" - the ML probably thought she was referring to the custom of washing g**itals before s*x, but the MC was talking in terms of food preparation
    • "High God should be more careful, put your finger in, wash it hard, pick it out, and repeat it a few times." - The MC is talking about washing out the blood in food preparation but the ML thinks she's talking about fingering her ******.
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Spoilers of the ending

Spoiler

After the "eating fish" incident, they do eventually do it for real and the MC realizes she's pregnant.

The MC felt insecure about whether or not the ML will accept her pregnancy and so she asks a vague question

"Does God really want me to bear your offspring?"

Unfortunately, the ML doesn't pick up on the hint and gives an very condensing response that breaks the MC's heart.

"If the children are as s*upid as you, they will ruin the bloodline of the Phoenix family."

Can you imagine the guy you like telling you they don't want to have kids with you because they think the kids will be as s*upid as you? That's basically what the ML told her.

So she drops out of the academy and returns home without telling him. Her friend advises her to try to get remarried quickly because of the difficulty of raising a kids on their own. The MC agrees and goes on a blind date. Meanwhile, the ML finds out what happened and rushes over to see the MC on a blind date.

The MC and ML gets back together (without any real resolution in regards to the insecurities that lead to MC's departure in the first place). The MC returns to the academy. The egg eventually hatches and it's seems to be a boy (it was disappointing that there weren't much cute scenes with the baby. The baby didn't have much of a personality. It was mostly just a simplistic portrayal of childbearing)

Later on, the lake (the MC's birth home) gets contaminated and a lot of fishies dies. The ML somehow cleans the lake and disappears. The MC had laid a second time not long after he disappeared. Sometime in the future, one of the 2 kids catches a black peasant. Someone suggests cooking the peasant and one of the MC's former admirers, a swordfish, offers to pluck the bird, but the MC decides to keep it as a pet. The MC notices that the peasant is nice to her kids but seems to hate the swordfish as it always pecks at the swordfish. It turns out that the black peasant is actually the ML who went through Nirvana and was reborn.

The novel ends just like that. (TBH, the whole drama with the lake contamination was rather random. The novel ends without any sort of deep reflection of everything that happened. No final words to conclude the novel. No words about the future prospects. The CP reunited and that's it)

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Where I MTL-ed

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chrissy987
chrissy987 rated it
December 31, 2017
Status: c6
hahhaaha this is similar to Meow Meow Meow, in a sense the MC is a bit dumb and compliant to the "smart" or frustrated ML who is often confused/red faced/lol by the MC. Then they fall in love and don't want to admit or don't know how to hahah so cute
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mshh
mshh rated it
May 1, 2019
Status: Completed
This story is adorable and the ending is HE, totally sweet. I haven't read a satisfying ending in a long time. Wished there was a bonus chapter of
Spoiler

ML interacting with his kids and lecturing them on how they mistreated and wanted to eat him - bc they didn't know it was him - when he wasn't in his human form. LOL. Because he is black belly toward FL

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What I like:

  • Author didn't pair off everyone.
  • There wasn't a true bad guy in the novel, more of slice of life of FL aiming to be literally eaten by ML for saving her "fish" life. - Hence, she started cultivating and entering the prestigious academy in order to make herself more appealing and worthy so that the male lead will eat her in a soup. I don't blame FL for thinking this way toward her savior because she lives in a lake and accepted the fact that her cultivation level is poor and will be caught again to be consumed by humans. So if she was going to be eaten someday, she wanted it to be ML. But ML is a High God so she assumed she needed to raise her status so that a God will eat her. IT IS HILARIOUS how she goes about it.
    • Major spoiler -
      Spoiler

      ML falls in love with her and he thought they were going to be intimate going as far as to disguise himself in getting a cond*m but instead she prepared a boiling pot, a cook book, and ingredients for him the night of

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  • The female lead is blunt and literal with her words causing misunderstandings, especially, for and to the male lead. The male lead has a case of paranoia and think all her actions and words are confessions of love although she is very innocence and plotted nothing.
    Spoiler

    But when he realizes that he loves her more than she loves him, he goes on a jealousy rampant - because in in his mind, she loves him to the moon and back

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Con:

  • She is a bit too accommodating to the ML.
I highly recommend this for a romance & comedy read. I read the rest through MTL.
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JimmyFalcon
iiWonderWomanii rated it
November 23, 2017
Status: c16
Oh God. I just love stories about immortals and other such kinds of fantasies. So, of course, I'm going to be biased and rate it 5/5 stars. But it's not only the immortals part that draws me, it's also the story-telling. It flows quite well and there's no sense of rush nor is there any recycled plot points in this. Even the misunderstandings of this novel are unique lol. The translations are also quite good too. And the male lead is somewhat of a kuudere-acts cold but is veeery helpful... more>> to our female lead, which is nice. Now, I started the story because of the description/summary. The plot is portrayed with a female lead fattening herself up in anticipation of getting eaten. It's cute in a funny way. However, you shouldn't look forward to that. So far there is no interaction anywhere near that, but it's true that the female lead starts off by just admiring the male lead, there's no actual romance in her perspective at the beginning. The male lead has delusions hahaha <<less
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ike_00000
ike_00000 rated it
August 14, 2020
Status: c23
Up to where I read it's very very cute. Not perfect, but still. MC is funny and lovable, and although I generally hate white lotus characters whose only actual strength is basically the ML's support, because MC is so funny and pure-intentioned it's a pass.

ML is especially hilarious; so much for aloof and detached, he's just very good at hiding his perviness hahaha. Although it's not really his fault, but the situations are pretty funny. I really like that although he may be powerful, his character isn't the ice cold... more>> perfect immortal yandere most stories have. He's a bit delusional and prone to childish tantrums, too funny.

Spoiler

That said, I read some spoilers, and like ??????? @ the ending????????? I don't even know what to say, whaaaat it feels so unfitting with the rest of the story...

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Anyway, so far it's a very interesting and unique story. Sure there's the ML randomly deciding to dote on MC troupe that I hate, but it's quite enjoyable because of MC's traits.

Thanks to the translating team!! I hope this gets picked up.... even though idk if I wanna read to the end (see spoiler) <<less
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chickin fairy
chickin fairy rated it
May 27, 2020
Status: Completed
This novel is really in line with my tastes. I LOVE THIS SOO MUCH.
The story is totally sweet with simple conflict, the villains is not completely bad, the MC have many friends, and oh my god I really love the MC and the ml, they are really the highlight of the novel.

The only drawback is the rushed ending, I think the story could be much longer maybe around 100 ch, but regardless of the rushed ending I still love this novel, and i'll definitely reread this!!!
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SSKF
SSKF rated it
April 2, 2020
Status: Completed
It's was just a nice read. Not too much emotions and a bit boring. It was cute though.
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