It's especially glaring when the ML thought about how Xiao Lou would be a good man to his wife. Hahaha, don't worry ML, Xiao Lou is your wife.

and it is revealed that the nightmare room where only 0.1% of people manage to survive (so essentially the equivalent to dying if you get put in the room) was to live without money for 14 days.

That's right. 14. DAYS.

Granted, they said it was a weird city where no one would give jobs or give money, but the MC and ML and all the characters reactions to it were so weird. They were the equivalent of "no way, 14 days?? how could you even survive??"

Humans are tenacious little buggers--just look at our history of famine and food shortages. People can certainly live for longer than 14 DAYS if placed in a city where they can still dig out food from tr*sh and get for scraps from children through singing. there's no f*cking way that the only person who managed to survive simply got by through "going to the bakery to eat expired food and drinking only tap water and finding some children on the street who liked my singing and gave me snacks." that's exactly how that 0.1% person who managed to survive did so.

so. only 1/1000 people with no money managed to survive for 14 days when placed in a city where they could still dig out food tr*sh and get money from bystanders. 999/1000 people died in that situation, apparently. please, tell me if this in any way sounds realistic

After listening to this, it's so difficult for me to take the MC and ML seriously, especially after reading their reactions to this knowledge.

like during the s grade diamond tomb/ maze thing when MC needed control cards and said something like oh no only yeqi has control cards. But he also has multiple control cards that were used in earlier arcs???

or when MC got stabbed with a needle and his little brother automatic defense card never activated. And MC already used 2 ancient times cards so it's not like they were banned?? No... it was just forgotten. that card only came out once by the way and it was used to show how MC feels safe around ML so therefore the auto defense card never activated. Urgh that doesn't even make sense because the point of the card is to DEFEND AUTOMATICALLY to danger not activate when the user feels unsafe cause I mean that means the card would be completely useless unless the user is on guard and tense all the time. and even then with the uselessness of the auto defense card needing ML not to be with MC, ML wasn't with MC at the time when he was attacked with the needle so the card should have activated.

I mean... the number of straight flushes, royal flushes, 4 of a kinds that came out in a 4 hour game was ASTOUNDING. No, it does not happen that often. I used to play 5 times a week for a year and I hit each of those hands maybe once or twice max?? I don't even think I've gotten a royal flush before. And the actual probability of hitting a straight flush is 0.00139%, a royal flush 0.000154% and 4 of a kind 0.0256%. So getting those hands multiple times in a 4 hour game is just really really unrealistic.

However I will admit that, fine it's more entertaining for the reader to have these hands in the game but worse than that was the way they played... urgh as an amateur who used to play regularly and who's watched aloooot of professional poker games, the playing was really baaaad.

like the lady folding 4 of a kind. No that just doesn't happen with the community cards on the table.

or when ML just called a raise instead of going all in when he had a straight flush and after that he got praised for it as being as stable as mount tai when it was super s*upid. At that point he had 88 chips, and the total bet amount for players still in the hand was 68 chips meaning he had 20 chips remaining and the absolute best hand possible for that round. Anyone who has played before would go all in to maximize the value of the hand. Like he could win 40m more but he didn't and that's good playing?

or the way most of the players didn't raise when they had a strong pair. Most people raise when they have a strong pair or any pair to kick other people out of the round and protect the likelihood of themselves winning because another player might hit something better once the community cards are shown. I mean yes there are cases where players purposely don't raise to trap other players but it's rare not common. But here the players just didn't do so.

or when SQG made his bluff and then showed it off. Yeah most players that play regularly don't do that unless they're trying to get another player tilted and get them to play recklessly but he didn't have any real reason to do so. And I mean he got praised for it a lot but he literally winded up losing the more than 200 chips he did have when he made the bluff (because the other players pushed him out) and by the end of the game he had less than 200. And he bought in twice (I think) so he probably came away with 50m at the end of the game. Like seriously what was the point or result of showing his bluff? Winning way less than he could have?

The Card World wasn't destroyed at the end and only the main group got out (Even though it is clear that the Card World was the antagonist, 8 million people had either died in it or would die in it, and the main characters were described as kind). Great climax.

Time was rewound to return the main group to their lives before their deaths, but... butterfly effect. Especially 'cause everyone entered the Card World at different times.

The situation with the Jokers was never fully elaborated on.

The background behind the Aces was also never explained (A continually mentioned mystery in the novel, but nonetheless, never answered).

The side characters lost depth and started to become sidepieces, overshadowed by the brilliance of the centerpiece.

The romance progressed into a flushed, shy, can't-handle-my-heart-racing situation, which contradicted the mature aspects of both main leads, one of their most admirable traits.

Side couples. Okay, side couples. I totally shipped Team Leader Yu's brother and the spider woman. They would've made such a good couple. I mean, did you see that dynamic? But noooooo, gotta keep it strictly BL. I even knew it was coming, but my heart still broke, QAQ. But seriously though, a second BL side couple, too (music boy and SQG) ? Women exist, y'know. Two, maybe three (oh, the irony), are even in your group!

Eight thousand thousand people entered this world, and no one even got close to leaving.

The adoration of the author towards the main leads reached new, annoying heights. Every triumph is described twice (in literal sequential paragraphs that say the same thing with different wording), and every fault is ignored.

The suspense wore off. The very last level helped a bit, but the middle was a lost cause because...

I have no problem with author skipping/speeding through rooms like 5-7 that was fine. But after the 8s, the 9s was really much easier than 8s! Then you give me basically skips for 10s, Js, Qs, Ks, doing 4 in 1 x3 and skip a whole row card? I am like there's a point to being lazy here, I was looking forward to more players confrontation and these guilds coming together and do something major. In the end nah they can just be abandoned together. I find it tough to read after the 9s started. I find more copy and paste from medical terms to history from the past making up chapters and chapters in the middle of the novel. Literally I lost in interest before it returning in the Jokers rooms. The thrill was lost for quite a while, characters interactions dropped. We were focus to do these very boring 4 in 1 rooms, with same scenarios. The author lost her patience after the 8s and start just speed up however she can, even alot of things were left unexplained. Girl what are the keepers origins, what happen to those other challengers, what happen to some people we know.. And other sorts. I was very not satisfied at this point. Sigh it could've went way better in my opinion. Author just want to spped up because I think she ran out of patience.

I thought I would hate the real world pairing as they had gone back 3 years, and YQ was now 16 years old! But, I don't hate it. I don't know why? SQ obviously and intentionally groomed YQ (usually always icky), but I honestly wasn't mad at him. He fell in love with him when he was of age in the Card World, and he wasn't about to let his treasure get away from him after surviving so much. So I get it.