Die, Replay, Repeat

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Suddenly pulled into a world filled with Specters, Fang Xiu woke up with a unique ability: Reset. Every time he died, time would rewind to the moment before he was killed.

In this strange and dangerous world, Fang Xiu could have chosen to hide. Instead he announced to the world, “Yes, I’m a prophet. I can see the future!” As his predictions kept coming true, his title of the Prophet spread around the world.

His words became the truth. They became the future.

“I have seen the future,” he announced, attracting people from all around the world.

His followers took it to the extreme, declaring, “Should the Prophet decree your demise one day, don’t waver, don’t question, just obey. For hesitance only leads to a far graver fate.”

During a B-level Specter event, known as [the Spawning]

A teammate warned, “The creature is hiding among these villagers. We need to be careful.”

Fang Xiu pointed to the last row and commanded, “The one in white. Yes, you. Come out!”

In an A-level Specter event, called [Lantern Heads]

One teammate warned, “This area is crawling with thousands of Lantern Heads. If they shine their light on you, your head will fall off. The scariest part is the Lantern Heads float unpredictably. It’s impossible for anyone to get across safely. Wait, where’s Fang Xiu?”

Another stuttered, “He, he…he’s on the other side!”

The first teammate exclaimed in disbelief, “What?! How did he get across?”

The other replied: “He…he just walked over.”

Associated Names
One entry per line
Hard to Kill Strange? Sorry, I'm Immortal
Strange Beings That Hard to Kill? Sorry, I Am the Real Unkillable One
Weird and Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Real Immortal
诡异难杀?抱歉,我才是真正不死
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15 Reviews


yugmodnar
yugmodnar
Oct 10, 2023
Status: c102
Good but not great. The introductory chapters paint a gorgeous picture of this bizarre horror/mystery world that gets forgotten about shortly after the first arc ends. The author eventually leans more into 'edgy protagonist' cringe and rampant misogyny.

More on the misogyny: Not one single female character in this novel is portrayed positively by the author. The insane protagonists reasonable hatred/fear of beautiful women turns into author incel-esq descriptions of every woman. I’ll likely be dropping this soon just due to how the author is recently using the MC in deeply... more>> disturbing ways to humiliate and degrade women. <<less
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nainaitou
nainaitou
Sep 27, 2023
Status: c144
MC is insane. cold blooded and absolutely raving mad. he kills people without consideration because he 'resets' everything when he dies.

don't read if you're a fan of 'oh, the timelines split whenever so-and-so goes back in time'. if that were the case, many of his 'past lives' would doom the world to despair through his actions and you'd feel horrible for the people he's (indirectly) pitted. I like multiple timeline theory but stick to one to get through this story.

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tbh, I kinda love him. he literally lives for the sake of killing his 'wife' and has pulled through with only spite and vengeance.

he awakens a power through hatred and wanting everything in the world to feel the same pain he does. relatable. I feel like many die, rebirth stories have the main character be too chill about their deaths, often thinking about the next reset like deciding breakfast cereals. FX also thinks of his rebirth as a solution, but doesn't like turning to it much unless it's inevitable.

zhao hao is a hoot. his power is basically wet dreams? spectres are scared of his horniness hahahaha

also, the title in chinese is really... how should I put this, op MC harem-esque.

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i like the kid in the first few chapters. all the children are accurate to real life children. (i may be exaggerating a bit)

edit: chapter 200

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NVM MC IS CRAZY IGNORE WHAT I SAID ABOUT PRESERVING HIS LIFE

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RedPlays
RedPlays
Feb 09, 2024
Status: c96
First of all Noobao's non-spoiler review is fine but don't believe his nonsensical spoiler review as yugmondar has a point.

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"Yug review is nonsensical. Shen Lingxue since beforehand has been recognized as a superior female character to the group during the village arc, she helped stall for time against the ghost, was useful against controlled enemies, followed the MC instructions and silently choose to let him take the leadership away from her in recognition of his greater capabilities, despite being arrogant and moody due to the way spiritual powers works in this series. But yeah sure, that's not a positive depiction dude, the author is such an incel amiright?

It's very, very funny. You'll see the MC literally torturing one of his enemies (who is a male character btw) teared to pieces and throw into a meat grinder to be feed to the dogs and no issue is raised with it. But when a female turns into the enemy and gets the same treatment he's now a incel? Stfu." - Noobao

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This is what I want to clarify with this nonsense Noobao made

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She was but that was a small part of the larger female cast where just about every psychic female is depicted more negatively than their male counterparts. What supports Yugmandor's review is chapter 94-95 where the author just started putting his power fantasy and changing the MC to torture Shen Lingxue.

The main problem is with Shen Lingxue as all the female enemies that the MC tortured or killed is fine. But this was not fine. He became more edgy and out of character cause Shen Lingxue started blaming him and being annoying. Before Blackwater and even during blackwater the MC would have just knocked her out before not giving a f*ck with what she did as she wasn't even being an enemy just annoying. But during this chapter he started torturing her treating her like a specter and even said that weird worship shit. It was obvious those chapters were the author's disguised venting chapters.

This quote from the MC supports my complaint "From today, you will worship me as a god!". No way he would say this sh*t even to his enemies, especially with what she did. The way the chapter happened was pure frustration from the author even the translator thought so.

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Mazikennedy you never read the chapters they would be complaning about with chapter 58. Him being cold so Su Kexin is fine and fits with his character.
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Him being mad at that silver haired enemy for reminding him of his wife and so torturing her and killing her fits with his character

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but what he did in chapter 94-95 was out of character. I just hope this stuff doesn't reappear

All in all the MC isn't a misogynist but the author does have some questionable writting decisions especially chapter 94-95. <<less
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Meloonseed
Meloonseed
Nov 02, 2023
Status: c150
Enjoyable read the first hundred chapters. But the protagonist becomes fully an OP psychopath at a point and then there is no more tension. There is no consequence to any of his actions at a point. I'm kind of curious about his wife's existence but I don't have the time or patience to sit 10 hours reading brainrotting mtl. This was a good exploration of a lot of horror concepts though -also would not consider him a misogynist at all. I thought it was going that direction too but he... more>> has a disregard for men and women equally. He's simply a non feeling being who has no qualms about doing anything possible inflict pain on a specific group of beings.

The author should write shorter stories. A lot of the horror concepts could be cool as isolated stories but the CN webnovel insistence on shounen power scaling and OP protagonists just does not work here. Psychological genres and power creep just do not mix, really. <<less
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TurdFerguson777
TurdFerguson
Sep 27, 2023
Status: c140
it's pretty interesting, MC can go back in time to a certain important 'save point' which changes as the story progresses. The plot is pretty unique, it's not necessarily scary even though there are 'ghosts'. It's pretty fun too read and can be funny as well, I just dropped for a while because I realise that the MC is not that interesting, but i'll probably pick it up again.

i'd give it a 4.5/5.
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iNoveltranslation
iNoveltransl
Aug 07, 2023
Status: c20
Pretty intense and interesting novel till what I have read. Like how the MC is turning out so far in his situation.

Looking forward to how it turns out.
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Underwater_fish
Underwater_f
Aug 17, 2024
Status: --
I like it alot, its very entertaining and has excellent world building. But its also kinda weirdly misogynistic, but in the funniest way possible almost?

Like there's this one part where a specter is eating a woman alive, and the MC is like 'don't worry, we got plenty of time. The Specter's distracted with eating her, and she low-key thick so it should take the specter some time to eat her.' So he runs off, but suddenly the Specter catches up to the MC, and the MC is confused cuz the... more>> Specter couldn't have eaten the woman that fast cuz remember, she THICC. And he looks over at the woman's bloody body and sees two silicone implants laying on her body.... SHE GOT THE FAKE TTS😭😭. So she actually didn't have much meat on her as it turns out, so the Specter ate through her real quick. And mid fight the protagonist thinks, verbatim, "He never thought he'd mess up like this. Maybe because he didn't know much about girls and thought they all had natural curves. But now he saw there were plenty of fakes in the world."

So basically, cuz the woman actually had fake titties, she had less meat on her then he originally thought, so he miscalculated and the monster ate her quickly and caught up to them.👀😬 And when I tell u, I audibly laughed, like LAMOOOO, that's so outta pocket wtf😭. And then he gotta shame the dead woman for it? like what does blud got against fake tt's anyway?💀😭.

And I cant even tell if its meant to be funny or not. Like I'm not even offended, that's genuinely so funny, it had me DEAD💀. And there's other moments like this scattered in the novel, that are so outta pocket as well

Like there was another moment where, in order for this dude to protect himself from the hypnotism, he had to watch corn🍆 or something. I'm not even quite sure, I was a bit confused. But in the end, in order for him to defeat this zombie girl that showed up, the corn dude had to Gr*pe HER.😭😭😭and basically humiliated her until she left. (Or at least thats how the MC explained it) BUT YEP, BROSKI F-KED A ZOMBIE CHICK.😭

SO THE DUDE LITERALLY GRAPED A ZOMBIE GIRL, and his justification is pretty much, 'well I'm a virg*n, so I deserve to act on my desires". And the protagonist was like 'welp, u almost died, so I guess that's fair'. Like that's some crazy logic ma dude😭😭

AND DOUBLE WHAMMY.

THE ZOMBIE CHICK THAT GOT GRAPED BY THE virg*n WAS ALSO THE FAKE TT'S GIRL WHO GOT EATEN ALIVE AND SHAMED FOR HAVING FAKE TT'S. LIKE LET MA GIRL REST ALREADY😭😭

So like, is it misogynistic? Yes. Do I take offense? No. It's literally comedic gold, it had me cackling on the floor.

BUT WAIT, THERES MORE😭😭

the dude who graped the fake tts zombie chick got some magical dick🍆 power from it. I mean that literally, all psychics get a special ability when they encounter a Spector, his is his 𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵 𝓬🍆𝓬𝓴

💃 🧚✨ 🍆 ✨ 🧚 🪄 <<less
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Noobao
Noobao
Feb 05, 2024
Status: c110
First of all.

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Yug review is nonsensical. Shen Lingxue since beforehand has been recognized as a superior female character to the group during the village arc, she helped stall for time against the ghost, was useful against controlled enemies, followed the MC instructions and silently choose to let him take the leadership away from her in recognition of his greater capabilities, despite being arrogant and moody due to the way spiritual powers works in this series. But yeah sure, that's not a positive depiction dude, the author is such an incel amiright?

It's very, very funny. You'll see the MC literally torturing one of his enemies (who is a male character btw) teared to pieces and throw into a meat grinder to be feed to the dogs and no issue is raised with it. But when a female turns into the enemy and gets the same treatment he's now a incel? stfu.

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Regarding RedPlays review. I'm not being nonsensical at all. Though I have to agree with you that the writing decision you're talking about is questionable.

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Insofar there were 2 female psychics who were show as villains, first it was one who lacked retrospective and was lonely, and thus wanted a friend to stay with her forever and accidentally drove her to death, causing her to be possessed by an specter and causing a genocide to those who she believed to be responsible. The second one was literally mind-broken by ab*sers which justified her bad personality. All female villainous characters had a small and quick reason to be as bad as they were and imo they weren't even that bad, compare this to Lin ziyang who was a psychotic serial killer that tortures people and feeds them to dogs... Because? You didn't even provide examples of how bad they're depicted compared to the male villains of the franchise, heck, if we compare the good guys side. Shen is better depicted than the other male psychics, the fatass was a useless pe*vert whose only utility was letting blood flow to activate an item because he was useless, and the MC friend is an annoying pe*vert 99% of the time that can't stop being h**ny because that's his character.

Also you're very, very clearly having a fundamental misunderstanding of MC character, the novel didn't do a good work of showing who he truly is early on because his madness was limited to his enemies, which made his actions give the impression that he's rational, but no, he isn't; he is very much crazy, insane, petty and trigger happy (remember, he was willing to kill that young master before he did anything to him because he was talking mad sh*t and was implying MC doesn't know about specters or how frightening they are at all, he 100% meant it) this aspect of the MC will be very apparent and clear the more you read the novel. You're only saying his actions don't make sense for him because you've finished chapter 96 fresh, read more.

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Now, regarding chapter 94-96 which will be controversial and will certainly make some people drop the novel.

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People are unhappy because Shen Lingxue situation at chapter 94-96 kinda came out of nowhere due to the author poor planning, lack of foreshadowing and because she truly, didn't deserve anything that happened to her. She was made into a scapegoat to showcase the MC madness.

Can someone who just vented at a relative death deserve to be reminded of her hypothetical failures and lose them again, again, and again and be tortured with the guilt? They clearly don't.

The problem? She vented to the wrong person, yeah underachiever, go and say to the person that got tortured, maimed and disemboweled multiple times by specters that it's his fault innocent people died and that he should have tried better as if he's not putting any effort at all on his job even after he just had to die multiple times, just after he completed a major mission. Surely this very sane person with common sense won't retaliate right?

MC action was completely in-character, what is at fault is the author amateur writing, he lacked exposition for this part of MC's personality which made his actions during 94-96 seem like it came out of nowhere, it was a very poor way to do an exposition of this side of the MC's character..

That's all.

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Now, about the novel itself.

The good; regarding the world itself, there's a pretty interesting foundation with it but what's truly interesting is the main-character, he's insane due to the loops and won't stop at anything to deal with his enemies, as well as being highly efficient about it.

It's like Subaru, if he was a bit more realistic after dying for the thousandth time and wasn't annoying or dumb, the MC's psychopathy allows for very interesting solutions for the troubles the scenario provides and I quite like it

The bad; if you want story where the MC bounds or develops a character with emotional bonds or blablabla, you won't get it, the MC's character has been formed from the start of the novel, you won't see development from him in this regard, I prefer the novel as it is actually is but I can understand if this is a deal breaker to some.

The worst thing about this work is how it handles powerscaling. It makes sense when the MC can loop between time and choose the optimal outcome to his troubles, but the main character does get strong too fast, which takes away from the thriller setting. It's why I've reduced one star as of now. <<less
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manzikennedy
manzikennedy
Nov 19, 2023
Status: c58
It’s truly interesting. A story about a guy going through trauma without end, and not even having a choice of killing himself while the source of his despair dresses up as a something beautiful makes you feel sad for the MC. It puts into perspective how he doesn’t just go crazy and have a meltdown every second.

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As for the comments about how the MC is edgy and misogynistic and whatnot, they truly lack empathy for the MC and only about their emotions being hurt. He was never attacked while in a room or chilling but only in his freakin bathroom with his pants down, and he ended up being torn from limb to limb therefore the last thing on his mind is caring about women and their feelings. Add to the that the fact that he has to avoid eye contact with these monstrosities every waking moment of his life, which gives him no time to heal and reflect. It’s almost like torture p*rn if you think about it.

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It leaves you invested on how he’s going to treat his enemies and whether he’s “curable” in the future <<less
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300_s
300_s
Feb 03, 2025
Status: c305
The worldbuilding and mystery aspects of the story are pretty cool, but characters felt pretty flat outside of Edgelord MC. Would've rated it slightly higher if it weren't for the story starting to turn into Chinese nationalism.

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I'm mainly dropping this (and writing this review) because Edgelord MC became Annoying Nationalistic Edgelord MC at around chapter 297. He also establishes a dictatorship and is glorified by everyone a few chapters prior, typical ccp brainrot. I don't have many complaints anywhere else though.

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There are plenty of stories that are just as good, and don't get annoying by riding the CCP's d*ck and going "Everyone in the world is against China!!! But we are the best and we will show them!!!! Dictatorships are cool and sigma!!!!"

Don't bother reading this one. <<less
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Ixcez
Ixcez
Apr 27, 2024
Status: c935
This is a story I'm a bit torn on because I liked the first part and it's premise. Basically in the first part it's a story focused around the MC living in a world invaded by the supernatural where he awakens powers and fights against them but at least from the start he's not super powerful and instead because of his ability to die and regress to then try again he can overcome the impossible.

Overall the story is a cultivation story but with a different kind of cultivation and instead... more>> of just having the MC one-punch everything most of the supernatural enemies had special powers or weaknesses the MC had to discover to beat them and he was pretty much always the underdog.

In what I'd probably call the 2nd part the story switches to become a common cultivation story where the MC is just growing stronger and stronger while beating everyone up easily while face slapping anyone who looks his way. The author also introduces more and more women who all are crazy about the MC and eventually he seemingly always has one by his side and it's even starting to take on harem tropes.

Personal take is that the story is around a 4 on the first part and around 3 for the 2nd part. The thing is though that the 2nd part starts from around ch 220ish and is still ongoing when the story is about to hit 1000 chapters. So I'd only recommend reading up to around ch 200 and then dropping the story if you wanna read what it starts out. <<less
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jack360
jack360
Dec 31, 2024
Status: Completed
The premise is good, interesting read. But it has a twisted ending??

Overall it feels like some one thought up a good story premise, then thrown in some nationailism, then forced some side female characters to fall for the MC because he is MC, then completely skips or avoids any romantic developements which feels like very forced. Probably because the popularity was dropping, so some side chicks were added, then remembered, ah! This is not a romantic story, so no to romantic developement, full stop. Lastly, was kicked in the... more>> back by the audience so for revenge, ended story abruptly in 5 chapters and introduced a twisted ending.

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There are multiple worlds in the universe and each world has an root account/admin, ie, Heavenly Dao (HD). A drop of devil/evil/polluted blood of higher level than HD and the world fell in the story's world which caused the HD to get polluted. So HD divided herself into Good HD and Bad/Evil/Polluted HD. The Bad HD is weak and was sealed by Good HD, but while sealed, the Bad HD absorbed all evils in the world to grow stronger. This caused the world to get more polluted till most of it was polluted.

MC is a random character chosen by Good HD from a random world as outside/external intervention into Good vs Bad HD fight. Because he is an outsider to the world and MC so anything goes/cheats explanation, given by HD.

The world runs in a loop, from the MC's transmigration. The ghost wife is Bad HD and she kills the MC multiple times to make him hate her. As long as there is evil in the world she cannot be killed. Hate is also evil. If the all of the living is dead till there is only MC and the wife is in the world, which does happen. If MC does not let go of his hate, the wife cannot be killed, which MC cannot do. The devil blood cannot be destroyed/let go by the wife, which is her source, as she wants to continue relationship with MC. So MC resets the world to his transmigration every time and erases all his memories of events to let go of his hate and hope for a different variation. Try infinite times and some different favourable outcome may happen. The story ends with MC resetting and beginning another loop with erased memories.

At first the wife was a stranger and wanted to end MC but over infinite loops she fell for MC as he is the only one left in the world. He becomes the strongest and Good HD gives up her authority to MC and dissappears/dies for MC vs wife fight.

The world is divided into Human, Heaven and Underworld/Earth realms. The top forces are divided into East and West camps. All reams gets destroyed by east vs west fight as the west surrenders to Bad HD. Only earth of human realm is left livable and some livable pieces of heaven realm which was stiched together into a place called nine states. These are the only two places where humans can live. All high level characters of west is trapped in the underworld by all east high level characters. They are both together in the underworld fighting each other in endless war. Low level characters remaining are placed in nine states and lowest level mortals in earth. Human realm is completely polluted so earth was brought up to heaven realm. Levels up to 5 can be achieved in earth and for higher one has to go outside in the polluted heaven realm or to nine states. Earth is sinking more and more into the human realm hence more frequent invasions from the polluted.

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memetichazard
memetichazar
Apr 22, 2025
Status: c100
The story showed promise at first but then started to get weird and I've decided to drop it at 100 chapters.

I was looking for good supernatural/horror settings in the style of LotM, My House of Horrors, Dorothy's Forbidden Grimoire, Miss Witch's Speedrun, etc. This started in a similar way but quickly lost my interest.

I'll note first of all that I wouldn't label the author as misogynistic. The MC likely is due to trauma, but just because there's no good female characters doesn't really mean anything because there's no good male... more>> characters either. Everyone's a f*ck up in this story, the MC in particular.

The MC initially comes off as a cold calculating character but it's revealed in the latter half of the first hundred chapters that he's even more deranged than the other psychics, he's just better at hiding it. To a certain degree, it's not his fault because he's been contaminated by the specters, but either way it's not pleasant to read - either this is a psychopath MC or this is an MC with reduced agency dragged around by his inner psychopath, and regardless of which is the case I don't really care for it.

The biggest problem with this series is that the charm of these stories typically has the MC punch up, fighting off stronger enemies and glossing over weaker ones. Here, the MC starts off truly invincible with his quickload powers, and though the earlier chapters are interesting as he faces stronger opponents, he quickly accumulates multiple powers and starts punching down instead.

There's some hint that he might start facing off against stronger enemies in a couple more arcs, but at this point he's already turned into a Gary Stu - he's OP and can't lose, he's a cool collected edgelord except when he wants to be the psychopath, and there's no way for him to lose. He doesn't seen to care about anyone that he could 'lose' by having a friend die. If he fails to win sufficiently he can just try again.

3 stars for a good strong start, but I'd probably rate it lower if I read another 100 chapters of this, given some of the spoilers in other reviews. <<less
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Zimo
Zimo
Apr 21, 2025
Status: Completed
So, its So so. It was going kinda well.

But personally I don't like How author went to Mythological Shits.

Gods, faiths. And Stuff. And lastly The Revenge.

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Sorry there is no revenge. MC is Trapped in this endless Time loop. The Wife is Heavenly Dao.

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Meta0202
Meta0202
May 07, 2024
Status: c265
The more you read, the more you start to get dumb. I haven't seen a misogynist anywhere, everything is fine, it's just that there are touchy people in the reviews who immediately take offense when they see a ghost woman. Only there is unnecessary chatter, a lot of water and a lot of information garbage. The main character can be said to be a man who doesn't care what he does, he can also reboot. That's all
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