Emotional ab*se and manipulative behavior and classic alienating techniques in the first world, extremely violent domestic and animal ab*se in the second world, gaslighting and manipulation in the third, non-detailed past r*pe (?), physical and emotional ab*se as well as possessive behavior in the fourth, and child ab*se and neglect, repeated and systemic s*xual ab*se towards minors by adults in position of authority (here by a teacher) in the tenth world. This also involves victim shaming of r*pe victims, especially of male victims.

061 (Lou Ying) / Chi Xiaochi. 061's original identity isn't a secret for long and is part of a deeper storyline, so you do find out early. Lou Ying is incredibly sweet, attentive, and patient with Chi Xiaochi. He is protective as well, but is staunchly respectful of CXC's individuality, never forgetting that he is his own person and never acting like a "jailer".

They have a happy ending, and the extras cover their post-canon sweetness. It's really helpful because the last arc will beat you black and blue.

Last world is a parallel world Chi Xiaochi, who committed su*cide at age 14-15 and accepted the contract as a host for a chance that his Lou-ge might live.

Here we get details on what actually happened: Lou Ying died pushed out of the window by a middle aged teacher who was attempting to mol*st 14 years old Chi Xiaochi. The man then set it up so that it looked as if Lou Ying attempted to rob him, and for months Chi Xiaochi attempted to reopen the case for proper investigation and failing. In reporting it daily, he had to reopen the scars of being mol*sted many times. Nobody believed him, so he took matters into his own hands, stalking the teacher and recording blackmail of him trying to lure other teenage boys, and eventually beat the man with an iron pipe when he almost r*ped another boy. At the hospital, he used the blackmail to stress the man to death.

Realizing that there's an unbearable void in his chest that he can never do anything about, Chi Xiaochi planned his own su*cide with the same care he planned that mu*der.

In this parallel world, Chi Xiaochi jumped.

In the original world, Chi Xiaochi remembered the blind yellow dog he and Lou Ying adopted, and then how there's nobody to sweep Lou Ying's grave....

And now they are here: host, and the man who will take revenge on the ab*ser who mu*dered his Lou-ge.

Lord God is big bad as*hole and tries very hard to make Chi Xiaochi not return to his own world-- when that fails, he tries to get him killed, then has him kill other people with his bare hands to forever stain him and make him unable to face the modern world.

Chi Xiaochi shows off his big d*ck energy and replaces him as the Lord God, and does his best to ensure all past victims, both hosts and systems, are given a second chance, as well as setting a system where systems can ask for best way to proceed to ensure humane conditions.

It's kind of cute how MC knocks himself out with a bunch of cards when he first realizes ML is in love with him because he's afraid of taking their relationship to the next level. He doesn't want to spoil the good thing they have together.

Self harm, su*cide, torture, PTSD, r*pe/gang r*pe, child r*pe, racism, blackmail/extortion, gore, animal ab*se, victim blaming, and domestic ab*se

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MC and ML visit the previous worlds to see how they're doing.

1st world - Cheng Yuan has become a successful singer. MC goes to watch his concert and leaves before the end because he can't handle it when people say "thank you" because it makes him feel awkward.

2nd world - Shen Changqing has moved to Melbourne and renamed his dog from Help to Hope. It is revealed that he's found love with the lawyer who helped him divorce his ab*ser. ?

3rd world - Dong Ge is a championship ice skater and is happy with his boyfriend. MC and ML watch one of his performances.

4th world - Ji Zuoshan says hello again to MC and ML, since Ji Zuoshan is a god and can go wherever he wants so he's met with MC and ML a few times already. They have some dinner together when the scum gong barges in to bug them. The scum gong in this world has been reformed and still pines after Ji Zuoshan but Ji Zuoshan is a strong independent man who don't need no man.

5th world - Song Chunyang and his system are living happily together where Song Chunyang works as a nurse while his boyfriend attends university.

6th world - Ding Qiuyun and his team are still busy rebuilding the world. His team has rebuilt the scum gong, Gu Xinzhi, into an android with his old memories intact. MC and ML have a chat with Ding Qiuyun and after they leave, Ding Qiuyun and Gu Xinzhi have s*x on a cliff top. ?

7th world - Duan Shu and Ye Jiming are having a happy reunion after Duan Shu has returned from his sect. They're in the middle of getting busy when MC and ML arrive, much to Ye Jiming's chagrin. MC and ML make like a tree and leave so the couple can get back to mermaid snake fun times.

8th world - Shi Tingyu has just returned from the countryside and is greeted by his lover, the Emperor, with a red carpet, red blossoms, everyone wearing red, almost like a wedding... All the officials think aww, the Emperor and Shi Tingyu have such a great childhood friendship. Since it's their first reunion in 3 years, MC and ML decide not to bother them and let them do the do while they... watch from the rooftops. ?

9th world - Bai Anyi's other personality can leave the body for up to 1 month now, and MC and ML have dinner with them while they try to guess which the original body is. Turns out to be really easy because Bai Anyi is right handed and the other is left handed. After MC and ML leave, Bai Anyi has s*x with himself in a room full of mirrors.

10th world - Young Chi Xiaochi is now a university basketball player in the Humanities department while Young Lou Ying is on the Graduate department track team. Chi Xiaochi's team asks him to sabotage Lou Ying for the upcoming championship between the two departments ("squeeze him dry") but Chi Xiaochi can't bear to tell them that they've never gone past hugging, hahaha. They have their first time that night. Later, when older Chi Xiaochi and older Lou Ying go to watch the championship, they find out what happened and muse "no wonder we didn't see him [young Chi Xiaochi] today."

Proposal - Lou Ying invites Chi Xiaochi to the same restaurant as their first missed appointment. Chi Xiaochi expects a ring, but instead of handing him a ring, Lou Ying gives him 15 peeled mangosteens because in the 2nd world he'd mentioned that he would marry anyone who peeled 15 mangosteens for him. The end.

I don't usually (actually I've never) write reviews. One because I never know what to say and two because I can never straighten out my thoughts enough to make it coherent. But I love this story so much I'm going to damn well try.

Firstly I want to preface this by saying there will be spoilers up to where I've currently read, which is c170 or the 7th world. You have been warned.

QWTFOD vs DPUBFTTB

It's been heavily compared among the other reviewers already, mostly because QWTFOD (which is an incorrect translation of the title FYI, the correct one would be something like 'Quick Transmigration as a Fierce, Face-slapping Devil') is known as the pioneer of QT novels here. So I'm going to be using it as the point of reference for this review. In my opinion, QWTFOD is quite shallow. It has shallow characters, shallow worldbuilding, shallow motivations, even the reveal on the Lord God's identity was bland. Characters in each arc never feel alive, they feel more like props there to move the plot along and to raise ZYS up to make him more badass, and honestly I couldn't care less about the ML. There's never a challenge too daunting that ZYS can't overcome with a wave of his hand or some magical hacker skills and I don't buy how he and the ML fall in love. The worlds never feel quite alive (hated the reality TV show arc and the musician arc was forgettable) and are filled with many unexplained/dumb parts that I won't go too deep into. A brief example is when he was in the A/B O world and omegas can apparently become like slightly weaker betas if they just cut out their scent gland - and you tell me not more omegas have done it? That ZYS is one of the first, if not the first to do it? Omegas choose to live with heats and potential r*pe simply because of what, they don't want to lose the ability to give birth? Like I said, dumb.

Before I digress too much into a rant about QWTFOD (not what we're here for) let's get into the true meat of this review, which is what DPUBFTTB (henceforth referred to as tr*sh BF) does better in each aspect. Firstly let's talk about characters.

We have Chi Xiaochi, our main character. He's quite similar in ZYS in that they're both portrayed as intelligent, cunning, sly characters who are always twenty steps ahead of those slag gongs and evil villains. What makes them different is that ZYS could literally not care less about other people besides the ML, case-in-point the last arc set in the 'real world' with the comatose General/Major/Sergeant/who cares. However, in CXC's case, he, s not like that. He genuinely takes his task seriously and doesn't only think about finishing his job ASAP so he can leave. He made plans to improve the hosts' lives so even after he leaves they won't suffer because of his actions or lack of foresight. Under his lackadaisical, devil-may-care attitude is a heart of gold that doesn't want these hosts whose lives and future are entrusted to him to go through what he went through. That alone puts him leaps and bounds ahead of ZYS. The side characters not being barely-smarter-than-a-grasshopper doesn't hurt either when it comes to showing off how he's a truly intelligent character.

Next, my favourite character, is the ML or System 061, Lou Ying. To keep things simple I'll just call him 061 because that's what he's referred to as for the majority of the novel. 061 is a rare gem in the pool of overbearing CEOs or yandere ML or pressuring-your-loved-one-into-being-with-you-is-romantic ML.

061 is gentle, he's kind, he's sweet and he's strong-willed but not pushy. He's protective but not overly, and he gets jealous but he doesn't go crazy and harm the MC like so many ML do; in fact, his idea of giving CXC the cold shoulder is cooking for him, taking care of him, reading to him at night so he can fall asleep, peeling oranges for him etc, the only difference between his normal behavioue and this is he doesn't take the initiative to start the conversation - because he's upset. It's kind of cute actually. He also tries not to let CXC worry and tries to act fine even when he's hurting, because he doesn't want to see CXC sad. First thing that comes to mind is in the apocalypse world overtaken by rogue AI a la Terminator, he's besieged by AI viruses sent to send him into eternal sleep (aka death) and his firewall's only holding up because he's doing high-speed analysis and reparations, Even so, he splits his attention to help CXC with something that he needs help with and doesn't even let a hint of the danger he's in slip out. If that isn't self-sacrificial love I don't know what is. And 061 as Lou Ying is just the ideal boyfriend, like, I need me a man like him who'd do anything, even be willing to die for me (sobs). Comparatively, the ML of QWTFOD is... a sex-hound? Overbearing? Black-bellied? A hollow imitation of a well-developed character? Not the most ideal partner I have to say. Who decided gentle MLs were out of fashion and that black-bellied ones were all the rage? I'd just like to have a short talk with them.

I won't comment on the Lord God plotline because it's so intricate and it still hasn't been fully revealed yet. I might edit this review once I finish reading.

Instead I'll talk about the world-building because it is gorgeous. The author likes to take standard cliched tropes and give a fresh twist to them. Like the A/B/O world where instead of being born as one of the three designations, everyone is a beta at birth until this ceremonial battle that's modeled after tournament-style elimination matches, where the winner takes the loser's spiritual energy and if you win enough times and collect enough energy, you become an alpha. Likewise, lose enough times and you become an omega. If you're somewhere in between, you stay a beta. Interesting, right? Did I mention every designation can give birth? Alphas, betas, omegas alike, regardless if they're male or female. In fact there's a GL alphaxalpha couple and I live for their cute interactions!

Have you ever thought about what happens if you pit two systems against each other? Or what if the system actively helps the MC in his tasks by taking on the role of different characters in each world? Or maybe even what if a character from a previous world can communicate with and actively help the MC even in different worlds? All this and more are beautifully and organically laid out in this novel.

I'll leave a warning here though. Because the worldbuilding is so detailed and thought-out, it rather realistically portrays many different types of unhealthy relationships without downplaying or glorifying them, which can make some arcs triggering/hard to read for some people.

I could go on forever about this novel but the enjoyment in reading a novel is experiencing the worlds it shows you, yourself. So I'll leave it off here and let you discover for yourself what makes this story so amazing.

a parallel world to CXC's original world, where the only difference so far is that in this world, CXC committed su*cide by jumping off a bridge while in our CXC's world, he decided against jumping at the last moment. This arc goes into their past and why CXC has touch-phobia, why he's an insomniac, what happened to Lou Ying and why 061 got formatted to begin with, as well as many more revelations about the Lord God. If you haven't realised by now, yes, the host this time is a parallel version of Chi Xiaochi himself.

made the ML the system. if ML was like MC and became a normal 'player',

the ML as literal data.

There are various system governed by different "God" (serves as warden, forgot the right term).

Aside from other worlds, parallel worlds also exist.

I really hate slag male on system vs system arc. I could slightly emphatize with the previous worlds' slag MLs. However, the slag male in system vs system arc is really greedy, ruthless and shameless

parallel world of Xiaochi in which his past was divulge