Yes. YES to the complicated emotion XL has for his father. I really like the fact that though he understood his reasons, he also knows that XC can be a good person but not a good father/ husband.

Side characters are A++++

The Wang Brothers!!!

And many, many more.

The MC never been in love before (I'm pretty sure) because of poverty so he's always busy working (he has lots of odd jobs that allowed him to learned weird skills) and studying. That's why he's a bit ignorant (?) of his feelings.

While the ML is probably not human, he lost his 'body' parts and have to find it in some instances. Everytime he got his parts back he will be more powerful or even recieve some of his memories back.

The game kinda has less gameplay. Even a rookie player, they only have to play once a week. As for a senior player, they only required to play the game once every half year.

So the MC timeline is kinda fast. In a few ch, 2 years ady past. This because MC rarely voluntary entered a copy.

though he does skip through the levels extremely fast; going from newbie to middle-tier in just a few games and then from middle to advanced in something like three games. Also, he has the very OP ML who is also a total workaround to his poverty requirement. Even though the ML is technically the MCs prop at the start he makes tons of money irl and it never affects the MCs poverty skill.

Kaleidoscope of Death has a lot of complicated twist in their story, but at the same time the story itself has a very obvious weakness, this can be seen from how the author describes characters (other than the main character and several core side characters), where often they are only described as passing characters that are not important, when in fact many of them have quite crucial posistion for MC life, for example like MC's comrades who are on the same team (other than the "brothers" character)

While for "I Rely On Poverty To Sweep Through Survival Games" they doesn't have a realy big twist in the story, but almost all the characters related to MC have a clearer background and have more clearer explanations until the end (of course this does not include all the characters that MC meets, because after all it is impossible to telling everyone's story... it's more like that all the characters who take on the role in the MC's life is all get the right scene) Besides that, the thing that makes this story more prominent in terms of characters is because each character has decisions and depictions that are truly different.

Fugui was initially portrayed as a goofball character who was obsessed with MC, she also created an organization with MC as role model, which later will be revealed that she was actually a very smart person and the reason she created an organization with MC as role model is to prevent people from becoming discouraged.

At the end of the story when faced with the choice of staying or leaving the advent world, Fugui finally chooses to stay and continue his adventures in the advent world which is contrary to the goals of the group she created... This makes her unpredictable and big-spirited character increasingly clear, because this indicating that it meant that the reason she created the group was purely because she wanted to help the desperate people who lost hope at the advent world.

She is one of the first characters that the MC meets in the advent world... At first she is described as a kind-hearted naive girl, but she will continue to grow and eventually chooses to continue her adventure in the advent world.

Personally he's my favorite character in the story.

The reason he's in the advent world itself hasn't changed from beginning to end. It was because of his obsession and love towards his boyfriend (Cen Wei).

His goal when he first appeared in the advent world was to bring his death boyfriend a life again, but after learning that it was impossible to bring someone to death to a life through items, he became obsessed with killing wanted criminals who was the cause of his boyfriend death... before finally regaining hope again after the reform of the advent world by MC and ML (and of course the other reason was because he still won't let go all wanted criminals in the advent world lol).

Last, this is my favorite dialogue that his have in this story...

*There may only be one corpse in this grave, but there are souls of two people in it.*

*Someone died in a murder that year, and at the same time someone also buried his heart with his death.*

Wu Ting is a character who likes to play crossdressing, he is actually one of the characters who is quite closely connected to the MC, but different from the others he has a surprising choice... he chooses to pursue his dream without an advent world (his dream is to become a female anchor first line (???) to be honest I don't really understand, maybe it can be means being the best crossdresser that beats all women's beauty).

He is a character who has Schizophrenia (actually rather then schizopherenia it's more like he has an imaginary friend), and between choosing to stay or leaving the advent world, he prefers to stay because only in the advent world that he can he make his Imagination friend which is Feng Sheng become a real.

They are one of the characters who have the vibe most similar to the two brothers in Kaleidoscope of death... after all these two are also portrayed in the same circumstances, they are both brothers with very strong feelings.

But unlike how the two brothers in the kaleidoscope of death ended, the youngest of the brothers here (Wang Taidi) managed to stand alone and was even able to support his brother.

In the end, it's not really clear whether they stay or leave the advent world, it was said that if it was in the past when Wang Taidi was weak, then Wang Ke would definitely choose to leave the advent world.

But now that Wang Taidi has become strong and can even support his brother, Wang Ke finally becomes hesitant.

In the end Wang Taidi finally advises his brother to wait and see what happens in the future before they deciding whether they will stay or leave the advent world (But for me it's more like they've chosen to stay and fight in the advent world).

Well I think it's clear that Cheng Wenyi will stay because after all his goal is to get out of the control of the advent world not to leave the advent world... what really surprised me was how Mu Yang past was told.

It's told that he came from an orphanage and lived a very poor life, besides that it was even said that he was even r*ped by people in advent world before finally being saved by Cheng Wenyi (actually I don't know if this is a translation error or not, but the direct translation of the raw version of this story itself is actually very good so the possibility of a translation error is very small).

I just fell in love with how the author draws MC father was "failed as a father" but at the same time also portrayed as a leader that many people rely on.

As for MC mother, she just a character with a perfect portrayal, she is caring, she loving, but at the same time she is also intelligent and can educate her children.

Zhang Dong vs Madam Bella (actually it's not even a fight, Madam Bella just slap him before he lose lol).

Gu Mo (She come after Zhang Dong get slapped) vs Madam Bella.

The couple at Subway station 13 vs The member of Apartement 404.

Mrs Hongyue and her daughter Adeline vs Yin.

The Owner of Pavilion Mingyue (Crow) vs All the ghosts from Endymion

Absolute slowburn. The romance begins to show up at ch134. While it sometimes shows up (MC heart rate speeds up, ML obviously interested in him, etc..) that chapter is when they both mutually starts to acknowledge each other as a love interest (someone to maybe pursue although not outright a, "yeah I want this person to be my boyfriend") instead it being a one-sided thing (with the ML loving the MC). It's satisfying enough for me though as they're slowly building up their relationship. However, their first technical meeting is when the MC's 15yo and the ML has take a (platonic but weird, in a you find a strange animal on the road and to I want to raise it type) interest in him. Makes me lowkey uncomfortable but yeah. They never really meet again after that so it isn't bad but just weird imo.