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I’m Really Not The Demon God’s Lackey
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Rating(4.4 / 5.0, 672 votes)
5 | 69% (461 votes) |
4 | 15% (103 votes) |
3 | 8% (54 votes) |
2 | 3% (23 votes) |
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2020
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Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
456 Chapters (Complete)
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Completely Translated
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Weekly Rank: #1534Monthly Rank: #951
All Time Rank: #142
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On 10064 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #444
All Time Rank: #315
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Lin Jie is the owner of a bookstore in another world.
He’s kind and warm-hearted, often recommending healing books to customers who are going through a tough time. From time to time, he secretly promotes his own work too.
Over time, these customers begin to respect him greatly, some even frequently bringing local specialties to repay his favor. They often seek his professional opinion when it comes to selecting books, and share their experiences with this ordinary bookstore owner to people around them.
They respectfully and intimately refer to him using names such as the “Demon God’s Lackey”, “Propagator of the Flesh and Blood Gospel”, “ ‘Corpse Devouring Sect’s Rites and Customs’ Author” and “Shepherd of the Stars”.
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Associated Names
One entry per lineIRNDGL
I’m Really Not the Evil God's Lackey
我真不是邪神走狗
I’m Really Not the Evil God's Lackey
我真不是邪神走狗
Related Series
N/ARecommendations
What, Failure to Transition!?……Success!? (LN) (7)To Be a Power in the Shadows! (WN) (7)
I Really Am Not The Lord of Demon (6)
Black Tech Internet Cafe System (6)
Lord of the Mysteries (6)
The Ruler Of Darkness (4)
Recommendation Lists
- What I like, you may like(?)(random ver)
- Notable (to Recommend)
- Fantasy, no romance (yet) novels
- Misunderstanding/Comedy Enthusiast
- Summery seems interesting
Latest Release
Date | Group | Release |
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03/01/23 | Hosted Novel | c396 |
02/27/23 | Hosted Novel | c395 |
02/26/23 | Hosted Novel | c394 |
02/24/23 | Hosted Novel | c393 |
02/22/23 | Hosted Novel | c392 |
02/20/23 | Hosted Novel | c391 |
02/19/23 | Hosted Novel | c390 |
02/17/23 | Hosted Novel | c389 |
02/15/23 | Hosted Novel | c388 |
02/13/23 | Hosted Novel | c387 |
02/12/23 | Hosted Novel | c386 |
02/10/23 | Hosted Novel | c385 |
02/09/23 | Hosted Novel | c384 |
02/06/23 | Hosted Novel | c383 |
02/05/23 | Hosted Novel | c382 |
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Still, it's a decent binge read if you have nothing better to do. SUMMARY
An ordinary learned, hikikomori, modern young man Lin Jie randomly transmigrates into an odd-ball world of 80s-90s tech + witchery (you can totally see a copy of Lord of the Mysteries...). He's awarded a magical bookstore with unlimited books from his past world (likely from some demonic power and hence the novel title). These books somehow have different meaning to the world's residents, in most cases awarding them powers and epiphanies. MC passively bumbles through life with misunderstanding after misunderstanding, and is recognized by the world's powers as a powerful individual. COMMENTS (1) Nonsensical MC + Somewhat weak world building
Author woke up one morning and decided he REALLY wanted to write about a misunderstanding trope MC, but didn't have a clue about how to go about it.
The misunderstanding trope with MC gaining powers/recognition isn't new. It was successfully done in other novels, especially "To Be a Power in the Shadows" (TBPS). But TBPS had an ultra-chuunibyou MC Cid that proactively made it all work, as he has real personal strength while unknowingly stumbling upon a huge conspiracy that hardly anybody knew about. That aspect made Cid endearing to readers. In this novel, you have an older rational MC Lin Jie with no powers (until recently). Despite having lived for 3 YEARS in the new world, having done research into all local factional powers and government regulations, and knowing that his shop is magical, the MC somehow still has NO CLUE TO WTF IS GOING ON.
The scale of wars between factions is so large with entire neighborhoods/towns/cities being destroyed. Yet we're supposed to believe the entire world can be hoodwinked MIB style with "Memory" sigils (i.e. MIB Neuralyzer) and forget what happened. This world setting absolutely does NOT match up. It's impossible to suspend any disbelief. So you're left with the impression of an MC who is either willfully ignorant (he's such a loser hikikomori that he's clueless), or a complete dumbass. Neither of these are good impressions. (2) Boring, repetitive plot, with literal EXPOSITION
As of Chapter 60, it still consists of powerful people or civilians randomly interacting with MC as they enter his shop. I think I've counted 12-24 characters, depending on whether you count whole groups. So that's about 5 chapters per group, which is super short.
- the druid who setup his shop license
- the Silver Wolf woman + her minion (killed)
- the black magician Wilde
- Wilde's disciple + his minion (both killed)
- the elf
- the primordial witch (via a dream... in his shop)
- an entire party of bad faction black magicians (11+ ppl all killed?)
- the knight
- the knight's daughter
- some other faction investigator
- the knight's faction's investigator
- neighbor who runs tv shop or something
No humor, nothing whatsoever. Just chapter, after chapter, after chapter, after chapter, after chapter, of people walking into his shop, and then being blown away by how "amazing" MC is. Author is clearly trying to introduce a world of mystery with this narrative style, but you're afforded such a tiny glimpse of what's going on that it becomes a huge chore to read. You are literally reading exposition, where it's a bunch of people sitting around talking to/over each other and thinking different things.
Ugh. (3) Epic filler, just like Lord of the Mysteries
You can tell author just really wanted to copy Lord of the Mysteries, right down to the filler.
Here's a sample from C60.
Since this customer was being trampled on in the company to the point he considered himself a disposable tool, it meant that the psychological damage he suffered was severe. Therefore, taking on a different path and getting out was a better choice.
However, a career switch for a middle-aged person was something rather difficult and couldn't just be achieved with purely determination but money and means as well.
Most importantly, this customer needed to have no worries for the future.
However, from how quickly he had made his decision and said he knew that it was "very risky", that meant that the customer probably had some confidence.
To ensure that this new customer didn't leave as quickly as he came, Lin Jie felt that it was best to have some insurance.
Fortunately, young Miss Ji should be able to help a bit. At the very least, it could ensure that this customer before Lin Jie wouldn't be unemployed.
Ji Zhixiu's father controlled Rolle Resource Development, an enormous corporation that basically monopolized all resources and minerals in the lower city district, as well as being involved in nearly all aspects of Norzin.
The corporation's influence in Norzin was unbelievable.
This was a corporation that was omnipresent in every industry. Whether it was clothing, food, housing, transport, or any other trade, there would be the influence of this corporation as long as one was willing to do a little digging. At the very least, there hadn't been anything like this back on Earth.
Even though Lin Jie was an outsider who had only been in this world for three years, he had deeply experienced the influence of Rolle Resource Development.
Lin Jie would see the Rolle Resource Development's logo of a flight of descending stairs on at least half the stores whenever he went out to get food or groceries.
Even the CD and CD players sold in the audio store next door were manufactured by a company under the Rolle flag.
Perhaps, even the contents of these CDs were produced by artists in entertainment companies that Rolle Resource Development held a controlling stake in.
Lin Jie had once looked up Rolle Resource Development's history out of curiosity and discovered that the company had been established a very long time ago and that it had actually been an army that administered the Lower District prior to its establishment.
Some of its history was complicated and many records were already unreliable at this time. The head of Rolle Resource Development had already gone through many generations of change and even those in their internal department might not have a full understanding.
All in all, how Rolle Resource Development became a monopoly was basically due to the structure of the entire Norzin.
Norzin's Upper District was an artificial city constructed out of metal and was completely separated from the ground.
When viewing from above, the Upper District was just like a humongous sphere.
Norzin's land area was about the size of a province in Ancient China. Streets close to the Central District had their own names while the remaining roads and streets would be labeled with alphabets or numbers.
The 23rd Avenue where Lin Jie's bookstore was located was a numbered street that was still considered close to the Central District.
Then, there was the Lower District which referred to "below ground" and "ground transition zone".
From such a structure, it was obvious that the Upper District was basically artificial constructs where no natural resources existed.
The actual natural resources were entirely situated in the Lower District.
The Lower District was also where some inhabitants came into contact with the boundary of Azir—The Wall of Fog, and suffered from a strange plaque and affected their descendants.
For thousands of years, isolation was enforced for these people, resulting in an entirely different ecology in the Lower District and above ground.
Incidentally, the Church of Pestilence originated from the Lower District and was still the principal faith there.
This led to a complete separation between the Lower District and the upper ones.
Thus, certain specialized organizations emerged within the districts to help the Upper District mine for resources.
Over time, competition and annexation occurred between these organizations which finally resulted in the formation of a huge corporation, Rolle Resource Development.
Now, only this company held the sole right to act independently and operate in the Lower District.
Other resource companies needed to obtain approval from the Central District before being able to head to the Lower District to extract resources.
Of course, inhabitants of the Upper District could also apply to visit the Lower District, just that it requires many levels of approval as well as valid grounds for doing so.
Most of the time, those that went down were reporters or scholars and they needed to sign extremely complicated agreements before they started.
In any case, Rolle Resource Development was such a massive corporation and since Ji Zhixiu was the only daughter of the boss of this corporation and a lady of the upper class, it should be truly effortless for her to arrange a job.
"She should probably be able to help you out."
Congratulations on scrolling 860 words, just to know that MC was just THINKING about hooking up a bookstore customer with a female customer for a job.
There's repetitive info from earlier about the female customer's family owning a rich corporation. The only new info is 1 line describing Upper District being made out of metal and looking like a sphere. That's it.
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- Lin Jie - our MC - is a genuinely good person. He intends to scam his "clients". But always in a way that ultimately benefits them.
The Bad:-
- The misunderstandings risen from the above are more often than not a real stretch, needing a good amount of mental gymnastics from the reader to accept them.
The ugly: