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Old Wang Doesn’t Want to be Tragic
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183 Chapters
(161 Main Story + 22 Extras)
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Only after Wang Zhao Mou’s death did he find out that he was just a supporting male character in a Mary Su book.

Wang’s group, which he had worked hard for more than twenty years, went bankrupt overnight. Only because of the one sentence that the male protagonist said, “It’s getting cold. It’s time to let the Wang Group go bankrupt”.

Outrageous!!!

When Wang Zhao Mou woke up again, he found that he had returned to twenty years ago. He was half-drunk and was in a depressing mood. When he came out of the bar, he saw a young man holding a knife standing on the road.

While he was drunk, a strong desire to survive suddenly broke out. Wang Zhao Mou didn’t care about others and directly went to hug the teenager’s long legs, and cried out, “Boss! No…Acquisition…”

After sobering up, Wang Zhao Mou found out that the handsome teenager whose thighs he wrongly held was wearing an apron and holding a big knife to diligently open the durian.

The young man was clearly homeless and had yet to recognize his ancestors and inherit the family business!

At this moment, the young President Leng was being carried by his father behind his back, wiping tears pitifully and reaching out to him for help.

Looking at President Leng’s father’s red ears and dodging eyes, Wang Zhao Mou showed a perfect smile. Meanwhile, looking at the tearful child, he was happily thinking, “Boy…You also have today!”

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老王不想凉［重生］
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8 Reviews


Joy45h
Joy45h
May 16, 2022
Status: --
I really liked this novel !

But I would recommend reading the first 20 ch and then start reading from ch 70. The mid chapters are tidbits about their daily life, those are cute too, but the real plot starts from ch 70.

This is a slow burn romance novel. I didn't know the MC liked the ML till he kissed him in ch 90. MC actually acts his age, a mature and elegant man. I liked his complex character, secretly caring about his family and he's surprisingly scheming, he's not the... more>> type to easily forgive those who aggrieve him.

Even the ori!ML (the baby - reborn) was not entirely forgiven by him. Even though he takes care of him, he's slightly hostile towards him till the end. I like that the ori!ML wasn't whitewashed either. (Don't pity him, he's quite a s*um in the extras, an incredibly foolish and selfish guy)
Spoiler

according to the deal with MC, he lives the family and sets up his own business and unsurprisingly goes bankrupt. Later he starts working as a waiter and meets his wife from the previous life (he cheated on her with his crush) and asks the ML to arrange a marriage between them and gets rejected by both MC and ml. And so he starts repenting.

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The families are quite realistic too. They fight with each other for the property but not to the point they are indifferent to each other. They care for each other in subtle ways and always stand up for each other. Even the ML cousin who was shown to be scheming, gives up his succession rights after losing to ML in a fair fight and learning of his grandfather's worsening condition. <<less
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Wintercreeper
Wintercreepe
Mar 22, 2023
Status: c105
It's an okay story if you don`t expect much.

The romance has significant issues, I don't buy their love for each other.

ML falls in love with MC based on gratitude and dependency, he still knows basically nothing about MC by the time they get together.

He's a h**ny teenager with serious emotional problems, has severe violent tendencies and is obsessed with the MC. He's borderline Yandere, the kind that's going to kill everyone who looks at MC for more than a second and would kill himself asap just to prove his love.

... more>>
Spoiler

There actually are several instances of this very same behaviour, including ML trying to stab his own heart with a knife to prove to MC how much he loves him.

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Due to the writer's style, we get no insight into MC's own feelings for the ML, all we see is that he's trying to save himself and his family no matter the cost.

Nothing indicates that he has genuine romantic feelings for the ML, it looks very much like he uses ML's obsession for his own gain.

It's not a pro that ML is constantly compared to a puppy, it just highlights how wrong his feelings are and how MC truly sees him.

Characterisation is a mixed bag, but at least cannon fodder aren't completely braindead, most of them back off when they realise that messing with MC/ML is a death sentence.

The structure is a cycle of conflict – resolution, like most webnovels, it's just that the later drama is very forced and nonsensical.

Spoiler

ML doesn't want his birth family, he explicitly states that he has no interest in inheriting anything.

They could have easily resolved this with a lawyer, it's 5 documents to legally split from the family and abstain from his inheritance rights.

Yet they insist that he needs to go back even if he doesn't want anything from them, because his cousin "wouldn't let him go".

The writer simply ignores the most basic solution of legally forgoing everything to keep the drama going.

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It's lazy writing to deliberately ignore easy fixes to drag out the story.

2 stars for the business aspects, which are decent enough, and cannon fodders with believable IQ, the rest is questionable.

Personally I can't see myself finishing this solely because of the forced drama that's obviously going to continue for the rest of the story. <<less
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Mishi98
Mishi98
May 21, 2022
Status: Completed
finally a family in a Chinese novel that doesn't demonize step-relatives and adoption. If I read the raws correctly then the wang family consists of an adopted older sister (though she doesn't know this nor does the Mc) the child of the first wife MC and a younger step-brother, and they all act like a real family. The wang dad is old fashioned and stubborn but all he does is out of concern for his kids, the step-mother is nice and loves both her child and the children from the... more>> previous wife, though she often gets disappointed by her son, the eldest sister has a misunderstanding about the MC because he ended up taking over the company but when he encourages her job choices and opinion on getting married they repair their relationship, and the youngest is an adorable idiot once he's taught a lesson by his older brother and ends up finding a career that he loves. Its quite heart warming overall.

In terms of the original Mary sue plot, the oMC is rebirthed as a 1 year old and has absolutely no power over the course of the story except to see things wrap up nicely at the end of the plot and to see him suffer through kindergarten level training courses with no spoiling or slacking allowed, its a subtle but effective revenge.

Apparently they are in a world where gay marriage is legal and commonly accepted in the 90's to 2000's judging by the technology level, so not the real world. <<less
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CasBrin
CasBrin
May 16, 2022
Status: Completed
I love this!

At first, reading the description I was unsure, but as I kept reading it showed its beautiful storyline. I really liked the complexity of the MC's family relationships and how the family gets along despite their very different personalities.

The funniest part was when the stepmother found out that her husband, who always scolds their son for being a video game addict, used to be highly competitive at arcade games. She just gave him this look of 'ah. It all makes sense now.'

I really liked how the MC and... more>> ML navigated their relationship. It was very mature. There were no long silly misunderstandings or 'I must be cruel to him to ensure his future, none of that!

In the end I had a lot of respect for the ML's opponent.

Just gotta say, I love the wolfdog ML. <<less
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Goodreadsonly
Goodreadsonl
Nov 21, 2022
Status: Completed
My only critique is that you don't get enough of the MC's pov especially when interacting with the ML.

The ML is very affectionate and you read a lot about how much he loves the MC, but not the other way around.

The first half is mainly about the MC and the second is focused on the ML, which is when they really get together.

I feel bad for the original MC. He's an idiot but not a bad person just too naive/spoiled to be handling that much money and power.
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twobada
twobada
Jul 12, 2022
Status: --
Surprisingly good and funny. The characters are developed and I especially liked how shamelessly clingy the ML is LOL

Although I would have preferred that the author gave Dabao's redemption arc a proper closure.
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ntww12
ntww12
Apr 30, 2024
Status: Completed
A pretty good casual read if you like the dynamic of a beautiful ascetic-looking shou who is calm, gentle, doesn't seem to have a temper but when he's mad he is MAD, also really smart and good at business together with a wolfdog obsessed almost yandere-ish younger gong.

The MC, the shou is an intelligent businessman who had a rough time in his first life and unalive himself because of the original novel protagonist Leng Ye. The MC only realized that he and his family were cannon fodders after his death.... more>> He worked so hard for the family company and it went bankrupt overnight because of a careless phrase by the ori protag. The novel he was supposed to be in was also a novel about overbearing ori protag CEO who slept around alot and had a wife-chasing crematorium part. MC was AGHAST to find out that his death was so meaningless.

Thankfully he had a second chance and was reborn! When he was reborn, he was just trying to find ways not to have a miserable end, not to let his company go bankrupt and not to let his family suffer like before. He didn't plan to do anything to the ori protag. His thoughts were, "Since my family was supposed to be cannon fodder to be compared to the ori protag, if I dissolve the company now and do something else, would we survive?"

However, along the way, he actually encounters the ori protag and his Uncle, who had suffered for years before they were found by a powerful family and thus became the strongest power in that particular province they were in. Now MC thinks maybe if he is good to them, they'll not destroy his company, etc. ML on the other hand, falls in love with MC at first sight.

After that the story focuses on MC building a new pathway for himself from scratch, ML working hard to become worthy of ML, and the ori protag baby just being a baby. Romance is quick because ML falls at first sight and he is OBSESSED. MC on the other hand, seems to just take one day as it goes. He doesn't actively stop ML, nor did he encourage ML in his pursuit in the beginning. However, later on when he sees ML getting serious, MC accepts him. As many other reviewers mention, we don't see MC's thought process much. Honestly there was more of ML's and baby ori protag. So sometimes it just feels like MC's just allowing ML to 'court' him but MC doesn't have feelings for ML. It just feels that way but from MC's actions, I feel that MC also fell for ML and protects him a lot.

MC's family which had suffered in the first life due to bad luck, misunderstandings etc, were resolved in this life. It felt like MC taking small steps to change it, but somehow his small changes made big waves and completely altered the family ending. I adored the family dynamics and especially stubborn old Wang, MC's dad. He is so funny.

I loved the part where he stayed up late at night for a few days just to catch ML in the act of sneaking into MC's room. LOL!

As for ori novel protag, the baby who was also reborn... He is someone who isn't actively malicious. He's just really pampered and thinks he's smart but he's actually rather foolish. He doesn't think longterm. In his first life, he had a brief flashback where his great grandfather admitted that he was overly pampered. In this lifetime, he isn't as pampered as before. So now he makes more mistakes and has to own up to them. His ending wasn't the greatest and I felt that author could've written a better redemption arc. I have mixed feelings towards this character.

Still a pretty interesting read. I came for the wolfdog doting possessive younger gong and it delivered. No childcare in this novel. <<less
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WallEyeKnee
WallEyeKnee
Jun 23, 2023
Status: Completed
Wow MC is one smiling manipulative elegant gentlemen, ML is one scary Yandere loyal shameless husky.

But hell I love them both. MC just does things with class and a smile. I am all for that gold glasses wearing and then when he takes it off that gives off the POW effect.

ML grew from an innocent street puppy to a tamed loyal husky for the MC, the transformation is so interesting to read.

The revenge story is all worth it, Novel MC using one sentence to make MC's life so miserable for... more>> no reason but because the weather? Sh*t I would tear him apart and do everything in power to make sure he suffer a miserable death in my rebirth. Ha the revenge is so much sweeter when he's in the baby form having his memories, it's so funny. I felt bad for the baby Novel MC when MC manipulated ML (baby's little Uncle) to slap him on the bu*t countless time. But I don't really after finding out more how he use one sentence to destroy so many people's lives. The baby really deserve a beating when he does more self things. He's actually very dumb so much for the high IQ he had. Well he deserve what's coming to him that's all I have to say.

I think I can get why ML fall so hard for MC, for someone never tasted love, it was love at first sight how MC looked and how he helped him from the first moment. The combination fit in the weirdest way. It is a suprising harmony relationship through out the novel, a large chunk of it is, MC pmapering ML for everything he's done and make sure he suffer no grievance, ML grew more and more obsessed to the point of offering up everything to the MC

I do wish we get more of MC's thinking POV of ML, usually it's smiles all around and describing him as a husky. Sometimes I felt he doesn't mind ML, just the love is not equal, he goes along with it because why not? It's not like he can find someone who loves him more, he can't be bothered with relationships, He'll have a companion and get it over it to enjoy his life.

I find it really fascinating how MC is so pampering of ML with his creepy behaviour, he just let it go with a smile every time. If that's not love I don't know what is, the believe is that ML will never do nothing to hurt the MC. Though I didn't know MC did really love till the kiss in the half way mark. I though he was always just using ML's obsession for him in way to turn him against the baby.

MC is also a positive influence on ML setting up guidelines and educates him in the right way. Everyone who use to hurt him can go to hell for all he cares , ML can do whatever he wants as long it's legal.

The funniest moments is when ML using Novel MC little baby as shield to block cream thrown from a villain to avoid the shirt bought from MC getting dirty and also kicking the little baby aside to fawn over MC. MC looks at all these with a smile hahaha the revenge is so good.

Also the MC's family redemption arc is so heart warming, I like to read the parts when MC reborn the family can start over instead of just the revenge troupe.

Recommend to read Smiling manipulative gentleman MC x Yandere Obsessive husky ML <<less
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