Returning to the End of the World

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The end of the world has come, and zombies are rampant.

Is having a game system against heaven? NO!

Shen Chi’s bitter lesson told him that the price for taking the game system through the end of the world and paying for trust and acting high profile is to be caught and being sliced by the research institute.

On the day of his rebirth, Shen Chi decided to live with only one person for the rest of his life, even if he was the devil of all the people.

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Trọng hồi mạt thế chi thiên la kinh vũ
重回之天罗惊羽
重回末世之天罗惊羽
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rhianirory
rhianirory rated it
November 30, 2020
Status: Completed
read this a while ago and it was pretty good. These were my original notes with lots of spoilers. You've been warned.

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MC crosses over from another reality where he was Tangmen, has gamer attributes and skills instead of abilities, is betrayed and sold to a lab where he is experimented on to destruction. Reborn the day before the end of the world he seeks out the only person who never betrayed him in his last life, even though the guy is only 7-8 years old now (MC is 20). ML is the kid who is a typical powerful, possessive, obsessive yandere type. (Kills the people around the MC for looking too long at him).

his party includes the psycho ML (8), a little girl who makes puppets using human eyes (7) and a child spiritualist (10) who makes, binds and uses ghosts and devils and talismans and the like. They're all loyal to him and scary to everyone else, though the fact that he's running around with three kids does make people lower their defenses against them at the start.

MC is just as dark and twisted as the kids, wanting his revenge. The scenes where they psychologically torture the Dr. And the lab assistants who killed him is well done and disturbing because the Dr doesn't realize the killer is them until the end. Turns out he was betrayed because the thunder guy thought "if I can't have you no one can." disappointingly stereotypical and banal.

The dad s*x play is icky. Not sure why he forced the kid to call him dad in the first place when he obviously wasn't. I think it's just in there for the kink factor.

For once the cause was a tree and not a virus or some kind of space parasite. MC burns down the tree because he's the only one without abilities so he's the only one still on his feet as they get closer. Actually there are more than one tree and he always goes alone to burn them down. Some late story nationalism and racism knocked the story down a notch; can't help that china is so much better than all the other countries and sells his help at a high price, thwarting the evil Americans who are too s*upid and unlucky to figure out how to destroy their origin trees.

If not for the daddy kink and the nationalism and racism this would be a 4.5.

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AdalSaira
AdalSaira rated it
November 7, 2021
Status: Completed
I always saw comment before reading novel and there is this one comment that leave strong impression to me, , it say the relationship between an 8 y.o with 20 y.o is simply a pedo thing, , and then I laugh my ass off, ,

This person must be not the type to read yaoi manga (Japan especially), , I think, ,

Fyi, , if your read the novel till the end, you won't think that!

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The 15 y.o ML is the one who push MC to love him, , and MC love him (imo, he just accepting it cause, who don't want to be loved like that?? Altho it's also kind of obsession at least ML didn't act like psycho towards MC) after he realized how ML already so handsome and powerful after he grown up (MC become conscious of ML), ,

Also, it's not like MC really think he is the father of ML, , he just involved in raising him (so more like a caretaker) and he decided that a figure of father is more convenient, , but ML didn't buy that obviously, , he still love MC like ordinary lover do, ,

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I am satisfied reading the gore part, , where you have to life according law and moral (alas, I am a law student) sometimes you just want to mu*der or kill a bunch of people, right? And these three kids's action really making my rebellious mind satisfied, , hope there are more of this, ,

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The tree of origin whatnot still confused me, , from where the hell those tree appear? Is it just suddenly grow out of nowhere or someone planted it?

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But, aiya, after all that I am still satisfied with the ending so it's okay, , he he <<less
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Evette
Evette
October 4, 2022
Status: c1 part1
I kind of felt like I wasted my time at the end by ch 66 I was just wanting to drop it already. This story confused me so much, call me dumb but I really felt like it was so disjointed at times and bizarre in many ways.

the age gap made me uncomfortably and I honestly felt that they should have aged the ML up or straight up waited until he was 17 minimum. And then when they were doing the unmentionable he called him ‘ dad’ or ‘ daddy’.... more>> I was trying to overlook it cause I’m almost finished but whyyyyyyyyy. I felt physical pain and wanted to give the MC a smack.

what is the MCs ambition clearly it was at first revenge but I’m honestly stumped at how the MC behaves at times. I don’t know what I’m rooting for and though I can laugh at the kids antics they still felt quite flat as characters and the time skips didnt help this problem; which is why they could have been aged up and had a reduce in time skips. Though I love characters that are similar to them I feel little to none connection with any of them and would not care if they got hurt.

the romantic relationship was bland and I felt as though the MC is only tolerating the mls advances and I felt little connection in their relationship. I stopped feeling sympathy for the MC and since his skills were not as expanded as they could be he was not as interesting so his role as an MC is kinda pointless. I’m not rooting for him and honestly can’t remember much about him other then him being super attractive and calm or some rubbish.

This is so unmemorable that I might as well have not read it. Literal fever dream of things that are vague and not properly executed.

A good starting point and premise it just fell so flat near the middle and end. <<less
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miumiumiu
miumiumiu rated it
December 21, 2020
Status: c54
i agree with the other spoiler comment

its cute the MC has three OP children with him and they’re all... crazy in their own ways

by ch 54 raw mtl I read

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revenge against the ones who betrayed MC in the past is done.. and its the japanese invasion arc pls loool well I understand I grew up watching scary japanese soldiers ww2 movies but the arc is kind of :/ not in good taste? and idk ML at this time is 15 but he’s already confessed to and kissed middle aged (if add last life) MC aahahahaha ok

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trash_generalist
trash_generalist rated it
April 16, 2022
Status: c11 part2
Reading just the translated chapters, it's pretty fun. The writing is a bit confusing (not sure if its the translation or not, but the pacing is weird and there are abrupt transitions that leave you confused.) Some elements are also poorly explained, like the MC's abilities... All in all, I think it's worth the try, would probably read till the end if it was all translated.

PLOT:

MC regresses with a gaming system (the system is poorly explored). He picks up the only person that cared for him in his previous... more>> life on the day of the apocalypse (this person is a seven year old boy, btw, and is the ML! I'm not sure when they get together but so far its been platonic and can be read as a cute childish crush for ML to MC). MC finds two more mu*derbrats along the way and, assumedly, they'll help him get his revenge in the future. It's really not all that bad, but it's poorly executed. Would still read it, but there are better alternatives out there. <<less
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not2complex
not2complex rated it
May 4, 2021
Status: c9.2
Thank you so much for making this work available for readers to enjoy. I love his attitude toward his twisted little children. It provides just enough humor to give us short breaks from the intense action. Yes, to some, the humor may be warped but its one of those of situations when the reality of life is so surreal - you either laugh or cry - there are no other options. In an apocalypse there is point in crying so he accepts it has apart of them adds a little... more>> humor so he can accept and moves on. Sooooo exceptional writing and character develop so far.

For those who bother to read this review there may be only 9 chapters broken into parts so far but they are all long chapters so it is worth your time read it now rather than wait for more chapters to build up! <<less
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eclectic-reader
eclectic-reader
October 12, 2022
Status: c12 part1
Update (10/17/22) : Thanks for fixing the links and new chapters. . I've enjoyed the story, however the links for chapter 12.1 and 12.2 are not for this story. They take you to chapter 2 of This Cannon Fodder is Unscientific, which really disappointed me since I was looking forward to the next chapter of Returning to the End of the World.
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ichigofanz
ichigofanz rated it
September 2, 2021
Status: Completed
MC died during the apocalypse because he trust others too much. He reborn before the apocalypse along with his game system. He adopt ML who was abused at the orphanage, the only one who is genuine to him in the last day. He also take care of a girl who witness her mom death & abused by the one her mom ask to take care of her. The last kid he take in is a naive taoist boy. But why does the kids he take is so bloodthirsty? When about... more>> to mu*der someone, ML ask the girl if she want to take their eyeballs, the taoist boy ask to collect the victim blood to refine for his cultivation.. <<less
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Erudite.Cielo
Erudite.Cielo rated it
July 12, 2021
Status: Completed
I enjoyed reading it! O ((*^▽^*)) o MC is like a collector of 'future villains'..I mean because of the dark nature of the kids. But they helped to save the world in the end, so that's good. (⌒▽⌒)
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D_D_M
D_D_M rated it
December 2, 2022
Status: Completed
Ahhhhh!! I loved it a lot!! 😍😍 This was a bit different from usual apocalypse world. I liked the way how MC and ML relationship changes day by day. It's so sweet. Though the kids were creepy but also lovely.

I am just sad that not much about past has been told like what kind of world did he live in. But still I highly recommend to read this novel.

Thank You ❤ Lots of Love ❤
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Xiu_er
Xiu_er rated it
February 14, 2022
Status: Completed
Rating: 4.7/5

Call me weird for all I care, but I really enjoyed how creative the three children were in their killing techniques. It was almost artistic which I appreciate. The four, Shen Chi, Shen Liumu, Ji Jia and Mingyue are the perfect mu*der team. Although, the little ones should be considered more bloodthirsty as natural killers. Shen Chi, after spending so much time with them, is also dyed in their colors as he indulges them and let's them live out their fantasies. As you can probably tell, I really adore... more>> their dynamic.

The plot was good, exciting and interesting. There were a lot of time skips which I see as necessary to an extend since the ML needs to grow up from a seven-year old boy to an age old enough for romance.

Some people might think "ick" when they see the love interest being the boy whom the MC adopted. But I am not too bothered this time around. That's mainly because 1) Shen Liumu was the actively pursuing one, 2) Shen Chi did not groom the younger nor did he ever think of him that way as he raised him, 3) Shen Chi was basically manipulated and pushed into the relationship by Shen Liumu.

It was kinda necessary that Shen Liumu was the active and pushy one when it comes to romance as Shen Chi is a bit entrenched in his straight male thinking. With that I did not mean that he is homophobic or anything, but rather that homos*xual love is not on his radar at all. The first time he came in contact with two men in a relationship he even wondered how two men could be willing to be together if they weren't forced by the lack of available women.

So you can probably tell, his EQ is kinda abysmal in that aspect. But he does see Mingyue being into Jiajia pretty quickly so his EQ only drops when it comes to BL related things, especially when he is the target of a man's feelings. Dude doesn't realize he is being hit on when a guy is literally taking off his pants in front of him, telling him to f him.

Shen Chi's low EQ is also one of the reasons along with his scruples about Shen Liumu himself why the romantic development really only takes off in the end of the novel. And I am fine with that.

Other than the main leads, there were a lot of other interesting characters with their own unique personalities and circumstances. One such character is Ji Ying, Jiajia's cousin. She is actually a pretty complex character, neither good nor bad, just doing what it takes for her to survive in a hostile environment.

One complaint I do have... It's the blatant nationalism bleeding through the text when the Japanese and American arcs came. It had me thinking about how different people can view other nations depending on where they are from. The Japanese were completely painted as villains and Americans as hypocrites who are vulgar, religious and arrogant and have racial problems.

Some people might get triggered by that.

Either way, I enjoyed reading the novel for it's creative gore and thus was also not put off by the rushed end. <<less
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nitan
nitan rated it
January 29, 2022
Status: Completed
In terms of creativity and how much I enjoyed just straight forward, detailed revenge plot.. This novel is a solid 5. I really like how it's just straight-up dog blood punishing the antagonists. This is what I signed up for and it's exactly what I got, in very creative ways as well.

Other than that, I also enjoy the healing quality of having kids and being quite easy-going during the apocalypse days. It's an interesting contrast, not to mention some of the plot points are very novel like the bamboo frog... more>> etc. I think this novel really took the creative route and that's its strong point.

Some of the weird timeskip really messes with the pacing, but when it's fleshed out you can tell the op does it really well. It's just ashamed that it ruins the pace a little. Not to mention some of the game skill aspects aren't really explained - so part of the action sequence which should've been really good (and is good! Sometimes!) is abit messy because we don't really know what the MC's??? Game power is??? It's a little confusing still.

Anyways, it's a solid 5 in terms of creativity. I don't know how to say that it's very much a by-the-book standard revenge reincarnation, face=slapping novel, but it also has very new elements to the apocalypse/end of the world genre as well.

Also there's parts where it seriously feels like I'm watching national geographic with a guide narrating what this plant does, what this animal does, what the ecological wildlife in this area is like etc. It's very tourist-y and I don't think I've ever really felt so refreshed like that in a book before, it's quite interesting!!

If you need any content warning, read the reviews that left less than 5 stars. It's a good heads up about some of the subject matter -- if it's not your cup of tea then please take care of yourself first !! <<less
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Mairin
Mairin rated it
January 20, 2022
Status: c8 part2
The foundation is good and the premise of the story is interesting BUT it's too confusing as the pacing is too fast that I don't know what's happening anymore and it's hard to continue reading, as there are empty informations that just pops out. The author didn't even states that its already fast forwarded and even skipped a lot of informations and world building. But I'm not really sure if it is the author or the translator missed some things so I'll just check the raws to make sure.
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aNonYm0U5
aNonYm0U5 rated it
October 6, 2023
Status: --
Boss Boss Boss!! The MC must be a big Boss.

The concept of a gamer MC fascinated me but the execution of each character including villains and MC dissapointed me.
Throughout the story, the author keeps emphasizing how dark and powerful the gang is. That origin tree could have become one key plot point but I feel like it became a side note with how plain it was executed and explained.

Add in the whole racial discrimination in the end. Like bro your own country would have dealt worser to your own people and others, you just won't want to admit it. The amount of foreign discrimination in some chinese novels are a bit too much.
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