The MC had potential till the ML came in.

Hear me out, she was in a pretty good place at the start and was able to prep for the apocalypse. Part of the beginning shows her being a badass but as soon as ML appears, that gets chunk to a corner till she's force to pick it up again.

MC and ML get separate at one point and boy do I wished the author would have kept them apart longer and had her grow in power before meeting up again. Or you... more>> know kept her being self efficient like she was at the beginning.

ML is kind of a scum, low tier player scum. He offers services (protection?) and takes what he needs (sex). He drops all the ladies when he becomes official with the (mc/ml) but feels like it was a more of "you must be mine" and even if they are exclusive he needs to improve on... so much!!! <<less

MC is... really dumb. With a big mouth. The plot is... what plot? The ML is a slag man with his big harem, I don't believe he would be faithful to MC for long.

In the end it just wasn't very interesting.

I have no idea how well this promising premise ends up being executed because I could not get past the poor translations. The poor grammar hurt to read, and maybe it was an accurate translation and the original text is just this bad, but either way I’d rather not read it as is. If anyone else ends up wanting to take a stab at translating it properly (assuming it’s a good story that’s worth translating well) I’d love to give it another chance.

In the end, it wasn't bad as I was expecting. Or... Maybe it was because I had such low expectations that it didn't seem so bad??? IDK LOL. I didn't finish the novel, but I thought it was interesting. To be Frank... The script reads like your typical stallion novel script, except it was diverted because of a sand-sculpture FL as the main POV character XD. I mean, the main characters are just really not your typical main characters. It's a bit hard to explain, SJ Jdkdkdkd so let's keep... more>> going—

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SUMMARY: The FL, Luo Xiaoluo, was just your normal, average girl when the apocalypse hit Earth. She was timid and had no one to back her, leaving her especially vulnerable during the end times. Because of this, she ended up being forced to sell her body in order to survive. Her life couldn't be said to be the most miserable, since she was a water-ability user, but it's true that she's very different from the pure virg*n mary typically portrayed by reborn heroines XD. Her heart is cold because she had accepted the bitterness of the apocalypse -- not because of the typical betrayal of any so-called 'closest' relatives or friends, like the typical storylines.

Anyway, when she was reborn, her main goal was just to grow stronger so that she wouldn't have to rely on men completely like she did in the past (though, of course, she still believes in hugging a strong thigh as her backer). For a whole year, she trained and stocked up on some goods for the future. What she did not expect was that she would meet a strong backer before the end of the world even came. That is... the ML (Ji Shitian). A running gag in the novel is the ML's undeniable protagonist halo XD. He's written like your typical YY novel protagonist (blessed with good luck, natural talent that goes against the heavens, handsome looks, and of course, a harem of beautiful women to serve him XD). He's really different from the usual ML in romance novels, suffice to say.

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THOUGHT: I think what most people have trouble with in the story is the ML's character? I thought he was interesting, actually. He's definitely a slag man, just like another reviewer said. But I thought it was quite novel that he was portrayed in such a way. At least, it's unique!!! Of course, him being the way he does hinders the heroine's growth a bit, but I also thought that was fitting (because if he wasn't like that, and was just completely devoted to her from the very beginning, it would be even worse! At least, she had something to compare to at all times LMAO. Of course, I can't say for sure that such a development even happened in the story, since I stopped right about when they got together --- for no other reason than the fact that I thought it was very anti-climatic.) It's true that I was disappointed by the way they suddenly got together T.T I was enjoying the initial banter and 'platonic' interactions between them quite a bit *sigh*.

Anyway, I'm dropping this novel for now. But since I've confirmed that it's readable (btw, the MTL is not bad and the TL -- which is edited MTL -- is also not bad. I mean, it's definitely not the cleanest, but it's much much better than your usual MTL) I'll be coming back to reread it in the future! As for the rating, I decided to give it a 3.2/5 rating. It's really not as bad as its current rating on novelupdates would imply. Just a bit out of the box. (And, oh, I almost forgot to mention, the author does have a habit of going towards subplots -- which is also a big part of why I stopped reading in the end XD. It's really a bit annoying.) <<less