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Premise: Hu Yu, a fox demon, has been chasing after Fu Anli for 3 years only to be met with constant rejection. Just when he has resolved to distance himself from Fu Anli, his heat came.
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Thoughts: The novel is good at what it set out to be: a short H story. It has an interesting premise and would have worked even better as a longer story. Some readers didn’t like Fu Anli and it’s understandable, he was mean in his handling of Hu Yu, but he would have been a more sympathetic character if the story were longer and delved deeper into the characters instead of this short glimpse.
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Premise: After three years in the end times, Chu Huai died and was reborn a year before the start of the apocalypse. Gathering materials and resources, Chu Huai comes across a young man who calls him ‘Zifang-jun’ and refuses to leave his side.
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Thoughts: Really good premise and okay execution but I wish it was more detailed and went more in-depth with the characters and their surroundings. But it’s fine, the primary focus of the story was the abruptly cut love between MC and ML in their past life and realising that love 2000 years later.
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Premise: Zhong Jiudao, a newly graduated aspiring director, rented a haunted villa with 33 ghosts residing in it.
Lacking the large amount of money needed to shoot his first film, he turns his eyes towards the ghosts huddled in the corner looking at him in fear.
steady and stubborn aspiring director x sweet and silly newly graduate actor
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Premise: Forced by his friend to join the travel variety show he’d created as his first foray as a director, Yan Shixun agreed with the knowledge that at the end of an episode, audiences will be voting who will remain on the show.
With Yan Shixun not being from the entertainment circle himself, he’s confident that he’ll be voted out at the first opportunity.
Unfortunately, an episode passes, then another, then another.
The originally leisurely travel variety show slowly morphs into a horror travel variety show with Yan Shixun, an exorcist, as the main star.
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Thoughts: I finished this through MTL, so take everything I write with a grain of salt.
I have so much mixed emotions for this novel. I liked it until I didn’t and I didn’t like it until I did.
There were times when I felt it was so dragging I just wanted it to be over and done with, but then on the other hand, there are really great moments as well that I couldn’t help but enjoy it.
It’s…not bad honestly, I persevered through 346 chapters of MTL, so it says a lot about it’s potential.
What I liked about it:
1. Yan Shixun and Zhang Wuping’s friendship
2. The side characters (it’s hilarious how much I shipped two of the side characters instead of the main characters. Note: the two side characters I mentioned is different from the canonical side characters who are in a relationship and whom I shipped hard as well)
3. Each arc’s story is different and has a solid storyline. My favourites include Gui Mountain, Children’s Voices, Road of No Return, and the Aftermath. The ending was also quite good as well.
What I didn’t like about it:
1. The romance and chemistry between MC and ML. It wasn’t the worst I’ve seen and I was mostly ambivalent about it, but I just wasn’t convinced, there was a significant lack of buildup in romantic tension between the two during the first half that I started shipping two side characters instead.
2. The execution of the stories. Maybe it was just because of the MTL, but I sometimes felt that it dragged on some parts and there were information rehashed again and again.
3. Characters being forgotten in the background. To be fair, the author has a large cast to work with, but all the same, some characters just gets forgotten in the background and you kinda forget they’re there as well.
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Premise: Zhou Jiayu, an upright and law-abiding civil servant who staunchly believes in science, gets into a car accident and transmigrated into the body of a swindler with the same name.
Taken in by a genius Feng Shui master, Zhou Jiayu’s world views are broken one by one as he’s dragged along into supernatural cases that science could not explain.
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Thoughts: I like MC, he’s sweet and gentle but also doesn’t back down when he needs to. The side characters were also rather lovable and memorable, Shen Yiqiong (the youngest of the ML’s apprentices) and Xu Ruwang are two of my faves.
Overall, I enjoyed this novel. That said, I have to admit that while the cases are okay, I think the best arc of the novel was the competition arc and I wish the author placed that one in the middle because the cases after that just did not compare, in my opinion.
But my main problem is with the overarching plot. It just??? Doesn’t tie in smoothly with the cases and often felt forced. In addition to that, the villains—didn’t have much presence? Sure they show up, but they don’t really register as threats.
Even with all that though, I still liked the story, and I still cried at the end, so I recommend giving it a try.
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Premise: Ye Zhou’s dream since childhood was to open a supermarket. Just when he’d finally built one and was about to open, he and his newly built supermarket was transported to another world.
Trapped and unable to return to his original world, Ye Zhou has to do business and earn points in different planes in the hopes that one day he can finally jump back home.
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Thoughts: I liked the premised and first two arcs. Arcs were well-written and carefully thought out, but being a supermarket took a backseat in later arcs and focused more on the world they traveled to.
Romance development was lacking, I do ship ML and MC, but halfway through the series and still there’s not much progress or mutual sweet moments between them, because again, the focus is on the world they’re in, not the main characters themselves.
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