Best of the best. Absolute must-read for every danmei fan. A masterpiece. Beautifully written, meticulously planned. Excellent retrospections, nicely-paced relationship's growth and unfolding, and satisfying smut.... more>> Definitely worth reading, rereading, buying a printed collection and constantly worshipping it. Pain level: 5/5. Overall: 100/5 <<less

Same author as MDZS, another tremendous piece of literature. Great, but not overwhelming length, meticulous planning, explicit world creation. Full of warm and heartbreaking feelings,... more>> love, admiration and longing; retrospections unfolding unexpected events from the past, excellent plot twists. Worth reading, rereading, buying a printed collection and worshipping it. Pain level: 5/5. Overall: 10/5 <<less

Because it's the same author as MDZS and TGCF, I honestly expected more. I enjoyed reading it, not gonna lie, but wasn't as immersed as... more>> with the former two. The relationship and the plot felt lacking in many ways, the characters were one-dimentional, the romance – almost non-existing. Nevertheless interesting and worth reading. Pain level: 3-/5. Overall: 4-/5 <<less

Webnovel-style. I love it wholeheartedly, both the novel itself and its translation by SmollStarks. It's tragical, interesting, twisted, angsty, yet at the same time it's... more>> still light, enjoyable read thanks to excellently thought of, unforced comedic undertones. Worth rereading. Pain level: 5/5. Overall: 5/5 <<less

Another masterpiece. Higher level of literature, language, pain and relationship. Beautiful, heartbreaking, with explicit smut. And great (unfortunately still ongoing) translation. Worth rereading once it... more>> gets printed. Pain level: 10/5. Overall: 5/5 <<less

Work of art. Beautifully written, meticulously planned, complicated and unpredictable plot with just-enough-amount of twists, and lots of suffering. Delicious, excruciating pain you can enjoy... more>> and immerse yourself in. Aesthetic smut, satisfying ending. Pain level: 10/5. Overall: 5/5 <<less

Beautifully designed world and serene climate, amazing narrative (non-obvious and original: multiple POV) and usage of language (great translation by superglue of the latter part... more>> of the novel!), satisfying character growth and the contrast between too-good-to-even-exist mc and villainous ml. Even though full of relationship's building, a little less (too less in my opinion) focused on the characters' feelings and the romance itself. Pain level: 3+/5. Overall: 4+/5 <<less

Interesting, but complicated, mainly historically and politically oriented plot. Way harder to read, get immersed and enjoy than Thousand Autumns. Literally took me weeks to... more>> get through it (maybe because of the translation?) Marvelous comedic undertones, really likeable characters and entertaining interactions between them. Pain level: 2/5. Overall: 3+/5 <<less

Very Priest-like. Magnificent world creation, beautiful steampunk setting and climate, great action, original and interesting unfolding of the plot. Unfortunately, less focused on romance and... more>> relationship's growth. No pain level. Overall: 4+/5 <<less

Great, very interesting plot, world creation, climate and setting. Not-as-satisfying writing, though. As much as I liked the images painted by the author in my... more>> imagination, I felt lack of "something" throughout the whole novel – too less descriptive maybe? A bit predictable, repetitive and with not-as-dramatic climax. Pain level: 3/5. Overall: 4+/5 <<less

Webnovel-style. Modern, about e-sports and a long road to accept one's s*xual orientation. Interesting idea and plot full of feeling of longing. Even though it's... more>> a rather lightly-written comedy, in the latter part it contains unexpectedly high, excruciating pain level: 4+/5 (it hurts even when rereading!) Overall: 4+/5 <<less

Short modern story perfect to torture oneself. Simple, unfortunately not-that-enjoyable style of writing and language usage. Pain level: 100/5. Overall: 4+/5

Rather short story. One OP and one sickly mc. Peaceful climate, slow-paced writing and plot, very satisfying character growth and _realistic_ (!), non abrupt healing... more>> from the past trauma. Pain level: 3-/5 (I guess depends on reader's preference, for me it was too calmly written to let me enjoy all the pain). Overall: 4/5 <<less

Pain from the first till the last page. Tragical in every meaning of this word. Beautiful smut. Explicit descriptions of feelings and excruciatingly painful inner... more>> monologues. Bittersweet ending. Pain level: 50/5. Overall: 5-/5 <<less

Relatively short, really well written. Fantastic comedic undertone and nicely constructed mystery, non-predictable plot. Interesting both main and side characters, also nice romance construction. Pain... more>> level: 3+/5. Overall: 5-/5 <<less

Very webnovel-like, lightly written, with short chapters and not-too-complicated plot. Enjoyable fast read. Definitely romance-oriented. Sometimes surprisingly painful. Shares many similarities with SVSSS (while being... more>> much simpler). Pain level: 4/5. Overall: 4/5 <<less

Rather webnovel-style. The balance between descriptions of imperial intrigues and relationship growth is perfect. There's pain, but there's also the same amount of funny stuff,... more>> which makes you laugh out loud, but doesn't let you get immersed in sadness and enjoy all the suffering. It's lightly written and nicely translated too. Pain level: 4/5. Overall: 4+/5 <<less

An absolute masterpiece. Superb writing and translation. Very original sci-fi world setting, horror-like climate, meticulously constructed, complicated plot focused on action and mystery solving, interesting,... more>> full of details and unpredictable from the first till the last chapter. Bickering power couple slowly discovers their forgotten past, their relationship grows with time, and once all is finally revealed near the ending, the suffering is simply unbearable. Worth rereading. Pain level: 10/5. Overall: 10/5. <<less

Webnovel set in ABO universe. Revised MTL translation. Story full of misunderstandings, lack of communication, abuse and angst. It's the kind which frustrates you so... more>> much that you'd want to angrily throw it away if there was a physical copy, but you still read it till the end because you want to know how it's going to end. Pain level: 4/5. Overall: 3+/5.  <<less

Modern webnovel-style story; it gives off a feeling that it could have happened in real life. Love is pure and sweet, main characters are caring... more>> and devoted, and their problems seem realistic. Unfortunately - I guess because I had too high expectations after reading many reviews - the pain wasn't as delicious as I hoped it would be. Because of the introduction paragraph the plot and the ending were also kind of predictable. Pain level: 3+/5. Overall: 4/5. <<less

Modern webnovel-style story wonderfully written and translated. Unpredictable plot with a retrospection explaining the whole story appearing only near the end - showing all the... more>> previous events in a different light and throwing knife after knife straight at readers' hearts. Pain level: 5/5. Overall: 5-/5. <<less