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All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating
All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating
I have made a review and rating for every novel I've read on novelupdates. Since they don't have the user friendly capability of sorting a user's read list by rank I made one for myself ordered by best/enjoyed the most to least. The ranking within the same number of stars may not be right because it is usually from different genres, too different to compare with each other haha. All in one spot. The bottom of the list that are my lower rated and unranked/dropped novels, I have moved to a new list "All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating (3 Stars & Below + Dropped)" due to a list only having a max of 100. The other weaker alternative is the Reviews section in my profile but it can only be sorted by likes and date of review not by rank. The reason I want to put my rating and reviews straight in the list is because you can't search for a specific user's review in the novel page if there are too many reviews. You will have to search one by one. Its easier to straight up see why I put the novel in a particular list plus my review in the list itself. Sigh, novelupdates is really not user friendly.
PS: I've made another list to put all the novels I've read rated 3 Stars and below and all the dropped novels because this list is getting long. In the future, this will be basically my Top 100 list. The others will be from ranked 101 onwards.
PS: I've made another list to put all the novels I've read rated 3 Stars and below and all the dropped novels because this list is getting long. In the future, this will be basically my Top 100 list. The others will be from ranked 101 onwards.
Poor to RichAncient TimesKingdom BuildingDoting Love InterestsModern KnowledgeModern DayCookingTransmigrationBusiness ManagementFarming
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Created: Sep 21st, 2022, Updated: Apr 20th, 2024
Created Sep 21st, 2022
Updated Apr 20th, 2024
CN (4.6)
80 Chapters Every 57.4 Day(s) 4116 Readers 89 Reviews 02-24-2022
4.08 Stars... more>>
Read: 06/04/2024
Short Summary: The world turned into a survival game called Apocalypse Calamity. The MC is a quiet, solo-playing beta survivor of the actual game and received a camp-level territory at the start. The story is her using her beta-given skills as an advantage to play a resource gathering/management and infrastructure building game in real life to level up her territory, mostly to survive and because she legitimately likes to play this type of resource hoarding game. While all the other characters play a survival and adventuring game lol.
Plot: 4/5
It is a survival infrastructure hoarding novel. There was also a surprising amount of foodie scenes haha. Nice and chill town then a city-building story where no one knows the MC is the lord so she can happily go about gathering and hoarding resources for her territory to level up. The ending couple of chapters, especially the last chapter before the epilogue was such a cop-out though. It is an ending so there was a resolution to the MC’s efforts but it was so rushed. Also, I feel like some of the characters’ efforts, like the teams who bought farmland, I wish we got some scenes of them reaping their efforts for winter at least lol. A consequence of the rushed last couple of chapters.
Writing/Translation: 4/5
The translation I read is from dreams of jianghu. Pretty good. I didn't notice anything wrong.
Pacing: 4/5
Honestly, it was pretty smooth. I only got stuck at the very beginning with the Lord token. It felt too cheatlike and made me stop for a bit because I thought it would be too easy too quickly. It is just many other reviewers praised the tropes I like which are hoarding, apocalypse and village building/infrastructure. After I accepted all the cheatlike skills the MC got at the start, it was pretty even.
Romance: -/5
The romance is almost non-existent lol. It's not a romance novel so I won't rate it.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 4/5
Pretty interesting. It was different from the normal generic modern or ancient china world where nothing is really described because it is common knowledge. There are some mildly new things like the gaming system, game items, skills etc. And the different weather patterns. Nice variety from the flow but nothing amazing. Just disappointed that we don't get any info on how and why the game appeared. It's like it was just there so we can get a story out of it lol.
Characters: 4/5
Honestly, everyone is a typical person encountering this situation. They feel like people, it's just we only get a few snapshots of their lives. There was such a nice and large variety that it was lovely and refreshing. They give nice world points on how people are handling the game. It feels lived in. The MC and ML are kinda bland and unchanging lol. We don't know anything about the ML either.
Personal Enjoyment: 4.5/5
I love exactly this type of story! Progression through hoarding, resource management and gathering and lots of slice-of-life happy scenes with the food. My only con would be that ending and that I wish the MC had more tight relationships with other people like The Reborn Otaku’s Code of Practice for the Apocalypse. Maybe by making the NPCs like people. It would be such an easy change. Give them more personality and good feelings for the MC and done.
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CN (4.1)
34 Chapters Every 2.4 Day(s) 1224 Readers 13 Reviews 04-20-2024
4.04 Stars... more>>
*Update 07/04/2024: Ahhhh! Crysanthemum Garden picked up the novel to TL!!! One of my favourite novels in the poor to rich slice of life genre!! Same author as “Stone Age Husband Raising Journal”, “The Only Favourite Ugly Husband” and “I Want To Be a Good Person in This Life”. I love their progression type stories, they are all so satisfying. Poor to rich, weak to strong XD I read this novel with MTL, I am so unbelievably excited CG is picking it up! It was tough reading the browser translated version using 2 different browsers just so I have 2 different translation to better understand. And I am pretty sure I lost some nuances and detail from the story. Ahhhh, I can’t wait to reread it in actual English squeeeeee XDDD*
"Really satisfying poor-to-rich, working, business, to construction with proper safety controls."The Heavens most likely took pity on him and he was reborn back to the year 1994. At that time he had just come of age. He was hungry, and lived beneath a bridge, but the events he regretted had not yet occurred. His beloved person was still alive."
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Writing/Translation: 3.5/5
I read the MTL version. The translation is the default Google and Safari translation. Both have different parts that are not understandable so I will go to the other to have a slightly better understanding. The MtL is actually quite good. The author uses a lot of names in the text instead of pronouns, so when mtled, there are not as many pronoun mistakes as expected. Even all the technical detailed parts of making money were pretty understandable. I say you won't regret giving it a shot if you like this type of novel.
Pacing: 3.9/5
The beginning, when the MC had nothing and was rock bottom, was my favourite part. Because there was so much detail in describing how he made money and how their lives were slowly yuan by yuan, improving. Later on, the details got a bit more high-level, which was sad. It wasn't as day to day detailed, but week to week and month to month. But still, I didn't lose interest at all.
Plot: 4/5
I love this type of story where the main focus is improving their lives and those of their other poor relatives. The businesses were more detailed than most others. Exactly what I wanted!
Romance: 3.9/5
I did like it. No one was unequal here. Both have their own vulnerabilities that don't feel typical BL, fake or not executed enough. The whole thing was surprisingly mature and real enough.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 4/5
The setting feels really real to a person who has never been to China.
Characters: 4/5
The characters feel different from other CN web novels of the same type. The side characters are all self-serving, but in a very normal way. It's kinda refreshing. The relatives and family of the MC from a poor rural mountain all want to sincerely improve their lives, so they all work hard to earn money. In the same way, the stepfamily of the MC is always worried that if they take sides, the husband or son will dislike them and kick them out of the family. So whenever something happens, especially for the stepmother, she thinks about whether this person will take care of her when she is old and sick. But this is all not in a bad way; this is their situation and this is that type of era, and anybody with their submissive temperament will think the same. The interesting thing is that they won't do bad things, so although there are many flaws compared to other similar web novels, these characters feel very very real in terms of attitude. I like this glimpse into the culture in China at this era.
Personal Enjoyment: 5/5
Loved it! It almost hit 100% of my ideal poor-to-rich type of story! If the author had used the same type of family connection vibe from their The Only Favourite Ugly Husband story, it would have been utterly perfect.
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CN (4.3)
61 Chapters Every 11.2 Day(s) 2814 Readers 39 Reviews 12-14-2023
4.04 Stars... more>>
Date Read: 16/04/2024
Personal Enjoyment: 4.3/5
I enjoyed finally finding a transmigrate to ancient China and making money with a heartwarming family moments novel. And I liked it until the end. I do wish it was longer and that they would add more details for some things like travel times, the later hiring process, more bonding moments with the s*aves and hired people etc. But well, it has a certain charm when it's written like this so maybe the charm would be gone if they added more stuff. I like it. Heartwarming family bonding and the money-making were paced reasonably well at least compared to others :) I love the relationships the MC made too. It's nice :)))
Short Summary: Orphan tsundere hardworking MC transmigrates to ancient China after the original body hanged himself in despair because of being married off when he has someone else. Follows the typical make money using cooking and bringing along his family and friends up together.
Plot: 4/5
A more condensed and efficient version of the transmigrate to ancient China to make money storyline. Things go pretty smoothly for the MC. I like how step-by-step the making money part is. Some of the ones I dropped were because there was so much dilly-dallying or additional boring stuff in between or how cheating the money-making was that it completely broke my suspension of disbelief. Or that the MC had a big capital from the start. This one he did small things to get some capital to start doing bigger and bigger things. There is a better sense of progression. It is only that it took a quick few days within the story to get the capital.
My other slight issue is that the author didn't really pay much attention to the physical distance between places. It kinda felt like the MC took a short walk to a shop to buy things when in actuality, the shop is a half-hour walk in the sun outside the village into town. I wish this was included just to make the world immersion deeper.
The progression ends at the town stage which I am happy about. It keeps things within the realm of believability lol. I find when things get bigger, the authors usually get more vague with the money-making details.
Writing/Translation: 4/5
The translation I read is from KnoxT. Pretty good overall. Just some minor pronoun mistakes and one or two name mistakes. But there are lots of hidden footnotes to explain the cultural ancient china things. With some pictures if needed.
Pacing: 4/5
Pretty good actually. I'm kinda impressed. Mostly because I've been reading similar stories but dropped them because the pacing is so bad. Very efficient and condensed. The ending 5 chapters had a sharp danger spike but was resolved within a couple of chapters. And then the last chapter was the house unveiling and a short look at the couple's kid. I wish there were more for these but I also think it's good as is.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 3.7/5
It could be better but it could also be worse.
Characters: 4.3/5
I love all the characters. It's nothing too deep or complex but they are all quite likeable. The Tu family are all sweet and normal people and they help if they can. I love the heartwarming family relationships here. I especially love how the MC has this found family after transmigrating. And he now has the chance to act cute and spoiled with his mother-in-law and the ML after having a short childhood previously. It's nice. All the characters close to the main characters are nice. So genuine haha. And the ML is so cute! Such a big burly gong character but silly, honest and always getting bullied by the MC haha. Similar to the ML in the Stone Age Husband Raising Journal hehe.
Romance: 4/5
The romance is sweet and nice. I love the dynamic between them. There isn't a blushing shy shou and the looming gong here. Kinda the opposite a little bit haha. The MC is the shou and looks like it but he is the one always teasing and bullying the big gong ML. The MC is a bit of a tsundere haha. But the level is always just teasing for a short while so it is short and sweet instead of annoying and uncomfortable to read. The s*x scenes all fade to black and are only hinted at which is good. Since what hints there were is a pet peeve of mine, oof my waist is weak, my legs can't stand up, everything huuuurts because of the wild s*x. It was in a lighthearted jokey way that didn't overstay its welcome :D
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CN (4)
17 Chapters Every 44.9 Day(s) 683 Readers 10 Reviews 03-24-2024
4.04 Stars... more>>
Overall
My thoughts are mostly the same as tr*sh_generalist’s review. It was quite a solid novel. It is unfortunate that I couldn't find the extras though. I think those might have the ending of that cousin who was transmigrated and also reborn. I think that would have the events in the synopsis of the novel because that didn't happen in the main text.
Writing/Translation: 2.5/5
I read the MTl version so there is undoubtedly a lot I missed. Also, the MtL is not as readable as it could have been. But I still quite enjoyed it. If it were translated, I would have loved it even more.
Pacing: 2.54/5
Plot: 4.25/5
It was really satisfying to read all the face-slapping XD
Romance: 4.5/5
The romance is actually rather good. Healthy boundaries and all that. The couple has substance. Both the MC and the ML aren't just there to be a typical macho ML of that era.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 4/5
I love these types of era XD
Characters: 4/5
Ahh, the bad guys were so good to hate. And they keep coming back which is very satisfying hehehe.
Personal Enjoyment: 5/5
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CN (4.3)
733 Chapters Every 124.8 Day(s) 18261 Readers 380 Reviews 03-27-2019
4 Stars Completed: Reread 9/1/2023... more>>
Hmm, I honestly forgot a good deal of all the details so it was interesting at first. But I seem to not be able to feel that happy excited little zing at reading this type of detailed world building + slow progressive step by step levelling up of a crafting type pf power normally would give me. I clearly remember really adoring this story before because of all that. But it looks like the fact that I have read this before and know the general gist of how powerful they will become is kind of killing all my enjoyment of rereading. Sigh.
But I persevered a day later! I'm so glad the story is so long haha. I think my memories of the story got mixed up with the order so what I thought was going to happen happens much later in the story lol. Anyway, I rather enjoyed myself with the lively atmosphere of the story. All my praise and criticism from my first read remain the same so I won't rehash them. For the chapters I read for the first time, C503++, still had the same feeling throughout the whole story. Only some parts were more perfunctory than normal, maybe there wasn't much to elaborate on lol. Also, the Thief God and the Head Principle plotlines seemed a bit too short. Like after the buildup from before, we get some mentions from the Thief God incognito and almost nothing from the Principal before their plotlines got tied up just like that. It kinda felt like even if they didn't exist, all their parts could easily be substituted by some other existing character and there was no need to add them in. Just let the two main characters stumble through or something and I wouldn't notice anything missing. But I can feel that the author did their best to tie up every loose end hah. Except one, so how did the You family on earth have any ties to the main branch of the You family in the higher realms? I don't see the connection there.
The characters are all distinct and vibrant with their own lives, perspectives and goals in life. Not much from the ladies' side, sadly. A bit sad that they don't like to bring the side characters together to continue developing. They kinda stay in their own arcs except for a few that reappear near the end. Also, the cute contract beasts are cute when the story decides to give them some screentime haha. I especially adored the baby turtle. Was so sad he had a relatively short screentime compared to the other contract beasts :')
1st Read: 16/8/2018
C503: 3.6 Stars
This is my 2nd try at a translated Chinese novel. The 1st was Against The Gods which a friend raved about. I got excited and tried it but the MC was such a douche, selfish, and so disgustingly pe*verted. I hated him so I had a horrible impression on Chinese novels.
BUT I tried again, this time with a BL novel in the hopes of not encountering an Every-female-is-wet-for-the-MC situation. And I feel like I hit the jackpot! This novel has a surprisingly good worldbuilding and plot. At least in comparison to the first CN novel I read. And the main couple is monogamous which is such a relief. The MC is smart and capable. Best part, the writing/story can be hilarious which is new.
Sadly, it does have parts I don't like. One of which is the power balance of the couple. I don't like the seme/uke relationship as I don't think its all that healthy or good (Sadly, almost all slash stories use this trope). But at least the couple cares about each other. I just don't like the whole Ling Xiao just having his way with the MC regardless of all his voiced objections. Too much like r*pe to me. But the s*x scenes are spaced quite far apart that I can mostly ignore the forceful undertones and enjoy the story.
Another thing I don't like is how the MC just seems to be not as smart/capable/sneaky when interacting with Ling Xiao as with other people. This is probably also part of the whole forcing against the MC part I didn't like. Sigh. Also, I guess, I feel like I don't know what else the story needs to achive? It feels a little bit aimless now.
But still, overall the story has far more good than bad. Plus, there are so many chapters and exilerebels updatas a chapter every day!!
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CN (4.2)
75 Chapters Every 9.4 Day(s) 3101 Readers 54 Reviews 03-24-2024
4 Stars... more>>
Overall
I enjoyed myself very much. The story's writing is definitely at the web novel level where it's a bit like a trail of what is happening right now without much transition from place to place or scene to scene. But since I love this ancient time, business wealth-making trope, I didn't care and was totally hooked. A unique trait for this story is that the MC starts over more than once, kind of. Compared to other similar stories that go linearly a bit unbelievably from poor villager to business tycoon in the capital with huge jumps, this one is smoother. Also, the time that passes by between jumps in wealth or business ideas is more reasonable. The money doesn't go from a hundred to 50 000 one shot haha. It's interesting. Some parts of the story are too simple and straightforward in the writing and dialogue but others feel more sophisticated in the execution, like the business making, especially in the first 2/3rds. It was also surprisingly quite heartwarming! The moodmaker is the "special" youngest third brother. He's adorable and livens up all the scenes. And happily, the author kept all the original characters from the beginning together in the main scenes until the end more or less. I hate it when characters I like get shoved away after their spotlight.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is at ArchiveOfOurOwn hosted by MelisaGarcia. I don't know who was the original translator since there isn't a group at novelupdates anymore but I read it here. The translation is okay. It could do with another look through because there are a few wrong names/pronouns/missing words but after a bit, it is easy to autocorrect in my head without a pause in the flow. The writing is too web novel for my personal taste. For example, at the beginning, we get a summary of what we need to know for the story in narrative style from the MC. Then, it feels a bit abrupt when we are thrown into the ML's family so fast. Another example is at the beginning, when I wasn't used to it, it's a little difficult to ground myself in what is happening because the transition isn't clear. Like, we will be focusing on a character and then in the next sentence, the MC who wasn't there originally, suddenly says something. I didn't realise until a few sentences in that this was some time later in a new scene. This only happens for the small transitions. The bigger ones with bigger timeskips like weeks or more or between the bad guys' pov back to the MC are clearly mentioned. Also, after the first few times, I got used to it and have no issues at all. I think I liked it because I could get to the parts I liked the best haha. Honestly, don't worry about it.
Pacing
The first few chapters were kinda rushed and abrupt because the author wanted to quickly start the meat of the story lol. Then, it was all smooth. But the second time the MC restarted at a new place was kinda a wild choice. That part was a little bit quicker, probably because the author assumes we get it. Then, the third time was far more quick. Some parts were new and unique but there were more frequent small timeskips and finally a longer timeskip in the last chapter. It could be better but it wasn't actually a bad thing.
Plot
The MC set up 2 successful branches with ideas from the modern world to sell. Then, he started over in a poor county after selling his hard work in the town, improved the entire poor county, made money, sold off all his hard work again, and transferred to a richer county at the last 20-30 chapters. And live happily ever after near the people he loves.
I really like the idea of starting anew at a different place without a fallback base. It gives the story new opportunities to be creative in wealth making in a new setting with different geography and local materials. So the MC can do new things to make money. It definitely didn't get stale. I only wish that the author would make the characters deliberate more and take some time to discuss the pros and cons before they sold off everything they had to travel to the new places. Because when they sold off the house in the village the Ml was hesitant. When I first read that they sold off all their properties that could have made so much money in the future, I was afraid it was a sign that the next parts would be super rushed since they sold off everything in a couple of sentences. I also feel like someone in the family and followers would have shown some hesitation and advice to not sell everything. That would have felt more real.
Themes/Main Point of the Story
I love wealth-making! Lin Lu is profiting by making novel items until the copycats in the market appear, then creating a new thing to sell and repeat. I love how there is always something new eventually. It kept things very fresh. Especially since the business parts didn't feel cheap. As in, the author didn't make the MC just keep throwing ideas over and over very quickly like fast food. There is some setup and a little bit of legway before the new idea is executed in the business so it felt legitimate and real to me. There are different target markets for the different ideas that were thought of by the MC too so it didn't feel like just throwing ideas onto the wall and hoping something sticks. I also like how they stayed in the thousands for a few years because Lu Lin was already satisfied and didn't want to cause more trouble for more money.
The romance, though, wasn't really there. I didn't feel the chemistry much. It kinda felt like the ML was already there, lets build another room for the kids so we can have sex! I can feel how the ML might like the MC but the MC from the start just liked how good looking the ML was and that's it. It didn't help that after we got to know the ML, he felt a bit like a kid and not like an adult until later. They also weren't really sticky in love with each other. Anyway, I just thought the romance was okay.
I love the family though! The scenes were cute and heartwarming eventually. It was all because of the third youngest brother being a kid and adorable. Since he's "simple", "slow" and "special" when we get to know him, he isn't to me. He just feels straightforward and only cares about things that catch his interest which is anything novel and exciting, just like a kid. Very likeable. The MC will keep making delicious food and sharing it with a lot of people and making many people happy. It's nice to read about.
Characters
I loved the characters. There weren't any deep and draggy plotting people but people who are hard-working and love food. If you love food, it immediately makes the characters more approachable, warmer and lighthearted. I love the Chens and the people who followed the MC. They are all nice and cheerful more or less. I also quite liked all the new characters at the new places they started over at. I was quite surprised because usually, the new characters would be friends very fast without the care taken to win each other over properly. The author did a good job. It's a bit sad we don't bring all the side characters from the village/town/county together with the MC though. Only the major ones.
The bad guys are very good and annoying. They are all just relatives who are entitled and super jealous of the couple. I wouldn't say it was the most satisfying to see them not get what they wanted (the faceslapping in the Favourite Ugly Husband is the most satisfying for me haha), it was quite pleasant to read them getting foiled. Sadly, there wasn't really a final faceslapping for them though haha.
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CN (4.4)
0 Chapters Every 79.1 Day(s) 23659 Readers 462 Reviews 07-16-2021
4 Stars... more>>
This is quite a likeable story for me. Its one of the first danmei I liked. The 2 main characters are quite fun and there is so much humour with Shen Qingqiu around. The sad parts were actually sad too. I wish it was more immersive but I think that is just because it had been translated and I wasn't reading the original Chinese. And that the worldbuilding wasn't as big or deep as I wanted it to be but it's forgivable. However, the writing flowed quite well, I understood everything on the first try without having to pause and think haha. I do not like how the ML LBH bulldozes the MC for sexy times whenever something like it happens but I kinda accepted this is just par for the course in danmei and basically skimmed all of that. However, I still like and believe in their romance, even made me have lots of angst haha But still, I like it. And as a gift that keeps on giving, there are tons of wonderful long in character fanfiction on ao3 from this story!
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CN (4.6)
9 Chapters Every 196.8 Day(s) 7715 Readers 100 Reviews 04-22-2023
4 Stars... more>>
Overall
Ahhh, I liked it and then, by the end, I loved the sense of progression and happy new beginning for all the characters in the story in the extras! This story is pretty amusing, pretty cool, surprisingly down to earth, and feel good in a (slightly Natsume Yuujincho helping ghosts-human occurrences kind of way without the sadness) and has lots of worldbuilding in its setting! The little belly ghost is just awww. There are little kid ghosts too! Aih, all the characters are so cool, unique, very fun, kinda tragic but they so easily and happily make fun of themselves that everyone is cheerful too! I also really like how the poor, broke, hell company is slowly, through inexperience and growing pains, developing and growing bigger. They have to have their first ever business development meeting instead of just sitting back and waiting for their descendants to burn clothes and food for them but must use their brains to compete within the mortal realm with other businesses hahaha.
I love the business management trope so this is right up my alley. My only issue is that they don't show the details of their products or the development of their products much. Basically, there is an initial idea discussion, then lots of time passes in other mini-arcs, then a milestone in the product development is reached. The thing is, we are with the characters every day it feels like but somehow we realise the characters have actually been doing product development stuff behind the scenes without us knowing. Would have liked to be more involved but I guess the author was afraid it would get too long. The topic of their business is hell and the management of the afterlife and also how the afterlife is affecting the mortals still living. Since the underworld has combined with the human realm, they need to move with the times and make money to run all their operations! Hahahaha And guh, the romanceee! It's slow burn ish and I really do feel the love and interest the couple slowly have towards each other :) It helps that one of the couple is a Ghost King who's thousands of years old with a personality that loves playing online games, is petty and doesn't like to lose. It makes you curious about, is there anything deeper? Huhuhu
Sigh, after I finished this and then finished another story, I still miss being in this world following all these super likeable characters that just lift the mood. I just smile reading about their antics haha.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is probably from Chrysanthemum Garden. So it's pretty good, no errors. But since there is so much Chinese supernatural culture involved, there are some parts that got a bit difficult to understand. It didn't affect my enjoyment though. Since they deleted the translation on their website, I’ve read until chapter 36 at novelcool but halfway through, I realised the text got cut and a bit in the middle was missing. So I read on Noveltop as well. The editing here also italicises the thoughts of the characters. However, noveltop has strange symbols like k2026; and k2014; in the text. This is probably when they copied from Chrysanthemum Garden, the -- and... were replaced by these symbols. So, I have changed my reading to reading from novelcool. If I notice any weird jumps in the text, go to the same spot at noveltop to see the difference. Unfortunately, novelcool only has up to 58 chapters. So I just read from noveltop.
Pacing
The pacing is okay.
Plot
The plot follows our MC who was planning to lay low in a small uneventful tech company for the 2 months before his graduation. It's only he joined the modern hell company who are broke and have barely any mortal currency hahaha. We follow him as he uses technology to solve ghostly problems with the company and especially, his boss XD Throughout the one-year contract, the couple encounter many ghostly issues and have to solve them. The MC is learning all kinds of new supernatural things in a lighthearted, jokey manner and also, growing closer to the broke ass boss hahaha
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
The supernatural romance worldbuilding the author tried to do is pretty good. I love the supernatural part. It made everything new (for me anyway, I haven't read a supernatural web novel before) and unique! I adore all the many many types of ghosts, there are so many with different lives, a unique outlook on life as ghosts, and all the many ways they died lolol. The majority of the enjoyment I get from worldbuilding utilises all these fun ghosts haha. While yes, if you think too hard, there are so many things that aren't explained to you to understand how everything works but this isn't that kind of super serious story so just enjoy it lol.
The storytelling has this straight man comedy vibe that I quite enjoyed haha. If you read the author's other work, Reborn with My Enemy on Our Wedding, the lighthearted humour is similar, only this one made me smile constantly and not laugh out loud funny all the time. Ah, but the story isn't a pure fluff piece but a proper story if you know what I mean.
The romance is kinda subtle in the first half and then things eventually develop. I really like most of it. I only didn't like that the author dragged out the part where the MC was trying to tell the ML of his misunderstanding that the MC had a crush on the ML. It had stuff conveniently preventing the MC from explaining just as he was opening his mouth. I find this trope super annoying. Luckily, it did finally resolve itself and that during the whole thing, the MC himself wasn't annoyed but felt rather helplessly that this CEO broke boss ML was being very cute. The only thing that saved it for me was I like their dynamic, it's pretty different from my usual gong uke one. This is because the two characters are not taking themselves too seriously and because the MC is pretty confident and a capable person by himself. And that the ML isn't a typical domineering gong but someone who is petty, loves his face as the King (lol) adorably obvious (to the MC, which is adorable and funny XD).
My only wish is that the business part had more details like the level of Transmigration with Lu’s Convenience or Back to the Sixties, Get Wealthy, Raising Cubs. As I mentioned at the beginning, there will be some discussion first, then a couple of milestone updates and we don't really see how or when exactly the MC works on these. Usually, those are the best parts of business management for me. But I am happy there was more detail about the development of the company than I originally expected XD It is pretty fun to read about all the new human hires and their experience working unknowingly (or knowingly) with ghosts. And the last extra where they detailed the new floors and the move was pure wish fulfilment for me, I really like reading how the hard work paid off to improve their lives.
Characters
The best part of the story! The MC is super enjoyable to read. He's funny, capable, confident and a young man who's good with technology. The ML is also a fun person to read about. He's not what you would expect the Ghost King CEO of a company to be. He's funny and cute haha. All the side characters are also super fun and add so much life to the story. Just read for an uplift of mood haha
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CN (4.7)
#34Peerless
97 Chapters Every 100.5 Day(s) 9020 Readers 104 Reviews 01-06-2022
4 Stars... more>>
I read the translation by Dust Bunny.
Very good! The beginning 2 arcs were a little slow because you're still getting to know and like the main characters so all the plot was a bit hard to get invested in but then you started to get to know them, learn more about Cui Buqu, and so slowly it was totally natural, you read how the narcissist ML falls in lurve with someone that's not himself without losing his narcissism hahahaha. There are quite a few chapters where you are in his head as he just thinks about the MC and he alrd was thinking about him from the start (as this rival to pit haha) but he started getting so curious about him and guh so good! So refreshing! Man, this couple is so full of chemistry and personality! The plot was better than most light novels I've read, it had thought, was coherent and moderately fleshed out. The only con is that how the smartness of the characters was portrayed. It was like suddenly a twist happens and the characters are like heh, I have already prepared some countermeasures, plans and more plans because I am super intelligent and a mental prodigy. I can easily imagine that the author thought up the scenario and just worked backwards haha.
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CN (4.6)
68 Chapters Every 67.7 Day(s) 5383 Readers 88 Reviews 07-30-2021
4 Stars... more>>
Overall
Ahh, the romance is pretty believable! At the beginning, you can really feel that they were just new classmates, to friends with zero romance in between, and then, there will be a random thought in the ML's head that shows a progression of good will towards the MC. I so far have not seen in detail, within the characters' heads, how they fall in love. It was always from the outside perspective or that love was love at first sight *rolls eyes*. For example, the delinquent group is having a summer camping trip at the beach, it was all high school youths having fun and then the ML just randomly thought, "How can such a good boy be bullied?" XD Overall, this was a sweet high school romance with a more realistic romance development than usual. It was a little short, had some high school bullying and exams and what not but quite nice. The other boys love high school romance I've read is Reborn with an Old Enemy on the Day of our Marriage. That one had more tropes that I prefer, such as wish fulfillment, heartwarming, making better choices in rebirth, and hard work with friends haha.This one doesn't have any rebirth so a significant advantage is automatically gone for me XP. However, character-wise, the couple is definitely cuter, more vulnerable and spunkier because they are actual high school students haha. Also, the cool, strong, tyrant ML is the one in a bad situation and is super vulnerable and finds a safe and loving space with the MC <3
Writing/Translation
The translation I've read is from ThatLazyPotato. The translation is pretty good. Any mistakes are super, super minor and have only happened like, a couple of times. Otherwise, it feels pretty polished.
Pacing
The pacing is pretty smooth, nothing seems rushed or anything. Maybe some actiony events were a liiiitle faster than expected but this way, you also don't feel like it's dragging. So I have no issues.
Plot
The plot is pretty simple. The younger by 2 years from his grade, smart but low EQ at the beginning, MC was bullied at his previous school. We don't know the details. He has transferred to No. 7 high school and is seated next to the scary ML. Then begins the budding relationship between the ML and his group with the MC as brothers and friends. Then, the relationship grows until the college exams in the last chapter. And the extras are from college and beyond.
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
This is a pure high school love story. The main couple are really high school kids but there aren't any of those s*upid high school shenanigans that make you roll your eyes in irritation or anything like that. The ML does make s*upid actions that if the author had given any warming, I would have went oh, no, don't do it, it's a bad idea, etc, etc and would have reduced my enjoyment of the story but the author didn't! Basically, we only knew what the ML did when the consequences had reached the MC and then, there was a tense, fast-paced sequence of events that was solved super satisfactorily by the MC with some faceslapping haha. Then, there are no more s*upid actions XD
Characters
The main couple are super likeable! The MC is a cute, surprisingly self-confident shou! He was bullied like that at the beginning but with the help of his first real friends and the ML, he got back his childlike and serious deposition. He's a smart guy because he's 2 years younger than his grade so he really thinks through everything, even if he might have had a low EQ at the beginning. In terms of the romance, he is the initiator and really kept up the momentum hahaha. The poor ML couldn't hold on and surrendered eventually XD He's surprisingly quite spunky.
The ML is the strong, of little words, tyrant big brother type. But also keep in mind, he's only 17 years old so there wasn't any unbelievable prowess or amazing family situation. Compared to the MC, his situation is basically on a whole other lower level haha. He's all alone even when he has relatives. The ML isn't a s*upid gong who during s*x just goes with his d*ck and ignores the other person. In fact, it's kinda the opposite, he has to be the mature person to cool down the excited MC and run away lol. The author also showed him being vulnerable and at his lowest point. The MC comes to his rescue as a safe harbour! Even though the MC is still arguably just a kid XD
The 2 friends are also pretty good. I find that high school yaoi will have good male comradery compared to het high school romance XP. The friends feel real, alive and have some heartwarming scenes. They don't exist just to prop up the main couple or to have roles to advance the story.
The villains are there and they are super ugly but after some time, there is a finale to slap them in the face. I just wish we could have slapped all of them, the bystanders and minor ones too. I also wish we could have seen what happened to the ML's relatives, I wanted to one-up them so much haha but we don't see them in the extras sadly. Like hah, the ML got good grades on the college exams, what about the annoying cousin?? Like authorrrr, you forgot this person to face slappp.
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CN (4.2)
113 Chapters Every 49.9 Day(s) 4342 Readers 71 Reviews 04-24-2022
4 Stars... more>>
Overall
I enjoyed it a lot! It was like the right amount of most things. The writing and tone of the story is bright and a solid poor to rich travel to places to obtain things together with friends, cute and smart animals, unique and refreshing setting, wish fulfilment (of making lots of money and then using it to design your desired lifestyle, my dearest wish lol), a not repulsive romance, a system that isn't annoying but kinda interesting, lots and lots of natural environments, etc. Sure, there are lots of minor things that aren't perfect like some sentences the commenters type seem to be a typo because I genuinely do not understand, some transitions seem to the next scene seems to have been skipped, so it's a little jarring, certain minor things that could have been more tight but it's all minor and I don't really notice it. The story is pretty enjoyable to read, not too stressful or bland. I also like how the bad guys really did make me anxious for the MC but the time I was anxious was quite short. It was just a little jump to spice up the story but it is relatively quickly solved so the anxious feeling doesn't have time to become unpleasant haha.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is from Exiled Rebels Scanlations. The writing is pretty okay. Like 8.5/10? There are a couple of odd pronouns in descriptions or explanations but it's not obvious and not jarring. Some statements, like one statement in the scene, by the netizens are not understandable at all but it doesn't affect the story at all. The rest is pretty good.
Pacing
It was all mostly okay and even. Just the last couple of chapters, the author kinda randomly focused on the MC’s fighting skills? It felt like the author actually wanted fighting with plants to be a thing throughout the story but it naturally focused on the contract animals and collecting gratitude points and left the development of fighting with plants to some training and quick fights. But after the main frictions were all dealt with, the author got excited to finally make the MC a strong fighter lol. It's just that the MC’s development was way too quick, only 2 chapters and he's the Fighting King lol.
Plot
The MC transmigrates to an interstellar world with little edible plants where humans have contract beasts based on the symbol that develops on their body. They have a lifelong bond after they contracted with each other. As a person with a plant system, the MC gives off a natural feeling that is calming, gentle and creates a closer bond with contract beasts. The system needs energy from gratitude by others to be of any use or to level up. Also, to save the MC from his death in his previous life, the system broke into fragments throughout the interstellar.
So, we follow the MC to earn money to survive, earn gratitude energy to live better by exchanging plants with the energy to eat and do battle with, and to be able to find the fragmented parts of the system and also make friends to just live better in this world. Along the way, he grows closer to the ML who's the big bad in a book he halfway read in the previous life. At first, he doesn't want the city he lives in to be destroyed and later, he finds the ML to be a nice guy and doesn't want him to suffer so much he turns into a villain.
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
The setting of Interstellar and the whole plant system and the contract beast worldbuilding are pretty interesting and refreshing to read about. I didn't much like all the other interstellar web novels I’ve read before because they were kinda bland? But this had just the right combination of stuff that the setting is a plus. It made the gathering of system fragments kinda fun and exciting to travel to new places. We don't stay at each new place long or explore them in much detail compared to other long adventure web novels but for this type of story, it's nice.
I quite like the whole slowly gathering energy and earning money part haha. All the moves made by the MC to do so make sense. There isn't a random exponential jump in earnings that feels like the author just put it there. The jump in money that did happen makes perfect sense because of the rarity of it all. The progression of the accumulation type of plot that happens here is taken up by the task of gathering all the system fragments. I was not bored once :) It was a happy feeling whenever the MC managed to achieve something haha.
Also, the big money venture where the MC is kinda like a passerby overseer is so cute, warm, and fun to read about. I love the happy, heartwarming feelings their presence adds to the story.
Characters
The MC is a good one. I like him over a lot of other Mc’s or other ukes I’ve been reading lol. He's a survivor of the zombie apocalypse but he's not an emotionless salted fish who doesn't want to do anything. He immediately works hard to earn money to live on and to earn gratitude energy to be able to find all the fragments. His personality is also a thinker and in such a way that I don't find him annoying. He acted like a normal adult lol. But he's also very relatable and it was easy to get invested in him and his goals. He is also relatively compassionate haha. He basically wasn't affected much by the end of the world experience lol. However, this can be a con. I would have liked him to be a bit more desensitised or used to gore and brutality because you know, zombies. But he has normal fears lol.
The ML is a clingy, jealous gong. He has a bad past and lots of betrayals and has latched on to the MC to survive. He's insecure that even this good thing will leave him and gets anxious about it. The MC understands and constantly communicates with the ML about it which is kinda nice. I don't find any parts of him that I dislike :). He's not unreasonable and you understand him too.
The friends and companions are all great. I wish there were more deeper scenes with them but the lightheartedness of this story is pretty good already. They are distinct and don't feel like props to hold up the story. The contract beast is such a blast though haha. Cute and fun.
I love how the bad guys are in the story. They are written as enough of a threat that I feel anxious whenever they do something bad but it is never too long before the bad thing is solved XD.
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CN (4.2)
94 Chapters Every 64.8 Day(s) 3957 Readers 85 Reviews 09-16-2021
4 Stars... more>>
Writing/Translation
The translation by Shanghai Fantasy is not the best but it is basically 95% understandable. Much better than mtl. There are some pronoun mistakes throughout the story but it is not too bad and you can always still understand the story. A couple of name errors, but all good. No grammar or spelling mistakes that I know of. Some sentences are a little bit awkward or could be better but you can easily understand the gist of it. Basically, it is easy to understand and read. Apparently, this was an edited mtl.
Plot
The plot structure is pretty good. It is a basic transmigrator rags to riches story with a happy ending. No face slapping or at least it is too minor to be considered the usual cn novel face slapping.
Themes/What it Tried to Achieve
It sufficiently achieved a rags to riches plot using an interesting skill of makeup to succeed. The makeup medium used by the author was very interesting to read about and how this could be done in ancient China without modern technologies. It was satisfying to see how the MC slowly used her sole skill to improve the lives of her family and even friends. It was a very nice wish-fulfillment type of story without being over the top or too unbelievable.
Pacing
Pacing was good, I was kept interested at all times. Was never bored or thought anything was too slow or too rushed.
Characters
They were all likeable! I loved the MC, her new husband and the new kid. The husband is a good man given a bad course in life. He turned out to be devoted and kinda dreamy with how he quietly supported the MC. The little kid was so adorable that it was a pleasure to read how the MC would earn money to buy him little snakes and good food to feed him, who also had a bad start. The side characters were not bad and nice to root for. The villains were all nicely self-entitled that they made you dislike them. However, they were not particularly memorable, just a normal type of bad guy in this time period.
Overall
The only few cons I have is that I wish we could have read some scenes about their reactions to the success of the MC. Make it a bit more cathartic. The second one is the s*x in general. The whole scene about s*x that were shown did not feel romantic in any way. I just feel a bit uncomfortable, maybe it was the sentence choices used. For the MC and her husband, it felt like they did it, next day, she's in pain and the husband treats her like she's porcelain when he was the cause and she dryly jokes in her mind that he should be more gentle, etc. I personally don't like this type of trope/attitude. But the s*x scenes are really quite few and really quite fade to black so I can ignore them. The other thing was that I wish they didn't include the wedding night s*x scene for Xiao Bai the little kid. We spent the majority of the book on him as a kid and only like 2 chapters on him as an adult. It felt too jarring to read about him on his wedding night lol.
Otherwise, I quite liked this story. We go into detail how the MC slowly made more and more money and then improving her family's quality of life quite clearly. I really really like this trope or making use of modern knowledge in the ancient world. And who doesn't like a rags to riches type of story? This was surprisingly wholesome ish with a couple of sudden anxiety during a bit of action. But it was mostly calming and just need to read about the MC working hard and be rewarded for her hard work. It felt earned. I would definitely recommend it.
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CN (4.5)
408 Chapters Every 27.7 Day(s) 11230 Readers 186 Reviews 05-04-2023
4 Stars... more>>
"[Reincarnation, Historical, Drama, Slice of Life] “Rebirth” novel where the FL wakes up one day with memories of her previous life and beyond that, knowledge that it was a life where—according to outsiderP POV—she played as the villainous side character to her younger twin sister and her Marquis husband. In her pst life, she married the Marquis and ended up being ruined after he discovered that she wasn’t his white moonlight. In this life, with her and her twin gaining memories of their other life, the engagement is broken and the FL has to suffer through life being the ‘abandoned’ woman. Fortunately, thanks to her broken engagement, she ends up meeting her mysterious 9th uncle (the ML), Cheng Yuanjing.
The FL is different from most generic female leads these days because she embodies both traditional and modern values. Stuck in ancient times, she only has one career path to work towards—becoming a wife—and as a genuine perfectionist, she’s more than willing to put in the work to get what she wants. Overall, the characters in novel are very praiseworthy! The author kept their personalities and motivations consistent, which allowed the novel to feel a little more real. In this way, I think the novel is best suited for a mature audience. Especially since the romance is less ‘endless passion’ and more about steadiness.
As for the setting and the plot, the author takes their time introducing this Historical period, focusing mainly on family traditions at the time and how it affects the people in said family. There’s also the Royal intrigue, of course, but that comes later."
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Writing/Translation: 4/5
The translation I read is from Ariel Rain. The translation is good ish. There are some careless mistakes but they don't affect the overall experience.
Pacing: 4/5
The pacing is pretty even. There was always something that soon happens and in between, the tone was kinda peaceful. The ending did feel a tad quicker than most of the story.
Plot: 3.9/5
I loved all the parts before the court or political intrigue. I was super invested in the couple's relationship and in our MC’s struggles to secure a good life. I was less interested after that but still I'm entertaining. It's just because I am not interested in political struggles lol.
Romance: 4.3/5
I quite liked it! There was no passionate stuff or anything but I was super invested haha. It's all due to the MC, really. She's rather different from other girls and it is easy to support her even though she is really not a typical good-person type of protagonist. But it's understandable for a woman of that time period. I also like that the relationship is so based on respect and maturity.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 3.8/5
A typical setting for these types of stories.
Characters: 4/5
The main characters are good. My favourite is the MC. She's so smart, hardworking and a determined perfectionist, making her the best woman of that time period. The best part for me is when she has to work a lot to achieve what she wants. Once she kind of got it and is part of the imperial family, my interest lessened though. Because she doesn't have to actively do a lot of things in each chapter anymore haha.
Personal Enjoyment: 4/5
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CN (4.4)
164 Chapters Every 110 Day(s) 8970 Readers 92 Reviews 12-31-2019
4 Stars... more>>
Overall
This was a fun and refreshing ride compared to the usual web novels I read. It has a refreshing and vivid world/setting situation and a pretty unique premise haha. The powers are cool, the whole book transmigrators all came over to take advantage of the book's knowledge causing all kinds of divergence (hahahaha), the MC and the ML have their budding 2 person world hehe Pretty interesting. Honestly, I kept reading because I wanted to know how it would all end and what would happen to our main characters then. I was also curious about the mysteries of the book's ending and what actually happened/was going on in the original book. My only real issue is that it is a bit hard to follow some of the intricacies or even the main point because of the writing/translation. I feel like I missed out on things that could have deepened my immersion with the story.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is from Rainbow-reads for chapters 1-12. The sentences are not awkward but a little distant feeling. The only errors I found are wrong words that sound almost the same, like aware instead of away.
The rest, I've read from Cha's Spoilerish Translations. The style of writing is a bit like describing what happened in third person even the characters' feelings. A lot of the sentence styles used are "the [action] is done by [someone]" instead of "[someone] doing the [action]". You know what I mean? It feels more distant using "by". While I don't feel as close to the characters as in let's say, the Architect's Assistant, I feel invested enough haha. The only issue is that sometimes, I don't understand what the paragraph is trying to tell me. I can understand all the words and I can even understand the sentences but I feel like I don't understand what is happening in the world. Maybe it's some of the wording chosen, it may be too slang for me to truly understand the context. Also, they use a lot of metaphors to describe things without further explanation, just assume the readers understand on the first try. Basically, I agree with everything writing related written by reviewer Flying Jade. The prose really has some parts that make it difficult to enjoy the story. I can say, I enjoyed the story despite its prose, not because of it.
Pacing
The pacing is normal, pretty even. I did feel that the middle was a bit draggy but that may be because of personal preference since I don't usually like this type of genre much so I might have gotten tired of the genre and wanted something less action haha.
Plot
We follow our MC at the start of how he entered the Abandoned World, the mysteries of the situation there, the awakening of his power and then, the introduction of the ML in his eyes. Moving forward, he will deal with unexpectedly entering the other world, working as a personal stuntman for the ML and trying to live his life in spite of these uncontrollable and life-changing events around him. And you know, dealing with his apparent identity as the big, final, hidden in the dark villain of a seven-book series where there are thousands of book transmigrators(some of whom came over 20+ years ago) coming to mess with him. Along with his secret admirer, ML who is working very hard to insert himself into the MC's indifferent heart.
Characters
The main couple are unexpectedly funny and cute unlike their first impression during the first like 30+ chapters of the novel. They were described as super charismatic, powerful OP characters at the beginning but when you go further, you see the different humorous side lol. Don't have much to say but the mushrooms are an unexpected favourite hahaha They are surprisingly like adorably tamed and cute bears. There is danger but their thoughts are instinctive and simple. Also like unruly children for the MC hahaha.
The side characters are all distinct, not props for the main characters and have their own thoughts, sides, and opinions. There are a lot of factions in this story so the people must be able to stand on their own without needing the MC to validate their existence.
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CN (4.6)
0 Chapters Every 1757 Day(s) 4594 Readers 148 Reviews 07-06-2019
4 Stars... more>>
Overall
So far, I had not liked any of the palace drama/Ancient China royal politics web novels because all the characters including the MC are very dislikable. They are so b*tchy, look down on each other, talk behind everyone's back and are just extremely cruel. In my experience haha. However, this is the first palace/harem web novel I've been quite engaged in. Not sure if I liked reading it but I keep thinking about it. There is scheming and reacting against the scheming all throughout the story. So much thinking and plotting and deciphering of what other people think. The good thing about the story is the MC. She's quite pragmatic and doesn't go out of her way to strike first nor is she extreme. She's also not in your face cruel. What helped made me like her is her position in the harem when she transmigrated into her body, she a lowly 5th ranked concubine that was just framed by someone else for havig and then lost the emperor's favour and was forced to kneel in front of the empress’ palace. So we see her rise from a low position, step by meticulous step, upward in the emperor's affection. This made it easier to root for her. It's also nice that the first look I have of her maids and eunuchs is not them sneering at other people but worried about her. Throughout the rest of the story, blaming and looking down on the other concubines were not their main purpose in life. The other story by this author that apparently had many good reviews, To Be a Virtuous Wife, was so freaking annoying and hateful. The characters are all just ughhh, so freaking two-faced and incredibly b*tchy. The MC there was the proper wife so there was nothing for me to root for since she is already in a position of power anyway.
Anyway, this story is surprisingly a bit philosophical. Some things that feel like they were left hanging or ambiguous seem to be deliberately so. Like what happened in the previous emperor's reign with the empress dowager, what happened in the extra when the MC felt sock etc. The ambiguity of it just made the story feel like it had depth. Like we have given so much detail that we don't want to give everything away haha. I love that the MC will always have these thoughts on the role of women both in ancient times, especially as part of the harem with only one "husband" and in modern times. It's sad how powerless and inferior their lives are compared to men's. She doesn't help because she wants to live but she doesn't go too far out of her way to beat down somebody. I also like how in the extras we are purely in the pov of someone other than the MC. It's surprisingly a good touch and adds an additional layer of depth to the story.
Did I like it? Well, I was engaged enough to finish the story. I don't exactly like it because I think I just don't like harem politics in general but since we have a rootable MC, I am willing to come along for the ride.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is from everywhere. Since the main group is gone, I’ve been reading from aggregate sites and some formatting has run a bit. There are some missing paragraphs too. And I’m not sure, but maybe some footnotes in the latter half aren't there. So, what is there is pretty good. I don't really remember if there were any mistakes.
Pacing
The pacing was pretty much perfect.
Plot
It's a pretty straightforward plot. MC makes lots of small moves with the emperor to increase his favour and her ranking until she reaches the most favoured person in the harem, just under the empress.
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
An amazing imperial harem drama. Lots of scheming and thinking. Mysteries and suspicions are everywhere. Lots of pondering about other people's plans and the emperor's mind in order to protect oneself.
Characters
MC is rootable, calm and smart. She treats this as a lifelong job that she cannot resign from. She will be the best concubine, the highest in the emperor's eyes because that’s her job hahaha. The ML is an interesting one. He's a real emperor who has to sleep with a lot of women and manage the big harem. He uses the women in the harem as just tools. Interesting. So does he really love the MC? Who knows XD. Find out in the extra. XD The other side characters like the harem members are all varied and good antagonists for the MC.
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CN (4.6)
153 Chapters Every 59 Day(s) 10455 Readers 205 Reviews 01-20-2022
4 Stars... more>>
Writing/Translation
The Green Tea translation for like 71 chapters had very good translations. It's easy to read and understand. Then, for the other chapters until the end, all the online translations I could find were just bad. It was still not the worst as I could generally get it more or less but it was still bad. My trick is to just rush through reading, you somehow get used to the badness kind of. The pronouns, 1st pov, 3rd pov, and names, to a lesser extent, get mixed up constantly, so most of the time you just guess who exactly it's talking about.
Plot
The overall plot structure takes place 70% in high school and 30% in university with the extras after graduation and marriage. It goes from the ML being super ferocious and on guard against the MC at the beginning, falling in love with the MC's daily kindness to him, working hard to be worthy of the MC, realising she likes him only when he is his real self, married and has a kid.
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
This story deals with heavy topics. The author tried their best to show how having a mental illness can affect someone and how they deal with it. I love how the ML was shown to experience autism here compared to a previous CN novel, this felt more authentic and not just there as a plot device for the MC to care for the ML. Since you are in the ML's head a lot, you can really feel the difficulties he has living his life. Also, the language being used around it doesn't treat it as an illness to be cured from. The MC's objective is to make sure the ML is happy and not misunderstood by other people, which is why she teaches him about facial expressions and emotions. She treats it like he just needs to learn another language more or less. I very much like this. Even after everything, we still know the autism didn't go away, it's still there and has to be handled by lots of communication and not hiding.
The romance is nice and slow. It really establishes the foundation and setup before they finally admit to having feelings for each other. It was nice, really made me believe in their feelings and satisfying because it wasn't insta-love. I still skimmed all the s*x scenes though lol. I just find light novel s*x to be too cringy and that men, of course, are beasts in bed and women are always tired the whole day afterwards *rolls eyes*. But still, I must say it wasn't that over the top this time haha
Pacing
The pacing, I felt, was just right. It didn't feel particularly rushed or slow. Or if it was, it didn't bother me.
Characters
Really, only the two main characters are fleshed out in any manner. The side characters are pretty brief or only superficially there. The main couple is pretty likeable. I liked the ML more haha. The friends made well, you don't really feel that close to them because there aren't any bonding scenes to feel that they are friends. But well, they are there. I like the 2 caretakers of the ML the best out of all of them. They just love the ML like a son haha. The villains, ugh, I don't like them. Especially how they targeted the ML's insecurities. Surprisingly, this is like the only CN novel I've read where the ML is targeted in this way instead of the MC. The MC's enemies are the family, who are ridiculously self-entitled. But they all get a satisfying comeuppance haha
Overall Comments
I liked the mental health exploration in this. The romance is a slow burn to get together even though there are alrd feelings early on which is nice. Sure, there are some loose ends and plot holes and stuff because it's not perfect, but I enjoyed it for what it does.
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CN (4.3)
175 Chapters Every 40 Day(s) 5619 Readers 87 Reviews 09-13-2022
4 Stars... more>>
Overall
A different farming story than what I usually read. There is more technical gardening information in the book which was refreshing. The theme is also not to get out of poverty but more or less to protect the environment and remove pollution. It was pretty chill.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is from Xiao YunYun Translations. It was basically pretty good. I don't remember any errors and the flow was uninterrupted.
Pacing
The pacing was good. There weren't any rushed bits or slow bits. This is a slice-of-life novel about gardening and plants.
Plot
Our MC is reborn and discovers the system/panel that he can use to see the plants’ needs and status. So, in this new and free life, he explores life outside of a lonely mansion with friends, family and an interesting job (about plants) and along the way, gains a goal to improve the land, air and water quality around him. Along with a creepy stalker ML, who eventually calms down into a super doting boyfriend. Oh, and due to the evolution of the plants, this environment also encourages humans to evolve to be able to understand animals.
However, I did not like the extras about the policeman and his cat. The whole cat turning into a human and then becoming a boyfriend shenanigans is such a lame, cringy, predictable and cheap kind of trope. It's reaally not for me so I skipped almost all of it. The last extra is like an epilogue 4 years into the future.
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
It's a slice of life, chill novel. I think it did that pretty well. One of the points that didn't hit as much as it could for me was the system/gamification. I wish the author really ran with it and put in more day-to-day details into it. The level of detail I wanted is like in the Legendary Master’s Wife. Here, the detail was like one plant by one plant and they don't really come back up much.
The other thing is that I wish the author gave our MC a concrete goal to work for at the beginning and tied in all the subsequent actions with the goal more clearly. In the story, the MC just wants to get a job to help his mother and since he has the system for plants which he is also interested in, to get a job with plants in it. There were no bigger ambitions than that so this goal was basically already achieved at the beginning. After that, the MC just slowly and happily worked at the shop dealing with the plants and the people there. All the opportunities to make more money and investments later on just happened to come by and the ML is the one that implements them. Our MC just reacts to all the business opportunities to say he wants to make the environment better so the business opportunities will help to do that and the ML will make it happen. How to say, I wish the MC would combine the business and his love for plants together into one goal instead of him doing the plant side while the ML does the business side. Because the MC is kinda reactive instead of proactively reaching for something. All the good things kinda randomly happen instead of him working hard towards it.
But sigh, from the beginning, the MC’s life and personality is like that. Only seeing plants haha. So I understood why it didn't fit my perfect mould of a story.
Now for the romance, not my favourite or liking. I pretty much skimmed most of it because nope, not a fan of the uke and gong dynamic, it isn't realistic and it's hard for me to believe in so it's just there for me. It's a plot device to help move the story forward and that's it to me.
Characters
The MC is pretty likeable. He's naive at the beginning and very sheltered in a way, despite his old, sad life. But he explores and grows, gaining happiness and fulfilment. The ML is a bit annoying at the beginning but becomes a typical doting male lead later. Nothing much to say about him. The source of drama and revenge comes from his side of the plot with his messed up family.
The side characters are varied but their screen time is short and frequent so I don't feel that close to the more peripheral ones. The only one I feel close to is the mom. The friendships are all lighthearted and a bit like props to me. I don't really feel the weight of them but this might just be because this story is pretty lighthearted haha.
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CN (4.5)
271 Chapters Every 69.1 Day(s) 6491 Readers 128 Reviews 07-04-2021
Completed Adventure Comedy Fantasy Romance School Life Sci-fi Shounen Ai Slice of Life Supernatural Yaoi
4 Stars... more>>
Writing/Translation
I read the translation by A Wandering Potato. The translation is good. There are some repeated sentences/paragraphs but they are just typos and it doesn't really break the flow of the story. Some sentences are a little bit awkward but they are pretty minor and infrequent, you hardly notice unless you go looking for them. The quality is also very consistent. Overall, I liked it.
Plot and Pacing
Arc 1: Phoenix Man - 2.5 Stars
It was a really typical poor to rich plot taking place in 16 chapters. The previous stories by this author took over 160 chapters. This one is really rushed and short. There were lots of timeskips. We don't really spend much time with the characters. A lot of things from a long period of time were just narrated very quickly in one shot.
Arc 2: Genius Slacker - 3.9 Stars
Much better than Arc 1. The time skips were far shorter and the long ones only took place right at the very end and in the extras. The number of chapters is slightly longer too. The majority of the story is set during 1 year of school. This time, the arc is far more humorous than in arc 1. The MC is shameless too which gives lots of opportunities for humour. A funny arc, quite enjoyable. The faceslapping is kinda mild and quick but a bit more satisfying than in arc one where there wasn't really a villain except the father but he follows the son's order so who cares lol
Arc 3: The Star - 3.3 Stars
Reaaally short so I didn't really have much time to feel anything for the characters, especially the ML this time. He feels like an expressionless old dude lol. The ending was also quite rushed. At first, when I read the first chapter, I wanted to skip the whole arc because I'm not interested in a showbiz genre when the MC and Ml are popular and are there for drama only. But I should have trusted in our favourite MC haha There was a nice plot twist by him hahaha.
Arc 4: Emperor - 3 Stars
This is an Ancient China story but not harem politics but the power struggle kind. I'm not a fan of this because I find it too draggy. But this story was kinda meh. The ML is kinda boring and the MC's character this time isn't really new or interesting. The ML's back story is also unrootable because he's alrd in a position of power and he has good friends in the army. The plot is super simple. There is really only one main villain and he's kinda dumb. Also, all the plotting and palace intrigue were so simple, quickly finished and there was no oomph. There were no feelings of suspense or of any kind of high stakes stakes that should be in this genre because I could feel the protagonist halo from far away lol. Especially since I knew this was a QT story and all the arcs seem to be really short so how bad can it really be. No one would permanently die since there are 200+ chapters to go lol. I really only liked the ending parts after all the villains were dealt with and it was only romance lol.
Arc 5: Little White Face - 3.8 Stars
The beginning half was a bit annoying because the MC transversed into a white face character. Then, he really acted out as one. I find this type of character really annoying so it wasn't nice to read. Luckily, he eventually revealed his strength so there were other more exciting things that happened. This is my first zombie apocalypse CN novel. So it is actually an interesting setting to read about haha. The ML is only okay for this one. For pacing, it was pretty smooth here. There is no timeskip except for the extras and the length of this arc is longer than the previous.
Arc 6: President -
I liked this arc! It was a simple ceo story haha. I love the ML this time, very cute, lovable and innocent! So straightforward just aww The villain here is also the best one so far. He's the constant one making trouble so he built up enmity from me. As a result, the faceslapping feels more satisfying haha.I only wish the author hadn't made him go crazy in the end, it feels like a copout. I also wish there were more detail in the management of the company or in the investing but what can I expect in such a short story sigh
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I liked this arc! It was a simple ceo story haha. I love the ML this time, very cute, lovable and innocent! So straightforward just aww The villain here is also the best one so far. He's the constant one making trouble so he built up enmity from me. As a result, the faceslapping feels more satisfying haha.I only wish the author hadn't made him go crazy in the end, it feels like a copout. I also wish there were more detail in the management of the company or in the investing but what can I expect in such a short story sigh
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CN (4.7)
61 Chapters Every 123.5 Day(s) 12057 Readers 269 Reviews 04-16-2019
4 Stars... more>>
Translation/Writing
The translation by Slow Day is very good! Smooth flow, little to zero errors, no wrong pronouns or weird sentences. The writing is such that it is not too detailed and is quite light. However, it uses simple and light sentences to pack a powerful emotional punch. This is an MTL-edited translation.
Plot
This is a slice-of-life romance so there weren't any high highs or low lows. The buildup of the romance was even and included all the typical happy romantic life events.
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
This is such a nice, fluffy romantic story. The romance isn't the typical cn novel type but it has some substance, was unexpectedly sweet and encouraging and I liked it which is pretty rare for me in lightnovels. It was just light enough without being shallow. The whole atmosphere of the story is like a healing/wholesome story with good friends who will fight battles with you, work that helps other people and a sweet love story. It definitely executed what it planned nicely. Also, I love how when the MC finally caught feelings for the ML, her personality is still the same even though it was her turn to be shy. It was believable. The previous ancient China slice of life romance I read just before this, this cool and unconcerned MC suddenly turned into this alien blushing maiden whenever there was a scene with the ML, it wasn't believable. So this is good!
Pacing
Pacing, I feel has no issues. It wasn't rushed or slow enough that it was noticeable to me.
Characters
I liked all the main characters and the side characters! The main couple were likeable and I loved that the girl was cheerful, confident and bold without being over the top tomboy and yet was still very mature, as expected of a rebirth 30 year old woman. I love that she is genuinely kind. And the ML is so unexpectedly cute for being a tall gentleman haha. He is basically a typical shoujo maiden hahaha The side characters were all nicely written and didn't feel like typical cardboard cutouts/npcs lol. The MC's girlfriends are especially nice. I adore the female friendships in this; they are so rare!
Overall Comments
To be honest, I don't have anything new to add that the other reviews haven't already mentioned. This story is short (finished in half a day!) but fluffy and sweet without being shallow. It will hit you unexpectedly in the feels randomly that I cried lolol I like it!
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CN (4.4)
0 Chapters Every 1899 Day(s) 6942 Readers 150 Reviews 02-14-2019
4 Stars... more>>
Overall Comments
I really love the MC and how he gets his happy ending after such a sad and lonely existence. I do wish there had been more angst from him and soothing from the ML though haha Eg, I wanted more like chapter 37 where his d*ck drawings got torn up by the ML and made him really cry. And then the ML felt guilty. This was my favourite chapter. After this happened, you could feel the relationship getting closer because it's like the MC dropped his guard a bit and the ML realised his feelings more. I didn't care for the smut much because it didn't really affect the romance and it had a lot of top and bottom dynamics which isn't my favourite. At least the MC genuinely likes it so I didn't mind it. Overall, a nice romance danmei I don't regret reading about.
Writing/Translation
The translation at 1stkissnovel . love is pretty good. This is an aggregate website since the link to the translation isn't working. Chapter 6 is bad because the group is promoting their subscription service, so you need to pay to get the polished version. But the rest of the chapters are the polished ones, so don't worry about that. The writing is a little bit more descriptive in the setting than I'm used to in CN novels which are notoriously bare lol.
Plot
It's slice of life smut for about 2/3 of the story before it gets more plotty at the capital. There is a good climax to the story at the end where all the villains are dealt with.
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
Smut and romance haha. This is basically the basis of the story and it definitely delivers that. The smut is pretty explicit and I admittedly skimmed 95% of it because the majority of the smut doesn't contribute to the advancement of the romance, it's just pure smut lol and I am here for the story and the romancing of this lonely MC. I was unimpressed with the last part of the story about the plotty bits haha. The story doesn't show all the plotting that happened behind the scenes, it's all just told more or less or only shown the actions taken, like telling it to a third party. I didn't really feel involved in it because I don't really feel the urgency or the planning or the plotting. None of the actions were really explained and if so, it was all very simplistic. The evidence to take down the villains was just getting the letters handwritten by the villain to the country's enemies, making them caught red-handed this way.
Pacing
The first 2/3 of the story we follow the MC get happier with s*x and romance in a pretty steady way. Then, the last part in the plotty bits, I found a bit slow because I didn't know what the goal of the ML was. I mean, for the majority of the story, I know the goal is to take down the guy in the capital and that they were all doing actions to do so (a lot of which affected the MC in some way for the romance part) but I didn't get how this is going to take down the bad guy. So it was a little boring where nothing was happening in the romance department except going on dates that didn't really advance the romance but kept the status quo. After an indeterminate amount of time, then only the romance advanced right after which the climax happened.
Characters
All the characters here are likeable, even the side characters. I love the fact that the MC is a middle-aged man who isn't conventionally handsome and that he is so cute haha. I love his backstory and his temperament. He was so lonely he planned to commit su*cide, found a source of happiness and happily went after it(d*ck drawings lololol). The ML I didn't like at first, but eventually I found him an okay ML because he loved the MC eventually and became a doting idiot lol. All the side characters were interesting and even hinted at having their own romance. The villains were nicely annoying to the main couple and richly got their comeuppance, although I wish the big bad had more rage shown instead of ah, I cannot escape, so whatever.
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CN (4)
425 Chapters Every 49.9 Day(s) 9009 Readers 114 Reviews 04-27-2022
4 Stars... more>>
I read the translation from Fringe Capybara. I surprisingly liked it because it was what I wanted at the time! Lots of satisfying face slapping without the plot being too s*upid to believe. I also liked that the focus was on being successful and family not romance. The characters were all nicely different and the likeable ones were likeable enough to continue reading. All the plots were interesting to read about. The translation was the best, errors only once in a blue moon and it was very smooth. The stuff I didn't like as much was the stepdaughter of the MC, just all around expected by everyone, including the MC, real daughter and the stepdaughter herself, all expecting to be valued a bit less than the real daughter. But this is just a faceslapping story for me so I wasn't expecting much haha
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CN (4.7)
CN (4.5)
203 Chapters Every 150.1 Day(s) 19388 Readers 414 Reviews 04-09-2018
4 Stars... more>>
This was good, kept my attention throughout the entire story. It was a bit predictable but I still liked it. The side characters were kinda unimportant but you can still feel some connection towards them if only as someone that doesn't need to die haha. The MC and ML were likeable enough. I didn't feel distanced from them like in many other novels. I felt invested in them. The romance wasn't in your face dun dun we are in love now, it felt believable enough. And I liked the ending :) It was a short and inoffensive time reading this story. The translation is good too, sometimes awkward translations can really burst your immersion.
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CN (4)
86 Chapters Every 44.1 Day(s) 2455 Readers 28 Reviews 08-23-2023
3.99 Stars... more>>
"Su Yu is the most streetwise MC I have ever read. It's not just the plot but also the way she speaks and how she builds relationships. Even though this is fiction, I think it is very helpful for anyone who works in an office or who have complicated (family) relationships. Where there's a group of people, there'll be politics. The story is quite realistic in this sense. Su Yu is quite the political animal without being b*tchy at all. Sometimes, I think what she says seems over the top, but she did mention the necessity of being noticed and being thick-skinned. She is not pushy in promoting herself and is only indirect in her approach. She plays politics at a very high level - but we are not surprised because we are told right from the start, the background of her past life." ~sassyzoe
"Su Yu is the definite QUEEN of BUREAUCRACY! This story boasts one of the most pragmatic and real female bosses in existence, not a sweet FL but an adult capable woman with the hability of being flexible in pretty dangerous political times. I also liked the light shed on real historical events that happened before this story takes place and that helped me understand a lot more about the reasons behind China´s deep dive into comunism. We can all despise the misery, death and genocide caused and made worse by comunists politics but those happened and it is important to understand why they did. It is totally worth the read if you are looking for real female power and not for sweet, delicate princess like protagonists."~Lissie Furen
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Writing/Translation: 3/5
The translation I read is from MTL which is not bad. There is a drop in understanding which means you don't really truly get what is happening but for me at least, I could still enjoy it. I actually stopped for a few days thinking to drop the story but thinking that there probably would not be anyone translating the story for a long time, I picked the MTL back up to read.
Pacing: 4/5
The majority of the story's pacing is good. No complaints. It's just the ending as usual that feels more quick than the rest. It's typical of Chinese webnovels though. The ending has more frequent time skips and such.
Plot: 4.3/5
Pretty good. It's refreshing to read a more political/bureaucratic (in a way) type of story for a transmigration to the 50’s era type of story instead of a get rich type. It helps that the MC is so smart and capable. Cunning? So the setting is like that haha. I also really love that all those small-minded take-advantage relatives got tamed by her and became part of “hers”. Also nice is the ML. He feels just like her in a way. I only wish the story also continued after they reached Beijing and all the restrictions were lifted.
Romance: 4/5
The romance is pretty good haha. Kinda refreshing. The relationship is more like partners and that makes more sense haha.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 4.3/5
The setting is a pretty important part of the story. Read it if you want to know more about what is happening among the leaders of that time period. This also meant that it was better for the MC to go the political route instead of the business route at the time. It is also explained by her in the story. Nice.
Characters: 4.3/5
Very good. There are so many different characters, although not many are really delved into, but our MC especially likes to make connections so we get to know a lot of characters.
Personal Enjoyment: 4/5
I enjoyed myself a lot. The score would have been far higher if I had read a proper translation of the whole story though. Mostly because a lot of the titles and group names are probably wrong in the MTL so I don't quite know what they really are.
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CN (4)
299 Chapters Every 29.2 Day(s) 6696 Readers 123 Reviews 02-28-2023
3.96 Stars... more>>
Personal Enjoyment: 4.25/5
I say, like the first 75% of this story was all to my taste! Poor to rich, so much business management, such a hardworking and sympathetic protagonist, rebirth with lots of dog blood, face slapping and yet, also a lot of heartwarming feelings. All good. But then, I don't know why, the author expanded on the whole rebirth/reincarnation cycle situation and it felt too off and kind of broke my immersion. I wish they had just stuck to a simpler end because it was too messy. I also thought it was unnecessary and didn't add much to the plot. It doesn't help that the last few TV shows and movies that Tan Mu was involved in felt less special and too similar to each other. After the Flesh and Blood TV series, he made a military TV series and then a military movie and there wasn't any personal oomph by the MC in them. So when all these hooha about breaking the record tv ratings and ooooh, on par with Hollywood blockbusters in revenue, all kinds of rainbow farts that completely worked for me in previous other MC works, did not work for me this time at all. It wasn't believable at all, broke me out of the immersion and also made me impatient to finish the story because it was alrd near the end. I'm not sure if reading these parts in MTL was part of the reason why I didn't believe in the story haha. Anyway, if it were only the parts I liked, this would have been in my favourites!
Writing/Translation: 4/5
The translation I read is from Iron Tree Translations. The translation is quite good. The only issue is that some words have weird spelling mistakes. In the beginning, some words have numbers in the middle, like "w6rld" instead of "world." It's almost like in the process of copying over the translation to the website, it got converted. It's not too common and didn't affect my reading experience. I read the translations up to chapter 249 before I ran out of translated chapters and moved to the MTLnovel website to finish the story. So, it's readable enough to get the gist but it is definitely not as pleasant an experience as the translated version. I would say that if the translated version is a 9.5, the mtl would be 8. There are constant "I" and "you" mistakes, which got a bit confusing in some paragraphs but not too often. Surprisingly, most of the sentence structure is intact. The humour also managed to get through. But some of the whole rebirth explanation and the subsequent characters’ planning, I am not 100% confident I understood everything. So take that into consideration of continuing to MTL haha.
Pacing: 3.9/5
I say it is pretty good up to where I read the translated chapters. But maybe it was the MTL, I got a bit impatient and kinda lost interest by then, so I wanted the story to be finished more quickly.
Plot: 3.9/5
This is quite self-indulgent, as the author said hahaha. But filled with all my favourite tropes. Poor to rich, business management, family and friend with heartwarming feelings, rebirth and faceslapping drama XD The plot isn't as tight as it could have been, like some plot points weren't followed up later on, such as the Zhang family. I wanted to know if they succeeded in not going bad, and about the Zhang girl, why did she wait for that bad neighbour at the toilet? What was her intention exactly? Is it to help the MC? Or help herself somehow? Her motivations weren't explained or hinted at at all. On the business side, I don't know if the MC made any money from them too. I also wanted more follow up from the chef academy too, money wise haha. In a family-building kind of way. For the orphanage as well, did the small business take off? Are they financially stable now? Was a sustainable ecosystem able to be set up? All these things, haha. Otherwise, I love this MC because he is a workaholic, a perfectionist, super smart and very detailed! It definitely helps with the immersion and I love learning new things. I also liked all the financial stuff thrown in, it felt like the author knew about this stuff and slid it in appropriately. The programming stuff too. I am a programmer and am very interested in personal finance, so it was refreshing to see some realism about these two things in the story instead of, they are so smart they can predict the market, picked stocks and made a boatload of money without actually going into any detail whatsoever. Or you know, they just learn all kinds of programming knowledge, developed a program single-handedly in like a week on an old laptop to capture all the market data and are able to make predictions on the market to day trade and make boatloads of money. This is too unbelievable because that is big data and needs maybe a supercomputer to do all the computing, or at least a bunch more servers than just a laptop, etc. But I definitely believed in the Mc’s knowledge and actions, so I was even more immersed which is wonderful. I like most of the acting stiff too because it felt real. Just my issues with the whole China is great, the military is super cool and everyone should love it, ehhh not my thing. I despise war and military stuff because it causes me anxiety and angst. Also, I'm not sure why the author made the MC do so much military-themed entertainment so close together. Just story-wise, it's repetitive.
Romance: 3.7/5
The romance is quite little overall but when it is there, I enjoyed its development. It is rather slow burn because the MC is just so work-focused and has a very clear line between business and anything else that he believes everyone else is that way too. After that, there is also the fact that he is a highly suspicious person and wary of betrayal due to past experiences so the ML has to put in a lot of work haha. Also, it can be surprisingly very sweet XD. After that, well, relating to the whole rebirth expanded explanation and the romance, it felt like the author wanted to make it a thing. It's just that I couldn't quite buy it. Again, maybe it's the MTL’s fault haha.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 4/5
The entertainment industry is fascinating to read about, with how the various production elements work together to create a TV show or film. Investors and actors and stand-ins and props, all kinds of things. I also like the Hong Kong part because I don't really know what their relationship is with each other XD. ALSO, there are a lot of details about the financial world, business stuff and the entertainment industry, so I’m happy.
Characters: 4/5
The MC, Tau Mu is very rootable and made me quite quickly immersed in the story. He's sad, hardworking, full of regrets, has a poisonous tongue and is good at taking revenge. Despite this, he is a huge softy at heart for his people. I love watching all his schemes haha. The ML doesn't appear as much but he is surprisingly sweet and fun the longer they know each other. All the other characters are super distinct, real, and have a lot of depth and vibrancy. It's just that some of them don't get followed up on after their arcs, which they were active in sadly. Well, this story is pretty long, so...
They're so delightfully super annoying, the bad guys. Sometimes it makes the blood boil in a good way because then you look forward to seeing the MC kick them away and stuff lolol. It is enjoyable to read how the MC takes his revenge on hurting his people.
I do have to mention that I did get a bit confused on their motivations and what part they are playing in the story. Like the bad guys at the beginning, because the MC has no power and if fighting won't bring enough benefits, he will just suck it up and smile, the bad guys just keep hanging around as friends. Couldn't make up my mind if the author was trying to make them friendly or what lol.
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"[Second Chance, Slice of Life, Poor-to-Rich, Modern Day] This novel surprisingly (or unsurprisingly, if you consider my usual addiction towards poor-to-rich stories) kept my interest for so long! The premise of this novel is similar to most rebirth/second-chance novels. The MC (Tao Mu) ends his first life in complete misery after being brought down by the people he thought were on his side. As such, he welcomes his new life with every intention to live better. Unlike some novels though, his main focus is not on revenge. It's to stay away from the bad elements in his previous life — especially after discovering that he wasn't the protagonist of the story, and that even fate seemed to be working against him.The MC of this novel is the perfect-Gary-Stue type. He starts off very strong in terms of skills, and only continues to make himself stronger by taking advantage of his foreknowledge. If you enjoy novels where the main character levels up constantly in terms of reputation, wealth, abilities, etc." - tr*sh_generalist
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