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All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating (3.4 Stars & Below)
All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating (3.4 Stars & Below)
This contains the bottom of the main list, All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating! It was reaching the max limit so I've moved the stories rated 3 Stars and below and all the dropped novels here.
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. Also, I didn't bother to ranked the dropped stories because I don't want to waste brainpower on that. So if I didn't give a rating, I won't sort it.
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.
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. Also, I didn't bother to ranked the dropped stories because I don't want to waste brainpower on that. So if I didn't give a rating, I won't sort it.
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.
Fantasy WorldFarmingTransmigrationCookingModern DayModern KnowledgeDoting Love InterestsKingdom BuildingAncient TimesPoor to Rich
5 Followers
Created: Oct 29th, 2022, Updated: Apr 20th, 2024
Created Oct 29th, 2022
Updated Apr 20th, 2024
CN (3.7)
0 Chapters Every 88.2 Day(s) 1954 Readers 24 Reviews 10-14-2020
3.4 Stars... more>>
Overall
Farming, Business Management, Transmigrate to Ancient Era, Improve quality of life, Slice of Life. This is the same type of story as Transmigration of Mian, Lu’s Convenience, and Favorite Ugly Husband. But I feel it is a bit inferior. The level of depth in the business by the MC is pretty shallow, we don't really follow him in much detail. Instead, he dips his toes into many different business ideas. He sells off the ideas instead. The narration of the story, too, tells rather than shows what happened. The pros of this story are that it is longer than most similar stories, the MC has no golden finger, the cast of characters is kind of big and different even if we don't spend much meaningful time with them, it is not all smooth sailing and there is even death in the story, which is different.
Writing/Translation: 3.3/5
The translation I read is from Flying Lines, Alanese Fantasy. I read at the readwn aggregate website. I believe most other websites have the complete translation too. The translation is okay and readable. There are mostly no grammar or spelling mistakes. However, there are some weird translation choices that are kinda too weird. For like 70% of the story, the men who can get pregnant are just called "Daddy" :) So even adults and elderly people will call others Daddy [name] like Daddy is a title. So the characters will say, "My Dad and Daddy are... " First of all, I didn't realise Daddy refers to gers. I just kept thinking it was a typo because Dad is the short form of Daddy in the English language :) Not to mention I kept confusing the Dad and Daddy characters because I thought they were the same person. Other than that, it's too weird for normal adults who aren't the playful coquettish type, to call their parents Daddy to other people. Then, at the 70% mark where the characters travel to the north arc, the translation started using the word, "childe". And until now, after reading everything, I still don't know if childe means a child, some nobility term or is another word for Daddy or what :) Sometimes, the choices of sentences chosen as the final translation is kinda weird and too modern like the characters calling Bro instead of Brother. Still quite readable, better than MTL, but definitely not perfect.
Pacing: 3.3/5
Most of the execution of the events is even, sometimes to its own detriment. The climax of things is sometimes solved very evenly. However, some conclusions got solved too quickly too. Particularly the final chapter in the extras. There were so many one-sentence conclusions to hanging plot lines lol.
Plot: 3.7/5
There were surprisingly more things that happened other than just farming and business. There was a mystery, disappearances, a disease, some army fights, making a winter, poor province rich, exams, etc. It didn't feel too jarring as well. I could still feel the ancient China vibes from all of the events. However, the story didn't tie up everything satisfactorily at the end. The children's happy ending was only briefly mentioned after focusing on it for so long and the eldest one was kinda open-ended and left to our imagination.
Romance: 3/5
The romance is just, it exists for me. The couple were already married when the MC came over. So they just accept it. There are the usual insecurities, such as both thinking the other is too good for them, and so on. I don't really feel the love so I just went with the flow and assumed that they loved each other. The ML kind of has a weak presence after the first few chapters when he was the pillar of the family since the MC’s body was a fool and there are two toddlers to protect. After the MC came, the ML became more and more a typical female love interest lol.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 3.5/5
Very rural Ancient China setting. Quite typical. When they went to the north, that was slightly more interesting because I haven't read anything with a snowy setting before. And the barbarians' clash was new, although the execution of the arc was kinda shallow.
Characters: 3.3/5
The MC was nice to follow. He's a hardworking person who can sometimes be cute when he's in a daze thinking of new business ideas lol. This isn't used much, sadly. He is also lowkey and really sticks to just being a lowkey farmer and villager instead of haring off to the capital for who knows what. He leaves that for his kids haha. Surprisingly, he doesn't go to live in the town either.
I thought the ML would be stronger when I first read about him. But after the MC took over, the ML became more and more like a typical weak wife type, even though he worked super hard and was a hunter for 5+ years to protect his family. Kinda sad to see.
There is a large cast of characters which I liked. They all have their own personalities and some of them have their own relationships (only as love interests for each other, unfortunately). The unfortunate part is that we don't really get to know them much or develop with them beyond solving one problem for them.
Personal Enjoyment: 3.5/5
I love these tropes, poor to rich, business management, improving the family’s lives, etc so I might be a bit biased. But the execution was a bit too shallow, even compared to other similar stories. And the romance wasn't as investment-worthy. I did like the variety of situations that the MC encountered, even if the story didn't dive too deeply into them.
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CN (4.3)
157 Chapters Every 50.4 Day(s) 9056 Readers 147 Reviews 05-21-2022
3.4 Stars... more>>
"Genius Mecha Mechanic transmigrates into an ABO interstellar world. He himself is from an interstellar world, but one a bit more advanced. The person he ends up playing the role of is Yun Xingze, an enhanced Omega with no interest in mechas. With no SYSTEM to stop him and the eagerness of being a mecha-con, he flips everything over as soon as he arrives. Not only breaking it off with his fiancé, but directly entering the school mecha tournament! The story is primarily a mecha action story? It’s one tournament setting and then another. With the romance and ABO elements mixed in. The story is a very feel-good, weak-to-strong kind of novel." - tr*sh_generalist
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Writing/Translation: 3.7/5
The translation I read is from KnoxT. The translation is readable. There are a lot of awkward sentence structures and usual translation oddities common in Chinese to English translations but no irritating errors that affected my reading experience. No wrong names or wrong pronouns. It could be better but it could have been so much worse.
Pacing: 3.5/5
Hmm, I feel that maybe the first 2 arcs or tournaments were better than expected for a novel even the author said is a pure everything would go smoothly for the MC type of novel. But then, after the MC had to go to the Imperial City for his family, well, all the only good things (the kind of exciting shounen feeling of mecha fighting) were taken out. What is left is a too straightforward plot where the details weren't really executed well enough to keep my attention. Things got solved very easily for the MC, and it felt quicker than all the fighting parts.
Plot: 3.3/5
The plot is very simple and straightforward. This is a pure wish-fulfillment story. It's like those Hallmark holiday movies where it all feels good but the execution is a bit too cringey.
Romance: 3.5/5
The romance took a long while to become official which I actually like. There was instant interest but not insta love. There were also no dumb misunderstandings and the common, oh, the pheremones made me have s*x and all the drama afterwards. There was a hint but it didn't follow through. Good. Got lots of the omega’s legs going weak at the faintest sniff of the alpha's pheromones but no r*pe happens so that's good. However, after they got together, I absolutely lost interest lol. After that, it was all sweet nothings and stuff which was of zero interest to me. Would have liked them to be more interesting as a character and not just the spunky shou and the doting alpha so after their romance got cemented, things would still be interesting.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 3.3/5
It was a very simple setting. Not really detailed. The mechas can be considered the most detailed part of the world. The various uniquenesses of each mecha and how the MC used them to his advantage in each round were interesting. Other than that, not much.
Characters: 3.5/5
The MC was the most interesting to follow just because he's doing all the stiff. His best friend got a surprising little bit of depth and screen time but that was kinda it after that lol. The ML was a bit disappointing, actually. The mystery and buildup were intriguing but as we spent more time with him, he's just a normal possessive ish alpha that's jealous of the Mc’s ex. Happy he doesn't control the MC or anything like that though. It's just that he isn't anything special or surprising. I do believe it's because we don't really see him being proactive or actively doing something. If he did anything, we only know that he did it after the fact or from general knowledge.
Personal Enjoyment: 3.3/5
I liked the mecha parts okay enough (and the romance that was intertwined with it) but after that, everything else was kinda meh. I almost dropped it. I didn't because nothing was bad enough haha. This was as the author intended it to be. A journey where everything goes well for the MC. I liked this part in the mecha parts but in the romance and faceslapping parts, it got too smooth lol.
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CN (4.2)
72 Chapters Every 51.6 Day(s) 2499 Readers 48 Reviews 01-25-2023
3.37 Stars... more>>
Writing/Translation: 4/5
The translation I read is from A Dreamer's World for most of the chapters except the last 3. That one I read from oLiveUzer.
Pacing: 3/5
Rather bad pacing. Most of the story is like short stories of the MC and her family's daily life. Then, at the end of the college examination, things got a bit more exciting with meeting new people and having short encounters with people who were jealous of her, so some short face-slapping occurred. But then the story ends a few chapters later, so..
Plot: 3/5
Most of it was super chill; there was no stress in the daily life of the MC. Quite wholesome. But it was too chill for me. I wanted more action or something like watching the MC work hard to improve their lives. But the family has a pretty decent living standard, all the relatives have a harmonious relationship with each other, the husband has a high position in the army, and there isn't much of a catalyst to spur the MC to improve. We only get that she couldn't go to college after her bad previous life so she wants to do it this time and that was a pretty good incentive, actually. It's just that we don't really get to feel her studying hard or anything in the story. It was too brief and like an afterthought for that.
Romance: 3.8/5
The romance is pretty nice haha. The ML is a reticent, strong army guy but actually is super mischievous underneath. And he doesn't really force anything. It's just the MC who is shy. Actually, I don't like this tired af trope of the female being a blushing virg*n and whatever, but it's not bad here.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 3/5
Normal 60’s china era setting here. With a bit about the army’s housing situation.
Characters: 3.5/5
Personal Enjoyment: 3.3/5
I enjoyed the first half but got a bit tired of the chillness by then. I wanted more spice lol.
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CN (4)
107 Chapters Every 17.3 Day(s) 2180 Readers 26 Reviews 12-13-2023
3.33 Stars... more>>
The Reborn Otaku’s Code of Practice for the Apocalypse is one of my favourite resource gathering stories ever and this is a similar sounding premis.
"[Infrastructure, Farming, Zombie Apocalypse] This novel is packed with infrastructure! The MC gets another chance at life and is reborn ten years into the past, which was a couple of months before the Zombie Apocalypse began. He took this chance to prepare a place for him to live within the boundaries of one of the safest City Zones during the End Times, hoping to create a sustainable living environment for himself and the people around him" - tr*sh_generalist
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Overall
I finally finished a web novel after a long while! I've been in a slump the past couple of weeks and kept dropping so many web novels but I bit the bullet and read one with my favourite tropes even though this has only 31 chapters translated. Luckily, the MTL is pretty readable, better than some bad translations like Tea Novel. That one, I could barely understand 40-50% of it and it was so frustrating to read that I pity my younger, less knowledgeable self. Anyhoo, this is an apocalyptic reborn novel where the main plot is infrastructuring and setting up the world again after the apocalypse happens. I love this type of stories because I love the hoarding and doomsday preparation for the end times type of work, the more detail with gradual progression the better XD.
Writing/Translation: 3.6/5
The translation I read is from Hololo for 31 chapters. The translation is good. Some minor imperfections but quite good. The rest, until chapter 108, I read from the readwn website which I believe is MTL because there aren't any other English translators and the current translator hasn't updated since Jul 2022. So needs must. The MTL is quite readable. I would say compared to Hololo Novels translations, the MTL is minus 0.7 stars. A few characters' names are frequently misspelled, particularly our MC. His name, Ji Cha, gets translated as season tea around 80% of the time. I believe it's because "cha" means tea in Chinese. Also, some of the detail in the infrastructure stuff got a bit lost but it didn't really affect my enjoyment much because I got the gist well enough and these are some of my most favourite tropes so just because there is so much of it anyway, what got lost can be mostly ignored by myself. I will say that I am glad I read the translated parts first so I could know all the characters, names and other details properly first before I got thrown into MTL land and could better guess what it was trying to say.
Pacing: 3.5/5
The pacing is fine for the most part, but as the scale increased, the intimacy of hands-on farming and working for only a few people compared to setting up and opening larger farms, well, the latter part was slightly less detailed because all of that was already shown with the smaller factory farming. The final chapter sums 7+ years of progress in one fell swoop.
Plot: 3.3/5
It did fairly well as an infrastructure novel. There was a lot of detail in the setup that the MC did and I love learning things from novels so that was good. However, other than infrastructure, I feel like lots of small things in the plot that felt like they would be important later on, were never touched on until the end. For example, the MC's and the grandmother's house, the MC didn't do anything with them after the apocalypse started even though it was implied that the real estate would belong to the locals. Next are the ML's family and friends. It feels way too heartless for the ML to have zero reaction to their existence after he joined up with the MC at the factory and after he got all the power needed to try and locate them. He has that little sister and that golden-haired friend who kept teasing him that he seems to have good relationships with at the beginning. But no mention of them at all. I thought there would be some drama with the father later on but nothing. Also, I thought the classmate who helped and directed the renovation of the factory was gonna join the MC as planned by the MC from the start? But it seems there was no mention of him after that. I don't know if I just missed what happened to the guy after the renovation was completed. Overall, I liked the infrastructure part a lot but everything else has a lot of room for improvement. It didn't detract from the infrastructure part though which, good enough haha
Romance: 3/5
The romance is just meh. The two characters have personalities, are proactive in doing their own things and feel distinct. But their romance is just simple and did not draw me in in any manner except maybe a bit at the beginning when the ML was trying hard lol. After they got together, there was no more chemistry or tension and I skipped all the s*x scenes because they are cringey. Anyway, I don't think romance is the main focus.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 3/5
The setting is average. There wasn't much detail about the world, the zombies or what not. The only thing with detail is the setting up of the infrastructure part.
Characters: 3/5
The main characters are okay. I like the MC because he's pretty likeable, kind and hardworking. The ML is a typical ML for me so I don't have much feelings for him. The other side characters kinda dropped off when the scale got bigger. The villains got refreshingly annoying but got rather casually dealt with lol.
Personal Enjoyment: 3.9/5
I really liked the infrastructure part because I haven't read much of it haha. I love poor to rich and societal development or clan and kingdom building tropes so this was nice. It kept me going until the very end. I only wish it was longer with better everything else lolol.
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CN (4.4)
362 Chapters Every 52.2 Day(s) 5611 Readers 148 Reviews 04-01-2022
3.3 Stars... more>>
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is by Hosted Novel. Very good, no complaints at all. Zero grammar mistakes, spelling errors etc. I was invested and I got into the character's head no problem. I didn't feel disconnected from the story's events or characters, which is a good thing!
Plot
The plot was so so. In the end, we only dealt with just 3 (and a half? Kinda?) of Jinxin's suitors. I was admittedly expecting like a whole lot since it was mentioned that she had like 8 "high quality" fishies haha. My impression of the synopsis was of the MC running this highly successful, busy business with many clients in all kinds of scenes. But I guess it is expected because of Jinxin's target requirements, handsome and rich lol. I wasn't sure how all the horrible people were going to get their comeuppance but it was satisfying I suppose. However, I felt that the MC just didn't care about them so much that I didn't feel much hatred for them except for the Ji parents so it was really only them that I felt truly satisfied. For the rest, she dealt with them so calmly and professionally that they also acted less infuriating as in their first couple of interactions that I didn't really get riled up at them ahaha. I liked that everything ended nicely and didn't seem to have any loose threads. Overall, I liked the structure of the story, it has a downtrodden girl, replaced by a badass transmigrator who then proceeds to scam all the bad people out of their money and then get them their karma lol. There were no instances where the MC had any trouble.
Characters
The MC is very calm, smart and a laid-back person personally. It's just that since she is in this situation, she has to work to return home. There is no character growth for her for both good and bad. Nothing fazed her. She is likeable enough to follow. The side characters were interesting for what little screen time they had. The female friends really only got better once she left except for that one person. The fishies were an okay bunch to follow. I kinda pitied Bai Zhou because he's young and most of his problems stemmed from his poor upbringing. In another romance novel, he would have been a bad boy male lead. Song was just a bad guy, no pity for him. The crippled rich dude was interesting and I quite liked him when he was employing the MC. Then, once he got engaged and the retribution started, it became what it is. For him, I didn't feel any hatred towards him or anything because he didn't really do anything bad onscreen to our MC, so I was feeling ambivalent towards him. So the karma towards him was just something for me to read basically. For Cen, he was there for a bit and then only in a few short scenes later. I don't have many thoughts on him. The Ji parents were the ones I really didn't like. So horrible. Their sense of entitlement towards our MC really made me dislike them so whenever they got humiliated, I felt very satisfied. For Jinxin, our main villain, she was just so so. She has no special reason or interesting twisted thinking for opposing our MC or original older sister or for gathering all these suitors. Basically, she wants to be shown love and feels jealous that her sister was more prodigious than her. She was always like 10 steps behind our MC and all the schemes were lukewarm and had already been predicted rather blasely by our MC so there was nothing exciting from her. For the romance with Chen, it was okay. We don't really focus on him much. He is cute and that's kinda it for me lol
Pacing
The pacing was good, neither too slow nor rushed. It felt just right.
Themes/What It Tried to Achieve
For what it was trying to do, a face slapping by a calm and smart protagonist, it did okay. The only problem for me was that it was almost too calm lol. And that the "villains'' didn't act horribly enough on screen to really make me hate them. Either the bad things they tried to do to our MC had so little impact on her that I didn't particularly take note or it all had already happened to the previous original big sister and that the MC didn't seem to have any feelings about avenging this original sister on screen that any face slapping or revenge that happened felt a bit lukewarm for me.
The romance was a bit meh for me. I felt no chemistry with the guy.
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CN (4.6)
98 Chapters Every 131.2 Day(s) 12000 Readers 219 Reviews 03-17-2019
3.3 Stars... more>>
Very cute haha And the humour is top notch. The MC as a character is pretty endearing. And his actions as a male person inside a female body so he only knows the male way of thinking while everyone else treats him as a female makes for hilarious situations. And it's always so unexpected hahaha He's so distanced from thinking of himself as a woman now, so all the common tropes don't enter his head no matter what. So funny lol I stopped here because my craving was satisfied and didn't need to read until the end.
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CN (4.1)
37 Chapters Every 26.5 Day(s) 3031 Readers 35 Reviews 05-14-2024
3.1 Stars... more>>
Writing/Translation: 3/5
The translation I read is from Flying Lines. The translation is as expected, with countless small mistakes. It's much better than the MTL version though just because this is a cultivation novel with all the weird names for everything. And the translation is far more consistent with the naming. The translation is not bad but the writing is. If you've read the author's other novels before, you know what to expect and what you are getting into. It's almost like explaining only what's happening right now. There is zero exposition or introduction or any setup. It just explains exactly as it's happening and expects the readers to know who these people are, their genders, their relationships to the world and so on without explaining.
Pacing: 2.5/5
I dislike how the characters make major decisions as if they were minor ones. Big, life-changing decisions like leaving everything they knew and people close to them behind to explore a new world were made just like that and immediately in the next few sentences, they are off without even talking to the relatives they are leaving behind. No discussion, nobody trying to convince them, nobody worried for them, nothing. It feels too unreal. So the pacing is like this. It is very, very even. Big events and small events all happen at the same pace it feels like. A couple of arcs that looked important concluded rather quickly while most arcs weren't really given the care and love they deserved.
Plot: 3.7/5
I have no idea how to rate this lol. It's a simple, self-indulgent, weak to strong story but the author added all the cultivation concepts in here. The execution of the story is so bad. There were so many characters in the Xiao family that had the spotlight and then were abandoned and forgotten for so long that I kind of forgot their personalities and stuff when they came back. And then, the author added some random skills to them or just forgot about their original skills, except the cooking skills of the youngest son. Argh, there were just so many characters who have their own special physiques that the author just randomly chose one to give some focus but not the rest. Like the thunder immortal tree and fruit for Lei Xuan but nothing for the ML's fire yang body? There is also Xiao Fan, he was pretty good at refining weapons at the beginning, but this never got expanded upon later. He just dropped out of the story after he married the guy. Arghhh, the execution is all over the place and so messy. I have so many complaints. Like that huge chunk of the story after the MC ascended to the Immortal Realm, it suddenly became a Long Jingtian-centric story. So annoying. And and and, what happened to the second brother's side of the family? After the Mc left the city to explore the world, they got forgotten for a long time, then came back into the spotlight for a bit, then were completely forgotten until the end. So... they were just left in the lower realm while the rest of the Xiao family ascended? Alsooo, what about all the grandkids?? They got mentioned but never expanded upon. So the MC and his kids' generation ascended but their kids' kids were left alone in the lower realm?? I cannot fathom the characters' personalities or what is important to them anymore. Are the grandkids not important enough for any consideration from the main characters? I didn't think the MC or his family were that kind of people but there was zero mention of the grandkids. So it felt like the character settings got broken -.- none of the characters were really good people either, if you think about it carefully sigh.
Romance: 3/5
The romance is so meh for me. In the beginning, when they were just farming to make money, there was some small interest. But when they started cultivating in earnest, the romance just fell off. When they reached the Immortal Realm, it was gone completely. It feels like Long Jingtian became the MC instead of our MC.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 3/5
The world is pretty big and there is a lot of stuff. But we never explore anything properly so there isn't much sense of wonder in exploration or worldbuilding. There also isn't any fantastical and beautiful vivid sceneries normal to cultivation novels, sadly.
Characters: 4/5
The main characters are just meh. When the cast of characters was smaller, they had some depth. But the further it goes, the blander and shorter the page time they have. They feel more two-dimensional than before.
Personal Enjoyment: 2.5/5
I quite liked Transmigrating to the Ancient Times with Lu's Convenience by the same author! I liked how the business management was handled, it was not too fast, detailed, interesting and gave constant new ideas so it wasn't repetitive. I also adored one of the kid character. So I read the first few chapters of this and it seemed the same setup too lol. There are kids at the beggining too and they have more personality than other similar stories.
Sadly, I long ago wanted to stop reading. But I spent so freaking long collecting experience points and SP to unlock all the chapters in Flying Lines that weren't available outside that I couldn't bear to not reach those unlocked chapters (The last 200+ chapters. I long wanted to stop at like 300 ish sigh). I found the beginning just okay and even felt some interest in the whole wood and earth potential thing. I was hoping for some cool things to use to farm and make more money, like that earthworm and other demonic beasts. But we shifted focus away from that and went full on cultivating everything. Also, everything happened too quickly. There was almost no impact of each achievement. All decisions were made without any discussion or consideration of the fact that they would be leaving people with whom they had worked closely behind. I have so many complaints that I'm too overwhelmed to write them all. lol. There is such little detail on how they executed anything. How did they get the shop locations, where exactly is it? What does the surrounding area look like? How did they even know about the place? I would like some help imagining the story, please. Also, there were some missing chapters in the translation. So that was annoying.
My favourite parts were only the first part until they left the first city and the last chapter, lol. They were more grounded and straightforward, so the clumsy execution had less of an impact and the story was tighter. We had more intimacy with all the related characters too. Plus, most of my favourite tropes were there. Family, poor to rich and business management. The last chapter, we had like one last scene about the character's real feelings again.
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CN (4.5)
99 Chapters Every 25.3 Day(s) 5220 Readers 68 Reviews 05-06-2024
3.06 Stars Dropped: C114... more>>
Writing/Translation: 2/5
I read until chapter C28 the translations from Beauty Brute. Pretty readable. A bit awkward TL here and there which was a bit hard to get but still overall readable. The rest I MtLed using Google and Safari translations. It was okayish readable. You can get the gist. All the examination terminology is shot though haha. But they don't really go into detail so I just understood them as another exam.
Pacing: 3.3/5
Chill and slow.
Plot: 3/5
Pretty chill. Everything tr*sh_generalist reviewed, I agreed with. Not quite to my taste because at this point in the story, I feel that the main goal of the MC was long achieved so his trying to pass all the higher exams feels boring. And also, I don't get why he wants to. The motivation of the MC is a bit wavy. He was an obstetrician in his past life but he somehow has no drive to continue the doctor route even though he already has half a foot in there in this life but he wants to go the scholar route with economy, math, and calligraphy for some reason. The plotting wasn't really tight if you know what I mean. Also, these people are very mild lol. As in, all the would-be bad guys don't really do annoying stuff before they stop lol. So no face-slapping here.
Romance: 3.3/5
The romance is a typical BL one.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 3.2/5
I might have liked the world better if there were a proper TL. As it is, all the jargon was untranslatable lol
Characters: 3.3/5
Personal Enjoyment: 3.3/5
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CN (4.5)
95 Chapters Every 68.1 Day(s) 5770 Readers 78 Reviews 09-07-2021
3.05 Stars... more>>
Writing/Translation: 3.5/5
The translation I read is from WJM-MTL until chapter 45. The translation is edited MTL and you can tell. The sentence structures are awkward but still readable enough. At least the translator provides footnotes for references that English speakers won't know.
The rest I read from Midnightrambles. Their TL is much better. There were almost no parts that were hard to understand.
Pacing: 3.3/5
The beginning 27ish chapters were starting to get too slow and too overly fluffy for me. I almost dropped the story at that point because there wasn't a hook to keep my interest since the romance was a bit too slow and too cliche. I wanted more drama from the rebirth portion. Fortunately, we start getting more of the antagonists a few chapters later.
Plot: 3/5
The plot is very simple, cliche and predictable. I would say the story is 75% romance and 25% handling the bad guys. The romance part was interesting to follow at the beginning but it was so slow that I was impatient. Also, I admit it got a bit cringy to fully read so I skimmed a lot of it later on.
The bad guys also had zero interesting plot twists or suspense because this is a pretty short story. All the things got solved right after. It is also kinda sad that most of the tools of the main bad guy were high schoolers and only one adult. Until now, I'm not sure if I missed it but I don't get their main motivation. Money?? Power? It seems too vague. It seemed a bit too personal for me
Romance: 3.5/5
The romance is okay. I like their relationship. It just got too fluffy for me to read so I skimmed a lot.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 2/5
It's just a modern world, high school with a shallow portrayal of the rich family type of setting. I say shallow because the intrigue wasn't that deep or mind bending or what. Plus, most of the characters are only high schoolers. We don't even get much from the other rich families or even the MC's family. I see no uniqueness between the families. Kinda bland.
Characters: 3/5
The main characters are okay. I like the MC because he's hardworking, smart but he can still be cute. I just wish he would show it off far more than the little we got. The ML was a typical doting stoic ML who, since he's young, is in the cute stage lol. The mothers were nice. I wish we had more from the fathers too.
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CN (4.5)
339 Chapters Every 51.6 Day(s) 22477 Readers 731 Reviews 11-04-2022
3 Stars... more>>
It was okay I guess. I thought the seme was way too sketchy, jealous, OP, stalkerish(waaaay too stalkerish) but it was an entertaining enough read. I mean, I finished the whole story so you can say I did like it. I liked that there were so many worlds and the main couple had so many types of characters to put on.
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CN (4)
116 Chapters Every 53.5 Day(s) 3123 Readers 56 Reviews 03-14-2022
3 Stars... more>>
Overall
I must say, the story isn't as comforting and chill as I was expecting. Honestly, this feels like a more snapshot-esque, far shorter, lower-intensity version of Back to the Sixties, Get Wealthy, Raise Cubs. The characters are less vibrant and have less personality than the ones in the other story. There is less detail in everything as well. Kinda meh about it overall, but I was at least engaged enough to read until the end.
At the first part, the bad guys are super annoying! Since the bad guy is the sister-in-law, they live in close quarters, so they have a lot of page time : (. The MC is a tolerant and side-stepping kind of person so there isn't any faceslapping from her boo. The faceslapping isn't satisfying because the bad guys don't learn or understand it. After the initial fear and alarm of the faceslapping, they very quickly become more entitled. Like punching cotton. Haih, the suffocating tight feeling of annoyance is present throughout most of the story because the faceslapping is not thorough enough to clear the air. When the final, more satisfying faceslapping happened, it took a few chapters to complete. And there were some time skips before it was done. Haih, why got time skip willy nilly.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is from Shanghai Fantasy. Very enthusiastic but the translation is still kinda eh. Better than MTL, but not good. There are quite a few sentences where I don't know who's who or their feelings towards anyone, that I just don't understand. I can somewhat decipher the sentences but don't wish to use my brain so much. Until the end, not sure if it's a translation issue or just the writing, but I still don't understand some paragraphs. It also has a lot of pronoun errors. And random repeated paragraphs. And sometimes, there are 2 paragraphs of the same meaning but explained slightly differently, not sure if the translator forgot to delete the other one. And missing double quotes for dialogue sometimes. So, sometimes I don't know if the sentence is someone thinking or if it's dialogue.
As for the writing, the style is not quite in the head of the MC every single chapter. I feel like this story is written in such a way that it is just depicting the lives of people in that time period that just happen to be the MC and her family. It doesn't follow them 100% of their lives but will pick important events to show. So you don't feel as close to the MC as in Back to the Sixties, Get Wealthy, Raise Cubs. Especially in the last ish parts of the story. Personally, I don't like the author's style of introducing a bold idea for someone to make money, doing some setup/decision making for the business, then writing a few paragraphs of what happened regarding the business years in the future, which is basically, became a tycoon and made millions of money, then come back to present time to resume the business idea. I feel like the flow is interrupted all the time.
Pacing
The beginning is surprisingly quite slow. It took 16 chapters for the couple to meet and agree to be married. They finally get married in chapter 25+. Lol. The pacing is a little weird because we don't follow every single day-to-day life of the MC but the main events we will go into detail, then skip some months or half a year or almost a few years before we go into detail about the next big event. Sometimes, I feel that the event is too long lol. Like the weddings. Also, in the same chapter without any section dividers, we can go from one scene to suddenly years in the future without realising it. The timeskip is not clear. I feel like the story is a journal instead of an in-depth story.
Plot
I feel the ending ish of the story focused way too much on the side characters. Especially for the youngest sister-in-law's wedding. The pov wasn't the MC anymore but the side characters. I like them fine but I'm not that interested in their wedding details or the romance they had.
Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve
I thought there would be more business ideas but that honestly isn't the major part of the story. The business details are there with planning, projections, profit and stuff but we don't go into the day-to-day or the nitty gritty of it all which is sad. At the end, lots of the relatives were given ideas to make money. The execution of the business idea felt too unrealistically smooth. There were no true objections by the old fashioned relatives. I would have thought that there would have been more pushback or some diversity in how they reacted. It was too much wish fulfilment at the end. Especially like the eldest sister and her husband. Their characters until the end, are too rural and too easily bullied to handle something like a high-end luxury hotel. The business and the people are too clashing.
For the romance, unfortunately, in bed, the MC is that shy blushing wife that the husband will go crazy in bed for. When she says anything discouraging in bed, the husband gets even more excited about doing it. So the next day, everything aches and the MC angrily beats him. But the husband just grins and takes it as a joke and congratulates himself by saying overindulgence is also good *rolls eyes hard*. Other than that, the ML is pretty good as a husband. I actually like his personality here more than the ML in Back to the Sixties, Get Wealthy, Raise Cubs because over there the male ego, daughter adoration is worse lol.
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JP (4.5)
416 Chapters Every 98.4 Day(s) 24328 Readers 193 Reviews 06-23-2020
3 Stars... more>>
Hmm, the first book was quite bad where all the characters didn't quite make sense and it was hard to really identify with Iris though this may all just be translation issues haha. Moreover, all the ideas Iris gave out just seemed to be completed very fast one after the other that it felt too unbelievable.
Moreover, some parts were left up to the reader's imagination too much or just weren't elaborated such as how on earth did Tanya become basically a leader of an elite spy organisation? I mean I can kinda believe it when it shows her increasing capability in investigating from Milo and Dean's conversation but then how did she get so many people to spy for her? And even loyal enough to just go off to infiltrate overseas in another kingdom in super short time. Her spy kingdom was the most unbelievable.
Other than that, there were some lose ends such as her friends love interest and what happened to Dawson? The Knight's son person. Also, a lot of what happened in the beginning was similar to Ascendence of a Bookworm although it way all just be a common trope thing haha. But Bookworm did it much better so it kinda lowered my opinion on this. Also, I thought the romance were kinda insta lovey and the chemistry was average. Otherwise, all the character backstories were quite good. And the first prince was not what I expected which was nice. Iris' loyal servants too.
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CN (4.3)
244 Chapters Every 51.4 Day(s) 11791 Readers 230 Reviews 01-02-2021
3 Stars... more>>
It was pretty average. What you see is what you get. The character development is nonexistent though.
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CN (4.5)
13 Chapters Every 41.1 Day(s) 1725 Readers 27 Reviews 09-25-2021
3 Stars... more>>
Cute story but super short, too short.
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JP (4.6)
13 Chapters Every 22.3 Day(s) 1347 Readers 10 Reviews 07-24-2017
3 Stars... more>>
Overall
Well, that was an experience. Not sure what to say. I only came across this because it has the award-winning tag on novelupdates and I wanted to know about the mystery of it all. After reading it, uhhhh, maybe the themes were too high-level for me to understand lol. And for the majority of the story, especially Taku’s part for all chapters except his last chapter, I felt annoyed reading it because I wanted to follow the pov of the investigator, not him. The premise of the story was that 4 students were bullied by 1 student. Taku, the most popular of the four, committed su*cide and left a will not to believe anything Taku said. All the chapters in Taku’s pov are hard to understand. In the way that they say/act one thing, then the response is something else and I’m lost. Even now, after the end, I don't think the weird flow is due to the writing, not part of the plot. Everyone is talking about the twists but I don't feel oooh so THAT happened or anything. Because I felt too confused the whole way to when the twists were revealed, I just went oh. Okay. Lol. Eh, not impressed. The adults were all weird. The principal seems in his own head and has some mental issues to really believe in this absurd grading system. The mom sounds batsh*t insane after the death. So not only are the middle school kids alrd in their own world, even the adults are floating somewhere. The whole story feels like it is not real and is just a make-believe world when I was expecting something super serious, profound and intellectual because of the heavy topics. I just feel that they tried too hard.
Sigh, I think it would have been much better as an anime or something. They can hype up the mystery and suspense and make the emotions more intense with audio planning.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is from Hellping. The translation is hosted on the novelupdates forum lol. The translation is kinda okay. There are some mistakes, especially in the last few chapters. Lots of, he told me, when it should be, he told him.
As for the writing, I couldn't take half of it too seriously because in Taku’s pov, he kept using chuunibyou words so seriously that I couldn't take him seriously. He's in this situation but he keeps using the words "revolution" and "my happiness" as if it's something important that people should be paying attention to.
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JP (4.5)
3 Chapters Every 768.8 Day(s) 11639 Readers 108 Reviews 04-09-2024
3 Stars... more>>
It was okay. I actually felt something with the MC and the hero.
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CN (4.3)
100 Chapters Every 40.8 Day(s) 6925 Readers 49 Reviews 12-08-2022
3.5 Stars - Dropped... more>>
Hmm, the MTL is awkward to read. Got a bit bored at this point ahaha Probably because I am not used to the infinite flow trope and didn't know what that was at this point in time.
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CN (4.4)
90 Chapters Every 116.9 Day(s) 12537 Readers 167 Reviews 08-02-2019
Dropped: C61... more>>
Overall
I am satisfied at this point in the story. I'm not really interested enough to follow any political shenanigans. I feel like the HE is more or less alrd reached with the MC being able to stay human more now and he dealt with his dad and mum. He also got his business now. Admittedly, I’m also losing interest in the carving as well because there aren't any proper techniques that I can learn something new from. It's all using lots of descriptive language to show the results of the carving, not something more detailed. The growth from knowing nothing much to being amazing is also all over the place, and the MC himself isn't interested in going that direction anyway. He simply wishes to carve the ML and himself in order to reclaim his human body. Not much motivation to improve other than that.
Writing/Translation: 3.5/5
The translation I read is from Rainbow Mushroom. The translation is pretty good with some minor spelling mistakes or missing words
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CN (4.1)
107 Chapters Every 44.4 Day(s) 4478 Readers 50 Reviews 08-01-2022
On Hold: C41... more>>
Overall
Hmm, the beginning parts were very interesting. The MC has language issues, is a pet, his powers are relatively little and he can purify the impurities in the food and calm/increase the spiritual sea of people. So there were so many interesting things he was working hard to do and improve on like communicating with the ML, learning about the impurities in the world, making money etc. But then, he levelled up too fast for me. Already three times. And he can speak and turn into a human now, within 41 chapters. The curing of the ML’s spiritual rioting and the upgrading of his spiritual sea had also been completed by the MC already. And the ML has now gone completely gaga over the MC so all the things are handed to the MC. My level of interest and curiosity has gone down because what does the MC have to work hard for anymore? He's now working hard to be "independent" and is worried about being too special and wants to show he is an intelligent being that isn't experiment worthy. And so won't tell such things to the ML. But we know from the ML’s perspective that anything that happens will be easily fixed by him because he's the highest power now, so the MC is working hard, kinda uselessly. I wanted more of him finding ways to help the spiritual seas of all the citizens but the Mc’s goal in doing so is to earn money so he can live in case the ML loses interest in him. Which we know is unnecessary because the ML alrd connected his account to the MC and has fallen in love with him. All sources of conflict were quickly solved. I find all these goals too unnecessary. Also, I don't really notice the age difference until I stop to think about it. The MC is 20, but all the other characters believe he hasn't reached adulthood yet. The ML is 35 y'all. 15 years' difference. It's a little iffy to think the ML fell in love with 1) a pet and 2) someone he himself believes isn't an adult yet when he has like 15 years of experience as an adult over the MC. I don't get why the author made him so old.
The translation I read is from Exiled Rebels Scanlastions. The translation is normal for this group, above average but with some minor mistakes.
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CN (4.2)
113 Chapters Every 83.7 Day(s) 4152 Readers 78 Reviews 12-20-2020
3 Stars - Dropped... more>>
I skipped to the last few chapters lol because from chapter 68 and after the original MC left the plot, it felt kinda aimless haha. And I wasn't that interested in love shenanigans by then soo...
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KR (4)
373 Chapters Every 86.5 Day(s) 18480 Readers 164 Reviews 01-17-2021
2.9 Stars - C132: Dropped... more>>
Kinda average. A pro is that there aren't any harems or vulgar ecchi-ness as far as I've read. But I feel that it can get boring because the MC doesn't really have anyone else with him. Only through messages which don't promote any bonding to be interesting for me. Also, some things are glossed over but you are expected to care, such as those people in the Hell difficulty in the 1st round dying even though we barely got past their introduction and also those people in the 18th round where there were many paragraphs just saying the MC chatted with them, drank with them, played together with them and so it is just assumed he got close to them in like 2 weeks without showing us. And then they all got killed. So objectively, I know I'm supposed to feel bad but in reality, I just wasn't invested?? Or cared? They were just some random NPCs to me as the reader so... You really have to like the MC to go through with the story.
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CN (4.1)
136 Chapters Every 41.1 Day(s) 2341 Readers 40 Reviews 09-10-2022
2.7 Stars... more>>
Overall
I feel disappointed because I really liked the Pheasant Makeup Artist. But the details of the doctoring are woefully vague with only the general gist thrown in. For being someone from an experimental lab with modern medical knowledge, she just uses taking the pulse to somehow diagnose diseases. The herb knowledge + farming medicinal herbs was not explained or expanded at all. It was just given like a summary. The MC describes the various herbs she needs the ML to find from the mountain. There is no further explanation. The author will give the MC general modern medical knowledge and these things are deemed good enough for the story like CPR. I expected something more fancy. I also, reeeally disliked how the author really dives into the idea that the son is a fatty sthick. The connotation of fat = insult is deep in my bones so every single time the MC calls her unborn child, fat, little fat man, little fatty, fatty, I keep imagining the body of an obese person with icky massive folds of fat. And since she kept saying little fat man, I kept thinking of the baby as an obese adult man. It's a baby, why keep calling it a man? Also, they know being too fat is a negative because they keep saying they are too fat and you won't get married! I also don't like the decision to make the mother and unborn child in her womb so combative. The author even made it so that the unborn child seems to understand what is happening outside. So when the MC scolds him in the stomach, the baby will kick. Then, when the baby is born, this combativeness continues. And the baby is smart and cunning enough to be sly. And he seems to understand things as if he were not a baby. So this made his baby actions incredibly spoiled which made me dislike him. There was this whole thing about how the kid loves to fake cry to get what he wants and the MC sees through that and scolds him. This whole dynamic and the choices the author made are just weird. Why make him so unnaturally smart and why include this combativeness between mother and child? Furthermore, I’m not a fan of letting 3-year-olds pretend to do adult things like hug other kids and kiss them like adults. Or pretend to drink wine and be so proud of it. It's edging into pe*verted territory for me. I don't understand why the author added those things. It's not cute, heartwarming or funny. Other than that, I am unsatisfied with how Xiao Shitou was handled. He was six years old and the couple agreed to raise him. So, why is he considered a brother instead of a son by the couple? At first, they were acting like parents but then he became the uncle to their unborn child. And then, he just fades out of the story after the child is 3. I thought since he was adopted, his development would also be focused on but we only get a summary at the end. Basically, this story is really very web novel-ly. Not really real.
Writing/Translation
The translation I read is from Shanghai Fantasy. The translation has many pronoun errors but is otherwise perfectly readable. There are some pauses when the pronouns switch but I can easily substitute in my head. I am a bit confused about how the pronouns weren't fixed because the translator seems to really read through the story whilst translating. So shouldn't they easily notice the wrong pronouns? Eh. There are also some footnotes at the bottom. The writing is pretty simple and straightforward, with almost no complicated idioms for being located in Ancient China. No awkward sentences either because it's so straightforward. What you see is what you get.
Pacing
The pacing is a bit eh. The beginning was a little slow when the story was setting up the romance, okay for the 2/3rds in the middle of the story, then, it was jumpy at the end where there were a lot of timeskips.
Plot
We follow the MC's stay with the ML for a few chapters, gets subtly seduced by his goodness and his food, breaks with him to move to the city by herself as planned from the start, realises she really misses him and likes him, comes back with lots of money. Then the fun business part of the story begins until the annoying pregnancy and the addition of the weird mother-son relationship spoiled the story for me. After that, the business expanded which was mildly interesting. There weren't many details except that they did it though. Then, the ending was kind of rushed. The extras summarise the youngest daughter and the son. The last chapter was about the couple dying of old age if you wanna skip that. I really don't like those scenes. Can't we just get a happy ever after into the sunset? Why put in the end of their lives?
Characters
The MC was a refreshing change from other similar novels. She's strong and thinks things through. I also like that she knows medicine. My only issue is her weird, combative relationship with her son. For the ML, I think he is adorable, especially at the beginning. Then he became a husband, and he no longer appears to have any conflict to deepen his character. He just became that husband s*ave. The side characters are just props for the couple. They don't feel real other than to give the couple someone good to befriend. Especially the friend of the MC from the city. They became friends way too fast on the premise of 2 meetings because "their outlook and temperament are the same". I’m like, where? How? What is the same? The lady sounds exactly like a rebellious rich lady while the MC just wants to make sure her shops succeed for her family. What is the same? They haven't talked about their beliefs at all, so how do they know they are similar?? *Rolls eyes* For the son, I found him too unnaturally smart. It's too off for me. Also, when he was unborn and as a baby, his intelligence made me feel that even though he's just a baby, he knows what he is doing and is acting like a spoiled brat in front of the MC that I wanted him to just go away. I wish Xiao Shitou was the son instead. He's cute, smart, has a bad past and they could have built on that. Too bad he got sidelined later on.
The villains were meh. The face-slapping was so mild and not satisfying. The young master suitor has so little presence. After the main brush off, he takes it resignedly and goes back home just like that. No more drama when the couple sets up shop in the city. For the second aunt, after she gets muted for four months, she comes in to try to let her son be a teacher at the school, gets rebuffed mildly, and never appears again. The eldest son that was studying just appeared once to look down on the ML at the beginning and then never appeared again. I was looking forward to some drama there for some spice but nope. We don't get any conclusion for that side of the family in the end. The ending for the youngest daughter was too quick and out of the blue.
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CN (4.6)
213 Chapters Every 64.5 Day(s) 8150 Readers 92 Reviews 09-30-2021
2.5 Stars - Dropped... more>>
Hmm, this seems like a fine story but I don't feel all that excited about the sport because it isn't all that interesting. At first they just didn't explain it so I had to google LOL and how it works. So I understand a very basic structure but there are still many terms I don't understand, like Heads, the row of apparently spawning soldiers that maybe belong to each side that attack the other's base (?) and economy. Also, I don't understand what all the buffs do for the team or what a jungler's rhythm is or how it helps the team. It is okay to read it but there is no excitement in it for me, even though I love underdogs. It's just the main group has too much of a protagonist halo for me to feel any stakes. Even if they lose, the game they lost has no importance so it doesn't matter. Any training or teaching that goes on by the coach isn't really substantial because it's all empty words. For example, the first one for Gloy, it was all just if you were faster by 3 seconds, you could fit a move here, at 7 minutes 37 seconds, if you stepped 1 step to the left, you could have fit in this move, etc. It has no meaning for me as a reader so I just skimmed it. Then, for everything else until now, it was all told, not shown, like how Lan Yin went through the half-hour replay that was so detailed that it extended to 2 hours, but we don't know what he has to say. Basically, all the lectures are just minor things like the efficiency of the players which is a boring problem for the reader to read about. Or something simple like they need more communication and practise working together since there are tiny mistakes happening... but we don't feel the impact of these tiny mistakes because they are just told to us that way. Like, were they too slow? Too fast? Accidentally ignored a teammate? It feels a little too glazed over. I really want to feel right in the thick of it, not this distant feeling from the game.
Honestly, the only reason I kept reading on was the idea of Abyss face-slapping the bad guy. But it's gonna take a long time to reach that. And a lot of game-related stuff needs to happen before that. Also, the faceslapping feels a bit lukewarm so far because it happened in the game which doesn't feel important enough zzz The criminal charges were done too but it happened too offscreen for me that there is currently no satisfaction. Like I want to see their faces and hear all their denials but it was all handled by a side character I don't know over the phone.
The romance part is okay when reading about it but after reading, I don't understand how the ML fell in love? He just had a drunken encounter with the MC where the MC spent hours talking about all the things he would have done instead of the ML's management's bad choices. It was too skimmed through. The story only told me the meaning of the actions not really what the actions were, so I felt distant from what they were talking about. It was told not shown. Apparently, the ML was feeling down? But this period of feeling down wasn't shown to me so I don't feel it. I didn't see the ML feeling sad and then feeling touched when the MC said all those stuff. So it was insta-lovey for me.
I also find the writing of the sad pasts a bit too quick and simple. I wish they had drawn it out more so we would feel more curiosity before giving us the answers. And then, when the author did decide to give us the sad past, it was all told in one shot. So... after that, there was nothing interesting left to know about the MC. So far, for the MC, he is okay-ish interesting to read about. I just wish he could display his smartness in a way I really get it. For the ML, so far he's kinda bland and kinda boring? We just know that he is a God in the game but we don't really see why he is so good? Like what makes him so unique? Is he particularly cunning? Particularly fast? Unpredictable? A gamer that is good at spotting opportunities in midgame and the small mistakes of the enemy team? Amazing at planning and strategy? What? Idk :) Dang I'm making too many comparisons to King's Avatar. Every player there is unique and brings their own specialties into the picture unlike here where the specialty seems limited to their game role only.
Honestly, this is my 3rd time reading an esports CN (the 2nd one I DNFed because it was so shallow) and I can't help comparing it unfavourably to Glory King's Avatar which I feel handled the esports far better, making me really understand what was happening and giving me a much easier time rooting for the MC in the game. I feel much more involved with all the gamers' goals and actions. Also, there are more relevant female characters there than here. So far, there isn't a single female character so it feels a bit unreal to me. Unless you count the cooking lady, who is only mentioned and not shown lol In King's Avatar, there are a few prominent female characters, 2 of which are part of the team and 1 as a sympathetic to the MC side character.
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CN (4.4)
311 Chapters Every 1.3 Day(s) 10024 Readers 103 Reviews 05-13-2024
2.5 Stars - C87: Dropped... more>>
Siiigh, no one was really all that likeable, not even Wei Yang. Sure, the plots and revenge parts were fun, but we don't really go into the nitty gritty of the scheming. It's like Wei Yang tells her maids to monitor or find out things, then the next scene is the actual plot when Wei Yang beats all her adversaries and we find out how she did it and done. It's just unsatisfying. The other is that there are so many words left untranslated which was kinda annoying as I kept having to go to the footnotes to find out if the Chinese word meant anything important to the story and then have to scroll and find back where I left off. This is not like the Japanese translation where it is easy to remember all the common suffixes and common family titles like sister or brother. This translation has like a gazillion idioms, the many, many ways to call or address someone, especially in the complicated, super large family where there are many wives, sigh.
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JP (4.5)
136 Chapters Every 92.1 Day(s) 26681 Readers 224 Reviews 04-21-2024
2.5 Stars - C48: DroppedHmm, it was interesting at the beginning with saving Clara and her daughter the new way of planting. It had seemed... more>> like ooh, using knowledge to manipulate the world! I also like how he's forced to talk like a villain haha But after that, it didn't really continue? He just seems reactive after that, like there aren't any more events that are on a scale that he can manipulate. Also, not a fan of the misunderstandings that are quite contradictory to what is actually happening but it's not too annoying. The 2nd arc was kinda me just waiting for the meat of the arc to start but nothing seemed to happen up until that expedition which was concluded in a snap. It was kinda flat. Like all these things felt like a setup, like him joining the Knights! Ooh, training with his roommates and Cody's team! More bonding? Setup for future missions? I wonder what he plans to do to join the Knights so early? Then the final exam and the red fog! Ooh, new monsters to be fought in the future with the knights! And then boom, after all that setup, he fights some brief battles with a one-time villain and that's it? He's going to prison just like that? What a letdown. Now with the new arc, I'm not really feeling the urge to continue hmm
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