28 chapter 2/20
Amazing story that had me in tears at the ending.
The pacing is rather tedious. When the plot is in motion, the story is quite engaging. However, there's an excessive amount of slice-of-life content in between. Chapter after chapter of the characters shyly dancing around each other and flirting, while significant plot developments are wrapped up in just one chapter. It has taken me 23 days to get through 83 chapters because I keep losing interest. I might just give up at this point.
It’s not good. Like a badly written telenovela or soap opera, it’s riddled with plot holes. Side characters vanish without a trace. The main character’s personality swings wildly in the beginning, as if the author hadn’t figured out how to write him consistently. The male lead is supposed to be vengeful and competent, yet he never discovers that the main character took year-long swimming lessons. The villain, predictably in Chinese novels, is the illegitimate brother of the main character. The main character is lazy, doing nothing but spending money on clothes and jewelry and admiring himself in the mirror. Somehow, this is supposed to be endearing? His older brother and the male lead buy him yachts and islands because he acts like a princess. The main character is essentially a girl written as a boy for a BL audience. Oh, and in his previous life, he attended Harvard and worked on Wall Street (eye roll).
I really enjoyed the author’s xianxia novel "After I Was Preached By My Senior Brother" (though the title is poorly translated), so I decided to read this one. This novel almost feels like it has the same main character and male lead (a wasteful, extravagant MC and an overpowered, handsome, yandere husband-like ML), but it’s like a terribly written, modern life/business version. It also got super boring after the time-skip and when the main character and male lead reunited. I kept going because I hate dropping a novel I start, but the ridiculous soap opera ending is so badly written that I can’t even describe it.
Two stars for having a variety of female characters who aren't all brainless cannon fodder villains.
I enjoyed reading up until Chapter 102; it was fresh and entertaining, different from the typical villainous transmigration trope. There were occasional instances where the antagonist, like that character Lin Feng, started to resemble more of a cunning antagonist than a hero, which added an interesting twist. However, starting from Chapter 102, the story began to拖沓. A spoiler: when he gained the reincarnation light, it felt like the author suddenly introduced a new plot direction without much buildup. It seems the story will continue along this altered path.
I've finished reading LITOW and SGIAWOM and i was planning to read this after it finishes, should i read it now or wait?
Same author, they write all their summaries in the same fashion.
Thanks, this made my day. You also sleep well knowing i love you for this
I consider this one to be much better, my divine diary is more of a copy in my opinion, in the sense that it does not reach the greatness of this one. Unfortunately, the author lost motivation in life and therefore in writing. A pity, hopefully he will find a love that will ignite his spark and take up this masterpiece again
quite good novel
Have you ever read the story “the princess’s doll house” ? That one is hella dark.
Is this finished?