White Sugar Cane
There's some people out there giving this 5 star (without even reading) just because they're obsessed with sign-in novels. There's been at least 1 or 2 sign-in novel in every batch of trial reads for the last 4 months. This is beyond oversaturated. What's worse they're nearly always picked by the editor too. If not a sign-in novel, it's certainly going to be sign-in novel's genetic twin checking-in novel! As for this novel itself? Heh...I pity the fool who wastes his time on this.
The plot so far (30 chapters in) : a guy is reincarnated as a prince in a cultivation world anD, because of a fortune-teller's warning that he is an ill-omened curse on the royal family, is locked up in a cold palace for 15 years and is forbidden to cultivate. In his teens he awakens a sign in system and starts cultivating. At the same time the nation is going through wars and princes are dying off, and the king blames the MC because of the fortune telling. I'm not a fan of this version of the story (there are at least two other recent sign in novels that have the same bones of the plot), because it drags. Entire chapters are spent on the MC navel gazing about cultivation, then entire more chapters are spent with the MC offscreen while side characters talk on and on. Despite the tedious focus on talking about cultivating and cultivation levels, the power levels aren't clear to me, and I'm not interested to learn more. This novel just seems phoned in, and not worth the effort of reading.
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This sign-in novel was good compared to others. First of, the novel started slow, unlike others they rush their story. Here, you can see in each chapter the protagonist's progress, either in his mind/will or in cultivation. And the time skip in the novel was just days, not years signing in. It also carefully revealed the settings and characters of the story as chapters pass by. All in all, it's a whole lot better than other sign-in novels. P.S. Anyone? Raws?
TL is pretty good and the story itself very enjoyable. Probably the thing that separates this from other cultivation novels is the level of detail of the cultivation system. Sometimes I take it for granted but very few novels actually bother building up stuff that relates to body or spirit refining and their impacts on a person's strength. It makes estimating MC's strength a lot easier and is also just really cool. The cultivation levels themselves are a little scuffed but I'm pretty sure it's because it's supposed to be a build up for a completely different system for more advanced stages of the story and it just didn't happen yet after only 40 chapters. Hope this gets picked and although this story isn't a 5 star in my book it seems a lot of reviews lately criticize sign in novels for being unoriginal and tbh it just seems kinda stupid to me to expect a high level of originality from such a specific genre. There just isn't that much place to wiggle around when the cultivation system is already based And it's specifically a sign in novel. more of a 4 if i were to grade this accurately but i feel it's only fare so people can actually see this.
Where have the novels where protagonists are actually talented gone? The character design is yet again a prince who has been sent to the cold palace, and also has a check-in system. The world building is lazy, directly coming from the protagonist spouting what he has learnt from history books, and the story development follows this type of story, static, and fairly dull. I've grown tired of "System" novels and the lack of any real setbacks or events that lead to emotional attachment. The fact that the protagonist is simply given limitless power does not sit well with me. Average, repeated plot, boring novel.