I was really enjoying this novel when i first started but as i hit the 100+ chapter mark i started to dislike it very quickly, more, and more. I was also going to wright a better review but i will just post a good one that was on the Novel updates site, from someone named tides.
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its okay-ish. the MC is short sighted and very nationalistic.
first and foremost- It requires about 380 chapters before the plot starts moving and the aliens come, that is a little too much and most people will not read so far...
also a warning: the novel becomes a xianxia later on.
The MC& synoposis
The MC seems to pursue money by bringing back tech from the planet.
he doesn't really bring back the tech as it is however, but forms a company and hires people to do research in the direction of the tech. when the researchers are stuck, he will drop huge hints or just give them the tech and let them build it which is much more realistic than "mansion in post-apoc".
the MC seems to be very nationalistic which is reasonable, but later on they start suppressing him and sometimes you'd wish that he'd just pack up and leave or fight back. the MC of "mansion in post-apoc" is much more realistic and likable in this regard.
regarding romance
the MC tries very hard to build his harem because he believes that he should get one because of he owns the planet. his mother tries very hard to hook him up but does not find successful because he doesn't want to get married.
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Spoiler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chapter 150 is when he sleeps with a woman for the first time in the novel, but it's just a fling. later on however, he manages to brainwash the girl into being okay with being his concubine (not mistress) and marries another girl. he also hooks up with another girl...
he has..6 children I think, at chapter 300.
ironically and very realistic, all of his women + children leaves him once the war starts except for one, but he quickly picks one more up from his planet's universe.
so much for being loyal to a man who cant be loyal
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he also becomes very protective of "his" planet and it is confirmed that he is the only human living on the planet.
plot:
plot moves very slowly. in fact I think theres no plot besides him bringing back tech and getting rich....
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however around chapter 150 the cause of destruction in the planet is slowly unravels and at 250, he finds proof of the aliens.
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only at the end of volume 2, chapter 350ish does the MC focus change and move towards to aliens and then at 380 or so, everything starts moving quickly and the novel starts for real... but it seems like most people will not get that far sadly...
I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World is a much better novel in the same genre, but while mansion in post-apoc focuses alot on the zombies, this one focuses on the tech, business and earth alot more. sadly the MC loves his country so much that he's willing to be suppressed by them so the MC sometimes irritates the reader. of course, everything seems to be a part of his mega-plan to fight against the aliens in the end.
overall
as for score, I would give this a 2/5. its not bad and doesn't deserve a 1, but its below average and worth a read if you are interested in how countries react to advance tech and politics.
the novel is in volume 3 right now and I cant decide if it'll get good yet so...2/5
It requires about 380 chapters before the plot starts moving and the aliens come, that is a little too much and most people will not read so far...
about volume 3....
i have no choice but to drop this to 1 star. the more I read the more I feel like I wasted my time.
as mentioned, volume 3 is where the "War" starts but
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Spoiler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when the aliens finally attacked, the humans decided to start a "tournament" style "war" every few years instead of just kicking out the invaders.
also the aliens turned out to be humans who moved to a planet where they can cultivate, so it became a xianxia novel and earth is slowly creating it's own "qi". science is also slowly changing and all modern weapons slowly become worthless while cultivators become more and more powerful over time.
the author writes that since the "qi" is weak, it is the best time to kill them all and we already have robot soldiers on earth but nope. earthlings will be joining this tournament every few years while the alien cultivators slowly wait and will ens*aves us all once the "qi" has recovered.
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About Nationalism
i initially added a Nationalism tag but removed it, because it really isn't Nationalism. While the MC shows an insistent to not conduct business outside china, this is due to politics and what he is concerned about is his tech and his safety.
The examples quoted by the MC are also all recent events and real, coupled with the fact that the MC actually helps the US fix it's gun problem and economy later and it is revealed that
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everything was part of a plan to create a proper world government so that space exploration and that the defense of the earth is possible since again, he is preparing for aliens to attack earth due to the parallel universe (but in the end it is cultivators who attacked earth....)
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so I removed the Nationalism tag
end of volume 3 and volume 4 to completion
basically a complete and utter mess.
note that all these happened in around 5 chapters so you can understand how terrible it was with all the timeskips and stuff.
end of volume 3
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Spoiler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so continuing from where I left off.
humans basically lost for several decades and "surrendered" all of their planets and space ports except mars.
BUT although humanity lost everything, the aliens lost more. because the cultivators fought with their bodies while humanity used mechs and the cultivators decides to just end it all and started to attack humans again. but humanity used their newly upgraded nukes to nuke all the cultivators.
then the cultivators who were at a loss, called one of their saints to help. this saint used this two hands and squeezed several planets into dust (but not earth).
MC answer was to send a black hole bomb + 10, 000, 000, 000 nukes and bomb this saint to death. peace occurred.
fast forward a few years, the MC decided to "integrate cultivators into humanity" (yay!)
but remember that the cultivators has a few more saints? well the answer of how to make sure that the saints do not do disagree is to bury 100, 000, 000, 000, 000 nukes on all of the planets that people are living on and say "i'll detonate if you disagree"
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and it worked! this is the end of volume 3.
yea. f*ck this sh*t right?
volume 4
now volume 4 is only 20 chapters, so you can probably imagine that the novel went to sh*t and people stopped giving the author money or he just lost interest and decided to start a new book because well, this book has turned into ****. i'd give it half a star if I could.
oh and it's still xianxia. basically they traveled to a xianxia world (for real this time)
volume 4 spoiler but, its best you just continue reading instead of reading the spoilers here
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so MC goes to this xianxia world, he randomly walks into a cave and finds a cultivation technique (i sh*t you not).
he then goes to a village and it so happens that there is a sect reciting. he joins the test and he passes it... and joins it... (remember at this point the MC is probably a few hundred years old but whatever, he passes the test)
apparently clone/avatar techniques are tr*sh in this world and he gets one the second he joins the sect. he makes a clone and sends to his world and teaches some members of his family the techniques he learnt.
back to the xianxia world world, he then goes to gamble and win tons of money. he buys more cultivation techniques and uses ai to make his own cultivation technique.
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volume 4 basically tries to turn the book into a xianxia and then at chapter 20, the final chapter, the author writes this
"There is nothing to write in the back, the protagonist Chen Jin is basically invincible, no matter what the villain appears, the protagonist can easily get it."
