Danteye

What subtle details? Because they didn't outright come and tell you that they had one? Lol.

Yeah, 99% of people would be dead pretty quickly. The MC can't trust any of his senses because even looking at one of these things is apparently enough to kill him.

Maybe it sounds better in Chinese, but if someone dropped this mid argument to me I'd just laugh lmao.

The real answer to how the MC seduced two beautiful women who eclipse him in status is, well, because he's the MC. The author writes fast-food Xianxia for a living, entertaining for us, but probably not a sign you should be taking romantic advice from them, or any advice from any web-novel for that matter.

Damn, I was liking the description, but an author starting a story with no outline or planning is pretty much one of the biggest red flags there is; it is what it is.

People used it all the time where I'm from, it was interchangeable with dude and all the other similar words. Not weird in the slightest for me.

It's not even an uncommon word... It's like middle school vocabulary. It's also 2024, searching up a word is literally as complex as two clicks and then typing it in, if that's too complex, I don't really know what to tell you.

Uh, not sure where you got that from; there are rich and successful indie artists, but they are pretty small in number comparatively. When an artist chooses to be independent, it's typically not for the money, unless they are REALLY confident they are going to make it big. There's a reason so many people sign with labels. In fact, it's a pretty common stereotype for Indie Artists to be poor—the whole "starving artist" thing.

Because it's just 100% of his independent earnings, even 70% of his earnings while being actively promoted and pushed by one of the biggest agencies in the world could be many times more than his current earnings, not to mention that this is just the contract for a D-rank artist, it's likely as he gets more famous and gets a higher ranking that he'll be able to renegotiate. That being said, he's the MC and has a system helping him, so it's likely that he'll end up getting really lucky and still get really famous even without the agencies help.

Maybe it's based on sales and fan numbers instead of just talent? Because even in real life we have A-Listers and B-Listers for celebrities based on how famous they are. Otherwise, I have no clue how they can actually judge something like skill past a certain point.