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Honestly, this is hot garbage. The kind that you have to give a second sniff after backing away from just because it confused your nose the first time. It jumps into shit really fast, tells you that the MC is intelligent but only shows you a few slightly above average plays. The scenarios and everything really strain your belief in the world the author is weaving, making you want to ask what this bullshit is.
I cracked up when they said the type 81 was their most reliable domestically produced gun. There's some truth to that since it was an AK clone, but then the manufacturing of the guns and what was actually distributed were waaaaayyyy too iffy to use the word reliable xD
Honestly, I want to like this more than I actually do. The problems come from the extremely slow burn with the revenge plots. Every encounter that would be world shattering to an MC seems to slide right by as the antagonists constantly skim by until they ultimately bite the bullet. likely the ending will be very gratifying and change my opinion but at the moment with 200+ chapters it feels unsatisfying with the amount of resolution and constant compounding of suppression onto the MC. If the ending is done right this won't be a bad thing though, so I can only pray.
I found the early chapters really enjoyable, mid way the antagonists and general populace seems to become more irrational and mentally insufficient. Seriously, the 'netizens' have really short term memories. As usual, things get really repetitive, and the decisions making is kinda far-fetched but the face slapping is just as satisfying as it should be.
Honestly feels like they ran a random wuxia novel through a machine translator then a wordprocessor and replaced all the usual cultivation jargon and Chinese names with their western equivalent to cheat a plagiarism algorithm.
I rate this story so low because it has a lack of consistency. The translation is inconsistent, the story sets up plots and then suddenly throws in a solution that was never mentioned until the author decides to solve it with some item that only gets mentioned when it gets used, characters quickly become irrelevant as the mc plows through cultivation levels meaning the character development never has time to happen. The story itself is basically just a cultivation novel with with names westernized and the cultivation swapped out with 'magic' though since the move names are basically all Wuxia sounding I'm guessing that's exactly what happened.
It feels like the Violet blood monster type keeps changing every time it is mentioned, or is it a different unmentioned gain each time?
There should be some kind of tag or pop up before spending coins on stories like these that were ended early or dropped. The sheer disappointment that I spent money on an unfinished story when the coins could have gone to something slightly more complete. Now that my grievances have been aired, it felt like the story was setting up for such grand things, yet nothing was really realized aside from gaining a slight foothold in the music industry. The Cao family remains dominant, the Ling family will likely be controlled by the brat with some bloody intervention by the Cao family head, and the music industry seems to still be a backwards place that only MC is able to make a difference in. So many plot hooks with no rod and reel to pull them out of the water. I enjoyed everything aside from the abrupt Nom-Ending we got, even the very familiar second artists betrayal since it felt like the setup for ruining New Century's ability to poach from anyone after the second living proof that they mess up anyone they take in. While it was regrettable that I spent so many coins on this with my limited budget it was still a nice read while it lasted