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Geeze, I’m not sure where to begin with this one? To me, this gives the feeling of someone who wanted to jam all of the tropes they’ve encountered into one story of their own. It has a little bit of everything that you see in other popular novels, but the details underwhelm it. This novel was entertaining to say the least, but it could have been a lot better. Side characters could have been better developed, the plot could have been more cohesive and not something that makes you question the logic of it all. It had great potential to ‘be’ something but the execution failled it. For anyone who would be interested in story-writing, this is a great example of what not to do. This story runs on the “and then” approach where the character goes into one event and right on to the next. If one wants to write an engaging story, the structure needs to look more like: this thing happened THEREFORE this happened; BECAUSE this thing happened, this happened as result. It can’t be static or else there is no story.

Stupid name mixup. Mo Lan is the mother of Jiuniang. They probably ment to write “Jiuniang.”

I had a lot of feelings while reading the story. Some good; Most were bad. First off, loved the premise. A homestead-growing process about bettering their own life. Love that it shows both the farming and cooking aspect (it became a little redundant at the end) and the simple life of good people. But why the fuck does everything go from 0-100 constantly?! Immediately, officials let power go to their head and become nasty, women become white lotuses and green-tea bitches, and the ML becomes so possesive that I wonder how women find that quality attractive. Why are a lot of the elderly people so shitty? Is it meant to be funny? The whole thing of “the elders must always be right” is so ridiculous and exhausting to read. It always felt very one-dimensional how fast the side characters went from being nice to evil, then falling out (ex: Little Cat’s Mother). The arc in Jade Spiritual Mountain felt like forever to get through and anytime some “gripe” came up, I felt my eyes roll at how staged it felt. I enjoyed reading about the journey to the Southern Frontier, and seeing other people starting to recognize both the FL & ML was building up nice tension. I also liked reading about the rechnology improvements and seeing everyone prosper. But I felt that the writer did a poor job at creating interesting perephial characters from the start. I liked: Cui Lingyi, Cui Muzhi, Master Shen, and Village Chief Zhao’s family. Introducing as many characters as they did at the end just made it confusing to keep who’s who. The bit with Bai Wutong’s family felt rushed and incomplete, and so LACKING with the emotional “umphs” to make things satisfying. I wanted so much more than that. The political intrigue was bland. How many times can you read about a prince wanting to usurp the throne, or a consort torturing another harem member, when they’re all done the same way? Overall, I felt like a lot of the concepts were fun and had potential but it was executed mediocrely. I bought the chapters during a 70% off sale, and hate-read a bit of it, so I’m not too upset with it.

It’s been a year since someone first mentioned it, and would you look at that, nothing changed. Still untranslated. Sheesh.

**polygamious

Aye 420 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻😂

It probably amounted to one in the original translation.

It reminds me of when you’re trying to reach a word count. 😂

Yeah. It’s a pretty typical and reused plot motive in these types. I still end up reading it though, lol.

It really seems like it 😪