So, let's talk about the positives. The Author can write. The grammar is pretty good and the English clear. Other than that, the characters are interesting but everything else falls short. The story is poor in quality and this feels much more like a rough draft of a potential story above all else. The pacing is bad. I went through two chapters and floored through the wedding in less than half a chapter. You literally crossed Kingdoms in less than a day: like are these just some petty city states less than a few kilometres away from each other? That severely disappointed me. Her hobby and passion is vaguely brought up and executed in a single sentence. And you ignored actions and consequences a bunch. You described an oppressive culture yet she tramples over the norms without a care even though she's the one under the boot of the culture. The story is poorly written. Nothing more than a rough draft that should be redone.

Yeah.. A day hasn't even passed... And this is likely the casual pace of a carriage. Don't tell me that these to Kingdoms are next door neighbours.

Thanks for the chapter. I like how Animalistic he is. The darkness and the eat or be eaten vibe. 👌

Not only that, but he failed entirely in the interrogation. Like you learnt nothing other than his presence.

So far everything is pretty good. I hope the author continues this book. Atm I can't rate a full 5 stars as it's just beginning but I'll revise my review once he gets a respectable amount of chapters out👌

Sad baby animal

Lowkey pretty cool tbh. I wouldn't mind seeing a greedy lizard obsessed over muh precious.

It's nice tbh

Facts

Gotta give credit where credit is due my friend 👌

17 chapters in So I quite like this story for its humor and the characters. I enjoy watching these characters bicker among themselves and these relationships progress. But the comedy and the characters is really what's carrying this story as I don't believe the story and the world is really that strongly built. It's a bit cliche-y and generic. And the writing quality could be better, but it's not bad.

I feel like the first is just matter of fact, a factor, a big one, but a factor that is overshadowed by the second one. Also he's literally enslaved to her, and it was forced on him. He didn't come to accept a potential master, instead the decision was made without his consent and now his free will is completely trumped in front of her. It makes sense why dark thoughts would appear because anybody who's sensible would realize how potentially fatal this is: to simply give someone a chain around your neck and hope they don't tighten it isn't a simple matter of trust.

In terms of Webnovel standards, this is a top class read. It beats much of the other novels that exist on this site in terms of; writing quality, story and background development and the design of the characters and the world. Easily deserves 5 stars hands down. Of course, critiquing this in terms of other novels published in the market, I'd still rate it highly. It is one if my favourite stories after all. Easy 4.5-4.8. Oh yes, and the author can write good and coherent English, so no need to worry about terribly quality of writing and just general grammar. I guess I'll give this review more of a pitch to hopefully hook you in; This story revolves around Sunny. A cold cynic that had been kicked down to the bottom rungs of society, facing and surviving the cruel reality of being outside the care of the system. Ultimately, Sunny never gets the privilege to desire; to do what he wants in the way he wants. Ultimately a slave to the system. But this all changes with his first nightmare. Expecting a death sentence, he faces the coming reality and succumbs to it. Alas, the spell is cruel with its sick mind games and Sunny comes to a new forceful realization and change of heart. Read along and see the progression of Sunny as he develops, matures and fights for what he so desires but not only that, read along to see the many other characters who are just as deep as Sunny. Oh yes, there's good humor too, more than once has this story made me chuckle and laugh at its humor. Bravo to this story for make me laugh, very few stories do that to me... Or maybe I'm truly screwed in the head and stuck in my own flaws as Sunny.🤷

It needs a name author 😡

After going through tis Webnovel, you might've wanted to label it something else than shadow step 😅

I feel like I heard this before

Idk. The lore here feels very fleshed out. The mages literally genocided and and annihilated a cultural group and their teachings. Largely done by the Mage Emperor, and it's suggested that this is the most powerful mage to exist in all of history and I'm going to take the guess that none has reached his pinnacle since. Also the MC has been restricted from cultivating his body ever since he's arrived here, earlier, his cultivation technique was to overload his body with Mana then shatter his body so the overloaded Mana can actually be used on his body without destroying it, slowly giving him more power, rinse and repeat. Also also, from what we've seen, each Earthen Warrior has pioneer'd the next path to the cultivation stage. That's a significant amount of progress, especially since its likely that about 90% of humanity is below stage 6, and the warriors have fleshed out a path to stage 5, which the pioneer himself has admitted that a better path exists than the one he took which he is now researching into.

That or the Duke, I think he technically owns it, I'd have to reread though

Honestly, with him being raised in earth, under the hands of a peaceful culture, I can kind of see how the immaturity is still there. Also it's possible that the age of his body also influences his mentality, but idk the science behind that.