When i read this story, and the many others like it, it makes me wonder what the authors were thinking. I imagine a women's meetup where they all decide to write a martial arts/romance story, and discuss what'll all be in it. "Lets all go with a reincarnation trope, its popular currently!" "Sure!" "Yeah!" "Okay!" "I love reincarnation stories! YES!" "So my FL is going to be an Alchemist!" "Oooh, mine'll be an Armament crafter!" "Mine's gonna be a poison specialist!" "Mine's gonna be able to tame spirit beasts!" "Mine'll be an Alchemist too! But she'll also have spirits that give her special powers and help her cultivate!" *collective excited squeeing* "Okay, now lets see, lets make her family rotten, this way it'll show our readers our beloved FL is strong and can take care of herself and trample on all opposition!" """"YEAH!!!"""" "But what about the ML? What'll he be like?" """"..."""" "How about very feminine in appearance?" """"Yes!!"""" "He should be confident, arrogant even!" "Yeah! And domineering!" "Oooooh, im liking him already! He should be royalty too! Someone so handsome should have high standing in society!" "And he should be forceful with the FL, claiming her as his whether she likes it or not! *gigglefits*" """"YISSSSS!!!! You are a genius!"""" "He should also have secrets! Maybe he's wounded and hiding from enemies, while posing as royalty!" "OR! He is Royalty, and is hiding from enemies wanting to wipe out his entire bloodline!" "PERFECT!" "You're so good at this!" "Hee hee, right?" And thus, we have 20+ carbon copies with essentially the same theme with small twists and changes...
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LIKEXD To be fair, the male / male-audience-targeting authors do meet-ups like this too LMAO. Seriously, though, it's actually in Qidian's writer manual to carbon copy popular works. From what I've gathered, writing by numbers is the whole idea. I don't usually read long works whose endings I can't even see, but single-volume works like manga live off of tropes, and I for one don't mind bingeing them until I've had enough, then I try other stuff. I guess there are many who have longer patience out there ;P P.S. I just made this reply because I found your review very funny. Thanks for that
Omg 😂😂 I was scrolling the reviews for this novel because i wanted to have an idea if this will be in my cup of tea. I wanted to know if it's worth reading and i may say your review caught my attention. Thanks for the bit of info about the novel. I guess it's one of those that will frustrate me 👍😄
I'll be honest chapter one of your novel is pretty interesting. Keep going with it, take it out comment styles beta reading and make it a full blown novel. I'd read it. I actually wrote comments in the syle of a fairy tale or monologue kinda thing, based purely on the sect battles often found in the comment sections. EXP SECT is the villain of the whole Widian realm and enemy to all such as F5 Sect and XP CLAN Alike. Even the Heavenly Thumb clan and Command[R] Empire were severely hard by the EXP Sect.