Review Detail of CCmei in Duality

I'm pleasantly surprised. I did not expect it to be this good. The story starts off blocky, from what I assumed was a militaristic style. It was still enough of an interesting hook, if unnatural, about our MC and his revenge to his path to reincarnation. But by chapter 17 it starts flowing like water. It flows to over a dozen chapters on the mother in flashback that build and fills in so much about this world/society in such a vivid way that I was actually reluctant to see it end. One of the unique and interesting parts is how the MC's background, race, and skin color plays such a heavy role. WN being a Wuxia site and just with mainstream media in general, having a black MC with his and his mother's perspective makes the story riveting. It does not hold back on the painful racism and obvious colonialism callout. Kudos. Worldbuilding is A+, the background details and cultivation system in a fantasy Western world based very much on our own world history is incredibly well thought up. The author must have spent many hours, months honestly, ruminating and building upon their ideas. More importantly you can see their skills visably improving. I want from 'oh ok' - 'meh' - 'hmmm' - 'oh now we're getting somewhere' and finally to the juicy story unfolding around the MC that took place before he was born, setting up a great stage for him to step up. Take your time author, because work as good as this is worth it.