Review Detail of XinYuhao in Building The Ultimate Fantasy

Sad thing more people do not see it this way and apply real world logic to a novel ... When you start reading a novel the most important thing you need to do is understand somewhat the world around the MC and how he interacts with it with the information you are given and not bring into that how you will behave

One factor is that we are only told forcefully that the original had a bad temper. And didn't show us. And his personality and internal monologue uptil this point of time made ppl think he was quite a chill dude. We also have no monologue or personal experience of the original. But that momey breaks the illusion. We realise that the mc isn't your typical laid back guy. He is even bit if an asshole. As the story goes on we realise the reasons .ore and the mc further cements his character as a vicious badass. Personally I felt that it was overkill when he killed everyone in his way. I mean I know it was badass and cruel but a part of me couldn't help but say that the mc needn't have killed the entire mob or those stupid scholars. But meh....... He is an anti-hero at the end of the day. Once you accept that he is a bit of an asshole, you will really enjoy the story.

He's an asshole.. By the standard of Earth...

You make a good point. While the above poster states that people don’t think from the standpoint of a character in a role, the author also does a poor job in establishing that role. Below I’ve copy/pasted an excerpt that perfectly explains the issue: “Show, don't tell is a technique used in various kinds of texts to allow the reader to experience the story through action, words, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than through the author's exposition, summarization, and description. It avoids adjectives describing the author's analysis, but instead describes the scene in such a way that the reader can draw his or her own conclusions. ‘Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.’”

hmm ... I get what you guys are saying ... not like I am defending the authors writing skills but I most of the time in these "ancient civilization" novels I go with the mindset that nobles ignore the servants or they just do not care about them ... I know it can hurt some peoples feelings but the servants in Chinese society, at least, are basically slaves ...

How do I say that.. The fact that the maids didn't show a reaction toward the 'scolding' of MC show that the young master already did that to some extent and, except the girl, they were pretty much all respectful toward him and were careful in the choice of their words... Also, it's ancient time, there's no 'show, don't tell' needed just the fact that it's ancient time should make them know THAT THIS IS A WORLD WHERE STATUS IS IMPORTANT IN F* SOCIETY. Now, most of the people that criticise this scene wouldn't even care about a 'show, don't tell' as they doesn't even know what 'context' means.

I haven’t read the novel yet so I can’t comment exactly on the specifics of the novel, or I would. I also agree with you that it is odd and unnatural that maids don’t have any reaction to their young master suddenly scolding them. If they were used to it, they might sneer. If it was something out of character, they might think he was agitated over something which made him on edge. When I complain about authors not using show, don’t tell, I’m mainly referring to scenarios where authors (as the narrator) write that the MC is intelligent. However, the MC keeps doing extremely barbarian, stupid acts afterwards. And then the author explains the situation away by saying the character is intelligent again! Stuff like that.

😅This is very confusing when I havent read a single word of this novel

Ok so now, I'm gonna kill you and then put someone else's spirit, soul, whatever and he will get your memory.. Won't he hate me and feel like killing me too because he felt your death like his due to the fact he got your memory? Also, the 'awkward' part comes from the fact MC believes he transmigrated (probably due to the number of transmigration novel) and not that he simply got memory from Earth or whatever. That's like 6th grade thinking but ok

Well. Everyone have different perspective on what they want... Just left them alone for their own satisfaction. Hahaha

Ehm no? Servants get paid, as most of the servants need to get paid by law. Slaves don't get paid. So don't put your bias and talk about Chinese society, when you know nothing about it.

Yeah right!!

Yeah right!!

Thanks for the review, drop the novel before reading. If someone needs to explain such things as an excuse for ruined reader immersion, it only shows poor ability to storytelling.

Note: deleted and reposted because ama teur is censored. No offense, but in my opinion both sides of the argument are kinda... missing the point. It’s just my opinion, so I could be wrong. Side 1: “OMG MC is such a prick, he’s scolding a girl!” Side 2: “MC is Young Master, maid asking for valuable thing, MC scolds her, reasonable.” Just from reading the story, Maids 1 to 3, in order of oldest to youngest, is a 1st tier, 2nd tier, and a complete am*ateur. MC gives Maid 1 Spirit Qi, Maid 1 goes from 1st tier to Grandmaster. He indirectly promises Maid 2 that he’ll give her Spirit Qi when she is 1st tier, as being given Spirit Qi boasts your tier. For talented people 2nd tier to 1st tier might take 1-3 years, but 1st tier to Grandmaster will take at least 10 years of training and maybe some luck. It isn’t stated clearly, but there are implications that the increasing your powers by an entire tier only happens the first time. The first time Spirit Qi is given, Maid 1’s entire body which runs on blood qi or something, is completely overhauled and converted to Spirit Qi. So low tier energy to high tier energy. Major qualitative change. If she gets more Spirit Qi, not much will change, as now it’ll only be an increase in quantity. The story even tells you that Maid 2 understands and accepts his reply, because it truly would be a waste of the tier boost if she uses it now. Maid 3 asks for Spirit Qi too, MC laughs it off and tells her “You’re just a child, grow up first!” Maid 3 is 12 or something? Can’t remember her exact age. But she’s an barely an ama*teur, as according to MC’s memories, she recently started training. In other words, she can go from ama*teur to 2nd tier with a few months of training. Or maybe a year of training. As by this point in the story, it hasn’t mentioned anything about Maid 3’s talent. The higher your tier, the harder it is to reach the next tier, which is why this boost from Spirit Qi is precious. There’s nothing wrong with telling Maid 3 to grow up and reach a higher tier before asking for Spirit Qi. Maybe the author wrote the dialogue a bit rude, or the translator didn’t convey the meaning well enough. But the story’s details should’ve made his intentions clear. How did people even misinterpret it as MC scolding a girl for no reason whatsoever? And now they’re raging about it and driving away future readers... Sorry for the unnecessarily long comment, it’s a web novel site. Let’s just have fun reading, isn’t that the point? Why go to war because of a misunderstanding?

Hum, no what he said is partly true ... at last in our modern way of thinking. Because servant who can be killed like if their live is sh*t is see, now in our day, like almost slaverie. For saying it, it was the same in westerner old time : life of commoner was light after all. But in the same time ... commoner and servant in westerner old time where not "bonded to life and death" in the family/domain/master like in Chinese one. Be free, is to be free : and even if a mistake can reclaim our life because you make your lord mad is a thing, but being inapt to even chose to remaind or qui is another : and THIS is the main difference betwen old chinses time and westerner one for servant (but again, you have to take the exact time for appraise that : "old" time is a long, long stretch of time, and many thing appen, and many common way have change).

+ 1000 !!! Just, man, i love you ! Each time i said something like that, i make myslef trashed and all, "because i'm picke, smug, idiotic" or whatnot. Happy to see i'm not the only one who, somethime, realy snap in reading some realy disturbing and narrow-minded and bloody or disgusting deeds from" rightfull and fair" MC who is, most of the time, a bloody murderer and crazy madman full of himself ... but many time is a re-incarnator with "wiew of the modern world" (but clearly only for the few first sentence before become a bloody murderer and scundrel and prick).

Go to China and all your bias and bull**** will disappear.

Most servants in ancient China are NOT "bonded to life and death" with their master. Only the head-clerk, people in important positions etc... are required to be loyal. (still not bonded to life and death, depending on the crime, master can be executed, his servant wont.) many other servants are hired and some of they live inside the household or live outside with their own family. They can resign or retire from their servant position, it's a choice, but most wont because a bigger tree is safer. Isn't what I said above not the same for medieval Europe??? A knight got servants, those servant can leave, but they wont, because it's a way to climb up the hierarchy ladder. People really should stop confusing reality with novels....... many of these authors are not historians.

Stop mixing reality and novels.......