I really wanted to like this. I really did. I powered through the propaganda for the first dozen chapters and then I resorted to substituting out China with a fictional country name. Nothing worked. The story in itself is great, with a fine premise, interesting plot and a great cheat. The world is built very well from what I've seen so far, and in any other story, this would be enough for a 5 star. But not here. Almost every single chapter is has an entire few sentences dedicated to praising China in some way. The haphazardly added in propaganda shatters the flow of the story, breaks the immersion over it's massive iron knee and makes the story feel more like propaganda than most propaganda I've seen. It is actually ridiculous to the point of being a fundamental, unfixable problem. I can't do it. I tried to read it like this story tried to convince me that China is actually heaven, and both cases ended in failure. Really, I can't. this hurts me
King of Torch
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