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In an exhilarating twist of fate, Jiang Chen traverse into a fantasy realm novel he read, taking on the role of the notorious Holy Son in a riveting tale. But here’s the catch – he’s pegged as the female lead’s obedient doglicker. Or so the story initially wanted…

Unleashing the ‘Slack Off System’, Jiang Chen flips the script! Each act of slacking off spectacularly rewards him. Doglicking duties? Jiang Chen smirks at the thought. “Not in a million realms,” he declares.

As the system chimes melodically, rewards rain down like immortal gifts:

Ding, for successfully slacking off, you receive: the Emperor Weapon, All-Heaven Mirror!’

Ding, another round of slacking off earns you: the Immortal Technique, Great Daluo Heaven!’

Ding, for successfully slacking off you received: Immortal Emperor Cultivation!’

But wait, there’s a twist in the tale! The world around Jiang Chen starts to unravel in the most unexpected ways.

The character settings of the female leads have all collapsed.

Junior Sister Ye Qingcheng: ‘I can only repay your life-saving grace with my body!’

Cold and aloof master: ‘Disciple, I allow you to defy your master.’

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After The Villain Gave Up On The Female Protagonist, The Plot Collapsed
玄幻反派：我摆烂后，主角崩了
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MobNPC
MobNPC rated it
April 8, 2024
Status: c65
Extremely enjoyable!

This is an op MC done right.

Even though the introduction of the story was a bit weak, it was really satisfying to see the MC have his being strong moment.

The character who deserve to suffer, suffered and those who deserve good, got rewards!

All in all very rewarding to read
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H-GO
H-GO rated it
May 2, 2024
Status: c75
Pity, the author was unable to hold himself from ruining the novel.

It was barely holding for the first 50 chapters but of course, it turned into a milking novel immediately with unbeatable MC, 0IQ enemies, 100% pure allies, and unremarkable heroines.

The author doesn't even bother to make a gold finger, the MC just has to sleep and relax to be the supreme young undefeated holy emperor monarch with no equal of course🙄

Not worth reading.
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Phandora0101
Phandora0101 rated it
July 7, 2024
Status: c170
A must-read recommendation for me this novel got a well-crafted plot, rich world-building, and compelling characters.

I got hooked after reaching chapter 40 the enemy of the MC was written dumbly for the first few chapters but gradually gets better.
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bozakir
bozakir rated it
April 29, 2024
Status: --
Author mishmashes two tropes; "I transmigrated into villain and pokemons heroines hear my inner thoughts" pattern. And "I become OP by actively doing nothing" pattern.

Its bad because author keeps forgetting his own setting and writes something else. And only remember it when its convenient.

Like MC thinking as if it was him who chased one girl and missing out on another girl who liked him. Except it wasn't him who chased the girl A and you never met girl B. Girl B liked og character not you. You are a transmigrator... more>> not a regressor.

Or how MC goes out incognito, intentionally aggravates a young master so we get a faceslap scene. Actively looking for trouble and showing off is definitely not slacking off behaviour.

Personally I despise this amateur attitude so its 1 star for me.

But if you want to read a random overbearing cultivator doing random op cultivator things. It's palatable. <<less
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promet
promet rated it
August 13, 2024
Status: c119
A promising novel, but recent chapters make me think that it's going severely downhill (maybe it recovers after that, but I ain't got no $$ to read premium chapters, and unfortunately everything over ch 120 is one as of this moment).

The plot premise is very mundane: MC gets reward for not interfering with the plot of a book in the world of which he is reborn.

The setting is also very cliche: MC is a holy son (basically most exalted disciple) in a cultivation sect. Also, the character he takes over... more>> is supposed to be a villain that the actual MC would gradually defeat and dominate.

The above are boring per se, but can be interesting enough if the rest of the story is done well.

Unfortunately, it is so-so at best.

The protagonist is lazy and doesn't have all that much character. First he had some dignity of someone of his position, then he became shameless after some shameless dude (another sect's holy son) showed up, and everyone rightfully complains about this change. Basically the MC is a Chinese Gary Stu that any random Chinese reader can self-insert into. Just that he's handsome so that the self-insert reader can feel better.

The antagonist (the original MC of the novel that our villain protagonist is reborn in) is a typical hypocrite "good" xianxia protagonist without principles and honor. If he does it to others, it's good, and if someone does it to him, it's not good. The author did well in making a satire of the typical xianxia protagonist. Or rather, he captured the hypocrisy and double standards well. It's not very funny.

The love interests are varied. The first female lead is total garbage and everyone seems to hate her (as in readers). The second love interest is a hoe-but-actually-virg*n chick that seems good only on paper. The third love interest is annoying at first but then more normal, but she's a loli.

As for other characters, at least there's some variety of both male and female characters, but they're all more or less 2D (at best).

The comedy part was good at first, making me enjoy the novel. Especially the part where

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heroines could hear MC's thoughts, and kept getting pissed off

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but the author screwed this up by

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letting MC control it and use it as a tool to manipulate heroines, though he only did so once so far.

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Also, there's too much boring duel crap (so I started skipping these parts eventually), and the part around chapter 100 is also boring because there's too much crap about fights between sects and other factions. I mean, it's fine if there is some, but the author spent too many chapters at once on it. I.e. This ruins the pacing and makes bored readers like me who came to read about MC messing around, and not about sect politics and conflicts.

Overall, I wouldn't read it unless there's at least 200 chapters available for free and the chapters 120-200+ prove that the novel has only gone downhill temporarily around chapter 100 and gets better again. Definitely not worth paying for premium chapters as of chapter 119. <<less
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Dr. Rama
Dr. Rama rated it
November 18, 2024
Status: c1370
This is good novel however I just hate MC cause reject some woman cause his pride.

I really love Harem and for me Harem is number one so I just give 3/5.

MC is op cause the system really kind and MC for really lucky so he got a lot of OP power.

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For story, this is good novel with slow river plot. A lot of problem except really powerful enemy coming solve by people cause a misunderstanding.

The woman head hard as rock so for MC to get woman have to be misunderstanding.

I think this novel got into Massive harem where more than 20 woman become his wife and lover.

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Sorry for the star cause I don't like MC pride so I still recommend it for everyone who still like novel even MC reject some good women.

That all from me, sorry if there some wrong word.

Thanks. <<less
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Zen01x
Zen01x rated it
August 8, 2024
Status: c452
For this novel you'll either like it or hate it. But I like it specially the turning point of the son of luck as he was dumb at the start like a middle school syndrome type kid but gradually he matured and became more smart got character development. Anyway that son of luck gonna get killed by MC anyway.

As for the mc's thought being heard by heroines there's an explanation it's not just like other novels in which the mc's thought can be heard by heroines for no reason. This... more>> novel has an explanation at least.

and also MC is not a wimp who gets push around by heroines he takes practical actions towards them instead of being push around. He dominates

And spoiler below it's a turning point of the story as he finds out that his thoughts can be heard by others.

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The MC will soon be able to control what thought can be pass to the heroines and what can not.

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MyRAMEN
MyRAMEN rated it
June 19, 2025
Status: c47
The story has its good elements, but the negatives drag the quality to the mud.
    • Arrogant prideful MC with frequent personality flops
    • Dragged on very annoying unlikable original novel protagonist who should've been cutt off long ago with how much he's fallen, the main conflict loops endlessly. It's a frustrating and mindless cycle.
    • Convenient plot armor / plots forcing
    • Unfulfilling romance / flat characters
    • Mega filler
    • Way too Overpowered system and MC, with no care to balancing; and not feeding on any of the possitives of op settings like comedy
    • Confusing unknown cultivation power rankings as it doesn't get explained and the names aren't the standard xianxia which makes it more confusing
    • Very random plot, and doesn't seem to be any long spanning plot settings that unravel
And let me mention again, all the characters in this novel were unintentially made to be pretty unlikable.

The story started kinda good, and it has interesting settings of op rich prodigy young master and female leads hearing his inner thoughts. As for the villain? Yet another "villain" novel where MC is not a villain in any way. There's better novels out there but its okay if you turn off your brain and are okay with the characters which were the biggest detriment on whether to drop or not
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misora
misora rated it
August 13, 2024
Status: c155
Pros: overall it was a fairly enjoyable experience. Granted, the reason may be that I'm slightly starved for straightforward cultivation novels. Another thing I liked is that it (so far) did not turn into "gotta catch them all waifus" simulator. Although very weak in terms of romance line, I am pleasantly surprised that MC has 1 stable relationship and 2 other female followers who don't seem to sleep with him. Edit: nevermind, he was in fact sleeping with all 3 of them and he is picking the fifth wife now.... more>> I hope at least his master and protector are safe. Cons:

2) This is not a villain novel, it is a very straightforward (VERY) easy mode cultivation novel. MC never does anything remotely villainous, both OG and the new one. OG host body absolute worst offense is being a simp.

3) Even as a cultivation novel, the premises are not maintained. MC having his thoughts being heard by heroines increasingly rarely comes into play. Very early on MC finds out about it and just turns it off.
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"System, can I turn it off?" "No, but I can adjust it so you decide which thoughts are heard and which are not" "I decided that none will be heard" "ok, done"

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MC having to slack off is just an excuse to give MC increasingly powerful props and cultivation realm. In the end, MC ends up resolving the issues either by doing things himself of by directly instructing people around him. If MC casually dropped crucial bits of information to direct ppl where they need to be, I would excuse it, but what he is micromanaging everyone around him, it's not slacking off. 4) Increasingly large portions of the novel are struggles among the older generation, who are peak of the world in terms of combat power and cultivation realms. These thousand year olds are being ordered around by 20-year old MC because he has basically perfect precognition. MC, the heroines and all of young generation are just too weak to participate. It also makes MC plan to powerlevel his female followers to do things for him kind of pointless.

5) Author is incredibly repetitive about some things. The number of times a character said that looking at MC they feel resentment and despair may be in low hundreds. Every time MC sneezes in public, every named character says that, then several unnamed group of characters say that. <<less
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davidwolf2d
davidwolf2d rated it
August 2, 2024
Status: c107
The author tried their best to make this work and it's quite ingenious at times, but the setting is fundamentally flawed. First off, the "heroines can hear my thoughts" trope is inherently flawed because it cannot go on forever, but where the author really drove themselves into a corner is with the "slacking off system, " i.e. Growing stronger by doing nothing. This leads to dozens of pages in a row where the MC isn't even mentioned. Why? Obviously because he has to slack off while others do the work,... more>> however, I don't really care about these other characters so the grand battle scenes and schemes are utterly boring. <<less
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AsianInvasion
AsianInvasion rated it
January 10, 2025
Status: c278
Good braindead reading to pass the time.

MC is born as the first major antagonist for the OG protagonist in the first Arc of the story. He plots against the protagonist all the while in the comfort of his lawn-chair, since his system allows him to power up the less he does anything himself. So he leaves it to the people around him to change the story, which he orchestrates like a mastermind pulling the strings in the background.

The villains that antagonize this MC all face their ends with little expectation,... more>> given that for the most part, the storyline is almost always followed, or the MC can just always correctly predict the movements of his enemies.

Author doesnt even try to hide the fact that MC ab*ses his future knowledge in front of his allies. At some point they stop questioning how he even so accurately knows whats going to happen and just blindly follow his orders.

Its a fun story overall if you like the villain MC that knows the story, with a harem trope. If you ignore the obvious blind spots the Author doesn't bother to explain, and braindead characters that can't think for themselves and have no personality, it was a good way to waste time. <<less
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