Thanks for the hard work translating~

This is good to pass the time if you're bored, but This was a 6/10 for me.

The same plot was used a lot, so it made me aggravated and bored. It took forever to know the MC's back story. Face slapping was 2/3 of the story and sometimes it felt like too much or too little, like it didn't really perfectly satisfy me at the end. Some of the characters were dumb. Also, I don't feel like everything was tied up at the end. I... more>> wanted to see more into the future. And the Side couples took up a lot of the novel. Yeah, I won't be rereading. <<less

3.5 Stars

Overall

It was okay, not what I really wanted but I did manage to finish the story. The story kind of has like two parts. The first and longer part deals with the ger ML’s life while the other part deals with the MC’s life. It was actually okay separately but in one piece, the vibe of both felt too clashing. This is a personal preference though. Basically, I just don't like the addition of the Jiang Hu to the rural village countryside slice of life, farming life. The vibes... more>> of both just don't fit together for me. From the synopsis, I thought that the MC left that life and was just going to stay in the countryside for the entire story and that the golden finger of the MC is his martial arts skills or something. But in the latter part of the story there is his past and the Jiang Hu people who interfered with his life.

Anyway, I think it was just a difference in my expectations and reality for me. The ML part in the first part of the story was full of super annoying relatives being ridiculously s*upid and entitled. And the ML was too trusting until he finally learnt his lesson and grew some spunk. Before that, the relatives had free reign. I was so infuriated at them that I skipped a lot of the scenes attacking the ML because I knew the faceslapping wouldn't happen so fast so no need to suffer myself to be angry yet. I find, though, that faceslapping is only satisfying when the person being bullied is the one doing the faceslapping which the ML eventually did at the end XD. It took a while though.

Writing/Translation

The translation I read is from KnoxT. The translation was pretty good, not perfect but the translator really translated. Basically, if a sentence is weird when direct translate to English, they will change the sentence to something similar in English that makes sense to English audiences. They worked hard adding footnotes too.

Pacing

The pacing is okay.

Plot

The plot is that a new, unknown, mysterious rich MC comes to the village, encounters a Cinderella-like pitiful and beautiful ger, takes a liking to him, falls in love with him, marries him in 10+ chapters and then deals with the ML’s horrible relatives’ drama. Like a smiling yandere. Then, very obviously, after all the MC’s villains were dealt with, all kinds of people from the MC’s Jiang Hu past started coming to interfere with his quiet life when it felt like the story had finished its climax. Lol Then, the Jiang Hu portion of the story begins where there is some sect drama and hidden secrets are revealed.

Characters

The MC was interesting in that at the beginning, your first impression of the MC is really as some young master whose of a smiling, gracefully avoids issues type of person but over the course of the story, realise he's quite capable of killing enemies in cold premeditated mu*der lol. But the majority of the time, he's that smiley, graceful and very doting to his Fu Lang.

The ML is a typical downtrodden, bullied uke. But, over the course of his arc, he grows a spine and stands up and even does some literal faceslapping of his villains haha. Just by living with the MC, he also grows a taste for teasingly bullying other people into blushing states lol. But is still a cute and determined uke.

The other good side characters in the village are all nice, interesting and different from other rural farming stories I've read. They have personalities lol. Are likeable and feel mostly real and not just as props for that rural village life.

The bad guys are super infuriating :)

My Created Lists (I include my rating and review in the list itself XD)

• All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating - Where I ranked every single novel I read on novelupdates.
• Heartwarming or Feel Good or Wholesome Stories I Liked - As stated haha

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