2 confirmed members of the harem. Pure girl (if you read the novel, you'll know who I'm talking about) is also probably confirmed in the future. The relationship with Wife 1 is quite standard, almost similar to a non-harem one. Wife 2 is the homewrecker. She literally opens the MC up to the idea of a harem. Due to *cough* an accident, they frickle-frackle even before Wife 1. MC even later admits he could've held back, but didn't because she was sexy. Although Wife 2 confessed love to the MC, the s*x wasn't 100% lucid, despite, in my opinion, her probably being willing anyways. Afterwards, she even responds the the act in an interesting way, unlike a generic harem member in other dumb CN novels, so props to the author. I have problems with the MC's actions. He already proposed to Wife 1, and was going to marry her, but cheats with Wife 2 because of the accident because he's a h**ny MC. You can debate on this being OOC, but the author has portrayed the MC as a pe*vert from near Chapter 1. RIP.

It gets worse. The MC schemes to marry his wife (done beautifully), but, for the whole time this brilliant arc is going on, doesn't come clean to Wife 1 because it ain't strategic. Bruh. Even better, he comes clean to her in an extremely dramatic moment. They're about to be forcibly separated, and Wife 1 is being devoted and totally willing to marry the MC, when MC pops the secret. Wife 1 is understandably distressed, and reacts in a realistic way, stating that he might love her, but she doesn't necessarily have to love him in the future. The MC becomes even more scummy when, through scheming, forces himself on her, taking advantage of her feelings for him and guilt for hurting him, forcefully marrying her and having s*x with her, making up with her in this way.

I was totally disappointed at the way the author chose to have the MC setup a harem, despite it not being unrealistic. The MC literally muses to himself about increasing his harem: "Now that the possibility of a harem had opened its doors, the pressure in his heart had greatly decreased" (V4 C170). Sheesh. I said he wasn't a pe*vert before, but now he definitely is... RIP

But rest of the story seems fine for now and I like the part where MC actually conduct experiments like evil scientist and not act like typical xianxia characters who don't use brain at all.

there's a woman that tries to kill him repeatedly, and he ends up plotting and causing one of her important family members to die along with her servants and what not after he uses her as a hostage. He then ends up letting her wander around his home, and even gives her his secrets before taking her on walks in public, causing her to fall for him (again, after he basically made her watch him kill someone important to her). The worst part is that he ends up wiping her memory and pretending that they hadn't been in contact... AFTER PUBLICLY WALKING AROUND TOGETHER FOR A MONTH. And this guy is supposed to be smart?

In the last chapter all we get is a monologue of someone, who isn't the MC, but is some apparent awesome figure that is the sole reason why the novel can exist in the first place. The MC is talked about In third-person, and we're essentially told the MC pulls a d*ck move abandoning everyone to go to a higher plane. To top it off, the big bad bosses everyone fought and died to kill aren't actually dead, they're still alive and are inside the guy giving a monologue plotting their revenge.

"In plain terms, she was still a woman.

Perhaps she had her own smarts, but she lacked any wisdom and didn't understand how to endure. She relied heavily on good luck and fortune."

One of the most obvious proof of that is the character Night Demon. At the beginning, you don't know if she is a man or a woman and the author describes her as a dark and seemingly cruel assassin but as soon as he decides to make her a she, she becomes an idiot, clueless, seductive lover of the MC

The most s*upid thing I found was that he stole a terrorist organisation, met problems, decide to resolve it by creating bigger problems, when that didn't work, decide to create even bigger problems, and in the end, losing and being forced to create bigger problems. When he tried to destroy a whole city, causing hundred of thousands of death and the king of the country decided to kill his concubine as a punishment, he had the gal to find that it was crossing the line.

The first 2 seggs, were so terrible,

the 1st one was the the 'i f*cked because of the aphrodisiac' trope,

literally them f*cking for hundreds of time over lust and 'experiments', the second was a r*pe, because MC still doesn't want to lose his original love despite breaking his vow, (uhh, the nature of man is ever changing, author says). I'd have to read the rest of volume if he gets to seggs another wamen for no reason.

There is a harem, such as it is -- two women; and at least one of them has a real problem accepting the other woman, so it's handled realistically. On the whole, this issue has been handled about as well as any Xianxia, and better than almost any other example.

At the end, Su Chen even becomes that reclusive patriarch who no longer manages the sect, but focuses on cultivation, and is the strongest cultivator around.