The MC is inconsistent. On the one hand he is highly prepared and well read, intelligent and careful but then a bit later he lets other people lead him by the nose several times for no clear reason. Why did he even spare Nanfeng in the first place ? This never gets explained well. What was he doing before this story ? Just walking around being depressed and moody ?

So after he gets betrayed multiple times, he gets depressed and becomes an alcoholic and an abusive boyfriend for a few weeks, then escapes in shame. That is quite a weird transition. All of that later part was only about a chapter. That is not enough. His relationship with the girl he ab*sed is not okay. The fact she is so broken mentally that she loved him for abusing her slightly less is tragic.

I'm not trying to judge this by modern standards, where the MC should obviously be imprisoned, but the story ends at the MC and his ab*sed girlfriend just all lovey-dovey on their reunion where in fact, one would expect something much more complicated. The MC has a lot of things to ask forgiveness for.

What part of the MC even made the nameless (!) flower girl fall for him ? When he slapped her down and then threw a lot of money at her ? Was it being drunk all the time ? This arc is horrible. Horrible. If a completely reasonable feminist reads this and concludes the author hates women, I have nothing to say against.

Obviously, once the flower girl became independent, it makes much more sense for her to find a normal loving man at around her age, instead of the more than twice her age emotionally unstable and abusive male lead. What does she care he is the strongest person in the world? He doesn't seem even remotely interested in earning an income, and he is an alcoholic.

Moving on. I'm pretty annoyed by the head of the Peac*ck manor guy. He just killed himself and let the male lead to save his lover and child and continue on the family legacy. Are you serious ? He didn't even tell them where to go, so they had to waste time on that. Presumably, if he went with them, they might have actually been saved. And if they were dead, then he could actually still find another wife and continue the family from new. It would also obviously would have helped the MC to avoid several traps. Plus, since the MC knows nothing about the traditions of the family, so he can't continue it even if he really wanted to. This was an insane cop-out.

The novel started great, with ML being an expert with the sword saber as one of the strongest, traveling alone, and the fact that he had a friend Yan. However, everything seemed to go downhill when his friend Yan helped him escape from their pursuers. Their goal was to kill Gu Yungzu, a dangerous man that is affecting the world badly with his organization of assassins. After ML ran away from that place, the author decided to make him suffer "a little bit", he stayed at a prostitute's home where he didn't sleep with her, just company for him because she was lonely by being forced to be a tool and live this way, and he was lonely too, most importantly that ML was feeling guilty that Yan might have died, (ok plot) (in my opinion this is way too prolonged from here on>>) but he started drinking and drinking alcohol. Later, ML found out from a witness who saw what happened after Yan gave a chance to ML to escape from the assassins, he died shortly. ML began drinking more alcohol where after a while he left the prostitute's nest. ML began traveling alone again but now alcoholic and of course, the Demon Lord Gu Yungzu began to send him more people to kill him with the idea for ML to become an executioner person but miraculously the ML who was in a state of chaos, tragedy, hears the zither's disciple Gu Yungzu which was sent to ML to make him kill himself, cause the only one who can kill ML is Himself, (cause yea Gu Yungzu isn't the strongest guy after all, besides it's said that because ML has fallen in such a state then he doesn't even deserve his time or smth, Gu Yungzu is the type that cuts the root from the tree*). The ML is ambushed by a bunch of assassins then they run away, ML follows the disciple at a home, he uses the zither to sing a sorrow song which makes people have no hope to life and to accept death as the only choice. The ML retaliates by having the courage to endure in his life, not to die. shamelessly by suiciding. Finally, like after some trials from (the Demon Lord cliche, to make ML much stronger, and not to instantly kill him 7.7) Gu Yungzu, he calls ML, then ML comes and they put their fight tomorrow so that they may have a "REST" (I know this has become a 3-star genre of a novel, but after this author really disgusted me). Shortly resume* Then ML keeps walking around and meets a mysterious guy who tells him to walk forward and right where he will meet a tool woman for his needs 0.0, because he has anxiety and stuff and can't relax or smth, only through this yesyes... Ofc ML goes there and yea, GG WP. I gave up on the novel from that.

It is obvious the ML will win against the villain and he will be the strongest thing in the universe.

Rambling: Besides, you will see that author kept describing the world through like every people's action by betraying lying full of exaggerated darkness where there is no law or any principals and there isn't that much of world detail, it is true that in ancient times reality was very cruel, but in this novel, there is no appearance of an Emperor, only Gu Yungzu, a mysterious boss.