All Novels I've Read Sorted By Rating (Dropped)

CN (4.3)

#1Number One Lazy Merchant of the Beast World

90 Chapters Every 143.9 Day(s) 13769 Readers 175 Reviews 08-02-2019

Completed Fantasy Romance Sci-fi Yaoi

Dropped: C61... more>>

CN (4.2)

#2I Ran Away after I was Forced into a Love Polygon

113 Chapters Every 110.7 Day(s) 4523 Readers 80 Reviews 12-20-2020

Completed Comedy Drama Romance Shounen Ai Supernatural

3 Stars - Dropped... more>>

KR (4)

#3The Tutorial Is Too Hard

373 Chapters Every 113.5 Day(s) 18808 Readers 165 Reviews 01-17-2021

Completed Action Adventure Fantasy Psychological Seinen Supernatural Tragedy

2.9 Stars - C132: Dropped... more>>

CN (4.1)

#4The Peasant Female Doctor

136 Chapters Every 68.1 Day(s) 2621 Readers 41 Reviews 09-10-2022

Completed Comedy Fantasy Historical Martial Arts Mature Romance Slice of Life Supernatural

2.7 Stars... more>>

Overall

I feel disappointed because I really liked the Pheasant Makeup Artist. But the details of the doctoring are woefully vague with only the general gist thrown in. For being someone from an experimental lab with modern medical knowledge, she just uses taking the pulse to somehow diagnose diseases. The herb knowledge + farming medicinal herbs was not explained or expanded at all. It was just given like a summary. The MC describes the various herbs she needs the ML to find from the mountain. There is no further explanation. The author will give the MC general modern medical knowledge and these things are deemed good enough for the story like CPR. I expected something more fancy. I also, reeeally disliked how the author really dives into the idea that the son is a fatty sthick. The connotation of fat = insult is deep in my bones so every single time the MC calls her unborn child, fat, little fat man, little fatty, fatty, I keep imagining the body of an obese person with icky massive folds of fat. And since she kept saying little fat man, I kept thinking of the baby as an obese adult man. It's a baby, why keep calling it a man? Also, they know being too fat is a negative because they keep saying they are too fat and you won't get married! I also don't like the decision to make the mother and unborn child in her womb so combative. The author even made it so that the unborn child seems to understand what is happening outside. So when the MC scolds him in the stomach, the baby will kick. Then, when the baby is born, this combativeness continues. And the baby is smart and cunning enough to be sly. And he seems to understand things as if he were not a baby. So this made his baby actions incredibly spoiled which made me dislike him. There was this whole thing about how the kid loves to fake cry to get what he wants and the MC sees through that and scolds him. This whole dynamic and the choices the author made are just weird. Why make him so unnaturally smart and why include this combativeness between mother and child? Furthermore, I’m not a fan of letting 3-year-olds pretend to do adult things like hug other kids and kiss them like adults. Or pretend to drink wine and be so proud of it. It's edging into pe*verted territory for me. I don't understand why the author added those things. It's not cute, heartwarming or funny. Other than that, I am unsatisfied with how Xiao Shitou was handled. He was six years old and the couple agreed to raise him. So, why is he considered a brother instead of a son by the couple? At first, they were acting like parents but then he became the uncle to their unborn child. And then, he just fades out of the story after the child is 3. I thought since he was adopted, his development would also be focused on but we only get a summary at the end. Basically, this story is really very web novel-ly. Not really real.

Writing/Translation

The translation I read is from Shanghai Fantasy. The translation has many pronoun errors but is otherwise perfectly readable. There are some pauses when the pronouns switch but I can easily substitute in my head. I am a bit confused about how the pronouns weren't fixed because the translator seems to really read through the story whilst translating. So shouldn't they easily notice the wrong pronouns? Eh. There are also some footnotes at the bottom. The writing is pretty simple and straightforward, with almost no complicated idioms for being located in Ancient China. No awkward sentences either because it's so straightforward. What you see is what you get.

Pacing

The pacing is a bit eh. The beginning was a little slow when the story was setting up the romance, okay for the 2/3rds in the middle of the story, then, it was jumpy at the end where there were a lot of timeskips.

Plot

We follow the MC's stay with the ML for a few chapters, gets subtly seduced by his goodness and his food, breaks with him to move to the city by herself as planned from the start, realises she really misses him and likes him, comes back with lots of money. Then the fun business part of the story begins until the annoying pregnancy and the addition of the weird mother-son relationship spoiled the story for me. After that, the business expanded which was mildly interesting. There weren't many details except that they did it though. Then, the ending was kind of rushed. The extras summarise the youngest daughter and the son. The last chapter was about the couple dying of old age if you wanna skip that. I really don't like those scenes. Can't we just get a happy ever after into the sunset? Why put in the end of their lives?

Characters

The MC was a refreshing change from other similar novels. She's strong and thinks things through. I also like that she knows medicine. My only issue is her weird, combative relationship with her son. For the ML, I think he is adorable, especially at the beginning. Then he became a husband, and he no longer appears to have any conflict to deepen his character. He just became that husband s*ave. The side characters are just props for the couple. They don't feel real other than to give the couple someone good to befriend. Especially the friend of the MC from the city. They became friends way too fast on the premise of 2 meetings because "their outlook and temperament are the same". I’m like, where? How? What is the same? The lady sounds exactly like a rebellious rich lady while the MC just wants to make sure her shops succeed for her family. What is the same? They haven't talked about their beliefs at all, so how do they know they are similar?? *Rolls eyes* For the son, I found him too unnaturally smart. It's too off for me. Also, when he was unborn and as a baby, his intelligence made me feel that even though he's just a baby, he knows what he is doing and is acting like a spoiled brat in front of the MC that I wanted him to just go away. I wish Xiao Shitou was the son instead. He's cute, smart, has a bad past and they could have built on that. Too bad he got sidelined later on.

The villains were meh. The face-slapping was so mild and not satisfying. The young master suitor has so little presence. After the main brush off, he takes it resignedly and goes back home just like that. No more drama when the couple sets up shop in the city. For the second aunt, after she gets muted for four months, she comes in to try to let her son be a teacher at the school, gets rebuffed mildly, and never appears again. The eldest son that was studying just appeared once to look down on the ML at the beginning and then never appeared again. I was looking forward to some drama there for some spice but nope. We don't get any conclusion for that side of the family in the end. The ending for the youngest daughter was too quick and out of the blue. <<less

CN (4.6)

#5The E-Sports Circle’s Toxic Assembly Camp

214 Chapters Every 91.4 Day(s) 9171 Readers 103 Reviews 07-25-2024

Completed Action Romance Shounen Ai Sports Supernatural

2.5 Stars - Dropped... more>>

Hmm, this seems like a fine story but I don't feel all that excited about the sport because it isn't all that interesting. At first they just didn't explain it so I had to google LOL and how it works. So I understand a very basic structure but there are still many terms I don't understand, like Heads, the row of apparently spawning soldiers that maybe belong to each side that attack the other's base (?) and economy. Also, I don't understand what all the buffs do for the team or what a jungler's rhythm is or how it helps the team. It is okay to read it but there is no excitement in it for me, even though I love underdogs. It's just the main group has too much of a protagonist halo for me to feel any stakes. Even if they lose, the game they lost has no importance so it doesn't matter. Any training or teaching that goes on by the coach isn't really substantial because it's all empty words. For example, the first one for Gloy, it was all just if you were faster by 3 seconds, you could fit a move here, at 7 minutes 37 seconds, if you stepped 1 step to the left, you could have fit in this move, etc. It has no meaning for me as a reader so I just skimmed it. Then, for everything else until now, it was all told, not shown, like how Lan Yin went through the half-hour replay that was so detailed that it extended to 2 hours, but we don't know what he has to say. Basically, all the lectures are just minor things like the efficiency of the players which is a boring problem for the reader to read about. Or something simple like they need more communication and practise working together since there are tiny mistakes happening... but we don't feel the impact of these tiny mistakes because they are just told to us that way. Like, were they too slow? Too fast? Accidentally ignored a teammate? It feels a little too glazed over. I really want to feel right in the thick of it, not this distant feeling from the game.

Honestly, the only reason I kept reading on was the idea of Abyss face-slapping the bad guy. But it's gonna take a long time to reach that. And a lot of game-related stuff needs to happen before that. Also, the faceslapping feels a bit lukewarm so far because it happened in the game which doesn't feel important enough zzz The criminal charges were done too but it happened too offscreen for me that there is currently no satisfaction. Like I want to see their faces and hear all their denials but it was all handled by a side character I don't know over the phone.

The romance part is okay when reading about it but after reading, I don't understand how the ML fell in love? He just had a drunken encounter with the MC where the MC spent hours talking about all the things he would have done instead of the ML's management's bad choices. It was too skimmed through. The story only told me the meaning of the actions not really what the actions were, so I felt distant from what they were talking about. It was told not shown. Apparently, the ML was feeling down? But this period of feeling down wasn't shown to me so I don't feel it. I didn't see the ML feeling sad and then feeling touched when the MC said all those stuff. So it was insta-lovey for me.

I also find the writing of the sad pasts a bit too quick and simple. I wish they had drawn it out more so we would feel more curiosity before giving us the answers. And then, when the author did decide to give us the sad past, it was all told in one shot. So... after that, there was nothing interesting left to know about the MC. So far, for the MC, he is okay-ish interesting to read about. I just wish he could display his smartness in a way I really get it. For the ML, so far he's kinda bland and kinda boring? We just know that he is a God in the game but we don't really see why he is so good? Like what makes him so unique? Is he particularly cunning? Particularly fast? Unpredictable? A gamer that is good at spotting opportunities in midgame and the small mistakes of the enemy team? Amazing at planning and strategy? What? Idk :) Dang I'm making too many comparisons to King's Avatar. Every player there is unique and brings their own specialties into the picture unlike here where the specialty seems limited to their game role only.

Honestly, this is my 3rd time reading an esports CN (the 2nd one I DNFed because it was so shallow) and I can't help comparing it unfavourably to Glory King's Avatar which I feel handled the esports far better, making me really understand what was happening and giving me a much easier time rooting for the MC in the game. I feel much more involved with all the gamers' goals and actions. Also, there are more relevant female characters there than here. So far, there isn't a single female character so it feels a bit unreal to me. Unless you count the cooking lady, who is only mentioned and not shown lol In King's Avatar, there are a few prominent female characters, 2 of which are part of the team and 1 as a sympathetic to the MC side character. <<less

CN (4.3)

#6The Princess Wei Yang

344 Chapters Every 21.7 Day(s) 10350 Readers 108 Reviews 11-18-2024

Drama Fantasy Historical Josei Romance

2.5 Stars - C87: Dropped... more>>

JP (4.5)

#7My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending

138 Chapters Every 101.3 Day(s) 27282 Readers 229 Reviews 05-19-2025

Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery Romance Shounen

2.5 Stars - C48: DroppedHmm, it was interesting at the beginning with saving Clara and her daughter the new way of planting. It had seemed... more>>

CN (4.3)

#8Transmigrating into the Female Supporting Character with a Good Life in a Laid-Back Novel

106 Chapters Every 83.6 Day(s) 7306 Readers 163 Reviews 03-01-2022

Completed Comedy Fantasy Romance Shoujo Slice of Life

2 Stars... more>>

Translation/Writing

The translation is very good, I did not remember any mistakes or grammar problems. It was almost too perfect a match to ancient Chinese lol Translation wise, everything is very good with footnotes and pictures for better imagining but writing style wise, I personally found it too long and flowery. This is typical of the ancient Chinese cn though. Lots of long formal names, greetings, sending gifts, all the extra flowery formality adds up.

Plot

The plot structure is a bit of a straight and mellow road. Not many highs or lows that happened to the MC much. I feel like there wasn't really a climax or anything, just lots of little annoyances that got dealt with.

Themes/What Story Tried to Achieve

Well, for better or worse, the story is exactly like the title says. It follows the MC just living an amazingly lucky life with beauty, wealth, and love in the ancient past. It definitely delivered that.

Pacing

It was basically quite even. There weren't any parts that felt particularly slow or rushed.

Characters

Basically, I didn't like anyone. I only read until the end just to see how the bad guys went down. This...wasn't cathartic at all. Most of the bad guys just got offed not by anything the MC did so it felt meh.

The mc felt unchanging as this calm, don't care person most of the time and became his in love girl with the ml. She is not anything special. She doesn't do anything except learn how to move elegantly and work hard to be as expected of her status. It's completely bland to follow around. Really, the interesting things are the bad people's reactions and actions towards her, not what she does. The ML is a typical amazing ML with typical CN views especially in this time period. It's just not as bad as a stallion protagonist. Otherwise unremarkable.

The main bad guy is so s*upidly in her own head that she's completely believes she's right. All the expected faceslapping happens due to her own actions that draw in other people's fire. The other bad guys also get killed off by the ML. basically. The MC doesn't really do anything.

For side characters, they are nothing special, don't do anything interesting and basically just follow their job roles. The MC doesn't have any peers as friends so we don't see any meaningful development in the side characters. I do have a soft spot for the Qi illegitimate guy who was the previous life's husband. I feel like he was presented with a more approachable sob story and premise than the ML. It sounds like he has a more interesting bad boy image for me haha.

Overall Comments

It was so meh. No one was likeable, everything felt super superficial, the MC didn't have any hardship or conflict or make me invested in her, and all the faceslapping was really unsatisfying because for most of them, we don't get to see them being confronted by what they did. It was like they got killed off screen or mentioned getting face slapped by some other characters and that was it.

Another main thing is the romance between the MC and ML. Since I didn't particularly like them, I basically skipped all the romantic gestures and scenes. The MC felt like a completely different person when in these scenes. She was all cool and unaffected and then suddenly blushed and felt her heart thumping. I did not fully believe in the progression of love from her side. The romance didn't land for me. It is a typical male lead with a typical cn novel view. The jokes and romantic advances, at least from the guy's side, all have a s*xual undertone and the MC just blushes. All the teasing and flirting was kinda boring and just there. It didn't raise any feelings for me. It got pretty long too. I think I would have enjoyed it more if the courting scenes were shorter with fewer people observing. The humour regarding any romantic scenes or inside jokes that happened because of the romantic scenes likewise, just didn't land for me. Also, I feel like how the MC grew to have feelings for the ML felt like a jump. From meeting him once to writing a couple of letters that just talked about their day, she grew to have some feelings for him? Even after the first meeting, she felt indifferent to him. He didn't do anything for this to happen to me. I think I actually do not like this type of ML, kinda coming on strong and lecherous. And the almighty super annoying cn novel trope, consent is apparently not in fact sexy. He holds the MC's hand with no warning, hugs her the same in public, kinda without caring if she is uncomfortable doing so in public or not. And the usual ml excuse, your mouth says no but your actions aren't pushing me away teasing. No just means no whether it's something innocent like a hug in public or s*x. I think it's the language being used. It's all, "it was evident that he had ruthlessly tossed and turned Xiao Xi for the whole night...". It feels demeaning towards the girls and gives all the power to the guy. <<less

CN (3.9)

#9Against the Gods

49 Chapters Every 516.5 Day(s) 22469 Readers 416 Reviews 05-22-2015

Action Adventure Ecchi Fantasy Harem Martial Arts Mature Xuanhuan

1 Star - Dropped... more>>

CN (4.1)

#10I Was Raised After Being a Mermaid

107 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 5196 Readers 54 Reviews 08-01-2022

Completed Adventure Comedy Fantasy Mecha Romance Sci-fi Yaoi

On Hold: C41... more>>

Overall

Hmm, the beginning parts were very interesting. The MC has language issues, is a pet, his powers are relatively little and he can purify the impurities in the food and calm/increase the spiritual sea of people. So there were so many interesting things he was working hard to do and improve on like communicating with the ML, learning about the impurities in the world, making money etc. But then, he levelled up too fast for me. Already three times. And he can speak and turn into a human now, within 41 chapters. The curing of the ML’s spiritual rioting and the upgrading of his spiritual sea had also been completed by the MC already. And the ML has now gone completely gaga over the MC so all the things are handed to the MC. My level of interest and curiosity has gone down because what does the MC have to work hard for anymore? He's now working hard to be "independent" and is worried about being too special and wants to show he is an intelligent being that isn't experiment worthy. And so won't tell such things to the ML. But we know from the ML’s perspective that anything that happens will be easily fixed by him because he's the highest power now, so the MC is working hard, kinda uselessly. I wanted more of him finding ways to help the spiritual seas of all the citizens but the Mc’s goal in doing so is to earn money so he can live in case the ML loses interest in him. Which we know is unnecessary because the ML alrd connected his account to the MC and has fallen in love with him. All sources of conflict were quickly solved. I find all these goals too unnecessary. Also, I don't really notice the age difference until I stop to think about it. The MC is 20, but all the other characters believe he hasn't reached adulthood yet. The ML is 35 y'all. 15 years' difference. It's a little iffy to think the ML fell in love with 1) a pet and 2) someone he himself believes isn't an adult yet when he has like 15 years of experience as an adult over the MC. I don't get why the author made him so old.

The translation I read is from Exiled Rebels Scanlastions. The translation is normal for this group, above average but with some minor mistakes. <<less

CN (4.5)

#11To Be A Virtuous Wife

123 Chapters Every 231.4 Day(s) 15603 Readers 369 Reviews 01-05-2016

Completed Fantasy Historical Josei Romance Slice of Life

C52: Dropped... more>>

Soo, I'm probably not going to continue the story. These types of stories just aren't suited for me haha. I wanted a face-slapping story but also have some humour or feel good parts like a rootable protagonist or ML that you root for against all the villains. However, here, I find every character in the story is just a bit*h even the MC, scheming, sneers at everyone, constantly thinks bad of everyone. No one is likeable at all except maybe the 4th prince, who barely had a couple of appearances until now. Everyone else is thinking badly of other people and it's just such a cesspool of pure negativity.

Writing/Translation

The translation is super good. You can tell that the translator really loved the story and put a lot of care and effort into writing it. There are many footnotes and pictures littered throughout.

Plot

Up to here, it's just the MC living her life and encountering all these banquets and events where she will always be on top in the end. However, there are some plot holes or things that don't make sense as smoothly as the MC. She just transmigrated here but she can pick up all the ancient Chinese culture so quickly that she can decisively order a bunch of servants to be beaten up in front of her. There is no error in the actions to live in such a place.

What Story Tried to Achieve

This is just a pure, face-slapping Chinese palace drama story up to here. The romance with the guy feels like insta-love and the MC is being cautious at the moment but still pretending to be a good wife. Well, the face slapping is definitely delivered on all accounts. The chinese palace drama is also very much delivered, the back talk and hidden actions are at least not purely straightforward. There are plots and stuff happening everywhere that are interesting. The romance, I haven't really reached it yet in that I'm not sure what exactly the main couple really thinks of each other. The title meaning feels like irony, everyone pretends to be or wants a virtuous wife but hah! Every single female is the complete opposite of one and every male feels entitled to one.

Pacing

I think it's good so far. Isn't rushed or slow, especially with all the double backhanded twisty talk happening everywhere. This was the only thing that kept me reading.

Characters

I dislike everyone. Everyone looks down on everyone and wants to climb over other people to get higher. The ML is a typical ML. The MC has no compassion and just does what she wants. But, I do like that she has decisiveness in her and that she actually handles things well and is smart and able to beat other people herself. All the other characters have the same attitude. There are no good relationships here except between the mother and child but when the characters themselves aren't likeable, I don't care about the relationship. And even if there are likeable characters, they appear so infrequently that it's like there's no point to give me good feelings. So overall, this story isn't enjoyable for me. <<less