Adult type novel but typical of these, nothing is mentioned clearly, everything is terrible innuendo. But what bothers me most with the innuendo is describing lovemaking as a battle. Men and women are trading attacks and moves trying to gain an upper hand always. Gets tiring to read after a while, it's not even sensuous. When it is not battle, it is dragon does this, phoenix does that crap. Better to "fade to black" and leave it to the readers imagination. Additionally this novel has a problem with the chapters at 54, 55 where the scene shifts to something else entirely. Recrawling did not help, I checked the source and it was also corrupted. 55 had 2 completely different characters. Not sure if it is even from the same novel. 56 appears to be back on track but I'm done.

The first sentence in the novel says leave your brain behind. From the context it seems to be an unironical instruction to the reader. You should follow the instructions if you intend to read the book. Read ch 30+ so far and it seems to be a romance type novel, a bit cutesy type, a bit comedic, a few misunderstandings, some contrived plots like a powerful peak master (woman) pretending to be a girl to chase after our boy. But the boy has a system which gives him tasks and so he has his own considerations, which leads to the misunderstandings. It's like those hollywood romcoms. Ch 80: there seems to be a bit too much of emotions and sappiness. And the relations are going round in circles like those "will they wont they" romances, it's turning into a soap opera. Losing interest. Plus I'm seeing hints of upcoming evil Buddhists bs typical of xianxia. Low tolerance for that bigotry, that's an instant 1* in my book.

I'm the one that requested this novel. I expected it to be a story of a guy who secretly shaped the world over thousands of years but ultimately died low key. Then his diary is found and his life story is laid bare, including his romantic escapades. So far it kind of is that but also isnt. He isnt dead, he is in seclusion. The diary is laying the groundwork for something bigger and MC will come back in the future and take that plot forward. So far (ch 30+) it is people reading the diary (due to plot shenanigans it is revealed a few pages at a time) and reacting to it, even fighting each other due to revelations made and opportunities revealed, etc. Its a bit unbelievable but for a popcorn-read it is fine. Enjoying it so far. Update having completed the book: it was enjoyable at the beginning but the plot became sophomoric as it progressed. Lame plots with stupid logic and deus ex machina saving the day. Words thrown around and I'm not even sure what they signify. Negating things you said in one paragraph a few paras later. Rushed ending, open ended. Not good, it's quite muddle headed and confusing. 2.5 stars if I'm being generous, and with even more generosity (because I requested this novel) I'm rounding it up to 3 instead of rounding it down.

Slow paced and boring tbh.

the actions or choices these characters take make no sense. didnt like the characters either.

typical plot of many xianxia. nothing special. read it if theres nothing else to read. for people that read for the harem plot... its there, but theres no romancing as such. it is not the focus of the novel. at least not in the 100 chaps i read.

trash. juvenile. interesting premise - you go to reveal a scammer but you end up uncovering a bunch of mysteries... or secret identities in this case. as a concept it is nice, if only it had been done well. but this execution is a bit too much. like sweet is nice, but cloyingly sweet is not. so mc having secret identities and being accomplished in secret is nice. he does it for his own enjoyment, not for fame or whatever. but you dont give him just one or two, you just start heaping one achievement on top of another. not only that he is such a good guy, you cant help fall in love with him. no wonder he has a harem! and so far we are only learning this from one girl in the harem group chat, to her he is a great writer and they uncover that he is at least 2 prominent wuxia writers of china and 4 nobel prize winning authors (written using a foreign pseudonym). perhaps the other girls know him as some impressive in something else?

Was going well until ch 200 or so when it started going downhill for me. It was a 3-3.5* until then. Nothing great, but enjoyable in a popcorn flick kinda way. It had some flirting and romance, there werent too many women in the harem then so they got their bit of screen time. Though the romance itself is quite standard, nevertheless... enjoyable. The rest of the plot was moving along too. But then came the Buddhism mockery typical in these Chinese novels, I have a bit of a low tolerance for that. Soured my liking immediately by a bit. Then there were some typos or oversight issues in realm names, realm levels, the period of an ancient era (which keeps alternating between 10k and 100k years ago) all of which made things confusing (and annoying to read). There was one realm name mixup where it read something like (paraphrasing): "MC was in the Nascent Soul realm, but X was only in the Nascent Soul realm and was no match for MC who was one whole realm higher". And finally the ending is ass. The final plot I mean, about the last 50 chapters or so. In the last chapter the author wraps it up with essentially "and they lived happily ever after". Seems a bit juvenile and a rushed ending. Guessing the author got tired of the story himself.