The beginning of a little difficult as all the names kind of run together as the MC works hard to resolve the immediate family crisis on his return to 1994. The source is not particularly good, with lots of repeated text and weird inserts from other stories. I switched to https://m.hetushu.com/book/67/44590.html to continue reading at book chapter 80, site chapter 93.

I'm not an apple fan, i quite like the term iq tax when applied to Apple products. That said, I've enjoyed this book so far. Yes the details get tedious at times, but it remains enjoyable (at least so far chapter at 219). MC is composed and thoughtful, makes interesting mistakes that the reader can recognize, especially since they are pointed out. Will be interesting to see if his mention of tiktok in 2014 will have an effect when it is released in 2017. Much of the extra description of the process does seem to be the author padding the word count. Author mentions that the summer will be a couple hundred chapters and school will be a couple hundred. I'm hoping the story speeds up soon. Update: Story got even slower. All 447 chapters cover just 30 days. I'm excruciating detail. TLDR: guy goes back in time to a nearly identical universe from 2021 to 2014. His phone, his laptop, and a few hard drives filled with days from the company he worked at go with him. Using his new and improved mental focus, and ability to program he releases three games very quickly because he wants to go to the Apple developer conference. They are wildly successful. Meanwhile he uses archived data that includes the national exam to ace the college exam, gets invited to MIT after making a few patents and releasing a summarizing natural language tool, and making millions of dollars and billions of yuan. Then his fame blows up big, and the story ends abruptly. I've moved out from 4 stars to 2. You might like it, but there's also an annoying thing that chapters have sections that repeat themselves which makes the story even more repetitive.

The early chapter rewrite makes the book much more polished, for those 9 chapters. The rest of it has often inexplicable events. MC basically has been gifted knowledge from an unknown source about biology, but somehow builds artificial intelligence? He creates a super brain serum, and so studies everything to become an expert in everything in just a month. He spends a month locked in his laboratory and comes out to visit all his company executives, then goes home to take a shower for the first time in a month. Maybe that's just a Chinese thing. There has to be better books out there, I'm back to searching again.

Pretty weird book. Seems very fast paced, hard to follow the side plots of rival construction companies. Don't quite understand the system, if buildings don't work when town center is destroyed, how is the blacksmith shop working to refurbish equipment? I'm going to try to find a different book, might come back later.

Read the minimum to review. An attempt to write a rebirth story where the Chinese mc becomes an American. It's full of mistakes, such as selling Adderall in 1982 when it didn't get released until 1996. Beyond that, little to no redeeming value. Dialog is rubbish, plot is rubbish.

This is the kind of book I like. Jumping back and forth thru time, with accurate historical events happening as he works to upgrade the combat power of the army in 1940 against the Japanese invasion of China. Well thought out, simple time jumping system, and very enjoyable to read so far. The story from back in time is taken from a 2005 Chinese TV show, Drawing Sword (亮剑) which is the sword in the title of the book. Very enjoyable so far. Update: still enjoyable but got a bit repetitive and silly after the end of ww2 in 1945. Some of the things I enjoyed about the book, such as the business he developed in the main world to harvest technical know how to transfer to the alternate world becoming very successful unfortunately didn't become a recurring thing, instead it increased focus on importing technologies.

Pretty good book, got tired if the constant battles at chapter 224, they had been going on for a while. Liked the system and the story plot from the beginning, but it became really repetitive.

Confusing book, translation didn't help it's quality. Synopsis: guy who was a half hearted phd student with minimal natural abilities is transmigrated to a more primitive world. He has access to a library/bookstore via a jade ring that went with him. The library belongs to some sort of star civilization, and can give him books, provided he pays for it. Meanwhile his primitive world is dominated by astrologers who use the most basic math and geometry for their practice. Whether there are any actual supernatural powers from the astrologers is unknown when i quit at chapter 16. There is too much here that either doesn't translate well, or is left out because it is culturally obvious, but not to a foreign reader.

It's ok, confusing actions by the MC, the women in the book seem to be only interested in his money/skills, which is typical for the genre. 172 chapters in, and it's not holding my attention. The beginning was funny and the system was interesting, and the stuff he was learning was cool, but he's collected all these recipes for products and hardly does anything with them, except when the system makes him.

Enjoyable of you like math and scientist type books. It's a system book but with just research, no prizes or tech, just goals and increasing his abilities in the sciences. Around chapter 580 book changes, and gets weird. Considering that it's pretty boring up to that point I decided to stop reading.