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I really like how the writer added a scene where Hua takes Xie Lian for a walk through various villageis while Lian's arm is injured (from Emin’s blow) to take and break & rest, and it explicitly states that he also took Lian to help the children from which Hua received prayers some time ago

It’s such a nice little moment to show that Hua Cheng isn't heartless and cares about a lot of things.

From now on, I will consider them a tribute to William's acting skills. He's incredibly convincing; to the point that even readers are manipulated by him

Xie Lian would have remained a god for a long amount of time.

Eventually, his parents would have stepped down, and Qi Rong (being next in line) would have become the king of Xianle

Under King Qi Rong, how long would Xianle have lasted?

I love my tragic princes with hearts too soft

I've never enjoyed conducting research this much in my life

These novels are my first introduction to Chinese fantasy where characters practice cultivation. And first of all, it perfectly illustrates the difference in power: I’ve already read about gods and demons and seen what they’re capable of. So now, when it’s young "ordinary" cultivators…

suddenly all those creatures are actually a problem? Now no one can just look at them and kill them with a single glance or a simple movement of one hand???

And the biggest difference is in how the characters treat the souls of dead people

The gods barely even blinked at various ghosts. Xie Lian worried about Ban Yue and even said something like "Yes, ghosts can have trouble adapting too"

Everyone felt sympathy for the demoness Xuan Ji - or pitied her, even though by that point she was completely unhinged and beyond saving

But in each of them, the characters of TGCF still saw the person these ghosts once were — someone alive, someone with feelings.

They saw the cause and the consequences. They considered them worthy of an emotion, even if that emotion was pity for a dead soul. Nobody disregarded that the dead have emotions, even if the character didn’t give a single fuck about those emotions

Whereas in MDZS, despite how all those cultivators keep shouting about how important human souls are and whatever — they no longer see people in the dead

Suddenly, the human soul isn’t important anymore. You can just disregard them and their entire previous existence

it’s depressing

I can accept some aspects of the criticism of this book, but what I will never agree with is the claim that «when reading Katabasis, it's hard to understand that it's supposed to be satire and a critique of the academic system »

C'mon.

(Point #1) The book literally says that the most respected professor at the university is a person whose negligence caused the death of 5 students during an experiment, and all the university did was send the bodies of the dead students to their parents with a note stating that their children themselves were not careful enough during the experiment and, essentially, it was their own fault.

(Point #2) The university is governed by a culture where no one admits to watching TV/going to movies/reading books of any genre other than scientific (novels, fiction, comedy).

They say they never do anything for their own pleasure— they don't even have sex, despite being married with children. Be for real

(Point #3) There are people on campus who eat once a day and pass out because of it. And everyone around praises them for such "wonderful self-discipline."

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Name: Sister, I Am the Queen in This Life

This guy, whatever his name is, could be an interesting antagonist for Louis

— Bye, Louis. I don't want to see you again if I can help it

Hell no. You can't escape Louis so easy 😤

I honestly don’t know how I feel about omegaverse anymore. I’m in crisis 😖