Three Kingdoms: Being a Properly Dutiful Tyrant
三国：一本正经的当昏君
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- Completed
- Length
- 636k Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Historical High-Concept
- Updated
- 4y ago
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To be fair, this book is undoubtedly a masterpiece among Three Kingdoms novels. The author's writing is fluent, the narration is vivid, the protagonist is intelligent and doesn't indiscriminately acquire concubines, and the emotional descriptions are quite delicate. I especially liked the section about Cai Yan.
A rare gem among Three Kingdoms novels! I hope the protagonist unifies the world and collects countless beauties from all over.
Not bad, I got an 8.9 Rating. I wasn't planning on reading it, but I was looking for something to read, so I gave it a try, and it turned out to be... Amazing!
Keep up the good work, author! Harem, so good! 😊 Five-star review!
It's quite good. This is probably the most insightful Three Kingdoms novel about royal lineage that I've read in recent years. The protagonist is fearless and dares to face his inner thoughts, unlike other novels of the same type that are hesitant and indecisive.
This book is quite good; there are very few Three Kingdoms books with such an early timeline. The current timeline should be before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
From the very beginning, you can tell it's a harem wish-fulfillment novel, and among wish-fulfillment novels, it has relatively good logic.
This is the kind of harem I like to watch, nice!
It's really great, highly recommended, trust me! If you don't like it, come find me and I'll argue with you to the end.
It's well-written and flows smoothly; the dialogue is quite skillful. My only personal dislike is the excessive amount of harem elements. It's not that I dislike harems, but they're just too prevalent, so I skipped them entirely. The rest of the story gets a 99 out of 100.