The Highest Virtue Is Like Jade
上善若玉
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.1M Words
- Genre
- Xianxia Romance
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
- Updated
- 9y ago
- English
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The book has a great premise. The female protagonist is framed and comes to the Divine Path Continent to revive the reputation of Qi Refiners. What a wonderful premise! However, The female protagonist overheard everyone's conspiracy with her divine sense, and I thought she had a way to deal with it. But her solution was simply that she had no way to deal with it.
The female protagonist believed Qingyang cared about her and would surely save her upon seeing her plea for help via a communication talisman. However, she was deluding herself. Qingyang's words were clear: he sought nothing but the Nine Mysteries. Everyone understood Qingyang's meaning, except for the female protagonist, who thought he only wanted her.
I don't understand why the female lead kept spacing out during the exam. Was she just showing off because she thought she could copy thousands of years of Chinese culture?
I read forty or fifty chapters and then gave up. It's too wordy; I don't know what the female lead is thinking.
I was so annoyed. I thought it was a cultivation story, but after watching it, I realized it was all about mundane family drama and felt really depressing, so I gave up.
This is so verbose! Is it some kind of spiritual practice or a poetry competition? It's completely off-topic, using dozens of chapters to describe a poetry contest. I'm telling you to give up.
You've turned a cultivation novel into a domestic drama; wow!
I feel this is a hidden gem of a book (as a seasoned fan of fantasy novels for nearly 8 years). It's a pity I couldn't get revenge, but that's normal. If you were an ant and were defeated by other ants, and later you became a human, would you deliberately seek revenge on the ant that defeated you? I guess you'd just settle things casually without really going to the trouble.
The Shinto world is more like an ancient feudal society, hence the dislike for it and the inability to accept that the female protagonist, despite cultivating immortality, still believes in the Shinto path. Furthermore, in the cultivation world, cultivators and mortals are largely separated; mortals have their own kingdoms.
I watched it and thought it was good! There weren't any major flaws, and it became quite stable after the female lead won over Hua Haomeng.