The Villain
恶汉
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 2.7M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Qin-Han & Three Kingdoms
- Updated
- 10mo ago
- English
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This old book seemed alright back then, but now it's riddled with flaws. The author is clearly a Cao Cao fan, but to elevate Cao Cao, he portrays Liu Bei, the Zhaolie Emperor, as even more despicable and shameless than Song Jiang. What about Cao Cao, the Wei Wu Emperor who claimed to be a hero of his time alongside Liu Bei? The likes of Fang La and Tian Qing?
After the proliferation of novels based on the Three Kingdoms period, this is one of the few Three Kingdoms novels that is still readable.
I stumbled upon this old book again, and I hope other readers who stumble upon it can be more forgiving. Some older books, limited by their era, are truly memories for veteran readers; new readers might find them toxic. Moreover, this book, *The Villain*, was merely a stylized masterpiece back then, not a masterpiece, and has many flaws and inconsistencies.
I finally finished reading it after two days of intensive reading, and my feelings were mixed. The emotional interactions between the main character and other characters were described very delicately; each story could be considered a good short story on its own, and it was quite relaxing to read.
I suggest you don't read this book. It's several years old and doesn't keep up with today's readers' logic. It might have been fine in the past, but now it's full of flaws. Just don't read it and let's save this book from controversy and allow its older fans to reminisce.
This only shows how terrible your appreciation level was back then. You called a book with completely nonsensical logic a masterpiece—it's disgusting. I'm not here to criticize this book, but some people just like it and insist on calling it a masterpiece. I came out of curiosity and took a look, and it was as unpleasant as eating expired bread. I'd be impressed if you could even get through three chapters.
When I first started reading this book, I wondered why the protagonist had to be a time traveler. He was so useless, truly useless. As a modern person, he didn't even have basic modern common sense and didn't know how he survived. Forget about whether he was educated or not; in modern society, with such advanced media and information, most people wouldn't understand many things in great detail.
The most unstable reason for Dong Zhuo's regime was that he had no son, so his power collapsed very quickly after his death. Do you think he would have liked a son?
Everyone's saying it's terrible, so let's find one that isn't terrible to show everyone! Looking at all the Three Kingdoms novels on Qidian, few can compare to "The Villainous Swordsman," right? It's either the plot is ridiculously stupid, the writing is amateurish, or the timeline is completely incoherent. Haters, where's your conscience? Did you eat it?
Some people see the protagonist's ugliness, but I see his unparalleled heroism.