The Ming Emperor’s Favorite Uncle
大明好国舅
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- Historical
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- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
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- 7y ago
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Anyone who thought the author's pen name was "Ugly Characters" please speak up! 😁
One question remains: wouldn't it be better to build city walls using stone blocks? Reinforced concrete structures have a very short lifespan, only a few decades. Regardless of whether Ma Du was trying to reduce consumption and avoid burdening the people, just considering the durability alone, it's tantamount to deceiving the emperor; he deserves beheading, especially since the construction of capital city walls in ancient times was a matter of national policy.
Damn, is this some kind of melodramatic farce? Amnesia... And don't lose those encyclopedias!
It's poorly written, disjointed and rambling. The plot hasn't even started or developed yet, and it's already so chaotic. Adding to the mess are a bunch of comments, making it unreadable. After reading for ages, the protagonist's time-travel situation still isn't resolved. It's all so rambling.
I don't understand why so many authors like to explain time travel using scientific methods. Modern science can't explain time travel at all. Can a physical body withstand the friction of a time tunnel? How can you be so amazing? And those who supposedly transmigrate into someone else's body—if you're going to transmigrate, you need a soul, right?
This opening is so toxic, I'm speechless! And then there's that falling from the sky! Wearing modern clothes and carrying a bunch of incongruous items, how are you going to explain all this to others, calling yourself an immortal? You're lucky if they don't kill you for being a sorcerer! And now this family reunion charade.
Disappointment and anger
"The Great Ming Dynasty's Good Imperial Uncle" is nearing its end, increasingly trending towards a terrible ending! This time-travel story by Ma Du is just the same old wine in a new bottle, superficially polished and glossy, still relying on the same old tropes of time-travel novels—nothing new!
Your annotations are amazing. A quarter of an hour, 30 jin per dou (a unit of dry measure). Does your book also contain water at -5 degrees Celsius?
Such a clever brother-in-law of the emperor would most likely have been executed if he had fallen into Zhu Yuanzhang's hands.
Speechless. Are you acting in a Korean drama? You time-traveled and then lost your memory.