The Rise of a Small Town in Shoe Country
鞋乡之小镇崛起
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.3M Words
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Subgenre
- Walks of Life
- Updated
- 6y ago
- English
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To be honest, I think this book is pretty good. Although it's quite mundane and the scenes aren't grand enough, with a lot of everyday family matters, I really like it! Modern urban novels are so formulaic. They usually feature a penniless protagonist under 20 who starts a small business to accumulate initial capital, then latches onto some rich young master or nobleman, and becomes invincible.
In 1991, I traveled to Wenling Zeguo many times to sell the plasticizer dioctyl phthalate, and I have some understanding of the development of the shoe industry in Wenling at that time. The author writes in a very down-to-earth way. Alas, it is just that down-to-earth articles sometimes no one reads them.
Keep it up, fellow villager! I just found your novel, I'll start voting for you tomorrow.
Initially, they didn't focus on harem stories and should have stuck to that style. Later, they switched to ambiguous relationships, and then even went for a threesome, with all the women being middle-aged. What started as a pure romance suddenly turned into a harem story. This story is going to fall apart.
I thought it was going to be a good book, but it turned into a harem novel, which was disgusting 🤢. The male lead even touted himself as a good man; this kind of trash is more disgusting than blatant infidelity. Damn, it felt like I swallowed a fly.
This is called splitting up the family business? It means splitting up to work independently. You're still supporting your younger siblings, aren't you? What's the difference between this and not splitting up at all?!
Did they eventually split up? Or was it still a communal system?
Novels are usually most engaging during the initial struggles and trials; the later parts become harder to write. Therefore, cultivation novels often rely on opening new realms, like the spirit realm or the immortal realm. If the protagonist discovered something from the future in a rural area, I think it would attract more readers, since online novels represent many people's unfulfilled dreams.
The author writes very well, keep it up!
The dialogue didn't even have quotation marks, so I barely read it...