
Those Years I Spent Laying Low as a Taoist in the Wuyin Sect
苟在雾隐门当术士那些年
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- Ongoing
- Length
- 1.0M Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
- Updated
- 3mo ago
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My heartfelt recommendations from the past 20 years. I don't read power fantasies, and I reject formulaic level-ups and simplistic newbie novels. I dislike overpowered protagonists and brainless stories most of all. Starting from Zero scarred me, along with Angel and the abandoned Absolute Game. Now I have no interest in online gaming novels! I drop a book without hesitation if the protagonist challenges someone three levels above them. Traps, suppression in special locations, and magic arrays a
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One story after another, it just wouldn't stop. The protagonist is no less capable than Conan; he just needs to slow down, pause, practice his skills, and experience the local customs and culture.
This is hilarious! Author, either don't give the protagonist such a huge power-up, or if you do, don't go overboard with unnecessary plot points. The protagonist can see people's past, so what's the point of solving cases? What's with all the pretense? He can see the victim, Mr. Su's, past, but can't he see the suspect, Zhou Hui's? And he's still playing the money-grubbing card. That's not how you suppress the plot!
Growth takes time. Don't offer sweeping opinions that influence the author's train of thought and writing methods. If everyone writes in the same way and with the same approach, how can the work be readable? An outsider's perspective is often clearer, but only to a limited extent. The distance between reader and author is like this: you're on this side of a river, and they're on the other.
I've seen people abandon books as soon as they hear there's a female lead, only reading those without. I'm baffled. How badly have these people been hurt by women in real life? They're like monks on a mountain, afraid of women and calling them tigers. Most excellent novels, including online novels, have distinctive female leads and supporting female characters.
Chapter 16, with its forced poetry and pretentious act, was absolutely ridiculous. A bunch of trash were still calling the male lead's business low-class. Please, consider the context! We call his business low-class because there's no real mystery involved. In the world where mystery exists in the book, who the hell would dare say that to your face? Aren't you afraid someone will exorcise some ghosts and your whole family will be wiped out? I'm speechless.
A whole bunch of teammates are just there for their own amusement, sticking up for the protagonist. Su Xiu'er is a scheming bitch, doing things entirely on her own whims, forcing the protagonist into the limelight regardless of the situation, without considering whether the protagonist can handle the consequences. Her two best friends are also fearless in causing trouble. Honestly, if the protagonist didn't have some ability, this group of teammates would have been played to death long ago.
What a great book, it's a pity it has a female lead.
I have two small suggestions for the author, simply hoping the book can be written better, nothing more: ① More emphasis should be placed on environmental description. By chapter fifteen, the author had already covered four or five events, which I felt was too fast-paced. More detail could be devoted to environmental description.
The title and content are completely mismatched. The word "" (gou, meaning to live a life of servility or cowardice) should be the focus, but from the beginning, I felt there was absolutely no "" plot. Especially the poetry gathering and the chapter about Master Su's birthday celebration, they were so bad they were off-putting. The title should be changed to "Those Years When I Was a Big Shot in the Fog Shadow Sect," haha.
Thoughts on the field
Does "field" mean that there are 360 professions, and that every profession can produce an expert? It's somewhat similar to the setting of Lord of Mysteries, except it uses our own cultural elements. Whether it's the magic tricks of the old man and his son, the opera singing of the female lead, or the fortune-telling that has now appeared, all are special abilities that emerged under the…