Prison Break: I Am Ren Woxing

You are undoubtedly the number one sycophant in all the heavens. How did you come up with the idea of ​​licking through a steel plate?

The writing is quite interesting, but the pacing is a bit slow, and there's a little too much internal monologue and rambling.

Two years of living in darkness and despair is understandable, but to immediately start living the life of a chivalrous hero, rescuing this person and that person, saving a beggar one day and a woman the next, I'm truly speechless.

The whole story is just the delusions in Ren Woxing's mind after he went insane from being imprisoned. He didn't create any martial arts, nor did he escape. Tong Baixiong, Dongfang Bubai, the Four Friends of Jiangnan, the sound of the zither... Etc., All of them don't exist. Once Dongfang Bubai locked him up, no one cared about him anymore; everything that remained was just his imagination.

Sigh. What did he do after escaping from prison? Acting like nothing happened. Two years of utter darkness. I watched it all in one go. I thought after the oppression, there would be a wave of release. But it's still oppression. What's the point of watching? So frustrating.

Everyone says that the first three chapters or a good opening are crucial to attracting readers, but what is the first ten chapters of this book? The protagonist is constantly yelling, panicking, just waiting to die, and utterly lacking in courage and strategy—he's incredibly idiotic. This kind of protagonist character is worlds apart from Ren Woxing's domineering personality. Even in the dungeon, Ren Woxing never thought of giving up, but the protagonist is just incredibly troublesome.

Prison break, prison break—what people want to see is simply the process of breaking out. Whether it's the American TV series Prison Break or the movie The Shawshank Redemption, what audiences enjoy is the protagonist's relentless pursuit of escape, culminating in a successful escape, a happy ending, and everyone's happy.

The idea of ​​time-traveling through the story of Ren Woxing while imprisoned is good, but the martial arts settings in the book are completely absurd, making one wonder if the author even read Jin Yong's novels. For example, all martial arts require taking medicine, such an outrageous setting exists.

The story of the protagonist being imprisoned was well-written, but it fell apart after he was released. The protagonist, with his 300 years of internal energy, always suffered setbacks in every situation. It's understandable that he suffered setbacks, since he's an ordinary modern person who doesn't understand some of the intricacies of life.

I should have posted this review earlier, but I'm only now getting around to making a summary after finishing the book. Countless books are copied from Qidian, and countless formulas are imitated. But this author is clearly different. He is someone who writes with heart! The early psychological descriptions of the main characters are plentiful, yet perfectly executed.