A Wonderful Life in the Siheyuan

Wow, that's impressive! You wrote 900,000 words in just over twenty days. And it doesn't even feel padded. At this rate, you'd be embarrassed to finish a story without at least a hundred million or two hundred million words.

Overall, it looks pretty good. The only thing that bothered me was the relationship between the protagonist and Yu Li. Having an affair in the same village is impossible to hide, let alone in the same courtyard. This guy keeps sneaking into the protagonist's room to be promiscuous and seek thrills, which made me anxious and nauseous. Even rabbits don't eat the grass near their burrows; what's wrong with the protagonist's brain?

In 1960s China, there were no real families, so the subject matter of the Shen family is simply not plausible.

This book is essentially a spy thriller disguised as a traditional Chinese courtyard house story, and what's really disgusting is that the author gives the protagonist a cheat code, then forcibly reduces his intelligence and downplays the function of that cheat code. According to a normal person's thinking, being transported to that era would be very unsafe.

I stopped reading after seeing the part about Yu Li sleeping with someone. It's so awful! Sleeping with a widow in a courtyard house is one thing, but sleeping with a married woman? That's just awful! They were trying to build up the protagonist's image as a virtuous but flawed character, and this is it? I didn't mind Xu Meng, the widow, but sleeping with a married woman?

Why do these historical fiction stories need spaces? They're all the same, so cliché!

After reading 500,000 words, I discovered something truly terrifying!! Has only a dozen or so days passed in the timeline? Fourteen or fifteen days? Oh my god! Author, are you planning to write like this until 1966? There are still over a thousand days left... After more than ten days of plot development, I still don't find it padded... Amazing!

It's just a fanfiction about a traditional courtyard house. The content and style include: anti-gang warfare, espionage, undercover work, anti-corruption, and betrayal. Is it really necessary to go to such lengths? —Author.

Other authors should also take a look at books that dig deep into the world of courtyard houses. Why not use a courtyard house as a setting to write about things from that era? Why do 99% of them have to focus on such trivial and absurd things?

This is too tiring to read. It's like turning a historical fiction into a detective story. Is this appropriate?