Back to the 80s: My Literary Life
重回80：我的文艺人生
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- Completed
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- 2.0M Words
- Genre
- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Life
- Updated
- 1y ago
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…It feels like wanting to read a single-female protagonist historical fiction with ordinary values is an unforgivable sin. Although there shouldn't be many restrictions on novels, I still want to read something positive; I've had enough of the negativity in my life. Keep it up, author!
The beginning was alright, but I hope the author won't repeat the mistakes of the previous works. Also, please don't start with multiple women. If someone has a relationship and you still want to have two sisters, are you asking for trouble? Does the novel have no logic?
She pushed her husband onto her cousin!
Don't read this book after chapter 700, it's disgusting and incredibly toxic! The woman, who already has a child, demands her husband sleep with her cousin to have a child because her cousin has good genes, saying they shouldn't waste the genes. 😰 This was written by a different "harem ghostwriter," but it's disgusting! I've given up!
Let me share some personal opinions.
Once you get to the point where Song Tangtang discovers she has twins, there's not much to say about the earlier parts, because everyone has their own way of writing it. However, regarding the martial arts genre, my personal opinion is that the choice was inappropriate.
It's bland. I suggest you take a look at "My Artistic Era in 1980"; its plot is much more interesting.
You spent over 100,000 yuan to buy a courtyard house in the 1980s? That's incredible! Back then, a courtyard house only cost around 10,000 yuan! A courtyard house near the Forbidden City only cost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan!
The romantic subplot involving Li Li is a major flaw; it feels awkward to read. Did the author have some kind of fantasy or emotional attachment to this character in real life?
Writing "Journey to the West: The Legend of Wukong" after it was published was a major mistake. Didn't the author consider the era? The 1980s was the era of print media and books. Most of the people who could read "Journey to the West: The Legend of Wukong" were born in the 1980s. This generation experienced the country's ups and downs and economic take-off.
All I can say is that this is incredibly toxic. These authors these days, I don't know where they learned it from, they always have to resort to these cheesy tropes. The protagonist "inexplicably" lets slip a future work by Gu Cheng, revealing the author's name and works so he can't plagiarize anymore. Later, Gu Cheng writes about it, and the woman realizes the protagonist is reincarnated, right?
The recent romance feels like it's dragging on too much, and Song Tangtang in the last few chapters almost sounds like a brothel madam selling girls. Even if my cousin and I have a very good relationship, she wouldn't give her husband a gift like that.