Reforging the Three Kingdoms: Only the Uphill Battles Are Fun

This book is a little more than passable but not excellent. The general framework is good, but details such as Zhao Xiang and the maid of the protagonist show the book's failings everywhere. A guest orders his servants to take the owner's personal belongings at will, and the maid listens to outsiders' orders at will. There is also a way to die. In ancient times, the word "rules" was everywhere.

He punched Lü Bu, spat on Zhuge Liang, drunkenly reclined on Diao Chan's lap, and had Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan as his followers. Of course, this has nothing to do with the novel.

As a fan of the Shu Han dynasty, I have to lend a hand. I know your writing is good, your narrative is detailed, and your foreshadowing is quite rich (others might like that too). However, since your book has just started, excessive foreshadowing and digressions outside the main plot will only diminish some readers' anticipation.

The previous volume ended at the end of Jian'an 25 and the beginning of Zhangwu 1. It's almost April 25th (quote from the original text) for the coronation ceremony. I'm looking forward to seeing how the author will describe the grand occasion of the coronation ceremony (commanding Jing and Yi, dominating Eastern Wu, resisting Cao Wei in the north, with Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Bai Mei, etc.

The author's writing is decent, but to write thirty or forty chapters about a local tycoon from a small village, with him plotting against the protagonist and the protagonist constantly feigning compliance and engaging in witty battles—what era are we living in? Are all the major events of the Three Kingdoms period not enough for you to write about? Nobody else can write about the Three Kingdoms in such a petty way.

Dragging along. The mission to Jiangdong alone could fill a couple hundred chapters, then the mission to Cao Wei, with all those side details, making it a complete mess. The character is weak and incompetent, manipulated by Sun Shangxiang, inactive after being assassinated, yet still manages to go on a mission for Han to Wei—it's all inexplicably written.

I suggest only reading up to the Battle of Xiangfan. I don't know what the author did wrong with the later parts; a perfectly good story about supporting Shu was turned into one about supporting a ridiculously stupid Eastern Wu. And then, after supporting this idiot, he's forced to go on a diplomatic mission to Wei.

Can you believe that online articles in 2024 will include: The protagonist was stopped by the gatekeeper when he entered the city to pay taxes. The gatekeeper said, "I'm making sure you can't enter the city or pay your taxes for the next few days."

Seeing the third volume's depiction of the journey to Wei, and the second volume's victory at the Battle of Jiangling, followed by the mission to Wu, I can only say the writing is frustrating, lacking any sense of victory. It feels like a forced downgrade in intelligence, and then Sun Quan demands the protagonist go to Wei—unbelievable! I almost thought the protagonist had defected to Wu. Garbage plot, goodbye.

The protagonist has already made a name for himself, yet he's still constantly entangled with Old Man Liang—it's beneath him. Furthermore, the plot deviates from the main storyline; what's so interesting about Old Man Liang? The opening is okay, but the subsequent plot development is problematic.