Achieving Sainthood Through My Past-Life Destiny
我在前世命格成圣
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- Completed
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- 1.5M Words
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- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
- Updated
- 5mo ago
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A Veteran Reader's Dream of the Jianghu
Ten years pass in a dream of wandering the martial world, while wasted years leave me drunk on this fleeting life. With an old rain cape, bamboo pole, and faded blue robe, I drift beneath the bright moon, a lone boatman at the world's edge.
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The book has a fantasy title, a martial arts plot, and romantic descriptions.
Without a love line, it's like a heavenly herb; with a love line, it's like a heavenly herb mixed with a lump of poop.
As the title says, the romance plot is disgusting and feels like self-indulgent. I can't watch it anymore.
I think this author's literary style is a bit too over-the-top. He just keeps trying to write about characters in the martial arts world who are powerless against fate and tormented by love, basically pushing their characters to the limit. One reader commented that this author has a fantasy background, martial arts descriptions, and a female-oriented storyline.
No, what's going on? Either there's no female lead, or there is. Why are you making things so complicated and unclear? Even TV dramas aren't as melodramatic as this. It's not that the author's writing is bad, but it's just too ridiculous. Things that can be explained in a few words should either be explained in a short time or you should just give up on the idea altogether. Why is it like this?
There's a reason why it's not popular.
The reason this book isn't popular has finally been found. With this premise, a male-oriented novel within a female-oriented genre, how did it become popular? It's all tragic endings, right? Mother dead, father gone, and the female lead constantly has words carved on her face and chest—and she still develops feelings after that? Is this woman a masochist?
The writing style is indeed good, but the pacing is poor. Like a meal served with appetizers before the main course, the author seems to be only concerned with their own enjoyment, presenting the entire main course at once. The first life story is indeed brilliantly written, but how will the later parts be written to keep the reader amazed?
The story from "The Three Absolute Demon Ancestors" onwards has been a mess, especially the latest installment. Seriously, it's such a melodramatic, classic Korean drama plot—amnesia + mutual marriage agreements followed by mistaken identities—can we please stop using such a classic, clichéd plot?
The author's self-indulgence; how many people like Gu Long's novels now?
It's all self-indulgent hype, assuming everyone likes it. I saw a reader's review: fantasy setting, martial arts descriptions, female-oriented plot. I feel it should have added a bit more self-indulgent elements and retro-intellectual, green-tinted ideas. You said your last book went from rising to a complete flop, and I think that was inevitable.
You ruined a perfect start.
A friend recommended this book. At the time, I hadn't written much; I'd just finished the first chapter. I read it and was quite impressed. Although the fate setting felt a bit chaotic, the first chapter was very spirited, unconventional, and evocative. It was quite good, and I thought it could be a gem.
It's a pity; the beginning was excellent, but the later parts became too artsy and sentimental, which the author couldn't quite handle.