Reborn in 1993: My Dad Is a Returned Educated Youth

Beautiful Xishuangbanna couldn't keep my father. Shanghai is so big, is there even a home for me? My father has a home, my mother has a home, and I'm left feeling like an extra.

It's a mess with no main plot. A simple scene of a father and daughter meeting can fill over ten chapters with just the prelude. There are tons of infatuated women. It would be a miracle if this kind of book did well. Prices and wages are outrageously absurd. A high school teacher graduating from university in 1993 earned 128 yuan a month, less than 200 yuan even with various subsidies.

Each chapter is 8 pages long, with about 180 words per page, totaling just over 1400 words. Then, starting from chapter 15, it's just filler, dragging on and on. Explaining character relationships requires such detailed writing; the parents of a minor character are given an entire chapter for so long, taking up so much space.

You started by writing about a bunch of pitiful characters, attracting a group of kind-hearted and compassionate people. Then you started building a harem, falling in love with every girl you met. Do you think the tags "historical period," "slice of life," "searching for family," "trauma," and "harem" are appropriate?

Such a great premise, you could give us an ocean of water but you don't care about all those NPCs. Can't you just highlight a few key characters and gloss over the rest? We've been waiting half a year and still haven't seen the main storyline.

The title is quite appealing, but the content is filled with annoying trivia, lacking substantial information and even deliberately omitting it, glossing over it vaguely. It's mostly filled with rambling, useless dialogue, sounding like the author is unwilling to write, or like they're talking to themselves, even resembling an AI—a robotic template for emotional expression, superficially rich but actually rigid.

I dropped the book after reading less than 160 chapters. None of the female leads were likable, and the male lead was just like his father.

I don't think it's that bad. It's definitely dragged on, to the point of being a bit melodramatic, but the premise is really good, and it's not a completely simplistic story. Personally, I think the writing style is acceptable. The core theme is family reunion, but it doesn't necessarily revolve entirely around that.

It feels like they're just taking advantage of people's money; not only is the quantity lacking, but the quality is also nonexistent. (?)

It's almost chapter 200 and he still hasn't acknowledged his father. This is way too much padding!