
Controlling Mountains and Rivers, Starting in the Warring States Period
从战国开始掌控山川
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- Completed
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- 2.0M Words
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- Historical
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- Alternate History
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Why do so many people like divinity? You're just a time traveler and suddenly you're divine? I think you're crazy. Every time I finish watching, there are a few people saying there's no divinity, and I'm speechless.
Every year they hold a memorial service for over a dozen young and beautiful girls... Where do so many young and beautiful girls come from in one village, and they still have to hold such a service every year? 😥
Works by a female BL author with excellent writing skills
It's quite well-written, except that the author seems to be a yaoi fan and likes to write plots that cater to homoerotic themes, otherwise there are no problems. 😅 What the hell is the logic behind putting this in the male-oriented genre? Author, why aren't you writing in the female-oriented genre? Why are you here? Is it really that unprofitable in the female-oriented genre? 🤔
Stop looking.
The protagonist is Yi Xiaochuan, who transmigrated and became a dog.
These kinds of novels are all the same; they can't escape the original history. Logically, since the protagonist has changed so much, the story shouldn't follow history, and the original characters shouldn't appear. However, most—no, all—authors lack the ability to create new history, and to save time, they write according to the original history, which makes it particularly uninteresting.
Personal evaluation of the content
The main character has been absent from the novel for too long. I don't know if the author intended to write an ensemble piece or a historical fiction. The main character only appears once every few dozen chapters, and the later characters basically lack the interaction that Prince Chao and Ximen Bao had in the early chapters.
Bro, you've got the direction wrong!
I bet most people were drawn in by the novel opening story! I think what everyone wanted to see was you exploring your cheat abilities and even gradually building a system of immortals and gods! But instead, you turned it into history, with the protagonist just passively following historical events. What's the point? Did people pay to read a history book?
Qin Shi Huang is a classic example. The first part shows his "great talent and strategy," making him a capable ruler, while the latter part shows him as a "tyrant." Qin Shi Huang can be seen as the culmination of the Shang Dynasty's monarchical system, treating the common people as mere tools, recklessly wasting their resources.
It neither advances nor retreats, making it a truly undesirable situation.
As a time traveler who becomes a god who believes in his own laws, yet listens to the words of an "ancient person" like Ximen Bao and doesn't interfere with the development of the world, then why did you write about this time traveler? We don't have to develop into a religious civilization dominated by gods, nor do we have to interfere in the wars of the Warring States period, but wouldn't it be…
What I find disgusting about those who praise Qin Shi Huang is his tendency to steal credit—the credit of previous generations, the credit of the Han Dynasty, and always claiming "first" for everything. Many things, in my view, are simply about registering a title; did he actually do the work?