The Age of Legends

I've been slacking off for a few days now, watching Nirvana. On this boring Friday, I'm just rambling a bit. I remember a few days before my college entrance exam in 2010, I stayed up all night with my Nokia phone watching the whole series, finishing the dual-track version of the series, which also marked the end of my ordinary high school life.

I haven't read this book, including the previous two, because I'm afraid of a bad ending. Casting this monthly vote is my way of making up for my disappointment with *Rebirth of the Great Nirvana*. I first read *Rebirth of the Great Nirvana* when I was in my final year of high school, twelve years ago, and I'm now thirty.

I read online novels for the thrill; if I wanted to see realism and imperfections, I'd rather read traditional literature. Think about it yourself, why is there so much controversy surrounding the female lead this time, while there was no controversy surrounding veteran actors like Lao Jiang and Su Zixuan back then?

I still remember reading *The Great Nirvana* when I was in junior high school, downloading the txt file on my flip phone. Now, four years after graduating from university, I'm a busy working adult. More than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye, yet I still feel young. The characters Su Can, Tang Wu, and Lin Luoran from the book seem as vivid as if they were still alive in my mind.

When I saw Shen say she didn't want to experience loss again, my heart skipped a beat. Based on my experience reading Yu's previous books, this was definitely going to be bad. But the beginning was so sweet, so I forced myself to continue reading despite my discomfort. And sure enough, it turned out to be true. I just don't understand.

Setting aside the clichéd family soap operas and the focus on making money, compared to the infamous pretentious Can and the otherworldly Tang Wu in Nirvana, the male and female protagonists in this book are more like normal high school students, and the scenes and dialogues they have are designed to be more natural.

It just didn't feel the same; the emotions weren't as nuanced or abundant. It lacked that bittersweet feeling. Lin Luoran bought a whole bunch of things, but in the end, she didn't prepare a gift for Su Can. When she finally pulled out the chocolates, they each got half.

It's not like the awful mother and relatives in the first few chapters were filtering out fans; the author's writing is excellent, and the characters are quite realistic, but it still left me feeling very frustrated. I've read many rebirth novels, but this is the first time I've seen such an awful mother. If you don't like weak and pathetic plots, you can skip this one. But if you can accept it, it's still a pretty good rebirth novel.

Grilled Fish, finally you're writing about urban life again! I'll never forget staying up all night watching Nirvana and Reignition during my senior year of high school. I finished reading Reignition first, and then went back to read Nirvana. I didn't have a legendary youth like Su Can and Cheng Ran, but thankfully I could glimpse some of it in your book.

Shen has done so many disappointing things before, to be honest, at this point I really want to make her a loser, and I feel like a lot of people in the comments section think so too.