1978: A Blossoming Era in Film

The protagonist's name is so out of place! Guan Shanyue painted "This Land So Rich in Beauty" in 1959 and was a contemporary master of traditional Chinese painting. The protagonist now works in art design, yet the author gave him the same name as the master.

The opening is extremely drawn out; the first few dozen chapters barely cover a week of the story's events. It also frequently uses food-related filler to pad the word count, adding at least half a chapter at a time. Besides food-related filler, it also includes a lot of irrelevant details, resulting in an extremely slow pacing and a plethora of miscellaneous events.

Many long and rambling articles

Too much triviality, no climax. And Zhu Lin and Gong Xue are just so cloying! You might as well have written about Nanako as the female lead. Furthermore, the earlier chapters mentioned the author's aggressive confrontations with readers, which was incredibly off-putting. The author didn't even clarify the issue of seniority, essentially telling readers to leave.

The biggest flaw is its affectation. These kinds of stories either feature a harem or a single female lead, but this author avoids both. He seems to have a lot of women, but doesn't actually engage with any of them, yet he's constantly entangled with them. Many of the satisfying moments are poorly written.

Tell me. Which female lead is the author considering? I hope it's not Zhu Lin or Gong Xue, although I really like those two. They've written too much and I've read too much.

A person should at least have some bottom line; you can't just tie someone to your waistband because of a momentary tremor in your lower body.

As a reader who has followed the book since its inception, I have a few thoughts: First, the author's career path is unclear. From comics to novels to screenplays to filming a movie, then halfway through, the protagonist goes back to school to study directing; the whole process feels scattered, making it difficult to feel the protagonist's growth and progress.

It's not just the stepmother's character; if the romance isn't well-written, just gloss over it or don't write it at all. What era are we living in that we're still writing these kinds of parental obstruction and "pretending to be weak while actually being strong" scenarios? The protagonist basically doesn't get the respect that an artist should have; even a random security guard can trip him up. It's utterly disgusting.

I thought most of what the author wrote was quite good. Only two parts were not to my liking. 1: Arranging a job for Gong Xue after returning from southern Xinjiang is unnecessary in my opinion, and more of Gong Xue's storyline will be added later. I am quite disgusted by my mother who I haven't seen since she was three years old. If she wants to do something, let her do it herself.