The Growth System Didn’t Arrive Until I Turned Thirty

This is absolutely unbelievable! I was the system's user in junior and senior high school, I was the transmigrator in college, and I'm still me at 30!

The protagonist is a twisted, pretentious character, and the storyline is drawn out and lacks focus. He's incredibly affected, even accepting a gift makes him act all high and mighty, comparable to a moral paragon in a traditional courtyard house. None of the characters are well-developed, fully reflecting the author's immature worldview and values.

The opening line is about retiring early with 1 million, building a villa (designed and built by a professional team, complete with a swimming pool) with 500,000, and depositing the remaining 500,000 in the bank to earn interest—it's simply outrageous! Is this author a primary school student? What kind of life experience could produce such detached and unrealistic writing?

The story gets increasingly padded later on. The girl likes the male lead, but the author insists on portraying him as a clueless simpleton. I'm baffled. He's over 30; regardless of his life experiences, I think any normal guy, if a girl asks him out every day, should be able to sense she's somewhat interested. It's been over 200 chapters, and he hasn't even held her hand yet. It's just constant padding, with each plot point feeling like it could fill ten or twenty chapters.

In other books, the protagonists acquire skills through systems to show off, pick up girls, and amass wealth! But for a lazy, unambitious otaku, what's the point of learning skills other than cooking to make life a little more comfortable? The protagonist doesn't even want anyone to know! I don't understand what kind of character the author is trying to create for the protagonist. I even think the system's existence is meaningless; if you like hiding it, then keep it hidden!

There's a certain awkwardness to how the protagonist is portrayed. There's a desire to make him pretentious, but also a fear that readers will perceive it as affected, resulting in a sense of being caught in a limbo, neither here nor there. It aims for a sense of reclusive life, like picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence, but also requires the reader to recognize him as Tao Yuanming.

New readers can start from chapter 24; the earlier chapters are mostly filler and won't affect the plot flow. Of course, 90% of the content in each chapter after chapter 24 is filler; just look at the titles, and you won't miss it from understanding the plot.

Living off 500,000 in interest... Seriously, buddy, if you deposit 500,000 in the bank, you'll only get a few thousand in interest a year, and you only spend a few hundred a month on living expenses, right? Where did this elementary school student come from??

This book can get an average of 6,000 subscriptions? You're kidding me. Do you even know what 6,000 subscriptions means? Your garbage book doesn't even deserve that.

Shouldn't the first task be to drink one's first mouthful of breast milk? We should find a nanny for the main character; just thinking about it makes me excited.