Football: From the Start, Maximum Speed

First, a football novel set 20 years in the past targets avid readers in their thirties. Will music and romance resonate with them? Why would Gen Z read about football stars from 20 years ago? Starting with the school team suggests the author has grand ambitions, aiming for a epic spanning at least ten years. But chapter 200 is still about the World Youth Championship in Portugal.

On one hand, a female lead appears out of nowhere, without any development. Then, in the second life, the protagonist has to pursue her again, and fawn over her once more. Author, you can say this is expected and normal, but sorry, it's very unseemly for a superstar to fawn over an ordinary person. On the other hand, it's not impossible for a hormone-fueled star to remain celibate and have a single female lead. It's not that it's impossible, but it's certainly a low-probability event.

The Chinese national football team is the biggest organization that insults China. I won't watch it if it's involved; it's disgusting.

Seriously, I'm fed up. Writing about the protagonist singing and generating buzz is one thing—after all, it's to boost his skills and increase his fame. But the past life wife storyline and the current life talent show storyline are just awful! Chapters 143 and 144 are practically two whole pages of that stuff.

The subscription chapters included two chapters about memories of the author's wife from a past life, and a single free kick took over 20 chapters to write, with various filler text in between. The author probably knew this approach wouldn't be successful; it can only be said that it's purely out of passion.

The football content is fine, but you have to include entertainment industry elements. If I wanted to read entertainment novels, why would I read your book? Which successful football novels in recent years have ever expanded into music-related content? Isn't this just gilding the lily?

The romance plot is terrible. If you loved the wife from the previous life so much, don't write other female leads. The assistant had a flirtatious moment in the beginning and then became a tool; Then, out of nowhere, she became the girlfriend of the member of the SHY group; I looked at the later parts of the table of contents, and there are more parts involving the ex-girlfriend from Korea.

Here are the main photos: photos from the field, everyday shots, artistic photos, boxing photos, and headshots. Adding a few comic book versions.

I was listening to the audiobook, and it was actually quite awkward. All that talk about equipment and goal timing felt like padding the word count. As for the early episodes about the entertainment industry, there wasn't much of that yet, but the protagonist seemed to have a tendency to be a simp.

It talks about a harem story but ends up with saccharine romance; it claims to be about saving the national football team but lacks any real passion; it claims to avoid padding the word count by adding a single image but the entire book is filled with trivial reward points; it claims the plot needs entertainment subplots but nobody reads those. In short, it's a poorly written attempt at padding.