A Commoner's Struggle in the Tang Dynasty

The protagonist saves Ma Zhou, and then inexplicably starts discussing the struggle for the Qin crown prince position with him. I don't know how they have the audacity to discuss such a life-or-death matter—a matter that could cost the lives of nine generations of a family—with a complete stranger.

Even a humble background is still a path; a peasant is nothing. The protagonist is nothing, so why pretend to be from a humble background?

It's chapter 40 already, what is the protagonist doing?

The key issue is the lack of logical details. It feels like something a primary school student would read on a forum and then immediately use AI to write. The section about Ma Zhou is also nonsensical and utterly toxic. The story of how the Taiyuan King was framed is also left unsaid, it feels like it was just for show and to slap someone in the face, but they couldn't even make the supporting characters seem stupid, so they just glossed over it.

Liu Ruyan, what kind of aristocratic family would give their daughter such a name?

The earlier description seemed to be of a clan chief developing technology to increase productivity, improving clan systems, and using classical studies to enhance clan culture and cohesion. However, the recent scene of him writing poetry here has become incredibly vulgar.

The dialogue in these last two chapters was really hard to read. Is the author not very good at writing ensemble scenes?

If it maintains this quality, it feels like a divine book!

Having read up to chapters sixteen and seventeen, it was generally acceptable, aside from a few typos. Then the unbearable part started: spreading a rumor in Chang'an and silencing hundreds of people—does this guy really not understand the concept of hundreds of people and is just trying to portray himself as ruthless and decisive?

He fawns over Ma Zhou, speaking too intimately with someone he barely knows. His character completely falls apart after just one chapter.