The Treasure Eye

I've been a bookworm for over a decade, and the more I read, the fewer books I have left to read. I've become increasingly picky about writing style, character development, and even character personalities. The usual tropes of showing off and slapping faces are losing their appeal. So far, only this book and the blind author's "Rebirth of an Ordinary Person" have kept me hooked.

The most ridiculous books these days are those that start as urban life novels but end up turning into fantasy. Your pills, even ordinary ones, could give someone on their deathbed, reliant on IV drips, the energy to fly and be full of life after taking them. And you even said the ingredients aren't that rare, but there are plenty of them. If ordinary people could live to be a hundred if they took a lot of these, wouldn't even more precious pills make them immortal?

The ban has been lifted! I've read this book two or three times; it had a huge impact on me. "The Precious Eye" is one of the few books I've read all two thousand chapters of, and then read it two or three times.

The book is set in the year 2000, but the endless stream of self-important rich kids is utter nonsense. They constantly boast about their privileged birth and how others are. People in their twenties and thirties—meaning those born in the 1970s—haven't even finished ten years yet. If you're telling me they come from wealthy families, those people would have been executed long ago.

After watching "The Golden Eyes," I watched "The Precious Eyes," and it felt so familiar.

The protagonist is torn between fame and fortune. Fame is for others to see, while fortune is for himself; one cannot have both. With greater fame comes more scrutiny, making it harder to act and risking being outmaneuvered. Why not quietly amass wealth?

To be honest, this book is written in fairly fluent sentences, but it lacks a lot of common sense. For example, regarding equity, how can a company acquire more than 90% of the shares and still not be delisted, allowing them to continue trading normally in the stock market? Doesn't that require some common sense?

At first glance, the concept seemed pretty good, but I couldn't stand the jade gambling part. You're already acting all high and mighty, buying over 300 pieces of rough jadeite with jade inside, and even telling people the value of the top-bid jadeite. The most ridiculous thing is that you gambled on it on the spot and won by 43 yuan. How powerful do you think you are to not be afraid of being ripped apart?

He couldn't take the poison anymore and said he didn't want to pretend to be cool or show off. But actually, everything he did was show off, like a prostitute wanting a memorial arch, a battle between his own two minds.

I miss my early days when I was a complete novice. Looking back now, everything about it seems like a rip-off, but I thoroughly enjoyed it back then.