A Song for the Mountains and Rivers

It was really exciting at first, and the author's writing was very meticulous. But halfway through, I really felt the female lead was being quite dramatic. She's a bit of a "white lotus" type. The romance is a mess: the female lead loves the male lead, but he doesn't love her; the male lead loves her, but she's already married to someone else; the male lead forces himself on her; the female lead…

The writing is good, very detailed, and the characters are well-defined. However, the female lead's choices are disastrous; she squanders a winning hand, and this kind of character is extremely harmful. It's a pity it's not an inspirational story, but a tragic one. Confrontation requires equal strength; pointless injuries are just self-inflicted torture.

Unexpectedly, all I got was nothing. 😭

The female lead is really something else; she always has to get involved in everything. Even though the male lead treated her so badly, the most heartbreaking character is Huang Ye. He suffered so much. He was such an outstanding person; if it weren't for saving the female lead, he wouldn't have ended up like that. Why did he have to have two men fall for him? Although they were both very good to him, seeing their ending was still incredibly painful.

It's a bit too much angst for the sake of angst. And it's super Mary Sue-ish. The female lead is actually the most compatible with Master Huang. Putting everything else aside, Yuan Xiu is also pretty good.

After more than 800 chapters, I gave up. It was too exhausting to read.

It's good to watch, but it's constantly filled with angst and Mary Sue tropes... If it weren't for the interesting plot, I really wouldn't want to watch it.

This book surprised me greatly. The beginning was just so-so… but it got increasingly captivating, revealing the full spectrum of human emotions—love, hate, and the bitterness of life… I felt sorry for each and every character, and pity for each and every one of them. As time slowly passed and the plot unfolded, more twists and turns, more secrets, followed.

This book is exhausting to read. The female lead is so annoying.

The female lead meddles too much; she deserves it. Helping her enemy—what a hypocrite, a Mary Sue!