The Young Lady Meets Her Commoner Older Brother

Desperate for new reading material, I was browsing through books tagged with "getting married" when I stumbled upon this one. Curious, I clicked in and found the author's writing delicate, the characters' inner thoughts incredibly well-developed, at least enough to evoke my emotions and immerse me in the story. However! However! The style suddenly changed! Where did the promised heartwarming slice-of-life story go?! Something felt off, and a sense of familiarity washed over me. After being bombarded with several pieces of heartbreaking content, I quickly checked out the author. Seeing that familiar name, I clicked on the author's profile picture. When I saw another book by the same author, I was utterly shocked! It really was you! The master of heartbreaking content! No wonder it felt so familiar...

The lingering framework issues and déjà vu that everyone mentioned, I think, might stem from the author falling into a cliché when describing the plot and shaping the characters. Specifically, this manifests in the fact that every villainous character is identical—the drunkard Fang Mo encounters at the beginning of the story, the thief Zhi Xia meets when she starts her part-time job, and Brother Zhao who later harasses Lan, etc. Their purpose is to harm the protagonist, thereby triggering subsequent plot developments (hero saves the damsel in distress, self-awakening), but they all achieve this through almost the same method...

Um... A new book is out.

Cures or depresses?

Dear author, what about your previous books?

Let me keep it brief! I've actually read some of your earlier works and still quite like them. I've only seen your new works in recent years, so of course I welcome them just as much. Here's my review of this book: It's very detailed, with delicate portrayals of relationships and emotions, and the imagery is very warm. But why did it become so...? Nevertheless, it's still a very good work (although I couldn't read much of it later since it became a paid subscription). Next, some interpretations about the protagonist: Based on the clues, the protagonist is actually female. She has an older brother, and when she was two years old, a sudden accident made it difficult for her to accept...

Abrupt love and abrupt hate are usually not a big problem, as long as they are kept within a certain "degree." However, a character displaying illogical malice only increases the reader's aversion to that character. Therefore, such characters are usually used as "sacrifices," never to be redeemed, like Voldemort or Sauron. Of course, Shen Mubai is far from possessing the oppressive aura of the latter two great demons; he's more like Zhao Gao, a fool who harms others only to ultimately bring about his own downfall. But up to this point, everything is fine. The author's decisive blow is—he immerses us in such a nauseating anti-heroic...

Honestly, I'm not very satisfied with this ending...

Tomb sweeping

The first novel that made me cry