Ziwan's Notes

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I finally finished this book after a year and a half of freebies. I checked in every day. I bought it when it cost 35.

Having read quite a few, it's not true that it's bad, but the female lead's personality is really only suited to sweet stories. This constant torment of her, the overly convoluted plot, it's really dragging on. As a reader, I got more and more tired as I read, especially during the cold war scenes. The subplots didn't progress at all, there were too many new characters, and too many plot holes left unfilled. These could have been filled, but it felt like the author just wanted to pad the word count with the cold war scenes. The constant conflicts because they got together so early—where's the logic? It got more and more unrealistic towards the end. What's the point of the daily descriptions besides tormenting the female lead? The second female lead's intelligence dropped drastically later on; she lost all basic respect. Enough said, I'm dropping this. Bye!

The first half was quite good, but the plot twists and conflicts felt forced in the later stages, making the story seem a bit brainless.

In novels, problems you can spot aren't really problems. You read novels for emotional connection and to get a feeling. If a novel makes you negative, then I don't recommend reading it. If the protagonist's storyline doesn't meet your expectations, feels illogical, has flawed settings, or lacks rigor, then that's not really a problem. In reality, you might die in an accident tomorrow, or you might live a normal life, but you'll always find some illogical plot points. I think there are a lot of idiots on Weibo, stirring up trouble, and the angry youths in Hong Kong even started a rebellion, which lacked logic. My words...

This book really hit my sore spot. It's a realistic plot-driven novel, and even if the villains are brainless and do terrible things, they should at least follow some basic rules of real life. The excessive torture and the numerous scenes requiring stomach-churning are ridiculously over the top—it's basically a constant stream of stomach-churning moments later on. But that's not what really bothered me. What bothered me was a common problem with many authors: you can feed us whatever you want, but please, at least let us enjoy it! The formulaic ending left me completely unmoved; it was utterly cheesy and nauseating. I see almost no one else is criticizing this part, so I'm doing it anyway. What I really want is for villains not to be tools for the author to illogically torment the protagonist...

It has to be admitted that Rinna is truly pitiful. Several good friends ended up becoming strangers, and she would rather forget the past than recall this relationship.

I started reading Yun Ge's novels after finishing *The Witch After Night*, but although Yun Ge's writing is indeed quite angsty, I didn't start reading her books because of her nickname "Xu Yuan Yun" (laughs). I've always thought that the love Yun Ge depicts is beautiful and precious. In *The Witch After Night*, Yun Shi's constant switching between her everyday tsundere personality and her cold-bloodedness in battle gives me a sense of endearing contrast. There's also Miyuki's deep affection and her cunning (laughs), completely controlling Yun Shi. Indeed, cunning overcomes tsundere—what a wonderful story! So, you can still see some of the *The Witch After Night* style in this book; the protagonist is still...

After finishing "The Witch," I feel like it would take quite a bit of courage to even open this book.

The story is good, but it's a bit nerve-wracking.