Please Don't Tell Me This Is the Official History of the Three Kingdoms!

Honestly, I'm really looking forward to the next meeting between Xuande and Mengde. I really hope that Mengde can be with Xuande before the male lead returns to the future. From the side stories, it's clear that Mengde truly loves Xuande, but Xuande seems to have a huge misunderstanding with him now. In the end, I hope the author can write more side stories about Mengde and Xuande together. I really enjoy reading their story. If it can be written, please give it a boost! I hope they get a happy ending and that you don't have to torture them anymore.

This is just a personal reflection, and also a little reference for those who want to get into this series. Those who don't want to read long articles or spoilers can skip to the summary at the end. First, I've finished reading volume 10, skipping some later chapters, so I don't remember some details clearly, and I don't know much about the Three Kingdoms period. Please point out any mistakes. You can criticize me, but be gentle, I'm afraid of hurting you. First of all, this book is quite old; my first long review was from 2012, a time when harem-style Japanese light novels were very popular. Against this backdrop, the male protagonist is a classic kind and simple-minded type, not particularly outstanding...

The story is really too long, with millions of words already, and it hasn't even gotten to the Battle of Red Cliffs yet. Many battles, especially the smaller battlefields within major battles, don't need to be written in a dozen or twenty pages.

Are you still writing this book with the same original intention? What was your original intention in writing this book? Are the contents you wanted to include really what you originally envisioned? What are you actually writing? If you're trying to cram a lot of things in, don't do it if you don't have the ability. Focus on one thing and think about what your initial idea for writing this book was. Otherwise, I think this book is a real waste.

The book I started reading in my first year of high school, and now I'm repeating a year and almost graduating from a five-year program, and you still haven't finished writing it!

In other novels, the male protagonist matures and grows stronger later on, transforming from a passive follower into someone with his own opinions. But this protagonist becomes increasingly pathetic as the story progresses. After Zhuge Liang appears, he completely lacks any independent thought. How can he face the women who are with him? Is following history really that important? This irresponsible and lacking in character should just die. He's a complete mama's boy. I really want to abandon this book, but it's absurd that I can't get a refund for the paid subscription. The first ten volumes are enough for a bit of fun. I regret buying the whole thing...

The "I'll Outlive the Author" series

The male protagonist is a useless and pathetic character, lacking any semblance of compassion, and is vastly different from the historical Liu Bei. Xu Shu is portrayed as a useless man who only knows how to recite scripts. Guan Yu and Chen Dao's martial arts are depicted as ridiculously weak; in both historical records and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu could easily withstand Lü Bu. Furthermore, the protagonist's time-travel is practically useless, and he refuses to change history. The author's practice of killing off male characters while extending the lives of female characters is utterly disgusting. On the battlefield, the author even tries to spare the enemy's life for various reasons, showing no regard for war. Does this mean that our guerrilla warfare was entirely unjust and immoral? Warfare is based on deception and mercy towards the enemy...

So this one was also delayed. Eight years! Counting from 2016, I'd say I'm a veteran user of Pineapple Bun (a Chinese online literature platform). Back then, Pineapple Bun wasn't as filled with harem/soft rice (female characters living off female characters) and gender-swap stories as it is now. All sorts of strange writing styles and authors with wildly imaginative minds emerged, and every type of work had its audience. I vaguely remember reading *The Retired Life of the King of Martial Arts* when it was still in its first chapter; now it's already 8 million words long and still not finished. *Hero? I've Long Abandoned That Role* is still in its fifth volume; nobody knew it would end up being such a grand and captivating story. This interesting female-centric Three Kingdoms novel... I discovered it...

How should I put it? It's roughly from the moment Zhuge Liang is encountered that the novel becomes very strange, completely disconnected from the beginning, long and tedious, and incomprehensible. The first nine volumes were alright, giving me the feeling of writing a Japanese manga-style light novel about the gender-swapped Three Kingdoms. But it changed from the tenth volume when Zhuge Liang is encountered. If you insist on writing it like in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, then why don't we just read Romance of the Three Kingdoms directly?