Bai Jing is deeply troubled. His eldest disciple ran off with another man, his second disciple left with her, and even the sect's senior sister threatens to destroy his mountain sect every day.
Bai Jing is exhausted. But then he discovers that his eldest disciple is actually a tsundere who wants to control everything and make Bai Jing devote himself completely to her. His second disciple is a scheming, dark-hearted woman who has been pulling the strings behind the scenes all along, and only wants Bai Jing to become entirely hers. The senior sister is even more terrifying: beneath her forceful personality lies a greedy heart, swinging back and forth between shame and pain. What is wrong with all of you? You're not normal!
Luckily, Bai Jing has found a new disciple. Wait, why aren't you normal either?!
I read the comments and didn't even dare to click on the book. There was even a filial son mocking a bunch of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Is being obsessive-compulsive wrong? In today's society, is even being chaste a mistake?
This book is completely illogical. Aren't the reasons those two disciples gave for leaving the sect bizarre? They quit just because their master wouldn't teach them? They're like overgrown children, expecting their master to beg them to return, acting like their master owes them something. And the other one—if you wanted to monopolize your master, why didn't you leave the sect? Even your senior sister left you, so you could monopolize your master. But leaving with your senior sister just makes you look like an idiot.
A master who can't teach his apprentices anything—I'd leave him too (I feel like the author of "Pineapple Bun" has some moral issues; there aren't these kinds of scumbags on other platforms).
This kind of "playing dumb to fool others" act is just plain stupid. It's like you get into a top university (like a 985 university) and find out someone got in through connections even though they couldn't get into a regular university, and they're also aloof. If I were you, I'd target them too. The protagonist is just as stupid.
Ugh, what era are we living in that they're still using this kind of traditional plot where the female lead tries to create a romantic connection between the male lead and the second male lead? It's such an obvious flaw, yet they still insist on using it to the extreme. 😓
The male protagonist is a cunning man, identified as a pure victim.
The whole thing boils down to the male lead giving up and wanting nothing. He deliberately creates misunderstandings for situations he could easily resolve. He acts like a complete simp, then claims he's always been good to her but still couldn't keep her, implying people aren't worth it. And then what? You think you're so capable? You insist on being a pushover, even in front of your partner. Silently sacrificing, huh? You're rich but act poor, only using your money at the last minute?
It feels a bit like I'm being cuckolded.
Fortunately, I read the comments first. I haven't started reading yet, and I strongly agree with what one reader in the comments said: the more novels you read, the more sensitive you become to flaws.
Some people say that the more male a woman is, the stronger her mental fastidiousness becomes, and I think that's true. But when did being a clean person become something to be ridiculed?