I Use Martial Arts to Conquer This World

The beginning was quite good, but the pacing was too slow. However, it accelerated rapidly towards the end, and before you knew it, several years had passed. It felt like the ending was rushed, lacking the detail of the beginning.

This is a story that makes you look stupid... And it's incredibly absurd in the beginning, probably for plot development, but it's utterly ridiculous. The male lead's son acts like a mad dog, which is tolerable, but there's one scene I just can't stand: The Crown Princess angrily says, "We let him see this guy's true colors, and instead of being grateful, he's angry?" — Aside from the Crown Princess being very vulgar, it seems fine, right? But the backstory is that A used to be in love with the Crown Prince's concubine, Chen. The Crown Princess set up a scheme to make A and his wife see Chen for who she really was. When A appeared and saw her, Chen had already run into a wall... So how could A see anything clearly, and what could he possibly see? All he saw was that the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess, and his own wife conspired to drive his beloved to her death, okay?

The male lead is a prince with a 17-year-old son, and the female lead is young, beautiful, and has a system. She becomes a stepmother as soon as she arrives.

Not my cup of tea, in my opinion! I only read the beginning. Although the writing style is light and humorous, it felt a bit like a diary entry. It talks about how bad this person is, how miserable this person will be in the future, and how everyone hears their inner thoughts and then surrounds the female lead to listen to the plot development.

This is the worst female protagonist I've ever seen in a female-centric novel. Among a group of people, she's never the smartest or most outstanding. Throughout the book, she's constantly injured and incredibly stupid! The book starts off on a very low note (she marries a widowed old man as a bride to ward off bad luck), and even as she becomes a deity or immortal, she just feels out of place. The male protagonist is also poorly chosen (he's already married with a son and a deceased wife). At the beginning, you can hear each other's inner thoughts, which makes the story a little bit meaningful, but it becomes absurdly chaotic in the later stages. This is the only book I read where I never wanted to know the ending.

The parts set in the human world are enjoyable and funny, but once they move to the cultivation world, the story completely deviates from the theme and becomes tiring to watch.

The first half of the book was great, super funny, but it got a bit boring once the male lead returned and the romance developed. The second half, set in the world of cultivation, also became rather dull.

Are the emperor's men really that useless? Even a letter can be intercepted by a minister and fail to get it delivered. And they don't even know who killed him in the middle of the night. The shadow guard the empress sent to the female lead couldn't even detect the scumbag's infidelity, or was he deliberately not stopping it? None of them are useful, not a single one of them has a brain. I couldn't continue reading after chapter 18.

Selfish and brainless

It looks great, the leap is huge.