干掉万人迷的一百种方法

by Dong Shi Niang, 东施娘

Serious version: Every small world had a heartthrob, all he had to do was to kill that heartthrob

Irregular version: Shen Jue was punished for doing wrong and experienced the suffering of reincarnation. In order to get rid of reincarnating, he had to kill those beautiful and prosperous heartthrobs, and before doing it, he had to attack the other party and let the other party willingly die for him.

It was just that, gradually, those heartthrobs who had been attacked were blackened…

Shen Jue: Wait, aren’t you the protagonist?

Hearthrob [sneer]: We all have stuff, so who’s to say I have to be the recipient?

“When two lovers meet, one must attack!

Unknown Binding

About the author

Associated Names:
* 东施娘 (Chinese)
* Dong Shi Niang (English)
* ตงซือเหนียง (Thai)

Reviews

[eastwind.s · Rating 5 out of 5]

So, the synopsis promised a fun fair, and when I went in I got kidnapped, disembowelled, blended in a laundry machine, dropped out of a military jet, and finally burned at the stake.

BUT I WOULD DO IT AGAIN.

I expected this to be dog-blooded and cliche and to some extent it is, but it's also funny and there are parts that are genuinely heartwarming and wholesome, but overall it's very heavy and dark and the story and characters are incredibly tragic.

Shen Jue is probably one of the most ruthless MCs I've ever read. I can't say I like him, but I really appreciate the way he is written. He's not a bad person, but to achieve what he wants, he is willing to do pretty much anything, even destroying himself and his principles, and he committed to his goals to the end. Honestly, if I had his level of drive, I would've achieved world domination long ago and probably cured cancer to boot. He was, in my opinion, the scariest character in the novel, but he was also very pitiable. As the novel goes on, he gets more and more tired of this constant cycle of suffering, and more and more sick of what he's been forced to become, but he still must somehow endure to the end so it's not all in vain.

There's 9 arcs, each arc is pretty distinct. My favourite ones were arcs 4 (idol, apocalypse, abo), 5 (historical china, imperial court), 6 (cultivation, spiritual beasts). Arcs 5 and 6 especially...they haunt me.

I ended up getting attached to most of the MLs no matter how I disliked them at the start. They all have tragically epic deaths, the author is really good at writing BE. I liked all the endings of the arcs, but my favourite ML deaths and death scenes were Murong Xiu from arc 1 (brutal), Yu Qing from arc 3 (the extra for this arc omg), Ji Yao from arc 4 (my evil, crossdressing bbg, he reminds me of Chu Jiajun from For A Lie), Wen Yurong and Shi Zhou from arc 5, Xie Chen and Fu Jiuyin from arc 6 (incoherent screaming. I only survived because of the extras, I need more servings), Shang Yanyu from arc 7 (this one was so poetic and tragic), Lin Chuyan from arc 8 (actually destroyed me lowkey...the extras made me cry).

I like the first BE/open ending more, but that ending made me feel too empty inside so I went on to read the extras (the author still ended up stabbing me in the back with Yi Zhen's ending. They're too good at writing tragic characters...)

Overall, the story's kinda dog-blood, otherwise brutal and godless and really really tragic. I don't think it's everyone's cup of tea, since it pretty much checks off most of the trigger warnings I can think of. It's an emotionally draining read, I know it only took me like a week to finish but it kinda felt like half a lifetime (and after finishing it I stared at a wall for like 30 minutes). But it's also really good. I don't love every part of it, but I think it's really well written. It might become one of my all time favourites.