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My Senior Brother is Too Steady
After being reborn in the ancient times before the Great God-Conferment War, Li Changshou becomes a minor cultivator. He is neither destined for great things nor great woe. His only dream is to live a long life as a cultivator. In order to survive in the cruel Primordial Times, Li Changshou tries hard not to accumulate any karma—killing inevitably leads to feuds.
Thus, he always plans thoroughly before doing anything and never allows himself to walk into dangerous situations. He hides his trump cards well, trains himself in escape techniques, refines poisonous pills, and masters his mystical abilities. Before making any moves, he takes on an extremely steady demeanor. Yet, every move of his ends up earth-shattering. Once he is done, he will disappear without a trace.
Li Changshou originally plans to remain hidden and safe in the mountain. There, he is supposed to cultivate until he ascends to immortality. However, everything changed one year when his master seems to think that their lives are too peaceful… He takes in a junior sister…
Thus, he always plans thoroughly before doing anything and never allows himself to walk into dangerous situations. He hides his trump cards well, trains himself in escape techniques, refines poisonous pills, and masters his mystical abilities. Before making any moves, he takes on an extremely steady demeanor. Yet, every move of his ends up earth-shattering. Once he is done, he will disappear without a trace.
Li Changshou originally plans to remain hidden and safe in the mountain. There, he is supposed to cultivate until he ascends to immortality. However, everything changed one year when his master seems to think that their lives are too peaceful… He takes in a junior sister…
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August 6, 2021
Paused on chapter 270/~500 (still writing?)
3.5 stars. I liked this book. It's a chronicle of problem solving with an overly cautious mc.
Grammar: 2/5
Fine for the first couple hundred chapters. I'm reading a rip from god knows where, so I cant knock the book for this, but for some reason pronouns are often flipped. I understand that Chinese often has ambiguous pronouns, but considering that the rest of the tl is fine, it's baffling that the translator would mess these up. My best guess is that the place where I'm reading it stole it from somewhere else and randomized pronouns on later chapters to avoid detection.
Style: fine.
Characters: 4/5
I really liked them. Every character has a quirk, and they all act just as weirdly as I would expect bored, thousand year old people to act. The mc and his caution are interesting.
Story: 3/5 then 1/5
It starts out very interesting, but then as you pass 200 it becomes generic. You lose a sense for what is happening and why, and the book becomes more and more like a series of random events. It wasn't fun to read, so I stopped.
3.5 stars. I liked this book. It's a chronicle of problem solving with an overly cautious mc.
Grammar: 2/5
Fine for the first couple hundred chapters. I'm reading a rip from god knows where, so I cant knock the book for this, but for some reason pronouns are often flipped. I understand that Chinese often has ambiguous pronouns, but considering that the rest of the tl is fine, it's baffling that the translator would mess these up. My best guess is that the place where I'm reading it stole it from somewhere else and randomized pronouns on later chapters to avoid detection.
Style: fine.
Characters: 4/5
I really liked them. Every character has a quirk, and they all act just as weirdly as I would expect bored, thousand year old people to act. The mc and his caution are interesting.
Story: 3/5 then 1/5
It starts out very interesting, but then as you pass 200 it becomes generic. You lose a sense for what is happening and why, and the book becomes more and more like a series of random events. It wasn't fun to read, so I stopped.
February 10, 2021
The first few chapters are difficult to get into because it's a big info dump from a side character pov. Afterwards it consistently gets better until it's something I consider a 5 star novel. Unfortunately it devolves into (less bad than usual for all of these) absurdity for humor, cheap romantic suspense, and very shallow scheming + face slapping for plot.
This began as a comprehensively thought out and logical story despite the slice of life and humor genre. The plot was actual plot and the characters had depth and motivation. Moreover, the protagonist was reasonably (and actually rather than told to be) intelligent, pragmatic and genre savvy which is always something to love.
The story slowly underwent a qualitative change until it became subpar around chapter 300. In the beginning, the protagonist had both long and short term plans that progressed naturally rather than in arcs. The protagonist also knew that he had to be both cautious and pragmatic in order to survive. He didn't take it as far as being ruthless, but he also did his best to be uninvolved in bad situations that had nothing to do with him. Slowly however, the protagonist was forced to associate with people didn't like his caution and in depth schemes. They slowly but completely tore away at his protections and destroyed his plans until he was forced into more situations than he could handle.
Where I'm dropping it, his biggest 'ally' helped to reveal who and where he is to gossipers and god like enemies who want to destroy him and those he cares about. The main plot is shallow scheming because he no longer has much agency over his own actions. At least 100-200 of the chapters are now about a (plot wise) minor plan about making dragons submit to one of the protagonists bosses so that the protagonist can have brownie points. When the protagonist gets enough brownie points (after many major decade long+ cheap plans) he gets some more (very minor compared to the amount of chapters dedicated to it) protection.
Some other things:
Unfortunately the author is willing to create minor plot holes for humor. One example is the author stating that immortals can change their appearance but it locks in after a certain stage. Later, everyone changes their appearance to look younger and more attractive because the protagonist created a pill to increase sex drive.
The translation quality is really great. The story reads really smoothly and it's easily digestible. The only issue I've seen is that the translator has an issue translating genders. This doesn't majorly impact the story because the gender is much more correct than incorrect. It's just an occasional jarring series of typos.
-Temporarily Dropped Ch 328
This began as a comprehensively thought out and logical story despite the slice of life and humor genre. The plot was actual plot and the characters had depth and motivation. Moreover, the protagonist was reasonably (and actually rather than told to be) intelligent, pragmatic and genre savvy which is always something to love.
The story slowly underwent a qualitative change until it became subpar around chapter 300. In the beginning, the protagonist had both long and short term plans that progressed naturally rather than in arcs. The protagonist also knew that he had to be both cautious and pragmatic in order to survive. He didn't take it as far as being ruthless, but he also did his best to be uninvolved in bad situations that had nothing to do with him. Slowly however, the protagonist was forced to associate with people didn't like his caution and in depth schemes. They slowly but completely tore away at his protections and destroyed his plans until he was forced into more situations than he could handle.
Where I'm dropping it, his biggest 'ally' helped to reveal who and where he is to gossipers and god like enemies who want to destroy him and those he cares about. The main plot is shallow scheming because he no longer has much agency over his own actions. At least 100-200 of the chapters are now about a (plot wise) minor plan about making dragons submit to one of the protagonists bosses so that the protagonist can have brownie points. When the protagonist gets enough brownie points (after many major decade long+ cheap plans) he gets some more (very minor compared to the amount of chapters dedicated to it) protection.
Some other things:
Unfortunately the author is willing to create minor plot holes for humor. One example is the author stating that immortals can change their appearance but it locks in after a certain stage. Later, everyone changes their appearance to look younger and more attractive because the protagonist created a pill to increase sex drive.
The translation quality is really great. The story reads really smoothly and it's easily digestible. The only issue I've seen is that the translator has an issue translating genders. This doesn't majorly impact the story because the gender is much more correct than incorrect. It's just an occasional jarring series of typos.
-Temporarily Dropped Ch 328
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