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病美人 Sick Beauty [Rebirth]
前世，叶云澜容貌毁于一场大火，此后经年，他受尽世人误解，声名狼藉。
一朝重生，他回到三百年前。
他从大火中逃出。这一回，他容颜无恙，却因救人损了根骨，折了修行，落下一身病骨沉疴。
叶云澜并不在意。
前生风雨漂泊日久，今生他只想要平静生活。
然而，很快他却发现，前生废去他金丹的师兄，关押他百年的宗主，将他送给魔尊的道侣，还有那些厌恶嫌弃他的人……突然都开始对他大献殷勤，不但送灵药送法宝送信物，甚至还要送自己。
叶云澜：？这就大可不必。
——
沈殊此生都无法忘记那一幕。
漫天烈火之中，那人如白鸥飞掠而来，将年少的他抱起护在怀中。
烈焰撞入那人背脊，有血滴在他脸颊，又落入他心尖。
比烈火更加灼然。
后来，他低头恭喊那人师尊，却又在对方蹙眉轻咳时，忍不住握紧那人苍白的手，强硬抹去他唇上的血。
人人骂他堕入魔道，背叛师门，他不闻不听，一心只注视着那人，如望明月。
——
沉湎于美色，困囿于渴念。
修真界新晋第一美人，是所有人的心尖明月，求而不得。
【高亮预警】
1、病美人受，受病弱但实力不弱，美颜盛世万人迷，经常会吸引人渣、sjb、病娇的觊觎。
2、CP徒弟，偏执狠戾狼狗攻，前生唯一没有负过受的人，其他全都得进火葬场埋了！！！
3、攻受前世今生身心都只有彼此。
一朝重生，他回到三百年前。
他从大火中逃出。这一回，他容颜无恙，却因救人损了根骨，折了修行，落下一身病骨沉疴。
叶云澜并不在意。
前生风雨漂泊日久，今生他只想要平静生活。
然而，很快他却发现，前生废去他金丹的师兄，关押他百年的宗主，将他送给魔尊的道侣，还有那些厌恶嫌弃他的人……突然都开始对他大献殷勤，不但送灵药送法宝送信物，甚至还要送自己。
叶云澜：？这就大可不必。
——
沈殊此生都无法忘记那一幕。
漫天烈火之中，那人如白鸥飞掠而来，将年少的他抱起护在怀中。
烈焰撞入那人背脊，有血滴在他脸颊，又落入他心尖。
比烈火更加灼然。
后来，他低头恭喊那人师尊，却又在对方蹙眉轻咳时，忍不住握紧那人苍白的手，强硬抹去他唇上的血。
人人骂他堕入魔道，背叛师门，他不闻不听，一心只注视着那人，如望明月。
——
沉湎于美色，困囿于渴念。
修真界新晋第一美人，是所有人的心尖明月，求而不得。
【高亮预警】
1、病美人受，受病弱但实力不弱，美颜盛世万人迷，经常会吸引人渣、sjb、病娇的觊觎。
2、CP徒弟，偏执狠戾狼狗攻，前生唯一没有负过受的人，其他全都得进火葬场埋了！！！
3、攻受前世今生身心都只有彼此。
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October 9, 2024
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2.5/5 🌟
I think I would have liked this novel more if I was still on my 2ha era. The painful angst, the master-disciple relationship, the fated lovers, the lack of communication, the tragic past life, the toxic yet bittersweet relationship. This might not be as painful as 2ha, but the level of pain and frustration it gave is still high.
What I liked about this novel is how the story full of plot holes and inconsistencies at the beginning, you will feel that it all made sense when you reached the ending. Everything came full circle and certain reveals were perfectly placed to plaster certain plot holes. It was quite satisfying in that area.
But the thing is, I felt like my stress level and frustration were consistently on the highest level the whole time. The characters are irritating most of the time, some side characters are like cockroaches that you can't even kill the first time. They're not just cockroaches, they're also like flies that kept flying around you and you just want to swat them away but they kept coming back. The eye rolls I gave them are countless. Even MC and ML have their own annoying moments as well, especially with the way they handled things. The lack of communication between the two of them is grating me so hard.
I liked the way the author sprinkled intermittent snippets of their past lives, not full on flashbacks, to built up some mystery but halfway through, that formula came out too repetitive and dragging. It ended up being too long winded at times.
This is a typical dogblood novel. If you don't want to experience a stressful time, I suggest you skip this one. But if you're into novels like 2ha or yuwu by meatbun, go ahead and try this one.
I think I would have liked this novel more if I was still on my 2ha era. The painful angst, the master-disciple relationship, the fated lovers, the lack of communication, the tragic past life, the toxic yet bittersweet relationship. This might not be as painful as 2ha, but the level of pain and frustration it gave is still high.
What I liked about this novel is how the story full of plot holes and inconsistencies at the beginning, you will feel that it all made sense when you reached the ending. Everything came full circle and certain reveals were perfectly placed to plaster certain plot holes. It was quite satisfying in that area.
But the thing is, I felt like my stress level and frustration were consistently on the highest level the whole time. The characters are irritating most of the time, some side characters are like cockroaches that you can't even kill the first time. They're not just cockroaches, they're also like flies that kept flying around you and you just want to swat them away but they kept coming back. The eye rolls I gave them are countless. Even MC and ML have their own annoying moments as well, especially with the way they handled things. The lack of communication between the two of them is grating me so hard.
I liked the way the author sprinkled intermittent snippets of their past lives, not full on flashbacks, to built up some mystery but halfway through, that formula came out too repetitive and dragging. It ended up being too long winded at times.
This is a typical dogblood novel. If you don't want to experience a stressful time, I suggest you skip this one. But if you're into novels like 2ha or yuwu by meatbun, go ahead and try this one.
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March 22, 2022Nothing we haven't seen before. The main pairing is the master/disciple type of relationship that you've seen before in The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1 and The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System 人渣反派自救系统 . The plot so far (I stopped at c19) is basically a romance like in those cdramas - the main character is so beautiful but so frail and he has four men lusting after him at my last count, and the story is about him dodging their treachery and tricks to possess him, while he tries to form a genuine emotional bond with his disciple (who also lusts after him). I am not a fan of this type of stories so I dropped it.
August 12, 2024
I’m so frustrated and disappointed. This started out so promising! I genuinely thought it would be at least a four, possibly even a five star read! Truly, it’s the definition of wasted potential for me.
First of all, there’s the “themes”. Scare quotes intentional. The main character of this novel, Ye Yunlan, is stupidly, ridiculously beautiful—as in, “merely catching a glimpse of him is enough to make every passerby fall at least little bit in love with him” kind of beautiful—which would usually make me roll my eyes, except for how it serves as a contrast to his previous life.
In his first life, he’d been disfigured in an accident early on, and was distrusted, hated, feared, and betrayed over and over again, with the ugliness of his physical appearance often being used as a justification for why he “must” be evil or guilty. In this life, he received internal injuries instead of external ones (hence the “sick” beauty of the title), and is treated completely differently—often by the same people who hurt and betrayed him in his previous life.
So there’s something to be teased out there about society’s focus on physical beauty and how outer beauty/ugliness influences the way we treat one another—and I do think the novel might have been trying to say something about those themes—except, in the end, it does so poorly. Part of this is simply because the story becomes much less focused on these ideas later on. But the biggest flaw is that what the main characters think, and what the actual story portrays, contradicts one another.
Ye Yunlan condemns the world for treating beauty and ugliness as shorthands for good and evil, but ultimately, the novel itself ends up doing just that. Both Ye Yunlan and Shen Shu suffered from horrible disfigurements in their first lives, but by the end of the novel, both of them are beautiful people living happily ever after. Similarly, all the antagonists from his first life who were essentially flawed, but still decent people also kept their good looks. However, every single one of the genuine villains ended up “ugly” before their ends.
This element also didn’t work for me in terms of the romance, at least not during the second life’s timeline. Shen Shu would have an internal monologue about how he doesn’t understand humans’ fixation on the flesh that covers our bodies, but then bounce back to admiring his master’s beauty in a way which made me go, “...and he’s different from the other people fawning over Yunlan how?” I think the author intended the difference to be “his feelings for him is the reason why Shen Shu admires him versus others having feelings because they admire him”, but that wasn’t what I saw on page.
The romance itself felt super flawed to me. I want to be clear about something: I picked up this novel because I’d been told that this was a shizun-fucked novel with a yandere disciple. I love a good shizun-fucker novel with an obsessive and devoted disciple. But the romance in this one never quite clicked for me.
To be specific: I actually loved their romance in the first life, . Two people, feared, betrayed, disfigured and hated by the world at least in part due to those scars, coming together and finding love and peace at each other’s side? I was sold. I was so sold.
But the Demon Lord and Shen Shu never stopped feeling like two separate characters, despite the fact that it was obvious from the very start that they were going to be the same person. Ye Yunlan does reflect on this—
—but even when the novel says “ah, yes, I’ve found the conclusion to this question”, I was sitting there all, “...but did you, though?” Shen Shu’s character arc in the second life timeline was a mess in general, and at some point I had no idea why he was reacting in certain ways or making the choices he made. It felt less like a natural character progression and more like the author trying to shoehorn in their
I also never bought that Ye Yunlan loved Shen Shu. The Demon Lord from his past life, yes. Shen Shu, no. It truly felt like he saw him as a child he’d been raising, not someone he wanted to be together with.
This is particularly unfortunate because the ending portion of the novel heavily depends on you buying Yunlan being in love with Shen Shu, and the events of the final twenty or so chapters feel like a nonsensical mess if you haven’t been sold on that very essential element.
Also: what the actual f was with that random demon lord showing up as a True Final Villain at the end. He felt like he came out of nowhere, and it was just bad writing.
What makes it all even worse is that this novel had some genuinely interesting things going on with the antagonists from Yunlan’s past life, but almost all of that was dropped in favor of your standard yandere love interest shtick! If this had just been iddy shizun/yandere disciple prn to start with, that would’ve been one thing—I could have happily eaten that up, given the novel three stars, and then moved on. But you can’t dangle interesting characters and themes and ideas in front of me, and then just yank them away in favor of super-standard yandere love story scenarios!
The one I’m probably most upset about was Ye Xuanguang. I was so fascinated by his subplot and the dynamic he has with Ye Yunlan, particularly in the way it plays with how Ye Yunlan’s knowledge is not actually infallible, despite his memories of a future timeline.
It was very interesting to me, having one of the “antagonists” actually never having been antagonistic to Yunlan at all, and I found Ye Xuanguang’s constant worrying about and concern for Yunlan to be very sweet. I was really looking forward to a final confrontation between the two of them where they could finally hash things out—and then that never happened?
I also felt like Rong Ran and Chen Weiyuan got a little cheated in terms of characterization, particularly the latter. I thought there was some potential for extra depth in Rong Ran’s character , but ultimately I didn’t care all that much about him, so I wasn’t too upset about it not getting touched on again.
But Chen Weiyuan… he fascinated me, and that makes the waste of his potential sting all the harder.
Lest I only be complaining here, I was satisfied with Qiyun Jun and He Lunze’s character arcs, though the former’s final scene in the novel did feel off. But otherwise, I And He Lunze’s character development really worked for me. I liked that not all of the antagonists from Ye Yunlan’s past life were irredeemable villains; some were simply flawed, but still decent people at heart, who could grow and change when faced with their mistakes.
Also, Xu Qingyue is such a good boy.
Ultimately, this had a promising start with equally promising characters and ideas, but ended up devolving into a huge mess.
First of all, there’s the “themes”. Scare quotes intentional. The main character of this novel, Ye Yunlan, is stupidly, ridiculously beautiful—as in, “merely catching a glimpse of him is enough to make every passerby fall at least little bit in love with him” kind of beautiful—which would usually make me roll my eyes, except for how it serves as a contrast to his previous life.
In his first life, he’d been disfigured in an accident early on, and was distrusted, hated, feared, and betrayed over and over again, with the ugliness of his physical appearance often being used as a justification for why he “must” be evil or guilty. In this life, he received internal injuries instead of external ones (hence the “sick” beauty of the title), and is treated completely differently—often by the same people who hurt and betrayed him in his previous life.
So there’s something to be teased out there about society’s focus on physical beauty and how outer beauty/ugliness influences the way we treat one another—and I do think the novel might have been trying to say something about those themes—except, in the end, it does so poorly. Part of this is simply because the story becomes much less focused on these ideas later on. But the biggest flaw is that what the main characters think, and what the actual story portrays, contradicts one another.
Ye Yunlan condemns the world for treating beauty and ugliness as shorthands for good and evil, but ultimately, the novel itself ends up doing just that. Both Ye Yunlan and Shen Shu suffered from horrible disfigurements in their first lives, but by the end of the novel, both of them are beautiful people living happily ever after. Similarly, all the antagonists from his first life who were essentially flawed, but still decent people also kept their good looks. However, every single one of the genuine villains ended up “ugly” before their ends.
This element also didn’t work for me in terms of the romance, at least not during the second life’s timeline. Shen Shu would have an internal monologue about how he doesn’t understand humans’ fixation on the flesh that covers our bodies, but then bounce back to admiring his master’s beauty in a way which made me go, “...and he’s different from the other people fawning over Yunlan how?” I think the author intended the difference to be “his feelings for him is the reason why Shen Shu admires him versus others having feelings because they admire him”, but that wasn’t what I saw on page.
The romance itself felt super flawed to me. I want to be clear about something: I picked up this novel because I’d been told that this was a shizun-fucked novel with a yandere disciple. I love a good shizun-fucker novel with an obsessive and devoted disciple. But the romance in this one never quite clicked for me.
To be specific: I actually loved their romance in the first life, . Two people, feared, betrayed, disfigured and hated by the world at least in part due to those scars, coming together and finding love and peace at each other’s side? I was sold. I was so sold.
But the Demon Lord and Shen Shu never stopped feeling like two separate characters, despite the fact that it was obvious from the very start that they were going to be the same person. Ye Yunlan does reflect on this—
—but even when the novel says “ah, yes, I’ve found the conclusion to this question”, I was sitting there all, “...but did you, though?” Shen Shu’s character arc in the second life timeline was a mess in general, and at some point I had no idea why he was reacting in certain ways or making the choices he made. It felt less like a natural character progression and more like the author trying to shoehorn in their
I also never bought that Ye Yunlan loved Shen Shu. The Demon Lord from his past life, yes. Shen Shu, no. It truly felt like he saw him as a child he’d been raising, not someone he wanted to be together with.
This is particularly unfortunate because the ending portion of the novel heavily depends on you buying Yunlan being in love with Shen Shu, and the events of the final twenty or so chapters feel like a nonsensical mess if you haven’t been sold on that very essential element.
Also: what the actual f was with that random demon lord showing up as a True Final Villain at the end. He felt like he came out of nowhere, and it was just bad writing.
What makes it all even worse is that this novel had some genuinely interesting things going on with the antagonists from Yunlan’s past life, but almost all of that was dropped in favor of your standard yandere love interest shtick! If this had just been iddy shizun/yandere disciple prn to start with, that would’ve been one thing—I could have happily eaten that up, given the novel three stars, and then moved on. But you can’t dangle interesting characters and themes and ideas in front of me, and then just yank them away in favor of super-standard yandere love story scenarios!
The one I’m probably most upset about was Ye Xuanguang. I was so fascinated by his subplot and the dynamic he has with Ye Yunlan, particularly in the way it plays with how Ye Yunlan’s knowledge is not actually infallible, despite his memories of a future timeline.
It was very interesting to me, having one of the “antagonists” actually never having been antagonistic to Yunlan at all, and I found Ye Xuanguang’s constant worrying about and concern for Yunlan to be very sweet. I was really looking forward to a final confrontation between the two of them where they could finally hash things out—and then that never happened?
I also felt like Rong Ran and Chen Weiyuan got a little cheated in terms of characterization, particularly the latter. I thought there was some potential for extra depth in Rong Ran’s character , but ultimately I didn’t care all that much about him, so I wasn’t too upset about it not getting touched on again.
But Chen Weiyuan… he fascinated me, and that makes the waste of his potential sting all the harder.
Lest I only be complaining here, I was satisfied with Qiyun Jun and He Lunze’s character arcs, though the former’s final scene in the novel did feel off. But otherwise, I And He Lunze’s character development really worked for me. I liked that not all of the antagonists from Ye Yunlan’s past life were irredeemable villains; some were simply flawed, but still decent people at heart, who could grow and change when faced with their mistakes.
Also, Xu Qingyue is such a good boy.
Ultimately, this had a promising start with equally promising characters and ideas, but ended up devolving into a huge mess.
September 5, 2024
5 ⭐️
😭🤧🫶🏻 love it so so so so muuucchhh 😭😭😭🫶🏻
PD: here a fast and simple guide of the theme in this book
Xianxia world ✅
Good world construction ✅
Good plot ✅
Great relationship ✅
Master and disciple ✅
Smut ❌
Mentions of papapa ✅ (without descriptions)
Crying while reading ✅
Laughing while reading ❌
Wholesome ✅
Strong MC ✅
Strong ML ✅
😭🤧🫶🏻 love it so so so so muuucchhh 😭😭😭🫶🏻
PD: here a fast and simple guide of the theme in this book
Xianxia world ✅
Good world construction ✅
Good plot ✅
Great relationship ✅
Master and disciple ✅
Smut ❌
Mentions of papapa ✅ (without descriptions)
Crying while reading ✅
Laughing while reading ❌
Wholesome ✅
Strong MC ✅
Strong ML ✅
February 23, 2023
I enjoyed this book for the most part. It's a xianxia story that features rebirth and a master disciple relationship, all of which I enjoy, but there were multiple things that made the story fall a bit flat for me.
The story follows Ye Yunlan, a cultivator with an out-of-this world appearance who was misunderstood and suffered numerous grievances in his previous life. He's reborn 300 years earlier with all of his memories of his past life and is determined to live an aloof life apart from everyone else, especially everyone who betrayed him previously. However, he's unable to completely distance himself from the rest of the world, as he takes on a disciple called Shen Shu that he personally saved from a dangerous fire. And the story starts from there...
The writing wasn't very clear at times, and I had to reread some passages multiple times only to still be confused. The events of YYL's past life are slowly revealed, and that's where most of the vagueness was. I was confused for the longest time on the events of his past, and even now I think I mostly understand it but not completely. And to be honest, I feel like the author got lazy with her explanations by the end. I still have a lot of questions about YYL's bloodline and abilities that were never addressed, and I don't understand how he became OP so suddenly by the end. Maybe it's one of those things where it sounds good in the author's head, but it's hard to fully explain on paper.
Another thing I didn't like was how the MC's appearance was so dazzling that literally everyone falls in love with him and want to be his Daoist companion. It was fine at first, but after a while when it kept happening, it got pretty old. For example, when even the sect master took note of him, I could only roll my eyes:
He cultivated the heartless dao, he only had thoughts towards heaven and earth, unable to see the common people.
But the face of the person in front of him seemed to be detached from the mundane, the spirit of heaven and earth seemed to be poured all over the other party. He looked at heaven and the earth, but it was impossible to ignore the person in front of him.
The romance was a bit unsatisfying as well. YYL kept his distance from SS and got angry anytime SS tried to do anything, so there was very little fluff. I know it's not that type of story, but I would've appreciated some more fluffy moments, especially near the end after SS brought YYL out of the ship. Alas, it's not meant to be...
The story follows Ye Yunlan, a cultivator with an out-of-this world appearance who was misunderstood and suffered numerous grievances in his previous life. He's reborn 300 years earlier with all of his memories of his past life and is determined to live an aloof life apart from everyone else, especially everyone who betrayed him previously. However, he's unable to completely distance himself from the rest of the world, as he takes on a disciple called Shen Shu that he personally saved from a dangerous fire. And the story starts from there...
The writing wasn't very clear at times, and I had to reread some passages multiple times only to still be confused. The events of YYL's past life are slowly revealed, and that's where most of the vagueness was. I was confused for the longest time on the events of his past, and even now I think I mostly understand it but not completely. And to be honest, I feel like the author got lazy with her explanations by the end. I still have a lot of questions about YYL's bloodline and abilities that were never addressed, and I don't understand how he became OP so suddenly by the end. Maybe it's one of those things where it sounds good in the author's head, but it's hard to fully explain on paper.
Another thing I didn't like was how the MC's appearance was so dazzling that literally everyone falls in love with him and want to be his Daoist companion. It was fine at first, but after a while when it kept happening, it got pretty old. For example, when even the sect master took note of him, I could only roll my eyes:
He cultivated the heartless dao, he only had thoughts towards heaven and earth, unable to see the common people.
But the face of the person in front of him seemed to be detached from the mundane, the spirit of heaven and earth seemed to be poured all over the other party. He looked at heaven and the earth, but it was impossible to ignore the person in front of him.
The romance was a bit unsatisfying as well. YYL kept his distance from SS and got angry anytime SS tried to do anything, so there was very little fluff. I know it's not that type of story, but I would've appreciated some more fluffy moments, especially near the end after SS brought YYL out of the ship. Alas, it's not meant to be...
November 13, 2022
The description of this story didn't really capture me - I hate stories that focus excessively on the main characters' appearance. However, the mc's beauty in this story serves a purpose and is perhaps the author's way of showing how ridiculous it is to judge people based on appearance.
I ended up loving the story. It's pretty easy to tell what will happen before it does, but the reveal process is still quite satisfying. It doesn't have as many unexpected twists as The Husky And His White Cat Shizun, but the general story and interest reminds me of that novel.
The story touches on the disparity between outside perception vs personal experience, how the story can change based on new information and perspective. I found that part of this story similar to GDC, though this story doesn't do as satisfying job of face slapping in my opinion.
It also shows how to not give up because of 'destiny', or make assumptions about people's destinies. There was also a lot of emphasis on family, but in a depressing (unfairly so) way. Family was portrayed at chains of obligation, power as a byword for responsibility, and love as a pathway to obsession. I don't really agree, but these themes work well in this story.
If I were to say the part of the novel I hated the most, it would be the second male leads. Why do so many men have to become and stay obsessed with the mc? It would have been much more satisfying to see them move on. And so many of them have such sad and stifling stories. I guess the readers are supposed to not feel too bad for them because they all originally abandoned the mc, but that's so hard to do when you see their growth. Wish there were some more extras to give them happier endings.
I ended up loving the story. It's pretty easy to tell what will happen before it does, but the reveal process is still quite satisfying. It doesn't have as many unexpected twists as The Husky And His White Cat Shizun, but the general story and interest reminds me of that novel.
The story touches on the disparity between outside perception vs personal experience, how the story can change based on new information and perspective. I found that part of this story similar to GDC, though this story doesn't do as satisfying job of face slapping in my opinion.
It also shows how to not give up because of 'destiny', or make assumptions about people's destinies. There was also a lot of emphasis on family, but in a depressing (unfairly so) way. Family was portrayed at chains of obligation, power as a byword for responsibility, and love as a pathway to obsession. I don't really agree, but these themes work well in this story.
If I were to say the part of the novel I hated the most, it would be the second male leads. Why do so many men have to become and stay obsessed with the mc? It would have been much more satisfying to see them move on. And so many of them have such sad and stifling stories. I guess the readers are supposed to not feel too bad for them because they all originally abandoned the mc, but that's so hard to do when you see their growth. Wish there were some more extras to give them happier endings.
December 23, 2022
I sacrificed a lot of sleep because I couldn't stop reading this.
Good build up of mystery, good plot reveals, and personally it could do with more regret from the other characters, but then it wouldn't suit the MC's personality so I can't complain there.
I like how _weary_ the MC was. The way the novel wrote about him, he just radiated "I'm tired" consistently, and I can empathise. I basically read this for the MC as I was rooting for him to get a happy ending.
My only complaint was that the author didn't expand enough about other characters that made an appearance, in the ending. Some people were introduced for one section, then was never mentioned again. I was like... why? Why bother introducing them and giving them background information?
Good build up of mystery, good plot reveals, and personally it could do with more regret from the other characters, but then it wouldn't suit the MC's personality so I can't complain there.
I like how _weary_ the MC was. The way the novel wrote about him, he just radiated "I'm tired" consistently, and I can empathise. I basically read this for the MC as I was rooting for him to get a happy ending.
My only complaint was that the author didn't expand enough about other characters that made an appearance, in the ending. Some people were introduced for one section, then was never mentioned again. I was like... why? Why bother introducing them and giving them background information?
October 4, 2023
This book was a lot, to be honest. I admit, I heard things about it and my curiosity would not let me pass the opportunity to read it.
So. While it is a Xianxia novel, I was a bit worried about the idea that most of the intrigue seemed to revolve around the main character’s appearance. However, I was actually quite surprised to find myself enjoying the deep complexity of the relationship between some characters and had to put down the book to calm down between chapters.
However, I have to say that while the majority of the plot and intrigue are more than well thought, some moments in the novel lead to confusion. I also have to mention that there is some very uncomfortable topics being explored in this novel and if you’re not comfortable with this, then I really suggest you try to read something more lighthearted.
TW in this novel: details of body injuries, death, gore, torture, toxic relationship, violence, abuse, etc… Please do not read if you’re not used and/or comfortable with such topics.
So. While it is a Xianxia novel, I was a bit worried about the idea that most of the intrigue seemed to revolve around the main character’s appearance. However, I was actually quite surprised to find myself enjoying the deep complexity of the relationship between some characters and had to put down the book to calm down between chapters.
However, I have to say that while the majority of the plot and intrigue are more than well thought, some moments in the novel lead to confusion. I also have to mention that there is some very uncomfortable topics being explored in this novel and if you’re not comfortable with this, then I really suggest you try to read something more lighthearted.
TW in this novel: details of body injuries, death, gore, torture, toxic relationship, violence, abuse, etc… Please do not read if you’re not used and/or comfortable with such topics.
June 13, 2024
Sendo bem direta: MUITO BOM. Leiam tranquilamente. Lembra bastante 2ha.
Só que eu sofri. Demais. E nem foi pelos protagonistas, sofri do começo ao fim com o QiYun Jun e o irmão do protagonista. A autora poderia muito tem dado a eles um final feliz, ainda que nessa vida o QiYun Jun esteja pagando o que ele fez na última, o irmão do protagonista se sacrificou e fez tudo pela família em ambas, sendo descartado como se fosse nada. Não considero justiça o que eles receberam nessa vida, só muito triste. Achei que faltou esclarecer algumas coisas quanto a mãe do protagonista ( que é suspeita demaisss) e que (não posso acreditar no que eu vou dizer) a narrativa poderia ser maior. É uma novel bem feita mas tem muita coisa que poderia ter sido mais explorada. Não esperem muito romance porque a autora não sabe fazer, é aquelas que exploram superficialmente, falam muito, mas não vão a fundo com a coisa.
Só que eu sofri. Demais. E nem foi pelos protagonistas, sofri do começo ao fim com o QiYun Jun e o irmão do protagonista. A autora poderia muito tem dado a eles um final feliz, ainda que nessa vida o QiYun Jun esteja pagando o que ele fez na última, o irmão do protagonista se sacrificou e fez tudo pela família em ambas, sendo descartado como se fosse nada. Não considero justiça o que eles receberam nessa vida, só muito triste. Achei que faltou esclarecer algumas coisas quanto a mãe do protagonista ( que é suspeita demaisss) e que (não posso acreditar no que eu vou dizer) a narrativa poderia ser maior. É uma novel bem feita mas tem muita coisa que poderia ter sido mais explorada. Não esperem muito romance porque a autora não sabe fazer, é aquelas que exploram superficialmente, falam muito, mas não vão a fundo com a coisa.
December 13, 2025
Ye Yunlan might be the 2nd most stubborn shou in the danmei world next to Xie Qingcheng in BAB. I love you Yunlan and I hate all those selfish cultivators like Rong Ran and Chei Weiyuan, I am not satisfied with their deaths, they deserve to experience a thousand deaths. I feel blood thirsty whenever I remember what they did, but anyway, I feel sorry for Qiyun Jun, though he made a lot of mistake in his previous life, you can see he tried his best to at least apologize for what he's done.
I love the ending and you both deserve it with Shen Shu.
I love the ending and you both deserve it with Shen Shu.
October 5, 2022
omg..the plot twist..the angst..ಥ_ಥ the schemming..i can't stand it..my heart it's bleeding..thanksfully it's HE..if not i will throw thousand dagger to the author..we must protect our MC and ML.they deserve to be happy
January 29, 2024
I can’t believe I finished it 😭
May 13, 2024
Average I feel like I have read this before
May 1, 2023
Rating: 3/5 - I had higher expectations for this novel, as it started off strong. Instead, you can’t help but feel that the more chapters you complete, the more potential is wasted.
The overall idea was not bad, however the execution was not good. Also what is this nonsense of focusing on appearance only? Siren-like characters demean the awe and majesty of this novel.
The novel should have been a bit longer to flesh out more details that would have closed off the loose ends. There’s this bitter dissatisfaction when you end the book - as if you can’t really understand why there’s was irrelevant information shared that had nothing to do with anything.
Another flaw with this novel is the whiplash you get from going back and forth between past and present - you also don’t know how the rebirth was triggered. Why was it applicable for some and not the others and also why none of the characters really got a decent ending.
Yes, karma should happen but once the cycle is complete, redemption is possible.
Overall this novel had the potential to do much better, yet the main characters failed to connect with the reader and the plot became convoluted with constant back and forth and unnecessary information in place of valid plot relevant points.
The overall idea was not bad, however the execution was not good. Also what is this nonsense of focusing on appearance only? Siren-like characters demean the awe and majesty of this novel.
The novel should have been a bit longer to flesh out more details that would have closed off the loose ends. There’s this bitter dissatisfaction when you end the book - as if you can’t really understand why there’s was irrelevant information shared that had nothing to do with anything.
Another flaw with this novel is the whiplash you get from going back and forth between past and present - you also don’t know how the rebirth was triggered. Why was it applicable for some and not the others and also why none of the characters really got a decent ending.
Yes, karma should happen but once the cycle is complete, redemption is possible.
Overall this novel had the potential to do much better, yet the main characters failed to connect with the reader and the plot became convoluted with constant back and forth and unnecessary information in place of valid plot relevant points.
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