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Amanda
is 38% done
The post-tournament cases haven't been great but I like the subplot where ZJY is learning to draw talismans. There are more romantic hints, but no real romantic chemistry, and the "main" plot is nowhere in sight, so it doesn't feel like we're going anywhere. I hope things pick up again!
— Oct 25, 2023 07:22AM
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Amanda
is 70% done
I'm not sure if I'll finish this this year because my ability to read disintegrated again, but I'm at chapter 80+! It's a wildly uneven book and the main romance sucks tbh (though the chapter 81 confession was hilarious) but I'm really fond of Lin Jue, the thirty-something jiejie who has truly weird and scary hobbies and was recently revealed to be grieving a long-term relationship.
— Dec 06, 2023 12:56AM
Amanda
is 25% done
The chapters have been getting meatier and I've been really enjoying the horror + competition arcs, though I think I was most invested in the first two cases that were smaller, and more self-contained and emotionally connected. The bridge case seems like a combination of both big and small imbalances, so we'll see how that goes! Fingers crossed that the girls get a peaceful resolution. ;A;
— Aug 19, 2023 03:43AM
Amanda
is 8% done
Impression of chapters 9–14:
I super enjoyed the sports/competition tropes. Very fun potato-chip reading, but I’d have done away w/ the chapter w/ mushrooms bc it felt extraneous. Surely you can engineer a delirious butt-grab WHILE advancing plot? XD
The MC’s POV, so despondently convinced that he’s misjudged & is about to be ground to dust by the ML, makes for good low-stakes tension haha.
— Jun 10, 2021 02:53AM
I super enjoyed the sports/competition tropes. Very fun potato-chip reading, but I’d have done away w/ the chapter w/ mushrooms bc it felt extraneous. Surely you can engineer a delirious butt-grab WHILE advancing plot? XD
The MC’s POV, so despondently convinced that he’s misjudged & is about to be ground to dust by the ML, makes for good low-stakes tension haha.
Amanda
is 7% done
ch11:
No context, just: “两人好歹也是摸过屁股的关系，”
ch12-13:
Loving the feel-good metaphors of fengshui tournament round 1: in w/c they basically have to go mining w/ the power of their insights. Everyone else picks up rocks w/ telltale veins & the MC picks a wholeass lifeless boulder that’s been passed over for 8 years.
They also have to call the tournament a Science Competition, I guess because taboo?
— Jun 10, 2021 02:48AM
No context, just: “两人好歹也是摸过屁股的关系，”
ch12-13:
Loving the feel-good metaphors of fengshui tournament round 1: in w/c they basically have to go mining w/ the power of their insights. Everyone else picks up rocks w/ telltale veins & the MC picks a wholeass lifeless boulder that’s been passed over for 8 years.
They also have to call the tournament a Science Competition, I guess because taboo?
Amanda
is 5% done
ch8:
两人一前一后，走到玄关时，背对着周嘉鱼的林逐水，却轻轻的问了句：“你看到了吗？”
周嘉鱼茫然：“什么？”
林逐水抬手指了指天花板。
周嘉鱼抬头，在看到了天花板上的东西后，倒吸了一口凉气。就在客厅里孩子熟睡的婴儿车上方的天花板上，竟是倒挂着三个黑漆漆的黑影，他们的面容虽然有些模糊，但周嘉鱼却隐约能从他们的脸上感觉出喜悦。
周嘉鱼说：“他们是在高兴……？”
林逐水道：“嗯。”
Oh no the ceiling babies are cute. (I hope we don't get any more sinister updates for this case haha it's so sad but sweet.)
— Jun 09, 2021 04:51AM
两人一前一后，走到玄关时，背对着周嘉鱼的林逐水，却轻轻的问了句：“你看到了吗？”
周嘉鱼茫然：“什么？”
林逐水抬手指了指天花板。
周嘉鱼抬头，在看到了天花板上的东西后，倒吸了一口凉气。就在客厅里孩子熟睡的婴儿车上方的天花板上，竟是倒挂着三个黑漆漆的黑影，他们的面容虽然有些模糊，但周嘉鱼却隐约能从他们的脸上感觉出喜悦。
周嘉鱼说：“他们是在高兴……？”
林逐水道：“嗯。”
Oh no the ceiling babies are cute. (I hope we don't get any more sinister updates for this case haha it's so sad but sweet.)
Amanda
is 4% done
ch6:
LZS:
It called you mommy.
ZJY:
...
LZS:
And asked for milk.
ZJY:
*about to cry*
LZS
I lied.
— Jun 08, 2021 10:14PM
LZS:
It called you mommy.
ZJY:
...
LZS:
And asked for milk.
ZJY:
*about to cry*
LZS
I lied.
Amanda
is 4% done
ch7:
林逐水拿着面粉进了屋，边走边撒，开始他们还不明白他到底在做什么，直到仔细看去，才发现整个屋子的地板上，密密麻麻的印着无数小孩的手掌印。
手掌印显然并不属于一个孩子，有大有小，覆盖了地板的每个角落。
周嘉鱼头皮发麻，阮云婕反应更大，直接尖叫着跑出了屋子。
林逐水非常冷漠的指了指墙壁，说：“墙壁上，天花板上，全都是。”
Thank you for the nightmare fuel, did they have to be on the ceiling too??!?!?
— Jun 08, 2021 09:56PM
林逐水拿着面粉进了屋，边走边撒，开始他们还不明白他到底在做什么，直到仔细看去，才发现整个屋子的地板上，密密麻麻的印着无数小孩的手掌印。
手掌印显然并不属于一个孩子，有大有小，覆盖了地板的每个角落。
周嘉鱼头皮发麻，阮云婕反应更大，直接尖叫着跑出了屋子。
林逐水非常冷漠的指了指墙壁，说：“墙壁上，天花板上，全都是。”
Thank you for the nightmare fuel, did they have to be on the ceiling too??!?!?
