Author: 凉白开开
Year of release: 2021
# of chapters: 92
Status: Complete
Tags: ABO, interstellar, mecha
Summary: Yun Zingzhe wears a book and becomes a cannon fodder of a story. It's an ABO world and in the end the character had a tragic ending dying after cutting their gland. YZ is a genius mecha developer of a more advanced world, but he was bound to a bed all his life due to his weak physique. Now although it's a diffeent world, but Zingzhe's dream to boot a mecha might come true. The only thing now he is pestered by his ex-fiance who refuses to let him go, even forces a marriage on him. But at the engagement when things were repeating the storyline YZ was saved by the ever silent Luo Wenchuan.
My impression went downhill by the end of this story. Although I have special feelings, since I basically started this novel and followed it step by step, but it doesn't prevent me from seeing that it has a lot of work to do and loose ends are endless.
Worst that was done to this novel is the official summary given by author. It basically has 2 major events and are spoiled from the get go. 1) LZ's glands will be cut, but they will recover; 2) LW is a second prince to the Empire.
I first started this to see on a strong O character that went through trials to reach the top, but what I encountered was rather awkward.
The storyline goes as follows. YZ crosses. He parts with his fiance who caused original host's demise. He now wishes to boot a mecha. He uses his skill to earn money since family cut his expenses due to A-O bond cancelling. No one believes he can. MC works really hard to boot armor and then take place in games. Load of time spent on matches, starting from school league, finishing with Empire's league. MC always had a surprise up his sleeve. His ex started to see him differently and pestered him, thinking YZ is same YZ and will come back crawling. YZ meets LW and becomes his mecha master, LW instantly attracted to YZ and always helps him whenever he can. They go to the bigger league when YZ is taken into research institute, they use his excellent mental ability to develop groundbreaking equipment. They proceed to semi-finals when YZ was taken back and was tricked to engagement party of him and his ex. He cuts his glands on the same day Empire reveals LW is a second prince and a heir. LW drops everything and rushes to save YZ but it's too late. YZ enters coma, but his actions stirred protests against the new marriage bill that worked as a force to engage YZ and his ex. YZ became B. But his excellence rose greatly, he was revealed as a genius researcher. He started new company and rose to fame with his newly developed mecha he used in finals. Their company grew, his family that forced him to marry did not have a good life. His gland recovered, the end.
Although it sounds like not a bad outline, but many details just lacked depth and the ending was as if cut very abruptly.
Let's put everything in a big pile - Problems:
- Revealing all dramatic points in synopsis. And I mean it, those are all, the entire novel is basically covered in the summary. And that what makes it bad. Instead of being surprised by the turn of events, especially cutting the gland, yu actually expect it instead. The thrill is different.
- Lots of mecha text. Comparing to feelings development and inter-personal relationships, giving deapth to characters, instead there was enough text of competing and mecha fights.
- Unbalance. Sometimes consequences or actions were over-dramatised. E.g. the whole cutting gland. YZ could have just not cut it actually, but the story must show stronly opposing MC, so we have it. Ppl who were responsible got a backlash only because he is YZ the genius researcher and love of the heir. But they also got a pretty serious backlash. The Chi family (YZ' ex-fiance family) was basically destroyed and the head of the Chi family developed for many years the way he did and *gasp* no one had evidence of it. Next. What YZ did to his father (basically swallowing his company and making it his own) was justified, but he felt kind of vicious at the end.
- It's my own opinion, but when LW asked YZ to date and get married, those two times things were... sounded funny. Surely it should have been romantic and meaningful.
- The ending was abrupt and thus lacked a point. Because two main dramatic points were known, the aftermath was just rushed to the ending. So as a reader you get no surprises after that and the novel is finished by the time you realize it.
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