Friday, April 30, 2021

[Topic] Currently ongoing reading

I needed to do this list, since I'm already mixing things that I picked up and decided to read, but some are followed, others are put on hold.

  • 深渊巨龙苏醒以后 / After the abyss dragon awakens (on-going). Glorious new story from Sangwo. I came to love their works, they're fun, but also gory. The story follows an abyss dragon that finds himself awakened after thousands of years of sleep, his cave is gone, his treasure is gone and his body he loves so much is also gone, all left is that his soul is now resides in a boy names Shi An. Shi An, the original body, is shunned by his family and peers due to not having any magic, but he is part of a pretty wealthy upstart family, yet his own father doesn't see value in him so he is ready to discard him at any moment. But Shi An who now occupies the body has two goals: how to return his true powers and body full of glorious scales and how to snatch that shiny human into collection. Although Shi An never liked to take people, but Mu Heng is simply too handsome to skip. Mu Heng on the other hand, the last descendant of dragon hunters bloodline had no idea about it, he only had one thought after catching a glimpse of the dragon - his head will look good on his wall. Although this story has load of dark and gory elements, but it's super fun and Shi An with his dragon antiques is just too funny. 
  • Qiang Jin Jiu (complete). The only novel not taken from jjwxc. Although I made a pause, but still it's one of few times I take time to read some ancient-themed novel. Usually, I stay away from all the palace intrigues and such. But QJJ is fun and two protags are interesting, though it's mystery to me still how they managed to get hooked like that. I was particularly inspired to read after seeing arts byt this artist on Twitter (https://twitter.com/DXGS_Dll) and the novel proved to be full of eroticism.
  • 男配只想做工具人[娱乐圈] / Male partner just wants to be a tool man [wearing a book] (on-going). No need to re-introduce, it's an old pal that I'm simply waiting when it's over, since all the heart knots and plot knots were solved long ago.
  • 他们对我紧追不舍[快穿] / They are chasing me [QT] (on-going). What can I say. The idea is not bad. MC is thrown into transmigration, since he refused advances of one man, who decided to approach him with a different "skin" in another world. So MC's main idea is to pinpoint him and if possible get rid off him. The idea is good, but the execution is lacking, I stopped at world two right now, since world one was kind of lacking. MC does play his role, so he won't be discovered and taken advantage of, this I find illogical, since MC knows the perpetrator knows his identityt, not vice versa. Next the plot stayed a mystery till the end, unlike one plot point MC realized, Chu He, the perpetrator is not only here to chase him. Also the person who is obviously our ML in the worlds, he's basically the forceful type that I don't like and MC remembering and writing down all his sins, when it time came to leave he comitted suicide right in front of ML. The background of the first world was really lacking in backbone, I usually get emotional at such point, but I was completely still when I was reading the final chapter, bored out of my mind. I'll try few more worlds to see if it's worth continuing or just drop it with 2 stars.
  • 我靠武力秀翻娱乐圈[穿书] / I use force to plough through the entertainment industry [wearing a book] (on-going). ML of this novel is a mentally ill person, the backstory of it is present, he constantly lives in a adark, he has seizures and acts like a lunatic due to ptsd, but he can't stop filming, although coming out of roles becomes harder and harder, he is also suicidal, he does things that comes across bad and he used manipulation against MC, so they can become together, since to him MC became that final touch of sunshine that could save him, he started to act more normal, be more normal and have a more normal disposition, but he knew, if MC would ever leave him, it'll be his end forever. MC crossed to this world, in original story he is a cannon fodder, but came into contact with ML earlier and they actually got together. The original story other protag was actually reborn, but to him ML is nothing but a resource for fame and fortune, thus he continued to press on MC and pester ML. Although ML does things that many wouldn't like, but the overall story I don't find inherently bad, because in many stories even if MLs have some weird tendencies or manias, nothing is done about it, or it is miraculously cured, which doesn't happen here. The other good point is that MC though has soft heart for ML, but he is actually physically stronger, he is shorter and thinner, but if he has to use force, he is way stronger and ML once felt his fist, so he knows he's no opponent.
  • 被我渣过的男主重生了[快穿] / The protagonist who was scumbagged by me is reborn [QT] (on-going). MC is almost at the end of his QT journey and is ready to retire form transmigration, but is told that there are troubles in the worlds he passed after he left, he crosses again and finds out that the lot was comletely off the rails when he left, although the protag became a winner, but something was wrong due to his death in the story and MC saw there's a bug that intervened in the plot. He travels to some time before main events and finds out that the protag is actually reborn and bears a deep hatered towards him, so MC has to fix the world plot and bear the consequences that were not done by him, but the bug. I quite liked the idea, though the novel itself is on the easy side. True identities of ML and MC become obvious in the first world. I'm at the beginning of world two and it becomes obvious that the protag reborn part will be a reoccuring theme.
Plan to read:
  • 偏执反派总在发狂[快穿] / The paranoid villain is always going crazy [QT] (on-going). 
  • 穿成炮灰后嫁给男主 / Marry the hero after being dressed as a cannon fodder [wearing a book] (complete). I've been waiting for this novel to be over, since it had a hiatus point and I thought it'll never come back online. But author took the liberty finishing. I heard many comments that the ending was rushed. I remember I started this and found that actually MC had troubles even if he knew what is what and that made things more interesting, unlike MCs who just get things all right all the way. Surely it smells of being deliberate, but still it looked interesting. But my opinion might change after finishing.

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