Readable, but not something I would recommend to people.
The comedy is decent, enough to make me chuckle a little bit every now and then but never any real, big laughs, this comedy is the only reason I started reading this for. I sadly find that it has no other truly appealing parts, at which point I had to question whether or not the parts other than comedy were worth reading through just to get to the comedy and the answer I got to was no, it's not, it's simply that bad in terms of story and the comedy isn't good enough to compensate.
The story just isn't really interesting at all and the characters doesn't make me feel anything much either. It's to the point where I actually dislike several of the characters, they feel empty and soulless, not to mention being unrelatable and chaotic instead of consistent, a result of bad writing, it doesn't catch one's interest and instead becomes tedious to read through. The pacing is also not that good, it doesn't allow for immersion at all as we jump around both back and forth in time(mainly for info dumps about times long past or future info dumps about what will happen long into the future) and also between a general overview over the entire situation or events around the mc or related to him and then a view from the mc's perspective, not to mention that some events just happen too fast without any substance, like the part where they take over the city, it's shown off as a big deal but in actual fact we don't get to see anything at all except for a summary... It's not hard to understand, it's just chaotic and idiotically made. It often reads more like a history book than an actual novel since we don't truly follow the mc but rather all the events around him and then he pops up now and then to joke a little and say some stuff, it's ridiculously dull, the readers are left completely disconnected from the story, it has no soul. This author is on my blacklist from now on since he can't write an even remotely immersing and interesting story that the readers would care about with his "style".
Sadly, it doesn't even have as good comedy as I hoped it would despite making me laugh a little now and then, especially not at some times when the comedy is inappropriately placed or overdone. Things like making the mc do moronic things or letting him get tricked or screwed over just for the sake of comedy, really stupid crap.
Like getting drunk when he knew he wasn't allowed before an important meeting to and getting knocked out and thrown into the sewers by some crappy thugs when he's a highly skilled martial artist(because of extreme intoxication) etc, but also things like paying a huge amount of money for someone to hide the panda eyes from that encounter and then he got a pair of sunglasses worth nothing but he didn't retaliate...
I don't like that type of crap which twists the story and does impossible or truly retarded things when the mc is supposed to be intelligent.
If I had to come with a few examples on what to expect from this author, we can take a certain demon princess named ka dan as an example.
This ka dan is a prisoner of war but gets treated like royalty because her father is that demon god king guy and she threatens with suicide all the time if she doesn't get everything she asks for(and she asks for some pretty damn valuable stuff and unreasonable things). It's not as if they're on good terms with that demon place anyway with all their slaughtering for several hundred years, so what are they afraid of? Seriously. I really dislike this author's way of thinking. What we get because of that is an extremely annoying bastard. It's even more annoying that the author is forcing romance on her by making one of the people close to the mc fall blindly in love with her.
She's a pretentious prick that has no worth whatsoever, yet she's somehow allowed to cozy up and be close to the mc's sister along with everyone else, even letting her invade his office however she wants to? All while she has a shitty attitude(she's also the one who did the sunglasses joke where she deceived and ripped him off, but the mc just lets her do as she wishes, hell, we don't even see him talking to her or anyone else at all, it's sometimes as if the mc isn't a mc at all and is just there to be shown, I feel no attachment to him at all). I especially found it ridiculous when she heard about how some guy on the frontlines were plundering resources from the demons to fight a prolonged war and she's like "Then what about our people? do they deserve to starve!?". Bitch, you're at war. These demon morons have been attacking the mc's place over and over and over again for several hundred years. You dare to speak as if it's actually unfair? Do only the demons get to attack? This was even the "first great invasion", so it's the first time someone truly retaliated.
I actually truly wonder why is she even allowed to do as she wants. She should be executed on the spot or used to gain an advantage, as for if she commits suicide, who cares, even if the demon god king got pissed off, what would that change when they've been at war for so long? Even if he's retarded and would attack full force, it would perhaps still be preferable to this several hundred years of war thing they have going on. But for argument's sake, let's say we can't possibly let her die because we gain nothing by it, why not drug her down until she can't do anything herself? Put her somewhere, bind her up, put something in her mouth to prevent her from biting her tongue off. Problem solved. It's frustrating to read about all the idiocy going on here, I can't agree with many parts of the author's sense of humor and logic. This thing truly reads like a history book at most times, it's quite boring and not interesting at all.
Let's take one last thing. I truly hate the idea of this world somehow having stuff such as cars, viagra, newspapers, sunglasses, movies, soap operas(at least the mc mentioned that), modern diseases with modern names and MANY other similar things despite being a typical xianxia world in every other way(be it gear, combat or actions), be it buildings or events. Hell, despite mentioning things like cars and all the other stuff, we're not actually shown any of it. This is just an average wuxia/xianxia world. There's nothing modern that we have confirmed as being used in the story except for newspaper and sunglasses, but really, the newspapers are even like modern day ones with ads(for viagra and things like that of all things, JUST FOR COMEDY, geez) and everything. If there really were cars, why wouldn't any have been used or seen yet? Also, that level of technology makes it obvious that things such as guns should exist, but nope, they're stuck at the level of only have a few cannons, other than that it's just standard old-school armor and swords. Why even mention this crap if there is none of it? At the start I thought that the mc was supposed to be reincarnated and thus he mentioned the soap opera thing, but that doesn't seem to be the case, nothing he does nor none of the text has said anything that would make me suspect he would be reincarnated, that's also something we would've known early on if it was true.
So, I don't recommend anyone to read this. It reads like a history book, the comedy is decent at best, the characters and story are unbelievable shallow and it's pretty much impossible to be immersed into the story etc... If you go into this, be aware that this author seems to be more interested about writing about the history of this particular household than anything else. The mc isn't really that important, everything is just about that house and the history and future of it. Don't expect a good adventure or any great battles, it's all kept very superficial.
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