There is actually no reason for me to give my opinion on this novel, the 2 reviews below me cover the majority. But i know that my famous status, please do not quote me on that, will increase the chance of you reading from 90% to a 110%. I will begin by saying the 'bad' aspects first, mostly what others might consider as negatives. First of all, our MC is weak, and when I say weak, our lad is pathetic. Physical strength? Zero. Qi arts which even peasants can use? Negative 1. So, if you expect an overly strong main characters who is b*tch slapping young masters left and right, well ... Anyways, if you really, really hate weak MCs then you may leave. If you don't feel as strongly about weak MCs as those aboves, then I promise you that the plot and everyting else about the MC makes that aspect feel totally irrelevant. Our MC is weak? yes, but he is highly intelligent and has the ability of mind reading. So he uses 100% brain and 0% brawn. His past, and everything about him that slowly unravels as the story unfolds makes everything rewarding. So if you do not mind a weak MC, but who is smart and resourceful, then this is definitely worth reading. The second aspect some may critisize is the Harem. Harems can only be one thing at a time, either totally trash or amazing to read. Usually, they are trashy if the author wants only beautiful statues to stand besides the MC, who have no distinctive personality and are usually more laggage than my *ss when I go to the toilet. On the other hand, a good harem usually is a slow-burn romance type and consists of a lesser amount of females (typically anything less than 10). The romance in this novel is sloooow. Like slower than the time it takes a windows xp computer to boot. Basically eternity. It takes its time solidifying the characters personalities, which is good. Until chapter 360, there have been only 2 major love interests, but so far, no lovers/wives, and no significant romantical events (Except 1). Anyways, this novel has this much potential with just the characters, I have not even mentioned the plot. So let us to that. The plot is more than solid, it is masterfully weaven if I may say so myself. The author has a concrete photo in his head that he is inching every chapter towards. The events are impactful and are well written. Nothing to critic about there. So, to take from my review, if you really detest weak MCs, despite knowing that his smartness and resourcefullness makes up for it, then unfortunately this one is not for you. If you enjoy novels with lore weaven better than my suit pants, and a cast who is not a baggage to the MC, but rather is enjoyable to read about, then please stay and give it a go. You may think that I am overreacting, but I really think this novel deserves the hype.     

Before you click of the novel, this IS a chinese martial arts novel, BUT it is actually done very nicely. First of all, as you can see from the chapter amount, there is no Upper, Lower, Middle, blah blah, heavens/realms or whatever you wanna call it. There is the mortal world and cultivation world, which are on the same realm, just seperated from each other. So, there is no "Weak -> You Courting Death -> Strong -> Kill those who dare defy him -> Ascend -> Weak Again -> repeat until reader loses brain cells.". I will write with almost no spoilers, everything you read from this review is either (A) in the first couple of chapters and (B) really small details which in no way impact the reading. This is a transmigration story, where the MC gets inside the cultivation game. Now, there are many differences between this and your typical xianxia or xuanhuan, First of all, our MC is not your typical horny young guy who is trying to sate his thirst. He actually, for almost 200 chapters is preserving himself and dogding bullets left and right from lasses. This is a harem, so you can guess that the toad croaked after a while. Now, the harem is not very large and the FMCs have personality and are not really there to be beatiful. They all have their quality. Why they are attracted to our MC? well... he kinda handsome. There is also the aspect that he is smart, decisive, strong and does not flirt with women, which they probably see that and think: "oh sh*t, he husband material". So the harem is done tastefully, BUT, it could have been done better. In my opinion, this novel should have had a couple of more arcs, I would say around 1000 total (so around 400 more than completion), to solidify even further the characters. This is certainly not because I want to read more of this story, certainly not. Despite the blatant sarcasm, I really believe that the story should have been extented a bit more. The story itself is, ehm, good?. It starts solid, continues being solid and ends solid. No real complains there. It is certainly no Mastermind level plot, but is is very enoyable, especilly the start. Maybe a bit more worldbuilding, because the world feels a bit small, just because a lot is named but never explored. To me, this novel feels as if the author wanted to finish it quickly. There is no blanant rushing in story development, it just feels like the author had to finish, so despite mentioning a lot, not everything is actually explored. And this is not me coping for wishing more chapters (even though I do want more). Now, here are some 'negatives' people have brought up elsewhere: Devolves to generic harem, the sister is brainless and just simps for the MC, no high-stakes fights, female characters feel that they become unimportant after their arcs, MC kinda creepy(?). Besides the last one, which I'll mention seperately, the rest are kinda 'what you feel' things, as in people feel them in different intensities. The 'devolves to generic harem' can be due to focusing more on the romance part at around 200 chapters in (which I though was good), 'sister is brainless' is due to building up dependancy on her brother (MC), 'no high-stake fights' I mean ... if you wish to read a tragedy, there are plenty of depressing novels out there, 'females become unimportant after their arcs', personally there is only 2 females characters which might feel so, but it is due to the fact they live far away geographically-wise. The last part, about the MC being creepy (?), is due to him preserving himself about a character which he really liked when playing the game. Unfortunately, when our mc is like 16-18, she 6, so yeah, she young as hell. Now, I am not defending predators, because I hate those sick f*cks, but the MC is not really one. I believe, on multiple occassions, he mentions of waiting for her to become older. There were no grooming thoughts in the beginning, and when they met later (when she was still young, he just gave her a manual, nothing more, nothing less. I can not remember if any 'weird' interactions happened, but I at least can not remember feeling disgusted. I am rather positive that people were just overreacting. To sum up, good harem (could be better if longer novel), solid story, comedy focus (forgot to say this), action-packed. If you disagree with me, well it happens. Give it a try, if you do not like it, just stop reading.  

So, this novel is quite good. Although lacking in originality in some parts, it makes it up with some interesting concepts. I won't go over them in detail, to not ruin the immersion, so I'll only mention whatever happens in chapters 1-10. To begin with, our MC is reincarnated inside this video game which he has finished 29 times (excluding any bad endings he purposely sought out). So he has plenty of knowledge regarding the characters, game mechanics, events and so on. Nothing really original regarding this, a typical academy reincarnation, which there is nothing wrong with. I am a sucker for these novels. 

The major difference between other novels, of the same genre, and this is the bandages used by the MC. They are called 'Veil Bandages' and have the unique ability to alter the MCs body (including age, gender, appearance and body structure).  Inside this world, there are dungeon where apostles lurk. These apostles are minions of the Demon Sovereign. As you can guess, the MC's goal is to kill these apostles before finally killing the Demon Sovereign to bring peace. This is where the academies come in. The academy students are used to deal with the dungeon because only those who are 19 years old or younger are able to enter. Vikamon Niflheim was exiled both from his family and academy due to putting the third princess of the Empire where he resides in danger. It is after Vikamon is exiled that our MC takes over his body and has to find a way back to the academy. Therefore, he finds the 'Veil Bandages'. He uses these bandages to impersonate the cousin of the third princess and gets into the academy. The most important plot device are these bandages. Although they can alter the body, they also come at the cost of slowly erasing/dulling the emotions: love, hatred and sorrow. Although this sounds rather simple to deal with, you must understand that we unconsciously love ourselves (the reason why we avoid self-destructing), and empathy is felt due to sorrow (since we have felt that kind of sadness, we don't wish other to feel it too). So the implications are worse than you may think. The MC is basically forced to use this bandages to alter his appearance, and will probably continue using them to avoid the dungeon age restriction, since these bandages are that versatile. 

The plot is good. Most of the events are already known to the MC due to him having no-lifed the game, but there are twists here and there to prevent the plot from feeling stale, boring and generally 'too easy for the mc'. Moreover, later on there are secrets uncovered which the MC has never seen inside the game, both about himself and the world. So there is plenty to uncover. As of chapter 200, the plot is somewhere around the middle point I would say, maybe a bit less depending on the author. Currently, the pacing is perfectly balanced I would say. A mix of romance, character development and action. No events feel forced or unnecessary. Hopefully, the author does not rush it because every rushed story always becomes mediocre. Now, regarding the romance/Harem in the novel. Before you click off, expecting brainless interactions, and all female characters trying to land on MC's lower head, the females characters are certainly not useless or brainless, and there are close to no complains about them. As I already mentioned before, the veil bandages play a big role in this story. You can probably guess the message that I am trying to convey just by yourself. Just by reading the first chapter, you already have a rough estimation of what is going to happen. The bandages basically are used to create a stalemate between the romance of our characters. Our mc is slowly becoming emotionless while the female heroines are slowly understanding their feelings. I would say this dynamic is definitely done tastefully and well. And I certainly like the current development and idea. I am just scared that the author is going to wait with the romance until the latest possible moment, thus giving us only 1-2 chapters of it at the very end. This has happened in other novels I previously read and is certainly distasteful. However, luckily the author does not show signs of going that route. The female characters are trying to rekindle the main characters emotions (which is possible and is mentioned by himself in the first chapter). So the dynamic becomes: A couple of girls are contesting with each other and are trying to make our MC feel love again. It is certainly a nice idea and rather unique in my opinion. I have read plenty of academy novels, and even more harem novels, and I have only seen this 'losing emotion' trope in 'I Became The Academy’s Blind Swordsman' (highly recommend, very good novel, TL mediocre though, and unfortunately dropped by author at around 400 chapters ☹). So the romance is there, and it's a slow burn since it takes more than a hundred chapters to see any notable romantic feelings blossoming. Currently, at 200 chapters, there are about 5-6 girls showing romantic feelings to our mc, with 2-3 more potential ones. So it is not a very big harem. Author-nim has managed to deliver quite well until now, so I am giving him my trust in this one. 

So, I already covered a bit of everything in general, without going into heavy details or spoilers. I would say that this novels is definitely worth reading if you are in search of a Academy & Harem novel. It certainly shares some elements with other novels, but nothing major or a 1-to-1 copy. I have no major complaints or anything I particularly dislike either. The harem/romance is a slow burn, done tastefully and the character interaction are fun to read. You certainly may find things to nit-pick if you go in expecting some kind of insane plot. But this novel is more of a simple, light-hearted academy novel which is written well. And it is certainly fun to read. I have nothing more to add, best of lucks in reading. 👋

As you may know me by my many aliases, 'Sh*ttyTaste', 'PoisonEnjoyer' 'HaremEnjoyer' and 'IHaveTooMuchTimeInMyHands', I enjoy writing reviews and reading novels. Now now, I may be biased, maybe a tiny bit, as large as molecules, regarding Harems. It's like comfort food, no broken hearts, or stupid reasons to kick down others. You like a lass? 90% she wins the lotto. Enough chatting though, down to business.

I won't be spoiling anything as per usual. Anything I mention is found within the beginning of the novel. Our MC, codename Theo bond007 (His first name is Theo, last name I cannot remember),  is a gardener... you heard me right. His official position is a gardener, but he works also like the queens assistant/consultant despite having no such title. He also licks the soap of her body when she showers (lucky dog he is). My memory of the earliest chapters isn't the greatest, but it is good enough. He knows that the queen is going to be executed due to rebellion, so he tries his damnest to make sure the queen survives, because as they say, alive queen -> his sorry a*s will be saved. The queen is quite strong, but she is aloof and does not care for anything really. There are plenty of reasons as to why, and they get explained much later in the novel. Still, she likes our dog- I meant to say MC, which she treats like a dog (quite a bit). Besides the queen, we also have our lioness, the general of the army who is a brutish older sister (noona) type of woman. She drinks, smokes and basically wants to f*ck with MC. It is explained a bit later why that is so. The other prevalent female characters are introduced a bit later into the story, in everyone's favourite arc, the academy arc😀. Jokes aside, the majority of the plot occurs while the characters attend the academy, but not all events happen in the academy (so a bit of traveling here and there). 

Now I have to mention that a big part of this novel is due to our MCs status. Well let's say he is not of common blood. He has to continuously dodge bullets, like Neo, from the villainesses while trying to uncover his status, because we do not really know where he belongs in the hierarchy in the beginning of the story. So a big part of this novel is our MC gaslighting young women. And he is quite good at it too✍(take notes guys, you'll need them). Now, here is a small detail which some may hate or simply not bother about, the revenge. Our MC wishes to take revenge for his fallen bloodline, or the lack of it (sob sob), and he does that in the best way possible!!! Get the women responsible for it pregnant... yeah. Yeah. You heard me right. Our MC is planning on getting back at the women responsible by carrying his lineage. It is peculiar to say the least. I liked this type of revenge even though it may sound dumb. Hey, at least it is unique. Better than having the one millionth giga chad wannabe say that he is going to commit manslaughter to everyone. I would not mind that, but it is not really feasible here, because our MC does not really know who his family was,  so he does not care about them that deeply. Even this type of revenge is more of a whim rather than a true revenge I would say. 

As for the romance and Harem aspect of this novel. I quite enjoyed it. The characters introduced are solid, their train of thoughts are normal unlike some other stories, and most of all they are not dumb! Like, when they notice the MC starting to fool around, they will confront him rather than turning an eye away. Also, similar to real women (I know guys, they more of myths to us), they do not want to share their spouse. So when Theo is seen wandering around with someone other than them, sh*t is about to go down. Something I did not mention is that these women are a bit broken here and there, but as they say, the more broken the better. So our mc is gaslighting emotionally unstable women while trying to get them pregnant. I would say a big plug of this novel is the emotional development and relationship-development of the mc and fmcs. The MC has his own development, of trying to see them as actual people instead of objects of hatred and tries to help them. I won't be saying more about the since I could accidentally spoil a thing or two. And if you were planning to read, that would be a big oopsies. 

I would love to rant more about this novel, from story to character development and so on, but I would have to go into spoiler territory and I do not wish to. Overall, the author has done a nice job with this novel. The author has also written 'Pseudo Resident’s Illegal Stay in Another World', and if you are familiar with this work, then you should enjoy this one as well. There are no nit-picks from me regarding this novel, so I give it 5 stars. 

So be prepared to be amazed by my non-existing storytelling skill! I enjoy writing so this review is going to be a bit long and detailed. I'll break the story into 3 elements, the story, the characters, and the romance/smut/harem (a 3-in-1 combo deal). But my short verdict is that this novel is a hidden gem. I really cannot find any nit-picks personally regarding this novel. 

The plot/story goes a bit like this: MC (nameless man) reincarnates into the body of this young boy in the slums. He is then picked up by a knight, which is also the owner of this brothel. He is taught how to massage and please women while working there. The reason for that is simple, this world is a matriarchy. Women are able to use Mana (which is brough by a chasm between their realm (Pangea) and Gehenna (another realm). Pangea, where the MC lives, is separated into kingdoms and smaller vassals. For example, our MC lives in the Black Rose kingdom. Women who are able to use Mana are called Witches, while males are able to use Aura and I'll call them Aura users (certainly not because I have forgotten the correct terminology...). Our MC is able to use the heavenly massage skill that he has acquired to open/cleanse the pores for witches, which enhances their mana acquiring rate. The hierarchy, at least inside the witches kingdoms, is that the women rule while the male are reduced to escorts at best, or slaves at worst. Our MC, Vaan, is the most after sought cookie in the witch academy which he attends as a servant. Due to unfortunate events, the witch he served is gone, and he is left alone. When Vaan gets injured, the pendant left to him as a heirloom from his parents, absorbs a drop of his blood and awakens the witch hunter system, which enables to him to do things such as acquiring the witches traits (elements) through either: 1. sleeping with them, 2. Killing them. So, the MC is able to do things which a normal male is not able to do normally (use mana). This is the most basic description of the plot, like 10 first chapters, without spoiling close to nothing. I can say, however, that the plot becomes much more detailed and intriguing down the timeline. Also, any small plot holes you may see here have reasons and are explained later

Moving on to the characters, I will mostly be covering the MC here. Our MC possesses enviable traits, handsome, smart and most of all, good with his dic- ... I meant good with his massage skills. He is never naïve, nor does stupid things. And he is certainly not a simp. Our MC is very smart, and that is due to his physique which basically enhances his thinking speed. Think of it as acquiring a better CPU, or more RAM🤣. He is even able to do parallel processing later (Vietnam flashbacks from my exam yesterday on parallel distributed system☹). Later down the line, our MC is able to create and alter skills to his liking, and trudges on a multiple path journey. When I say multiple path, he does what others consider inefficient, meaning walk the path of Mana, and some other types of energies as well (won't be mentioning those for obvious reasons, to avoid spoiling you). The characters besides MC are not dumb, or feel lacking. They are smart and competent women. What? why are the only prevalent side characters women? You dum-dum, this is a harem. Jokes aside, the kingdom where Vaan resides for the longest time is the black rose kingdom, which is a matriarchy. Males are slaves there, worth less than dogs, while women step on us as they please (hmm, yes... ). Male characters become more prevalent as the journey goes on and we start broadening the scope of the story. Currently, Vaan has 1 official wife, and a handful of lovers, which he treats nicely. There is one pet-peeve of mine though, where the f*ck did Hester go? Did author forget her?

Now, the romance, harem and smut aspect which everybody besides me and my kin dread. The romance is basically non-existing early on. Vaan sleeps around a ton to acquire as many traits as possible. There is another reason as to why the romance is a bit lacklustre, and it has to do with Vaan mostly. I won't be mentioning those because I feel that they have impact on the storytelling and are some major points in Vaans character growth. What I can say is that the romance later on becomes much more visible and is nice to read.The harem is rather chill. All harem members have their own distinct character traits and do not feel like a 1-to-1 copy of each other. Like beautiful woman A,B C, and so on. Moreover, they themselves actively try their best to keep up with Vaans growth speed, and Vaan also tries to help them, through... eh... COPULATION. d*mn, there I said it. The Smut is good. It is there sometimes, while other times it is skipped. You may think that this is a smutty novel all about sleeping and acquiring beauties early on in the story, but oh boy, or oh girl depending on you, it is certainly not. The longer the story goes on, the more the author shows he has the braincell capacity to cook a good story. Came for the 'plot', stayed for the plot. 

Honestly, I really enjoy this novel. I cannot wait to see what author is going to cook up. My final verdict? Try it🧐

While writing reviews for other novels which I've read, and reading new novels which I haven't before, I somehow managed to let this gem slip past my review-radar. Before getting into the review, I would like to mention that I do not know where the translation is coming from. I am reading from another translator and am thus at chapter 400. I hope novelfire adds that translation since they have already taken a couple of their novels already, and I cannot guess why this one is missing. So I am unsure if this translation is good or not, so I won't be mentioning it.

I am going to primarily focusing on four parts: Story, action, characters and romance. 

Getting into the heavy hitter, the story is phenomenal. It is about a martial artists, gu yangcheon, who during his life made many bad decisions and has garnered a plethora of regrets. He is somehow given a second chance in life and has regressed during his early childhood (I would guess around 12-14 y/o). He now has to do his best to gather as much strength as possible before rallying against his former boss? Owner? It's a bit too complicated and I have to go into spoilers to explain, so we do what we are best known for, turning a blind away😉. This is the basic premise, without explaining too much of his past life, because those flashbacks are treasure troves. Our MC truly had f*cking aura and he shows that. Although this sound generic, I promise you that the plot-twists that come after are amazing. This is due to one simple fact, the tag 'Unreliable Narrator'. Our narrator, Yangcheon, is sometimes clueless, othertimes entirely wrong about certain events and individuals. There IS a reason for that, which is explained much much later in the story. The 'unreliable narrator' is just a good plot device which keeps everything fresh. The author manages to make this seemingly overused and generic plot into something amazing. Regressor stories with murim settings have been done countless times, but this one might just be the best of them all. I've read more than enough of those stories, and usually they are the same story foretold many times. The author just managed to cook. 

The Action, precisely scenes and descriptions in this novel are very nice. They are detailed enough to make you visualise them in your head, and are not a mess of complex words trying to sound fancy. Usually, the action does not span over multiple chapters, maybe a maximum of 2-3 chapters on a generous day. However, action scenes occur frequently so we get plenty of action. Similar to other murim novels, the action involves martial arts, sword battles, brawl fights, qi, and so on. Later on in the story, we get to see more unique energies and techniques. 

Moving on to the characters, they have personality and feel fun to read. Their interaction are no robotic AI conversations but feels like humans actually trying to communicate with each other. Well... due to our lunatic MC whom middle name should have been 'violence', there are not always conversations to be had, but fights. Our MC is knows for his sharp and scary facial features and is compared to a praying mantis😅. Other characters originate from traditional clans such as the namgung, peng and tang clans. This is a bit standardized across all murim novels but it's logical since they did actually exist. Regarding the MCs family, his father is an antisocial dude, his mother is gone, his stepmom is expressionless and cold, his little sister has left the house temporarily, the middle sister is an arrogant brat with a superiority complex, and the only two individuals who show care to him are his eldest sister, and the second elder. In general, the Gu clan is full of mysteries and secrets which the MC is trying to uncover in his second life.

The romance is done rather nicely. There has been no rushing as of yet. Currently, there are 4 girls which are trying to snatch yangcheon for themselves. They have interesting identities personalities and traits. Due to the fact that yangcheon has past history with them from his first life, the progress has been rather slow, since he mostly dodges interactions with them due to guilt or annoyance. However, as of later chapters, he manages to acknowledge that he wishes for them to stay by his side, and is slowly trying to unravel his feelings while tossing away past guilt. Overall, this novel is definitely in my top 10. I have read it twice or thrice, and enjoyed it every time. It has interesting events, plot-twists, character interactions, action scenes and powers. If you are looking for something to read, I would recommend that you give this one a chance.  

I forgot to write a review for this novel unlike my usual shenanigans. I know many of you requested me to review this (a total of 0 individuals), so I'm here to shed light upon this novel. I'll cover the character development and romance development (these 2 are tied together), the slice of life and the action scenes, which author sometimes remember to throw at us.

I'll get the boring stuff out, since none of you are here for the action. The action in the first volume is almost non-existent. It become more prevalent in the second volume, but it is still  nothing crazy. The action is good enough in my opinion, and considering that this novel started as a purely romance and slice of life, it's going strong. Now, if you are here thinking that the majority of this novel is action, or that it's strong points is the action, then you are going to be disappointed. I am unsure if the action in volume 3 is dominating the show, but from what I've read up to now, the romance and slice of life are done the best. So if you are wishing for some crazy action scenes, and battles after battles, then no. No tournament arc, no academy arc, none of those. 

Moving on to the slice of life, the first volume is mostly consisting of it. And let me tell you, it was great. I really am disappointed that the author did not go down the purely slice of life route with minor actions, but rather tries to create a balance between them. The slice of life was very good in my opinion, and I do not even consume slice of life novels for the most part. I really enjoyed the every day life, and the parenting that Leon is 'forced' to do. The slice of life basically consists of Leon having to parent the kids while the wife is a bit clueless about how to parent. There are many good interactions and moments which I do not wish to disclose because I believe that experiencing them yourselves is for the best. 

The character and romance development is very good but frustrating. The whole couple dynamic is them trying to disgust each other, at the very beginning at least. One is a dragon, while the other is the strongest dragon slayer of the empire, so you can guess the dynamic. The slowly fall in love but neither of them have the balls, or in this case, one of them does not have the balls to say it. The one without the balls somehow has acquired invincible ones because she says it to his face, but the spineless cowards won't accept. F*CK. My biggest gripe with this novel is this, him not actually saying the words 'I love you' to her. There must always be something in the way, such as his pride, preventing him. I think the author plans for a genuine confession to be done much later on. Now, before somebody says 'actually 🤓', yes, Leon does say the words, BUT, and a BIG one, once it happened when the wife was under the influence of alcohol, the other I can't remember. He simply won't say the words. So while the development is very good, the fact that despite them having reached the proper step, Leon not taking it, confuses me. I would personally think that them taking this last step does not in any way mean that the novel should conclude here, rather them admitting it could elevate the plot even further. It would feel even more as a genuine family rather than having loving children, but actor parents. The kids which Leon and his wife have are these sweet little angels. The shenanigans that they pull off are amusing to read. Reading the eldest ones adventures at school was my personal favourite moments.  

Despite me bashing on Leon and his wife, their interactions are very nice and funny to read. The romance build-up is very good but really slow, it takes it's time. The action is fine, but the true gem in this novel are the slice of life scenes. I recommend this novel, it's a quick read containing heart-warming family moments and nice romance.

I am happy be the first one to rate this novel. I read everything within 4 days so my memory is very fresh on this. Now, as per usual, I'll break the review down into story, characters, and romance/harem. This structure always works well. Everything I go in-depth can be found within the first 10 chapters, and regarding the rest which I'm more vague on (to not spoil you) comes later on. So this review has close to no spoilers (as long I did screw up anywhere).

The story is not at an 'masterpiece/mind-blowing' level. No  LOTM, or RI plot-weaving for you lads. It uses more than a couple clichés found in all Xianxias, which is normal since they all recycle some plot-twists from the same event-pool. Personally, I did not find these clichés bothersome nor repetitive. The author does not 'spam' the same events over and over, which is a big W. The basic premise is our MC, Xu Ming, codenamed Ming'er by momma, being reincarnated as a baby in this cultivation world. Alongside his reincarnation, he is granted a system, which gives him attribute points based on activity. Imagine this 1-month year old baby doing push ups to get [abdominal strength +1]. Yes, it does happen. Later, the system grants him skills and even items, but, and a big but, the more you progress throughout the story, the less impact it feels that the system has. It is still there, and it IS helping him by giving him points, but it is not shown as often. Something I noted while reading, no biggie though. Going on with the story, Ming'er is born inside the Xu clan. From baby up to baby + 4 years (meaning until around the age of 4), he has only 2 'friends', his elder sister, Xu XueNuo and a younger childhood friend Qin Qingwan, hailing from the Qin clan. Those 2, alongside Ming'er are born on the same day. But Ming'ers mother is a concubine, so he has no reach in the Xu clan and is treated worse. His 2 childhood friends, XueNuo and QingWan have both innate body constitutions, with Qingwan having a more rare one, while XueNuo having a less rare one. But they both are geniuses. Our MC uses his system to acquire points and attemp to catch up. If he does or doesn't... well, he does, and he goes further beyond. So for those complaining about a 'weak mc', that is only in the beginning, which makes sense since an overpowered baby within 5 chapters would be quite boring to read about. Our Mc is proficient in martial arts, cultivation (sword mastery) and confucianism (he is taught). He is slowly becoming more important in the Wu kingdom, where the Xu clan, which is dukedom similarly to the Qin clan, reside in. He basically climbs the rank-ladder there. Ming'er does not join any sect, and despite having a high position in the Wudu (Wu kingdom), he does not sit in the court. So we mostly see him traveling around (especially true for chapters 200-428).

Now on to the characters. The characters cannot be said to be one-dimensional, but are not either insanely developed either. We have the outer-cold-inner-kind older sister, a good-natured and kind childhood friend, a smaller seductress (and a *big* seductress later on), and more. I won't mention more characters explicitly or implicitly because you might guess who I'm talking about if you start reading. Most of the novels focus is on Ming'er with other characters having their development, but not on the same level as MC. Ming'er has good character development in my opinion. Becoming ruthless when he needs to and caring towards his family and allies. He does not go around collecting women, and rather tries to stay away from then and developing feelings. As of now, he has definitely feelings for 2 girls, and he has admitted this himself. He is not naïve, and thinks about others intents quite a lot. He is also not very dense. He notes rather quickly when for example a girl might show interest to him. At least, more quickly than your typical Xianxia protagonist. Not much more to say regarding character development. Everything I've read up to now is good, but there is not enough content to say more. The author goes back and forth with characters rather than him developing a character 'fully' and them becoming useless later. Regarding characters, this novel has me satisfied.

Now to the romance and harem part. Hmm... there are only 428 chapters as of writing, and the MC has admitted having feelings for only 2 women. There are plenty of romantic interactions with other women, but MC does his best to stay away from them. He is not a playboy gunning for multiple women. Even the fact that he has feelings for 2 girls, makes him feel guilty, despite being allowed culturally around 2 wives, 5 concubines and more lovers (sum like dat). The interactions between Ming'er and most of the 'main female cast' are good, and I wish for more development between Ming'er and them before tying the knot. The 2 gals he has feelings for is understandable, but regarding the others, I would like the author to develop them more.

I'll be honest, I forgot to write about these things, but better late than never. Something the author is bad with is consistency. He mentions a skill having side effects, but the MC does not get said side effects after using them plenty of times. I don't know if its a TL error or if the author forgot something. Personally, this did not bother me a lot, I quickly even forgot that the skill had a side effect. He also is bad with remembering the timeline sometimes. Something that happened 4-5 years ago is referred to as 8 years ago. Again, this could be a TL, but is probably not. In my opinion, these are rather small things which you can 'manually' fix when reading inside your head. The major error the author did was regarding his 'blood frenzy' skill which he disregards the side effect. These small things can either be critical for you, or totally worthless to others (like me). They are few-in between, with the blood frenzy being the major error, but hey, author is also human and can forget also. Thankfully, this happens quite early on so it's not as bad as others may say.

Overall, with only the translated 428 being read, I really enjoyed this novel. It does what it needs to do well. The only parts you could criticize are the clichés, and the authors tendency to forget smaller details, but depending on you, this will make the novel either a 1-2/5 or a 4-5/5. It transitions from a more action filled novel (0-150 chapters) to a more balanced action-romance one (150-latest). I personally did not mind this seamless transition, I noticed it only subtly. It's a 5/5 for me. I hope if you begun the novel, you enjoy it, rather than this review leaving you disappointed. 

So, before starting my review, I need to clarify I have only read up to 729, There currently exists a total of 881 chapters. And unfortunately, unlike the scenarios where you stack chapters to read greatness and enjoy, these 152 chapters are instead something I dread to read. You as the reader deserve to know that these 152 chapters have reduced this 5/5 show to at best a 2/5, but reasonably a 1/5. And the reason is already explained by Ekzarcun Kotov, but the author starts destroying the cast he meticulously created himself, with his own hands. He kills characters and ends the chapter with 1 liners of ragebait (checked myself this and it's very true). No matter what magic tricks he wants to pull out of his a*s later on, we ain't bying those.

So my review is only covering chapters 1-729. I'll talk about the plot, Main character and romance. 

So the plot is quite good. It's a revenge story about this world-renowned hero who after defeating the demon king, is betrayed by his party. Although it sounds like a generic JP revenge story, it is very different. First of all, the hero left his 25 teammates behind because he was afraid of them being hurt (alongside them was his fiancee). When he returnes back to them, they betray him, while his fiancee chooses to turn away and leave (reason uknown but she did not betray him for some other dude). Our MC was given another chance, ironically, by the dead demon king and inhabits the body of a demon, specifically of an night elf who is looked down by the demons. Although our MC does not go back in time, a 1-year timeskip is instead done before he inhabits the body. The body is around the same year as him I think, and it was basically on a comatose (vetegable 🥦) state. The body which he inhabits has been declared as the prince consort a long time ago, so all of this seem to be the machinations of the demon king. This comatose individual has been tortured throughout the years by those jealous of his status, and this is important. Now, in a body hated universally by the demons, and with a seething hatred for the humans who betrated him, he manipulates the demons to his liking while trying to empower himself for revenge. This revenge includes the human betrayers and those which tortured the body he inhabits. When he inhabited the comatose body, he was given a ring which feasts on the hatred he harbors. The more people he kills who he hates, the stronger he will becomes. Also, the ring gives him many powers, such as an immortal skeleton body which as long as he has mana will regenerate. This is the most basic explenation of the story (also not a very good explenation unfortunately)

The MC is an manipulative f*cker who will do anything to have what he wants. He manipulates the regal queen into liking him just so that he has her support to achieve his goals. In the beginning, the first hundreds of chapters, he is cold, rational and manipulative. Later on, he becomes softer, when he realises that not everyone is his enemy. Still, his hatred has not disappeared, but rather has been focused from the world in general, to only his enemies. Much later in the story, the MC once again has a character development, but this time from soft to very emotional. He sheds this cold rational part of his brain and becomes less manipulative. He won't stop from killing those he loathes, but he stops considering all possible solutions. Like he won't sacrifice every single demon anymore to achieve his desire. He also becomes more, eh... well, other say that he starts thinking with his lower d*ck for the most part. While not true, it's also not wrong either. I personally say he becomes much more emotional, but saying he has become more 'excited' could be true too. Now comes the worst development as of yet. During the latest chapters, the MC just becomes stupid. The author is purposely nerfing the mans IQ so that he can pull off his weird shenanigans. So the MC went from amazing -> still amazing -> Still good -> Bruh, why. 

Lastly, the romance. The romance starts very well. I won't say who he gets with, but I will say that there are plenty of emotions inserted into the equation and it's slow. There are plenty of lovers, since it's a harem, but I did not really dislike anyone. Even those who you 'hate' early on have a good character development later. I did not hate anything regarding the romance early on. But after 729, it becomes a clusterf*ck. The author has a weird vision he has to fullfill, so he makes dumb decisions. 

So to summarize my review. Chapter 1 to around 600 are amazing, and 600-729 and very good, but not as good as those before. The problem lies with the author being dumb and ruining his own novel. If you go to the original site, and see the authors OWN REPLIES, he literally writes 1 emoji replies to others comment. The author started trolling, and he think he is going to pull some 1000iq play, but if you have any self respect, you won't continue reading a novel whichs own author is literally trolling you.

I can recommend the chapters 1 to around 700. But those after... I do not know. I may pick this show up once I feel strong enough emotionally, but I cannot currently handle seing characters I've been invested from hundreds of chapters being disposed for the author machinations. 

The author ruined this himself. I have no words, I don't know if he wanted to pull some crazy plottwists, but it was not worth risking his own time spent writing, and the readers time reading and waiting for chapters. 

Tl;dr If you are going to read, only chapters 1-700 (approximately) are worth your time.  

I am here, your favourite person besides your parents. It's 2 in the morning and I'm writing a review for a harem novel. d*mn right, sleep is overrated. I know that my words have weight, especially around harem novels. I mean why would they not? I am mr. Nr1HaremLover himself (back off, it's mine, my precious). This novel is good, like rank 10 good? No. Even rank 100 is generous. And this is due to 1 simple problem. The author does not know where he wants to go with the novel. Before diving into the review. I'll say why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars. I'm generous so I give it 4, but even 3 is within the acceptable margin.

The novels only downside is the author continuing on with the story. Now, this came out incorrectly. What I mean is that the author had cooked up 800 chapters of nice romance, good plot and decent action. But he chose to expand on the world. Think of it like this, the characters were thrusted from a small country, into a continent size playing field, and later they are thrown into intergalactical levels. The author pulls a classical Xianxia move and expands more and more, but it does not fit because he did not seem to plan for it. The first time it could be tolerated, although abrupt, it was still fine. But the second time, going from a continental plain to intergalactical matters, like brother, you are losing us. I mean no hate for those who still enjoy the novel. But as someone who has been reading from VERY early on, it does not cut it out. 

The novel is primarily a smut. Nux Leander, our MC, has this nine inch fatal weapon is his pants, looks that would make Aphrodite consider in taking him as her paramount, and a system with a point shop, skills, weapons blah blah the usual system things. He roleplays as this innocent ahem.. toyboy ... in the beginning to seduce his first victim, a widow baronness with, well, huge weapons and beautiful looks. How it goes, well the prey turned out to be a wolf in sheeps clothing. The plot continues with the MC doing his mating dance and attracting more female birds. He does the snu snu with them, and its quite well written. 

The action is decent. Certainly fine enough to keep you here, but not actually good enough to be an action standalone novel. It's a nice change of pace from reading only hard smut. 

The romance is the best part. Some of his wives are not 'hooked up' directly and take effort to elope. I don't say this as a 'the more effort, the better the reward', but rather 'the longer time it takes, the bigger of an emotional attachment we readers feel'. So a lot of the romance here does not feel like forced, pick up chick, go to next one, type of thing. All the women have their personalities and quicks also which is a plus. They do not feel similar to each other either. The romance continues to be good throughout the novel, unlike the worldbuilding which takes a nosedive in my opinion. 

The world becoming continuously larger is the biggest downside. While the characters continue being amazing, and the newer characters introduced are good as well, it does not feel the same. The novel gives away another feeling. 

I could still recommend this novel without a hitch, and it's definitely good.