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The Young Master in the Shadows
The Young Master in the Shadows
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He has returned to the past. And this time he will live up to his role as a young master, which he lost in the past.
He will use all the resources of his family to his advantage. He will cheat the world itself.
This is a harem and intrigue story, where he will get what he wants, he will build his own super hidden power and he will protect his loved one's this time.

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The character's sheet... If you got lost. Be careful though, it is full of spoilers
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P_mYCR3G-WOPiRvJBj1v6g5mlQXOtyJuivGdfWou38U

P.S.
- I may be editing this novel continuously and some times will need to change some details to accommodate later chapters.
- I am publishing this on RR and WN, but the first release is always here.

I added a ko-fi account, so if you want faster chapters, consider a little donation, It would help me a lot.

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ActionAdventureEcchiFantasyHaremLitRPGMartial ArtsRomanceSlice of Life
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Aristocracy Arranged Marriage Artifacts Assassins Bloodlines Clever Protagonist Complex Family Relationships Confident Protagonist Cunning Protagonist Dungeons Level System Low-key Protagonist Maids Male Protagonist Master-Servant Relationship Modern Time Nobles Overpowered Protagonist Polygamy Power Struggle Scheming Secret Organizations Slave Harem Slaves Time Travel
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    FocusThebeast
    Status: c124

    Synopsis say he will cheat the world and create his own powerful organization. From my perspective I can't see it happening any time soon, after 124 chapters is it like a month or two that passed in the story?The story is not moving slow but the time is, he is doing to many things each day to make it plausible. Every time the story progress the harem get bigger and at this point I believe this is a fully only harem novel, the story is not about "world domination" and power struggles, it's about growing the harem.

    The protagonist has so many hidden cards, so much information about the world and chooses not to use it.

    Spoiler

    making the time travel or his powers irrelevant, he could easily achieve the same results if he had one of those, like you have show us that you know everyone, but why do you need to see their fate? You already know what they will achieve, you also have the seer ability but you need more information?

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    And lastly the protagonists charm is more powerful than a incubus on steroids.

    Spoiler

    It always goes like this.

    1) I hate him he is a pervert.

    2) He is maybe ok.

    3) He is is a nice guy.

    4) OH MY GOD I NEED HIM.

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    All in all it's a unique story idea but in the end it's not for me.

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    orangepeel
    Status: chapter 280: ren

    Not sure why I bothered to read this

    This story is a mix of dumpster fire, wish fulfillment, and some actual decent writing. If your  bothered by the more controversial parts of cultivation stories then skip this story there isn't really anything to redeem it. All that said there is something about the story that has keep me reading despite hating the protagonist. Maybe it's the way he solves problems, maybe it is the clever manipulation of others, maybe it is the ridiculous curve-balls that keep getting thrown his way.

    From a technical standpoint there is a lot of work to be done

    • Massive piles of spelling/grammar/word choice issues
    • Lots of contrived situations for making the plot progress
    • Poorly done tropes
    • Characters are made and sidelined after a few chapters, with token I'm still alive appearances

    If your not put off by what I have described then have fun reading.

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    Kiiiddd
    Status: chapter 127 : fateful encounters

    The plot just gets way to messy with all the different plot points and characters, the author has done a good job of keeping everything together and not missing anything but how long that continues is gonna be a big part. Like I see this novel going 3 ways unless the writing style changes as at ch. 127 I don't even think 10 Days has gone by and the amount of important character's around the MC has ballooned to a scary degree. If this continues either this novel will end up well over a 1000 chapters probably closer to 2000. But I am guessing it will either end up getting way too complicated and the writing quality will drop just due to how many criss crossing plots thier are. But the most likely outcome I am guessing is the author will drop it as this is gonna be a super hard story to write well with how messy it has gotten 

    Edit: I have forced myself to read ahead and I am in the school part and it does get better with less lose plot lines and less people joining his house (so far)

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    Rajark
    Status: chapter 180: a new day

    It's one of a kind. I really love it.

    Our MC is coolheaded, smart and knows what he is doing as he always handle unfavorable situation very maturely (well it's obvious otherwise what's the point of living 200+ years if he can't even handle that). He can also hold it in his pants despite being at the age where hormones are raging unlike the other MC's who are raring to go. And he is really a fun guy, I love his character.

    Just that author is keep adding more and more girls as story goes forward. I think in future it is inevitable that every MC's girls will not get equal screen time or some might be forgotten entirely along the story.

    Altogether it is an amazing story. Keep up the good work man.

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    ZeleniyKrokodil
    Status: chapter 142 : changed my mind

    1 This work is pleasant to read, but it is not clear what will become of it in the future, it may become bad, it may remain good. The future of the plot is in the fog, so it is impossible to start from it for evaluation.

    2 As for those who are worried about NTR... it's hard for me personally to call it NTR. How can you lose something that was never yours. And those who believe that a couple of meetings in life and a marriage of convenience are enough to consider a girl theirs... Well, good luck)))

    And for those who are so arrogant and naive to rely on such luck... Read on. Since even in this case, the author managed to beat this moment in a rather original way. So much so that even you will have doubts whether there was anything like that on NTR at all.

    3 There are so many characters and so many characteristics that a glossary is needed to remember who is who.

    4 Romance is very close to harem romance, although for really important/active characters there is enough disclosure, but more could be done.

    5 Erotica is present only as a background of the world.

    6 Fighting. When they are, they are good enough. But they are out of focus.

    7 So far I have been quite pleased with the work. Although I'm missing a glossary.

    P.S. Author, finally make a Glossary! My eyes are already running wide from the information. It will not fit on the site, it is better to make it in the chapter. If it is somewhere else it would be great if it was copied here.

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    Gaddyboy
    Status: c52

    Its bad. Really bad. All men are soulless beasts only capable of thinking about s*x. MC gets every literal cheat in existence. Future knowledge, multiple broken skills, literal different rules set from everyone else in the world, etc. It's just not interesting.

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    CrazyMinh
    Status: c8

    I have spent most of my life reading literature. I have a condition known as hyperlexia, which means I have a innate talent for pattern recognition, especially when it comes to literacy.

    (I am going somewhere with this, don’t worry)

    I’ve been reading since I was between two and three. I have a reading speed far greater than most people, and I have read a goddamn lot. The amount I have read could literally fill multiple libraries, and I can recall most of what I read to a high degree of accuracy even years after I read it.

    So when I say that this story is one of the laziest, poorly concieved, offensive, and downright amateur pieces of fiction I have ever seen...

    ... yeah, I more than have the qualifications to say that, more than some people with degrees in literature studies. 

    To start with, this story is little more than a power fantasy that reads like it was written by a twelve year old. Character dialogue is flat and uninspired. Antagonists act like they came right out of a primary school bully factory. Almost everyone is either an unlikable edgelord or so painfully bland that they make growing grass look interesting by comparison. The main character is set up as having some sort of master plan, but that master plan is predicated on so many assumptions and deus ex machinas that it feels more like the protagonist read his own fic instead of coming from the future. There is no sense of tension, the audience knows he’ll win 100% of the time, and his character is paradoxically both the blandest and edgiest of all of the cast.

    Most concerningly, this story has a disturbingly buggered idea of gender politics that makes me seriously worry about the mental health of the author. I cannot describe how ass-backwards this story is when it comes to the female characters, who are either s*x slaves, transplanted villainess characters from the most generic of eroge, or so utterly lacking in character than when the main character engages with them it feels more like a guy sweet talking his inflatable s*x doll. A doll with the face surgically removed with a chainsaw and more puncture repairs than unblemished polymer. 

    Then there’s the premise.

    My god, it’s like Redo of Healer had a ugly lovechild with Sword Art Online, and the resulting lovechild was born deformed and missing pieces. And then that child grew up to become part of a drunken, partly incestual threesome with SAO (again!) and Fifty Shades of Grey. And then resulting orgy resulted in this story. 

    This story feels like every bad isekai trope condensed into a single painfully boring narrative that is more concerned with making the main character so utterly amazing that he might as well become a divine entity and just have all of the characters line up eagerly to suck him off. 

    It’s juvenile in a way that makes me shocked that this story not only managed to get any attention, but become the most viewed story in the martial arts category. 

    If there is one redeeming quality that I can ascribe to this hot mess of a preteen’s attempt at writing a novel, at least it isn’t nearly as bad as it could be. There is a whole world of bad stories online that this story manages to rise above, and no, My Immortal is only one of those.

    So, yeah, best praise I can give? At least this isn’t as bad as My Immortal.

    That’s hardly a high bar, and it’s not exactly an achievement.

    2/5, and that’s me being generous. I was tempted to give it a fat nothing, but I’m in a good mood, so there you go. 

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    I.P.Freely
    Status: chapter 255: the nutcracker and the...

    I love everything about this story I’ve read it again and again and I’m planning a third time.!!! &Nbsp; 

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    PuppetTurtle
    Status: chapter 227: disturbing news

    This story is really amazing. It is a definitely work reading

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    Melkord
    Status: <font style=

    great story!  writer just write wathever you want remmember the name is young master in the shadows, I read another novel about one youngmaster but the MC was too weak, I mean if you have money and opportunitys use all  you have! The interesting of that is than the young masters weaks just die easy and all of the time ;P

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