I liked it so far. The author excels at writing Smut scenes while even make simple things like kissing seem very emotional and erotic. The grammar seems fine and the worldbuilding was a bit basic but good enough considering the genre.

Give it a shot.

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The emotional aspect was quite good and I felt like that the irrational guy who hated her resembled a republican rather well.

Her emotions when she was cornered made sense, her feelings for the FL, her overall situation etc. She should have also at least considered running away with her demonic dantian, kinda weird that it didn't come up earlier considering how "successful" or more to say lucky it later was for her to get through that experience.

I think her runaway experience got stretched out a bit too much and I had to skip through quite a bit of text as it wasn't enjoyable to read for me.

The new partner is very interesting and all chapters including her were pretty great so far. I also like that the "Inquisitors" aren't irrational and actually take into account that their victims might be innocent. Hopefully the scouting ahead party won't mess up too much.

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Kishiyami

Status: arc 2: chapter 19

Aug 22, 2023

First the positives,

1. The author is definitely good at writing smut scenes that isn't as smutty than the implies at the index.

2. Grammar corrections are few and far between, definitely easy to read in terms of grammar

The negatives,

Bianca getting angry with "They called me a demon, I'm just trying to exist" is basically the only reason something happens in this story...

1. Slow, the progression of arc 1 is fine. However, at the end of arc 1 and the start of arc 2 is such a slog to get through, especially the first combat of the MC doesn't feel like she did anything worth noting, in terms of her progression as killing a living being. Naive Protagonist Tag NEEDED STAT!

2. Very dumb MC and Dumb conflict catalyst, the stealing is very bad in terms of the readers view of the MC. Shuming has none to near zero of monologue in order to actually understand his viewpoint, it's basically just "SHE'S BAD! I KNOW IT" he doesn't even sound smart or anything. I don't even feel like he's motivated or anything. Its like "oh we're doing this again" after the 10th time of him showing up.

3. Characters that just show up without any information at all! Like I know is xianxia, but please give as a reason to remember a character's name if you saw fit to give them the name in the first place

4. Smut demands a lot and I mean A LOT! I don't want to have chapters and chapters of smut, but at the few times it appears, make it MORE! The author can do so much more, because I know they're good at smut. Please deliver to that tag.

Probably dropping this

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Keithxel123

Status: arc 0: prologue

Dec 31, 2024

It’s good but the plot seems strong armed to happen and it also wasn’t really what I was looking for. Everyone seems pretty irrational and it’s a cultivation novel so fair enough. A lot of characters get introduced quickly and then vanish. The MC is honestly just extremely lacking in both common sense and seems outright incompetent. I am not a women so idk but she seems to just do things with out thinking, had she literally just gone to eat and not to anything strange then she could’ve avoided the whole confrontation at the end of arc 1. Who stand with out looking? Why would you straight up go for the kill? The whole scenario was just strong armed so it barely made sense. Like how did she get away? There were 3 people there that were stronger than her, she should’ve been surrounded by villagers, why didn’t the guy just kill her when she killed the village chief? The MC in this fanfic is just lacking in every sense of the word, it felt like she just popped into existence with out any prior experience about anything, what did she study? She never went camping? All I know is that she has the urge to steal sometimes and she’s a pervert.

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Le_Doctor_Bones

Status: Arc 5

Mar 26, 2023

A lot of what this novel does is actually pretty fun but a combination of a very incompetent MC - especially the rampant stealing which is just a bad plot device to force conflict - a forced plot progression in the first 3 arcs, and a surprising amount of idiots really begins to sour a lot of the chapters. Also, there was one example of a kink-heavy smut scene (Smelling kink) that should have been - but wasn't - disclosed of in any way, though this is a more minor complaint.

Arc 3 was a minor improvement over the prior arcs and arc 4 felt quite refreshing with an interesting start to arc 5 for now, so I have chosen to increase my rating from the original 3 stars to 4. Hope the story continues to improve in the future but I really can't see myself rating this higher unless the MC changes quite drastically. I like the system and the cultivation parts are kinda interesting, at least.

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arcanemagus

Status: arc 7: chapter 17

Nov 23, 2025

Warning: Unless you are deeply obsessed with scent fetish do not read this!

The good:

The world systems are incredibly flexible, but still established enough to provide a good backend for the rest of the story. The political situation across the Eastern Continent is largely consistent and complex enough to be interesting as well. Some of the side characters are rather interesting in their motives and provide some much needed depth to the story.

The bad:

Unfortunately the MC is a complete moron up till around Arc 6 where she starts going beyond "1 + 1 = chicken" levels of intelligence. She would have been killed many many times if it wasn't for the massive plot armor of her

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Demon Queen "persona"

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. This almost made me drop the story early, but I managed to make it through that.

What is making me drop the story though is the levels of utter disgustingness the MC and surrounding characters are getting to in the name of the MC's scent fetish. I get that it's one of her (many) fetishes, and normally I can ignore the parts that don't interest me but this is to the point where it's just nauseating to read. For somebody that also shares that fetish I'm sure the story can go on to be decent enough but this is where I stop.

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