Everything was going well for him: a well-earning job, a car, a home, but then he was tossed into a world of immortals, in the body of Jade Beauty of all things!
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Hello, there. I'd written this novel a while back and only recently picked it up again, and decided to post it.
I write mostly for fun, so uh... I can guarantee no update consistency. I will try to post 3 to 4 chapters a week, but again, I can't guarantee anything.
PS: This is a Gender Bender work. If you dislike that, this is not for you; just don't give it a bad rating/review for that. However, Gender Bender does not have much relevance to the story. This was an idea I had a long time ago when I'd read the first Transmigrated-into-Villain/Young Master story. That's when I wondered what if it was written from the perspective of the Jade Beauty instead? So, I came up with the idea of some guy transmigration into the body of one. But at the time, I despised the 'conflict' that came with the category, so I kinda skipped the entire thing. So don't expect gender identity issues from this story - even if there are, it will be resolved in a few chapters at most. This is primarily a Progression Fantasy/Power Fantasy from a Jade Beauty's perspective.
Though, you can also think of it as an amateur author's way of escaping his responsibilities and not studying the female psyche deeply. Like I said - I write for fun.
PPS: I don't have much writing experience and I do want to improve, so your critiques are welcome. Just don't be too harsh - my glass heart might just break.
PPPS: MC will be extremely strong in her Cultivation Stage - and the strongest later on, but that doesn't mean much in the Cultivation World, where there is always a 'Heaven beyond the Heavens'.
PPPPS: This is still a WIP. I have the general plot idea in mind, but nothing concrete. Plus, I haven't made the mechanics of this world as concrete as I would like. So, I might make minor changes here and there. If I do make such changes, I'll do it retroactively across all relevant chapters. So, early readers might get a little confused, and I apologise for that.
Of course, I'll post a note when I do make changes.
PPPPPS: This story will take a while to pick up. So don't expect MC to have tremendous odds stacked against her from the very beginning. In fact, this will be more slice-of-life at the beginning.
Very fun novel to read. Would recommend to others.
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This is god tier and you should read it need I say anymore
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very interesting so far, I like the satire with xiaxia at the same time as it is a xiaxia, the protagonist is funny most of the time, the gender bender tag is the only thing that I thought didn't make sense, honestly that ended up having 0 relevance in the story so far, MC has not had any type of conflict or self-discovery, in fact the genderbender has probably only had 4 or 5 lines of attention in the entire story and in general they boil down to "I was a man before" and that's it., the story continues normally. But honestly, it doesn't matter because while it doesn't add anything, it also doesn't cause any problems. I recommend reading.
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So, I read this on Webnovel (The UI is much better) and decided to review it here.
Note before you continue reading the review: this is strictly my own subjective view of the novel. I will, however, try to be as objective as possible.
Writing Style:
It is written in a mostly light-hearted and somewhat comedic style. It's easy to read understand and there are no major grammatical errors. I don't have many demands for this, so I'll give it a 5/5.
Plot:
The plot seems to revolve around the protagonist - who is a super-hot female cultivator - being forced into fulfilling her role as the Jade Beauty for a Xianxia Protagonist's journey. A rather unique use of the over used trope. However, there doesn't seem to be much else. At least not yet. The later chapters seem to hint at a greater plot, but that remains to be seen.
I am looking forward to where the Author will take this story, so I'll give it 4/5 for now. The Jade Beauty 'plot device' seems to be an interesting concept. I've seen transmigrated into Elders, Young Masters, Protagonists, Side Characters and Mob Characters, but not a Jade Beauty.
Characters:
The MC Xiao Hong is a perverted male soul stuffed into a female hottie and thus seems to be perfectly fine with it. There were no issues with gender identity whatsoever. While I don't particularly like novels that drag out the transformation from male to female over hundreds of chapters, I still feel this was way too fast. The gender issue was solved in the first half of the first chapter. It basically went like this: Transmigration -> Soul Fusion -> Solved. That's it.
Other than that Xiao Hong seems to always believe that she is a protagonist only to be used as a plot device in the very same/next chapter. That was entertaining
I quite like the Female Lead, Qiao Guiying. The author seems to have spent more time on her than the MC. She has some depth to her.
Then there are the Young Masters that want the MC in their beds no matter what.
Since there are Young Masters, there are 'protagonists'. I like the most recent Protagonist, he's not a total asshat with too much luck the other novels of the trope 'transmigrated into a Young Master' make them out to be.
Though there are too many side characters as of late and I find it hard to keep up. Maybe the Author should consider adding characters to the glossary?
Anyway, I'll give this a 4/5 as well. I hope the Author elaborates on the MC herself a little more, though.
World:
I quite like the World actually. It is somewhat different from the typical Xianxia World. The Author seems to be taking his time with the world-building, adding a couple of small details here and there. I'll give this a 5/5. Just because I liked it. Though, you might not.
Updates:
I don't think this matters all that much, but the Author updates every day, so yeah 5/5.
Personal thoughts:
Overall, I quite like the story. And I will give it a 4.5/5.
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The fiction, albeit having a compelling premise and setting fails by the exact same merits as the authors previous work, but with the MC being slighty less egregiously OP. Simply put, as per usual, the author couldn't resist making the MC a flagrant Mary Sue, so there be no sense of struggle, growth, or even a feeling that her power was even vaguely earned. The system feels superfluous, because the moment the MC gained it, she immediately was granted the absolute best cultivation, physique and soul techniques, all that promotes her a billion ranks in chapter 1, makes her undefeatable within her entire cultivation rank AND is cultivating three seperate aspects with no sense of limitation. She doesn't even need to cultivate herself, the system does it for her, and the system only gets more powerful as the story progresses. The heart of the matter, the system is horrendously OP, and is also equally boring and utterly uninspired, killing any and all interest I had in the fic as soundly as it killed any sort of interesting conflict. At least the MC isn't as much of a blatant and irritating Mary Sue as Ginny in the Witch of Red is, but that isn't saying much. To be honest, if there wasn't a system entirely it would be hundreds of times better, just sticking with cultivation female lead tropes to empower her would have been more sensible and compelling by far.
Part of the enjoyment of cultivation fics is the sense of progression, of earning and developing their power. They don't gain everything from the get-go, they might be regressors, gain a golden finger that allows faster cultivation, or wind up with a singular top-tier cultivation technique, but there are always caveats to them, and the MC has to earn/find everything else, here everything was just given to her. This MC starts with every advantage but apparently talent, which is ridiculous given she basically cultivated from 0 to earthern origin in a single chapter with minimal resources, and even is on par with someone from an entire rank above her, but again, is promised to get even more OP.
There's no antagonist or villain that seems like a credible threat, just a Mary Sue doing Mary Sue things. Which is a damn shame, there's some interesting stuff here, if the author could ever resist giving every single one of their protagonists god mode from the first chapter with absolutely no sense of balance or gradual progression between them and the world and people around them. The grammar and style is fine though.
3/5.
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Very funny, IMO. I enjoy the dysfunction of Chinese-like scam culture... at least when it's fiction. It's well depicted in this work. Xianxia details are mediocre. Not the worst but definitely lacking immersion compared to the best. This is more of a silly slice of life xianxia. So if you're seeking something thrilling, then you are unlikely to be satisfied. The relevance of the Gender Bender tag is that her mentality isn't very feminine. Goal focused, not enamored with masculine attitudes, etc. The 5 stars takes into account that it's located on Scribblehub. I've heard that this actually exists on webnovel, in which case it should earn about 50 billion stars.
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In depth story into the xianxia world written beautifully. I must emphasize the dictions, jokes, well overall writing, corresponds greatly to theme thus hooked me into binging the story in one night.
Author shows not only one struggling protag that is a jade beauty (which is rare as of my knowledge) but also includes various tropes in xianxia or general themes such as shounen and murim. I love the premise and written details so much.
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The first thing I need to say is that even if it appears in the beginning like the main character is absolutely unbeatable and almost all powerful that’s simply not true. Of course, this is a xianxia story so the end goal is omnipotence and omniscience. She certainly has a path to the top that appears laid out for her but as we go through the story more and more holes in her plan seem to pop up. I’d say that’s a good thing.
Not to blatantly spoil the story but in the current chapters I’m on, but poop hits the fan, and it hits the fan hard. Xiao Hong (the mc) is struggling with all her might and is barely eking out wins. While she is fighting above her “supposed” strength, she’s one of us (aka she knows she’s supposed to be the protagonist). She’s got pretty absurd cheats but she has a few things that really drag her strength and speed of gaining it down. I’m expecting her to overcome them eventually (she’s working on a hypothesized and supposedly impossible method) but to say she’s a completely bland protagonist facing no struggle would be a blatant lie. The power scaling at the cultivation levels is pretty massive and she’s surrounded by stronger people and others who aren’t utter garbage. Plenty of others have talent that makes some almost capable of standing up to her.
The characters aren’t the most complex or interesting to ever exist but a few are interesting enough and aren’t entirely flat, so it’s doing better than 95% of cultivation stories there.
The plot itself isn’t some astounding thing, It’s basically the same as all other cultivation stories, to ascend and become immortal or something along those lines. Basically it’s for her to get as strong as she can and bring those she finds herself caring for along with her. That way she can live a happy life. The end. The journey along the way however is interesting so far. There has been an interesting side character giving us some insightful views on how eventful things might become along the way and I, personally am excited for it.
I’ve enjoyed the story so far immensely even if it’s somewhat simple. I didn’t come here for some convoluted mystery, I came here for face slapping and lot’s of magic drug- I mean power enhancing magical substances. Personally, nothing detracts enough from this story for me to give it anything less than 5 stars.
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It is alright, the author keep trying to go against established tropes to make the story fresh and funny, but it really wasn't all that funny or fresh. Think of it as one punch man but way worse because the MC is practically infallible and there has never been any challenge or difficulty for her much like saitama but lack the comedy.
Overall pretty generic and average cultivation story that has always pop-up daily all around the internet, it will be enjoyable for people who love another cultivation story in the sea of mediocrity but fall flat off anything more unique and stand out from the rest.
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Really boring text wall of a lot of words but nothing being said a lot of explaining about nothing and 0 human interaction only an explanation of how said wink-wink interactions supposedly happened.
Reader is only here to read and not think cause everything is explained to them in the most boring way so hey it's good if you don't want to think and want to read boring text wall. You could delete 75% of words in this story and it would only improve the story
Edit- now on chapter 29 (I do not know why I made myself suffer to read this boring story)
There is nothing original in this story. The protagonist is so boring there are so many times skips. Basicly 0 relationship building and action pretty much does not exist. There is way too many times when you are reading and you are reading yapping and yapping. Like legit this story still needs to get rid of 75% of all the garbage written here to be readable and not bore reader to death with stuff that should not be written just to have more words in the story. (This is not a school assignment to yapp as much as possible to get good grades for yapping)
I have suspicions that this story has a high rating only cause of bot usage. (Or well this site has no rating integrity)
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