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Disclaimer: Since, as pretty much every other review has mentioned, this novel is extremely frustrating, I’m not exactly in the best mental state to write a good review from scratch rn, therefore, I will base this review on preexisting ones and add when I think they’re wrong.In one of the reviews, the author mentions that this isn’t a face-slapping novel. I definitely beg to differ. This IS a face-slapping novel. It is just executed really well and does not contain many of the negative stereotypes associated with face-slapping novels.This is because the author takes it slow. In other similar face slapping novels such as ‘Forcibly kissing the heroine’, the sons of heaven are just glorified punching bags. The author goes on and on about how lucky they are but we never actually SEE it. In those novels, the Son of Fortune would get one of their testicles ripped off, 2 limbs grinded to dust, kidney stolen and left lung punctured in their first few meetings with the protagonist. The author would talk about how they’d walk it off because of their luck, but then they’d immediately die and the story would move on.In this story, the son of fortune doesn’t really take any lasting damage until what I assume will be the very end. Some deux ex machina will pop out and rescue him before anything bad truly occurs and when he DOES take damage, he’ll recover soon after. Unlike other novels where the sons of fortune’s life just plummet upon meeting the protagonist, the lives of the sons of fortune in this novel resemble roller-coaster rides with a downward trajectory.Onto the criticisms. User Longxi mentioned in his review of his novel that the average IQ is high and the IQ drops have a reason. LIKE HELL THEY DO. While the average IQ of characters in this novel is higher than those of characters from the same genre, it is still appallingly low compared to other novels in general.And the IQ drops are HORRENDOUS.Spoilers from here on out:The son of fortune meets a girl and pokes his nose into the girl’s business. It’s not like he helped her or anything. He at best saved her a few bucks. The girl then brings the son of fortune to her house (why?) and gives him a tour. The son of fortune steals something and walks away. SECONDS LATER the girl’s dad asks the girl if she saw anyone steal anything. The girl KNOWS it’s the son of fortune and that her father will be HEAVILY PUNISHED if he doesn’t get it back but DOESN’T TELL HER FATHER. That mf was METERS away, her father is stronger than him, they could’ve caught him easily. She KNOWS HIS NAME. Instead she cries about it and resolves to get it back when she meets the son of fortune next time for her father (WHYYYYY). Shenanigans ensue and the girl pisses off the child of fortune, leading him to kill her father after he got stronger.By that point, I was thinking that perhaps the best thing that girl could’ve done for her father was sell herself into prostitution. Either that or just off herself.This is but one of the many IQ drops plaguing this novel. This is the worst one by far tho.
