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This is very good, first time I've seen a depiction of a genius be interesting and believable.A lot of novels with cynical or depressive protagonists tend to lean too heavily on one side, it's either completely depressive without any hope and everyone/everything is out to f*ck over the MC or it's a predictable redemption novel where everyone is happy and nothing really happens. But this novel finds a good balance where the MC is indeed cynical but he still has hope, yet that hope is not cliche nor is it boring. Instead of making up with people from his past trauma like so many other novels he instead relied on the only consistency in his life which is writing.Now there are some downsides to this novel, for one the translation can be a bit difficult to decipher at points. This has to do with the author sometimes using wuxia cultivation terminology for some points, and while I can understand why it was used it still made some parts harder to read. The second reason is the format of the novel, it's very difficult to tell who's POV I'm reading from at times and it's also difficult to tell if I'm reading a flashback or the present.Despite the problems it's a very good novel, would reccomend.
