I Know Everything Chapter 466 Discussion

I've now officially picked a new hobby: bashing misleading and wrong reviews here (after recently realizing there's a truckload of them and almost missing out on several okayish/decent novels). But first I'll say a few things about the story in general.

Setting:

It's a fairly common and unimaginative type. It's basically parallel world almost the same as original + transmigration + plagiarizing works from Earth (movies, songs, etc). It's a very typical story in that regard, and is similar to others of the sort. However, while mundane, it doesn't have any glaring unpleasant points about it.

I like the system. It's haughty and there's a lot of humor involved due to comedic undertone as the protagonist interacts with it. This is definitely one of the less boring systems in Chinese novels.

Kudos to the author for going into great detail to talk about works. He definitely puts in more effort than most novels of this type (though I read only three or so others). Most of works are Chinese, so they'll be quite foreign to a western reader, but he also draws upon some Korean and Japanese ones (and two, three Western ones too). If there's one bad thing about them, it's that infodumps about them tend to be too long sometimes, and it may get boring after several hundred chapters.

Protagonist:

Kinda hard to say anything substantial about him. He's not a bad character, but neither is he a great character. He's neither s*upid nor smart, neither wimpy nor overbearing. He's an average guy who got lucky to get a system and a handsome body. He isn't constant and without change, but that's okay since that's human (kind of hard to claim it's character growth, but there is some development). He doesn't indulge in women right away, but plans for the future slowly. Overall, he's kind of a self-insert slot where every male reader can easily insert himself because his character isn't very distinct.

Love interests:

Most of them are very bland. Their interactions with MC have somewhat of a comedic undertone, which works normally, but I heard that Spoiler

MC is going to have a shitload of wives

[collapse] so the author shot himself in the foot if he chose those bland love interests later. Of more prominent ones as far as I read, there's a kuudere (seemingly emotionless) girl who is without special charm imo, an overly young childhood friend who cares about MC but is somewhat shrewish (her care for MC is nice, but I don't like this sort of character), and finally a cheerful actress who is probably the most interesting of the three because she's lively and energetic. I would much rather see a lot more interactions with them, deeper interactions. The current state

The author is really slow at developing relationships (MC literally made no moves at all in the first 200 chapters, and he is still not in a relationship as far as I read, though one is basically decided, one is reserved for the future (since the girl is much younger), and one is likely but still in suspense). I like that MC doesn't sink in women so far and has no underdeveloped and casual relationships (he definitely could have them), which makes me hopeful that author will still put in some effort later into those, but he could have already done a better work so far on them.

Other characters:

There's a plethora of various characters. What is good to note for a harem novel like this is the fact that there are many, many other male characters, and a lot of them are prominent. While there's no other main-character-level male character, there are many of secondary male characters, and they all play some role in the novel. The same goes for female characters: not all of them are only there to be love interests.

Although those various characters don't have much depth, and some in fact are easy to confuse with each other, quite a few of them have some backstories or small arc-level subplots they're involved in, so the author put in at least some effort into them.

What I like is that many characters are from the West (Europe, the US), and that not many of them are portrayed as a**holes, racists, etc. Contrary to what some people here claim, this novel isn't particularly racist. MC is a good buddy with several black and white guys. I also like how author admitted that the Chinese have a "mysterious desire" to compare themselves with foreigners or surpass them after being suppressed by them for a long time (colonization era). This was straightforward without any bullshit, and explains why other novels "face-slap" foreigners.

Plot:

The plot progression is a bit slow because various character relationships don't progress particularly fast. The author could do a better job. As for various subplots, they're interesting because they're different from each other (at least on the surface), so it's not repeating the same stuff on and on.

Honestly, the plot doesn't overwhelm. However, it's not bad, either. There are some interesting events, and the most boring parts are infodumps rather than some plot somewhere. At least so far.

Overall:

I give this story 3/5. It's fairly decent for a Chinese webnovel so far (chapter 466, I caught up with the translator). Well, if it was a paperback novel with proper editing and so on, I would give it 4/10 or 5/10 so far. But it's a webnovel, and the writer is an amateur, so gotta be more lenient even if I'm picky. By the way, translation could be better, but it's good enough, and the translator is pretty fast (like a chapter every day or two days).

Now, I'll make a list of bullsh*t arguments other reviewers provided, and then I'll massacre those ret*rded remarks of thiers.

• MC doesn't quite seem to believe himself to be a genius (that sounded more like joking around, and he knows he can barely do anything great without the system... like, I think he only relied fully on his own efforts once or twice in 300-400 chapters when it came to releasing works; at least MC learned a lot of stuff he got from the system instead of copy+paste the knowledge from the system)
• the guy who thinks it's weird for a guy who transmigrates to a world which accepts polygamy to accept it right away is the weird one. I would definitely want to get two wives if I could, and I grew up and live in a 90-something percent Catholic country (fully monogamous society). I don't have any special identity, either. I think most men would let his desire loose (at least in imagination) in such circumstances, especially if they have emotional baggage or just didn't have luck in romance so far. There aren't that many loves that would be worth giving up the forest for a single tree in one's life. Maybe the reviewer isn't a man, so he doesn't understand lol. Besides, s*aves and polygamy are two completely different orders of magnitude...
• the benefits-are-the-foundation-of-all-relationships thingy from the same reviewer was context-dependent if I recall correctly. To be exact, I don't remember this sort of disturbing remark. I think there was something about how even a child wouldn't want to take care of bedridden parent if it would take not just several years, but decades (and the author doesn't say it's good, but that it's not uncommon). At the very least, MC doesn't treat everyone based on benefits only, and though he indeed often doesn't forgo money in those relationships, there's often a reason for that.
• I lol at the guy who left 1 star and a review hating on the system trope and glorifying system-using protagonists. Well, sure, he's not wrong (since systems are basically a tool to give wish fulfillment through power/fame trip to readers who are average Joes and wouldn't be able to do stuff without a system, either), but that's not a reason to come and randomly diss a novel because of it. Like, read it at least and comment on something else?
• the guy who has problems with "racism" is also a piece of work. First, people looked down on MC for being a Chinese basketball player because, as the novel explains, 99% of Chinese players s**ked balls, and secondly, because Asians (and Chinese are Asians) can't hold a candle to whites and blacks in power and stamina, so of course they're at disadvantage in sports like basketball. I guess this guy is one of those who think it's okay for transs*x guys to participate in womens' sports. Second, he complains that protagonist doesn't like Western women because they look older than Chinese ones. Well, I think this guy never saw Asian beauties. They indeed look much younger, and it's pretty much long been a meme that you can't tell apart an Asian mother from her daughter (and so can't tell their age coz both look young). Honestly, Asian beauties indeed look fair and more delicate on average compared to white beauties, at least the ones that Asians themselves acknowledge as beauties (since there are many very ugly facial types among Chinese too). Anyhow, this is just preferences, not racism lmao. Check your head, snowflake. MC is literally friends with black sportsmen and white professors. The author is pretty chill about them and there's nothing inappropriate.
• so not being greedy is being ret*rded, huh? well, I agree that MC takes a long while to improve his own life (such as buying a new house, this one really drags on and on), but calling him a ret*rd just because of this? At least MC doesn't let greed control him
• the guy who thought MC will remain unknown and mysterious forever and doesn't perform himself should've read further
• MC doesn't donate all the money he earns... he does at the start, but not always. Anyway, the story would be boring if MC just swam in money and did nothing. It does feel kind of excessive at the start with how the system forces MC to make donations, but notice that they were basically transactions (donate and get skills or stuff), and MC had free choice in the matter (except for one time he angered the system). Anyway, MC earned a lot of money and both spent and invested it before 1-2 years passed since the start aside from donations

Well, that's it. Fortunately, mostly normal reviews on this novel. Seriously, people, if you bother to leave a review, at least read the novel and stay objective. Leave your bias away from your keyboard.