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Really depends on taste.For me it was fun the first 30 or so chapters, after that it just got tedious and irritating.I kept waiting for the hidden identity plot line to end, considering that I'm over halfway through, it should have already happened or happen soon.Instead another hidden identity was added, and then another, with no end in sight.With only 39 chapters left, it can't wrap up in a timely manner for the romance and other aspects to develop properly.Chinese comments/reviews confirm this, in addition how rushed the later parts are, so keep that in mind if you want to read it.There are a lot of characters belonging to different groups, MC switching between them leads to none of the characters being flashed out and relationships coming off as shallow.Especially MC and ML interact less and less, then even more characters are added into the mix, splitting MC's time between way too many people.The writing style is strange as well, it changes between third-person omniscient and third-person limited, at some points you can't even tell which it is because some characters are treated in omniscient but the other currently present ones aren't.Characterisation is stereotypical, which would be fine for this kind of novel, but because nobody gets enough screen-time to be somewhat flashed out, they are truly walking stereotypes with no other characteristics.There are a lot of settings that are mentioned only in passing, aspects of world-building that are grossly underutilised, it's a lot of wasted potential that makes the writing seem even sloppier.I guess it's okay if you want something very shallow and easy just to kill some time, and are immune to prolonged multifaceted hidden identity.It's more at the level of your average fanfiction instead of what you would expect of a (web) novel.