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Was reading "A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation" and the author's Q&A mentioned that he took lots of inspiration from this novel. So I came in with high expectation since "A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation" is brilliant. Surely something that inspired that brilliance should be decent right? Wrong.Let's start with the protagonist, he's all over the place. He's a 50 something years old man that underwent regression, you'd think he'd act like a 50 years old man but no, he acts likes a dumb teenager that gets frightened by his own shadow. He gets side track way too easy. Here's an MC with the ability to regress and is talentless but instead of using his ability to overcome his weakness, he gets into s*upid adventures that gets him killed very early. He has no real motivation to drive the story forward and overall he's very boring. I would praise the author for writing such an unlikeable character but the problem is he's the MC, we are supposed to like him.The story itself is also laughable, it has no real driving force. There are way too many coincidences that shouldn't be there - like the MC stumbling on treasure or just happens to meet characters important to the story in the middle of nowhere. Did the author not remember that he is writing a story where the MC can continuously regress? Why make it a coincidence? Why not just make it so the MC lives like 20+ years and travelled and learned everything about the land. Or better yet, have it as something he's heard about in his previous life and actively have him investigate. The writing takes away the MC's agency and it makes the story feel very convenient as the author can just throw random sh*t at any time.Overall a very frustrating story to read. Go and read "A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation" instead for an actual good regression novel.