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As rhianirory's review already mentions this story's MC is a extreme China fan and patriot (I'm using 'patriot' here because that's what the MC calls himself). As a German I find patriotism extremely awkward, but I thought I got used to it, because it's so prevalent in Chinese novels that by now I can just selectively read and blend out the patriotism and propaganda. Well turns out that's really hard to do with this one, because MC's personality is like made of 55% patriot and 45% smart researcher. I think the most telling is that MC has an immediate good impression when meeting Chinese people and being a patriot changes his views 360° for people he didn't particularly like beforehand (or in the case of foreigners it's their genuine interest in China). As patriotism seems to be of much importance to the author, yeah, not only the MC is extremely patriotic. So if you really dislike this or are normally bothered by it i'd recommend you to skip this novel, it is that bad, srsly.Apart from the blind patriotism I think this novel is pretty decent when it comes to the researcher plot. As one can guess from the synopsis, MC was a successful researcher of drugs aka pharmaceutics (what else but curing cancer) in his last life and took that advanced medical knowledge with him getting reborn into the past and a young bo (d) y ofc. So as he makes his way up in society he is the youngest, smartest, highest achieving researcher in his field from Asia. MC is extremely OP, yes, but if you don't mind those kind of stories too much, I think this one is written quite well actually. Although even as a researcher his patriotism comes through a lot. MC's goals as a researcher often result in him trying to achieve sth for his country, and we go right back to the beginning of this review...As for the romance - I'd argue his love for China is bigger than for the ML. So as you can already guess the romance takes a backseat in this story (at least till chapter 124 from 193). If you're here for the romance you should probably move on. Although I still think the ML is quite lovely ^^;All in all the story is decent. I don't want to blame the author or drop the ranking too much for the extreme patriotism, but it definitely affected my reading experience. Intermittently I got quite into the researcher plot, so I'm giving this story 2.5 or 3 stars.