- #1
First chapter started out with a blinking white guy meme-worthy scene that had me, like the MC, thinking "what the f*ck did I just walk into". Honestly the entire first few chapters just had me going ???, and it doesn't help that the TL is very iffy and ocassionally just completely not understandable (like '"It's okay." Ji Qingzhou road.') I got somewhat used to the TL and managed to enjoy myself somewhat by c30~40, but the confusion really doesn't get better. It feels like for all the major events, it's just MC being victimized and then saved by the people around him, while he's just confused and overwhelmed. I came here because I thought the summary would be fun, but instead it feels like I started watching a tv drama in the middle of the climactic episode and things are happening all at once while I'm just overwhelmed and confused. The entertainment world here is so f*cking stressful and the dog blood isn't satisfying at all because it's usually done by other people while MC just stares and goes "uh ok, so that happened".That said, when things get good, it actually gets really good. Despite being so "this is cute, but meh" about the main CP for most of the contract period, I actually shed genuine tears when they broke up, and then shed more tears when they got back together. I think it's a mark of a really good author when the emotions of a scene can transcend things like iffy translating to still make me feel SO. MANY. GODDAMN EMOTIONS!!! I went from not caring about the MC and ML to thinking of them as my son and son-in-law and imagining myself as the emotional mother watching over their love life's ups and downs. And that was at c114, still far from the end of the novel.