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the MC is a super rich ceo buisness agriculture kung fu expert from the 21st century transported to a toaist apprentice in ancient China. ML is a powerful minister doctor kung fu expert who died in revenge and goes back in time to when he was a teen before his family is killed
[collapse]Golden finger: Spoilerthe MC has a magic storage full of plants and magic water + a book on HOW TO MAKE ALL TECHNOLOGY BY HAND written by a friend just IN CASE SHE GETS TRANSMIGRATED. Aparently the 21st century she comes from enough ppl get killed by truck-kun to just cary manuals on how to make everything from bombs to steel weapons to cement. Shes barely uses the magic space & water. The book with ALL TECHNOLOGY is her batman belt of infinite mcguffins
[collapse]MC is uncreative/ ugly modernist esthetics SpoilerShe has $$ and cheap materials/labor. instead of building the fantasy dream home, she builds a 21st century house. Why invent a shower which you have to constantly load and heat water by hand... when you could have a fantasy open air bath fed by a spring?? Imagination is the limit here. She keeps introducing ugly modernism like modern couches, skateboards, and porcelain toilets. The asthetic is ugly mass-industrial but ppl keep acting like it is revolutionary. Dont tell me the ancients didnt know what cusions are and think a plain ikea couch is prettier than a hand carved piece of literal solid wood art
[collapse]The things she "invents" SpoilerWhat does the ancient world need right away? the MC introduces from her OP book of practical intructions for making all technology:
explosives- briefly shown in the begining and never mentioned again.
concreete- not bad! single most important thing she introduces that could be used for dams, constructions, roads. Revolutionize the infrastructure of a society... but its treated very blase. Like it is the most minor achievement
mahjong &cards- typical of the genre but tested & true. yes acient people like games.
skateboards and scooters- wut? why???
ceramic tiles- yeah I call bulsh*t on anxient china having a ceramic industry and not making tiles.
porcelain toilet and shower- why not make something more confortable that 21st cent mass produced cr*p?
Instant ice, toilet paper, kniting patterns, corn, potatoes, peppers, iron weapons, stoves, rubber, glass, mirrors, cotton, cotton picking machines, using goose down to pack blankets/pillows/jackets, writing paper, tofu, kang beds, fireworks, sailing ships, maps of the world, identifying non-poisonous mushrooms.
It feeling like she has infinite "recipes" for technology and "survival guides" fulll of stuff the ancients probably knew, or at least had creative region specific alternatives for. Its inventing concreete and steel to make a bridge when all you needed was wood and expecting the ancients to not look at you like a crazy person for inventing 2 industries and taking years to make something they could make in a day the most simple way. Its trying to solve problems with way too intense a solution, in a way that gives the ancient people no credit for ingenuity.
Furthermore, the outcomes are convenient. All tech she introduces are 100% accepted and loved with no downsides and stepping on no ones toes... unless shes giving the tech to a bad guy in which case suddeny there are negative consequences [which she 100% planned for and they were too foolish to see]
[collapse]most interesting characters Spoilerthe MC & MLs estranged family. The drama going on in the side is actually really fun
[collapse]the most unrealistic part Spoilerhow every villian character rolls over and lets the MC verbally ab*se them. Its easy to win an agument of wits if your opponent never fights back. Intense double standard on what destroys a reputation and what ppl might get away with. MCs father-in-law is apparently a successful general... but when side characters say hes weak and afraid of his daughter in law... yeah he is. Threat level 0% and hes a PRIMARY ANTAGONIST. My guy is dumb, cowardly, and bad at strategy. How did he become a general? bc aparently he rose up the ranks on him own
[collapse]Trigger warning: s*xual Asault and domestic violenceSpoilerused repeatedly as a weapon to morally punish the "bad guys"
what it really does is make me sympathize with the "bad guys" and hope they will be a little more competent and mu*dery so the gross characters just go away (preferably underground).
[collapse]whats wrong with the villians? Spoilerno villian is competent. Every villian is a joke and becomes braindead and innocent once the MC gets involved. The prefeered method of fighting the bad guys is leaving them alone and trusting they will repeatedly trip while walking on the street and fall face first into pies. They sure do. Babies could could pose more of a challenge
[collapse]Did I enjoy it? ehhhhh. im hate reading at this point... but I am reading so 50/50Edit: I gave up. too much assault. Just kill your enemies. this is gratuitous.