- #1
It's an interesting premise but having read 75 chapters of this, it feels a bit like a bait and switch. I was expecting multiple scenes of the MC standing on the sidelines with his wife, having changed from the role of participant to spectator in the shuraba. Instead, there's a bunch of politics, assassination attempts, dog food scenes, and MC's brotherhood with his subordinates.Which isn't to say that it's a bad thing - I was particularly entertained by the assassination attempt that opened up with an act so blatant that everyone in the city was a witness to it. But overall the quality is a bit lacking. It does a lot of different things but doesn't particularly excel in any aspect - the politics doesn't have all that much depth, the cultivation stuff hasn't been that exciting so far barring one particular arc, and the relationships have barely gotten off the ground. I think part of this is that the prose also feels lacking.So by this point a lot of different things have happened but the main focus of the story, the relationships, have only now gotten past the introductory phase. Some of the other stuff will likely have consequences further down in the story and the story does a decent job of following up on things that happen in earlier chapters.
