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Ridiculous, bordering on farcical. I actually started reading Skirt-Chasing Monarch first, but that translation was extremely slow. On boredom I started to read this. The are plenty of similarities: young man gets infused with a system that seems to deliberate steer him on a flirtatious path. The only difference is that the MC in this one is already an outrageous flirt and self-confident. It is really a time-filler of a novel: every aspect of the 'plot' has a beautiful woman in it: a fiancee, business partner, schoolmate, colleague, work superior, police officer etc. Every faction, organization and family involved has a stunningly beautiful woman ready to be mol*sted by him. The 'system' urges him to do ridiculous things to them in order to get points, but when you have a shameless MC like him you really wonder what's the point when he will already do such things on his own. Perhaps that is why the author quickly added martial arts and skill-grinding into the mix, akin to those game novels. There is little to recommend this novel save that the story doesn't shy away from encounters with women. The MC allows himself to be distracted very easily. Each woman starts with a bad impression of him and yet he manages to catch their eye by some ridiculous feat by saving them from thugs or some other personal crisis. A plus point so far is the lack of boringly long paragraphs or chapters of item/skill descriptions like Ancient Strengthening Technique; the chapters get into the plot without too much preamble (some of the linked chapters are only the events of several days). But even then, after 100 chapters, there is only kissing and hugging. The MC is written like a tease: we read that he wants to go to the final stretch and yet when the opportune moment arrives, he stops because one contrived reason or another. A time-filler read.
