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This... Is a genuinely good story.You've got the Korean Gate drama, in a ancient Korean Murim setting, which is a first for me tbh. The MC is to put it simply, is a whole ass puzzle wrapped up in an onion made of puzzles. His basic characteristics are clear, and there is indeed enjoyable DEVELOPMENT (Yes, I capitalised it for a reason), he starts off pretty frustrating and doing the whole typical, "since I reincarnated I'm just going to run away from everything and leave PeACefuLLy" thing, but in actual fact, does the exact opposite by charging headlong into everything until somewhere around chapter 90.There's actual goddamned romance AND the girls are actually given CHARACTERS! There are some complaints I've noted that the story takes too much time away from the MC but I'm like, "dude, the world is actually getting fleshed out. And it's not like the author is writing whole ass arcs about them or something. They just get a chapter or two to showcase their personality, more if they're more central characters like the female leads. Do you KNOW how frigging rare that is in a Korean novel of all damned things?"A Korean novel where the regressor MC DOESN'T tunnel vision into "Being Da Best!", sweeping up hidden pieces and treating everyone around him like a useful tool at best?I can only think of maybe 3 or 4, tops, that can do something this novel is excelling at so far. Killed the Academy Player (worse than this one in terms of dense MC and dumb harem antics), Omniscient (zero character development outside the few male main characters), and maybe tr*sh Count (zero romance whatsoever).