Childhood Friend of the Zenith Chapter 100 Discussion

Initially when I was about to write this review (half a year-ish ago), this was gonna get 4-5 stars. When I came back however, I found that I enjoyed this novel a whole lot less.

Now I don’t know if the story just took an abrupt nosedive after I temporarily dropped it, or if my standards for cultivation novels have just skyrocketed after reading A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation, but I can barely stand this novel so brace yourselves for a lot of complaints. (These will mostly be based on chapter 60-100)

1. The MC

Now I remember the MC in this novel being fairly s*upid and whatnot but not to this extent. I get that he did tons of bad sh*t so it makes sense he’d be guilty but after 100 chapters you’d think he’d have gotten over it by now but NOPE. He keeps getting these annoying-ass chapters of character development that does absolutely nothing. It’s like his character just gets factory reset every 10 chapters so the author can copy and paste the same character flaws back onto him. 99% of the story is also written in his POV and since he is IMO the most annoying character yet it makes me hate this novel all the more. This novel would really benefit from reducing that number to an 80% maybe so we can spend time with the heroines who carry this novel.

2. Pacing

I don’t know if it’s the arc that’s the problem but the parts I’ve read since picking up this novel again are unbearably slow. For one, the whole arc is based around someone related to the protagonist so emphasis is placed on the MC and heroines’ relationship with that person. The problem is, nobody gives a shit. 60% of the arc is around rehabilitating this one new awfully written character that I have absolutely 0 attachment to, and the other 30% is centered around the MC overcoming his flaws. The very same flaws he was overcoming 50 chapters ago. Fortunately, the remaining 10%, based around the heroines, is excellent but it still doesn’t make up for the dogsh*t I had to suffer through

All in all, this novel has very high highs and even the lows are tolerable, albeit somewhat annoying. The problem is that most of the story consists of said lows.