Fourth Perspective Chapter 51 Discussion

Some good words for this novel:

I saw many of the deficiencies other reviewer had took a note of, and actually, I don't really mind the stereotypes or cliches. Though I would like the mention the cliche was not as severe as the other reviewer said.

For example the characters stereotypes, I personally though they are quite an interesting bunch. Nothing exclusively unique, but not as painfully stereotypes-ish (like the overbearing ceo or the cold male god marshal) than what you would found in your average danmei (or maybe I just read too much tr*sh). The MC might be a bit boring, but the ML is pretty chill, I love chill characters.

The thing about characters' view over MC intelligent is also false. Yes, they are in awe of his smart, but it's nothing too severe to the point of almost worship. Their awe was mostly casual appreciation and recognition towards talented people like how a laid-back but good natured student's view on their school top students. There's also the fact that MC was not the only "genius" nor is he even the most OP one in term of intelligent, because all 5 level and above ability user would have roughly the same amount (or even more) of analytic skill as MC have.

The only reason why MC seems like he's the most intelligent fellow is because most of the high level user he was paired up with was known by their luck in advancement, or that their logic chain was relatively less complicated. In addittion, it's not like MC is right in every conjecture he made. There's also the fact that it's not only MC that doing the brainstorming here. Even the the high level user that I have said to have level-up purely by luck, have made significant contributions in some discussion.

All in all, this novel is pretty solid for a sci-fi/urban fantasy genre, maybe like 8.0-8.5 from me. The plot runs smoothly, there's no pacing issue, and the writing is not low-tier, natural because author had already been a veteran writer. And I love that there's no nationalism in this, I guess author learned from her past book, or maybe she doesn't have to keep up with her social credit anymore lol.

Fyi, I actually has been waiting for so long to read this novel since I have seen the raw synopses in jjwxc, but I never know it was actually Mo Chen Huan's work lol. She's a good author but I'm not particularly a fan of her. I even more hesitant in term of nationalism because well... she wrote King of Classical Music and boy the nationalism in that is *whew* 🥴... In short I'm glad the novel turn out okay. The story is nice to read, and even though I know the ending will be sh*t (based on the reviews) I don't think I'm going to change the rating. Unless if the sh*t ending also include the thing that I cared about and have not expected to turn out the way I think it wouldn't be.

What the actual problems are, in my view:

A more noticeable problem in my side tho, is that author have never emphasized (?) the characters context on what is happening/what had happened, or about certain other characters. For example, MC loves his mother right? But we never see him struggle internally with it. Like, the actions he had done to hide the existence of his mother is purely methodological and logical, though it's is true the action was driven because of emotional reason. I were the writer, I would at least written him to have some sort of reminiscence towards the mother as he see how thing it's not that it's initially it to be, and that his mother is now a monster. Spoiler

The only time we have seen him show outright emotion, is when he see with his own eyes, how his mother had died.

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Other example of it would be the post-condition of a severe incident that cost many lives. Author didn't have the alm to add more context to the cause. It's like, ok, the fireworks was done, let's sleep and have a party another day. Except this is not a firework, but a man made disaster with thousands of victims. Incident like this was only mentioned simply after it was done. Author only mention exclusively important info like how after the incident, the population of the effected city mostly move and etc.

Lastly, idk if this is actually deliberately done by the author, but I see many semi-important characters got "abandoned" lol. For example, in where I'm currently reading: Spoiler

There's no mention of the duo who literally, possibly caught by another user in the time of the accident. And our last contact with them is how one of the two had just gotten a possibly important clue to the case they are working on, then they met someone, and the communication were cut off. Like what?! are we just gonna forget about them?? Are they okay??? Who is the user that they have met???? And what more outrageous is one of the duo is the little brother of the department head that had a lot of communication with MC. Why didn't she say anything about her little brother? the accident literally have just past. Are the duo okay? Are they missing? We don't f*cking know, and MC doesn't care about the team members that he had worked with several chapter ago 💀

[collapse] So is this deliberate, or massive plot hole? Only time would know... *sigh*