One could say that it is the way of reality clashing with Otome trash. But that is not true.
This is Otome trash:
- MC impresses the queen immediately. I'll bite.
- King allows engagement anullment without second thought. Well... ok, no harm no foul.
- King allows a blatantly obvious scheme to...
Wow. I knew this wuxia was good, but I didn't know it was THIS good. Chapter 141 should be a boring slog, but I'm at the edge of my seat. Well paced, author, well paced and well played.
@zh3tigerrr
You're ignoring character development. Do note that "the world of murim favors the strong" is a pretty much common trope in wuxia, which this manhua riffs on with quite a bit of finesse. There were several arcs in which the animosity between Xinci and our MC was slowly eroded and...
@Ghostcake
Not necessarily that.
One other possibility is that she's purposefully drawing attention to the cutlery so that someone else notices and makes a fuss.
Japan: A social failure gets transported to a fantasy world where he/she gets to NOT be a failure because plot&bullshit.
Korea: A fantasy game world invades the real one. The MC is a rando who gets a crazy OP powerup to thrive in the new dystopia.
Yeah, this is one pretty much bog-standard...
@thegentelman
I dropped it after google maps. I came back recently when I noticed Asura picked it up.
The author is forgiven for goomle gaps, as he has dropped that arc entirely and only referenced it in ONE single panel throughout the last 40 chapters.
"Why me?"
Cause you were around for 10 years so "guesting" you for the purpose of altering the fate of the world made a lot of sense, since there was a decent-sized timeline you could cover.
Are you really incompetent though? You're way better at translating than AltaruAlves. Your TS is decent enough. Your redraw sux (or is just lazy) but that's fine since you've got uncensored chapters....
Actually if you did a collab with Altaru, letting him TS and redraw while you being at the...
I love the fact, that they ditched the obviously retarded arc in favor of something a tad more spicy. And they did it gracefully enough so as not to feel like there are missing chapters.
OK. So far (4 chapters in) this isn't trash... yet.
I'm betting it will start to become grating at 10 and utter trash at 15 chapters in. Even if the author starts introducing new stuff to the story each chapter - it will just be a bigger pile of trash.
I'm basing this prediction on experience.
@icesk8terdiaz
You have obviously seen very little. This translation is not superb, but is not sub-par either. It is on-par.
There is so much more worse shit than this flying around. Edelgarde comes to mind. Or a plethora of chinese wuxia that hardly anyone gives two flying fucks about.
People who think that this lady and Chu Chu are the same person need a refresher on the last 3 panels of the previous chapter.
Also I like how this dropped the shounen-esque main plot and dabbles with a bit more grit on side plots. I also love that the larger arc started with the fact that our...