The throne is grown, not built, and it takes a gardener forty years to raise one. Mu Sheng is thirty-one and on his second.
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Sign inThe worldbuilding does that thing where it explains almost nothing and somehow you still follow it perfectly.
Same read. The phrasing in the second half makes it pretty unambiguous once you catch it.
Best thing I've read on this site all year. The premise sounds gimmicky and then the execution is anything but.
Agreed, though I'd argue the middle section is doing setup work you only appreciate later.
Solid but uneven. When it's good it's excellent; when it's not it leans on coincidence a little too hard.
Been saying this for weeks and getting downvoted for it, so vindication feels good.
I came for the premise and stayed for the side cast. The second lead has no business being this well written.
This is the comment that convinced me to start it, so thank you.
The prose has a dryness to it that I didn't expect from the genre and I'm completely here for it.
Started this on a whim last week and I'm now 90 chapters deep at 2am on a work night. No regrets.
Fair warning that the first ten chapters are slow. Push through them — chapter 12 is where it clicks.
Anyone else notice the author keeps setting up payoffs four arcs early? Went back and reread and it's all there.
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