2016-01-04, 15:25 | Link #21 |
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I get what Dark Mages' talking about, romance's more about the romantic _tension_ rather than the end result itself. It's about all the reasons why the leads can't be together and the moments there's and attraction undercurrent but they're still not a couple. In that sense Jiang Ye started with the romantic leads already together so it's flat, kinda like in BTTH.
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2016-01-04, 15:38 | Link #22 |
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ZTJ's horribly slow progression undermines whatever merits it has for me. There were times where I would actually forget the characters when they are mentioned because they have gone unmentioned for nearly ten or more chapters. There is barely any romance in ZTJ anyway. As for BTTH, it eventually goes the harem route and the MC and supposedly main heroine don't even know much about each other even though they are "together".
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2016-01-05, 02:11 | Link #24 | |
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2016-01-05, 10:43 | Link #25 |
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them getting together officially isnt just the end result, but instead just the beginning of all the hurdles they are about to meet in at least half of the story. the hardship they had to face in order to remain together wouldnt lose to many dramas of couples getting together. in a sense, this novel is much better than many novels that the heroine eventually loses their role in the story and end up only cheering behind the mc, because many novels mostly features on how just only the mc power through all the hurdles by himself instead of working together with his wife/gf
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2016-06-13, 22:56 | Link #26 |
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Comparing this novel with ZTJ is not a very good comparison. I enjoy both this novel and ZTJ in that the atmosphere is peaceful and the enemies are believable. As for story progression ZTJ is more about choices and the growth of MC's character while Jiang Ye already had an experienced MC in life. The romance in both novels are amazing and while some of you may think ZTJ lacks romance, that is clearly not the truth. I wont be spoiling much about ZTJ but Jiang Ye actually has a lot of tension for romance. Nian Qe in one of the chapters of the 200's comes to like another girl who is one of the world's beauties that he met in his expedition but he chose Sang Sang over her which I found to be very admirable. Sang Sang isnt ugly like you all claim her to be, she's merely malnourished before stunting her growth as one of you mentionned before and that is fixed during the latter half of the story.
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2016-06-16, 03:53 | Link #27 | |
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both ZTJ and JY are great but i kinda prefer JY more because ZTJ is way pace is much slower (nice to read in a go but not as fun if need to wait for updates ) as author spends a lot time for the situation and atmosphere, and it is a bit harder to read as the writing style is more old or tradition chinese style (not sure how to describe it but u should get what i mean) |
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