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As the owner of an ordinary bookstore, Ling PingAn’s biggest wish was to muddle through life and do absolutely nothing.
However, customers that were right in the middle of their pubescent crisis kept visiting his store in the dead of night.
For the sake of his business, Ling PingAn had to mimic their childish tones, sparing no effort to promote the books in his store.
When he finally managed to sell his books after going through a great verbal tug-o-war, each and every one of them said that they don’t have money, and that they wish to use various tools that were seemingly divine artifacts as pledge.
Looking at these customers, Ling PingAn could only agree to them resignedly.
But little did he know that every single book that these customers purchased from him had altered in appearance.
“Secrets of Cosplay” became “Lower Abyss Research Report”
“Stellaris: Settings for Synth Ascension” was in fact “Gospel for Synthetic Beings”
What’s more, in the eyes of these customers, he was actually a horrifying ruler of Diablos, an indefinable entity that held the reins of all realms.
In this regard, Ling PingAn said, “I’m not, I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense.
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I went into this not expecting much and walked away incredibly surprised. In just 60 chapters, I've been hooked on this story more than any other novel in recent times. The main character doesn't seem like a main character at all. Ordinary man doing an ordinary job. But everyone else sees something completely different from him and that is what turns him into the main character. He's a very relatable character too I think because he sees himself as ordinary. There are a few side characters that are main characters in their own stories as well and I love the dual perspective we see when they interact with the main character. We see the perspective of the ordinary man, who sees a repressed young girl who wants to break out of her shell and cosplay, and then we see the perspective of the young woman from a post-apocalyptic Earth who sees the 'Secrets of Cosplay' as a holy bible to demon hunting to save humanity. I love the way it was done. Overall this novel easily earns a 5/5 from me and I hope that it's picked up and that others enjoy it as much as I did.
Amazing novel, features an MC who is a godlike OP but completely oblivious to it. He runs a bookstore that is connected to a number of different worlds, mainly post-apocalyptic so far, and people that enter his store perceive him as a horrifyingly powerful being. He walks into the abyss between world (his backroom) and sells them a book full of powerful and esoteric knowledge (what he perceives as guides to help them cosplay better or supernatural nonsense). The dichotomy between the MCs POV of the interactions and the customers' is hilarious. Truly a unique read that I can't recommend highly enough. Hopefully gets picked up for regular translation.
An interesting premise and decent idea. HOWEVER : 1)The novel is very blatant in its "propaganda" for a certain country with the standard "this country is the only one with actual intelligence and civility, The rest are barbarians that want to join us." 2) This is a harem, The difference from the standard harem being that there is no romance. In other words the worst parts of harem only. MC is the only male even mentioned for the majority of the story. 3) Issues constantly regarding any mention of price as the translator couldn't copy-paste the symbol properly. 4) Very point to point. Curious if a certain character will be ongoing/reoccuring? Is she an attractive woman? If so then yes. Is the woman, who just turned up immediately after an info dump regarding a "mysterious" topic, related to said topic? Yes directly. Overall : I despise harem but this novel could still be barrable if it weren't for the constant "meta commentary" and "Pro-(a certain country)" propaganda, It isn't even well masked. This novel is around 70% pro-certain country propaganda and using false history to make it sound glorious, 10% describing women, 10% info dumping, 5% MC prattling about playing LoL and 5% of actual interesting story. Would not recommend unless you are utterly desperate.
To be fair, let me begin by saying that the novel is not necessarily bad. The idea is decent and while it is tedious at times, it is better than most novels in the trial read. Heck, if I didn't read till ch150 in raw, I would have given it a 4-4.2. But I did and all I can say is that the amount of propaganda in this novel is downright ridiculous to the point that I can't read without cringing. Basically, the story is primarily based on an alternate world where Federal Empire, aka alternate China, is the strongest (no problem with this one) and most compassionate nation in the planet. Every 5 chapters, there is a description of Federal Empire is righteous, helpful, compassionate etc. Every time MC opens television, which is after every 10 chapters or after end of an arc, we get the news reporter talking about how Federal Empire helped X nation, how X nations were begging to be a part of Federal Empire, about how great and righteous Federal Empire people are etc. Sure, multiverse also exists, but we don't get much description about their nations/societies coz apocalypse is upon them. Here are some key points of the novel which 'stood out' to me: 1. Silla and Fushang (Alternate S.Korea and Japan) regularly organize mass campaigns to plead/beg for a chance to be a part of federal empire. But Federal Empire (alt China) rejects them coz FE is way too awesome to have them. 2. United Kingdom of Butania (aka Britain) got reduced from the biggest empire of the world to UK because of Federal Empire. Additionally, it was Federal Empire, with its righteousness, that liberated the colonies occupied by Butania, aka britain. 3. It's not just Silla and Fushang. Almost all nations in South-east Asia rely on Federal Empire for security. It is only under the leadership of FE that they can avert threats. These nations frequently beg FE for help. FE helps them because they are a righteous nation. (This is followed by 2 paragraphs of how FE is the most morally superior nation in the world) 4. If you have the blood of immigrants(not just refugees but also legal immigrants), you can't become a FE citizen. Also, it is only right and morally just for the government to monitor them on a weekly basis because immigrants (again, not just refugees but legal as well) are all potential threats to the nation. Based on the logic of the author (this scene has not occurred in novel but if the laws of FE were applied in RL, this is what would happen), a person, their mother/father as well as grandfather/grandmother can be born and raised in the nation. However, if their ancestors are immigrants, they can't be trusted nor become the citizens of FE unless there is a special circumstance. They need to be grateful for the compassionate and righteous FE for providing them shelter otherwise, they will simply deport them. (Deport where? Citizenship is based on birth or naturalization, not ethnicity. Which nation would take them?) Justification- Excerpt from the chapter after one of the 13 temples or smt was pawed by the kitten- "Don't ask. Only those of the same race can be trusted." 5. Found it pretty weird how enemies cursed Federal Empire by praising them. Excerpt from ch 142 - "Although she was young, she knew that this nation of benevolence and righteousness was the root of her problems! Without their rise, today's Butania would still be a world empire where the sun would never set!" (Who tf praises the nation which destroyed their empire through warfare, not diplomacy, as benevolent?) 6. When MC was being encouraged to date and marry by the govt, I thought that the nation had low population or smt. But nah, it seems like the population is 2 billion with overpopulation problems. Turns out they needed him to date and marry because his parents were class A contributors. I guess only children of good Han people are beneficial for the empire. 7. There was also the part about Shang dynasty, which I guess is already TLed
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Why the hell was this novel removed from the voting list, it has just been 20 days , and it had more supports than that piece of trash chinese racism filled i am gamer bullshit novel. While that book had been present there for far longer. And yet you remove this novel from the list, and choose that one. another example of how bullshit and discriminatory this app is. Fuck you webnovel, i am gonna pirate all novels from now on, screw you.
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I actually would recommend this novel. I have only read a couple chapters but it has potential. I have to rate it one start on principle though, because YOU FORGOT THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF THE NOVEL?! I dunno how you mess that up, but since they're missing, we don't have any idea how the story starts! I looked at the raws, and read some poor MTL of the first two chapters! I know they're missing! There's not even any reason to have them missing, they're normal chapters! I'd appreciate it if you would just fix this.
I don't know if the author is dumb or not, but he actually thinks that in some parrallel dimension Japan and Korea would actually want to give up independence and join China or xiA, LOL. In his wet dreams maybe. This is a very nationalistic book. And it is racist. Don't read or vote
another xenophobic nationalist garbage. the writer or shill as you may want to call it is quite openly displaying his bigotry is there was ever am Olympic event for hate and fantasy he would get it. lol japan begging to be ther part. Korea begging for votes to join the.. what nonsense.
Fuck you webnovel Why the hell was this novel removed from the voting list??? Fuck you webnovel x2 Fuck you webnovel x3 Fuck you webnovel x4
he kids do you love chinese nationalism, do you crave the mighty cok of ccp, do you want to kill your own countrymen and it's culture to join the glorious chinese empire, do you want to see the an anceint omnipotent god lick chinese governments ahole, this is the book for you this book is set in a fictional world with magic, gods and Japanese people who want to work in chinese labour camps "willingly" and chinese defeated the British (lol) in 8th opium war, this novel is a self insert wetdream of a delusional han chinese nationalist high on ketamine and propoganda
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Great read, but nobody picks it up for translatig but Ifound this site where they translate from chapter 61, if you like this novel it might interest you http://twosisters.rf.gd/
well the idea is great, but china is sucking themselves alittle bit to hard of imo. Its just annoying to read every chapter about how great the federation is and how the mc is a law abiding citizen. yikes
WebNovel you have been a major disappointment so far. It seems money can make you even sell your mothers. I once read an article somewhere complaining about your mode of conduct. It stated that you don't give shit about anybody, including yourselves, apart from money. Now I can see their point crystal clear.
this story is way better then pretty much 80% of the stuff i've read on here why was it dropped from the list?? please translate it for us i'm sure im not the only one who would like it to be translated.
A brief story summary: Ling PingAn is a well read NEET in charge of his own bookstore with no money problems at all becouse of fantasy gov. subsides, at day he has no clients at all, but at night when a strange fog sets in, strange cosplayers and weirdos (with no money) come in and buy books from him in exchange of rare objects or even food, although he's a bit vexed that he's not making any money, he doesn't really need it anyway and the weird objects are usually high quality goods that he has never seen, so he takes in stride. This is how he sees things. And now this is how his clients see things. In their respective post-apocalyptic words, there's no hope for man to survive, every day is a miserable battle against hopelessness becouse Diablos (I imagine they meant "Devils") have taken over the world and humans have become an endangered species, less than cattle. When roaming that desolate landscape they encountered a mysterious fog that nulified their supernatural powers, in fear they approached the to source of light and encountered a dinky bookstore. Inside, they were faced with all kinds of horrors and an out of place "man" behind the counter, an otherwise normal body with deep fog surrounding his head and bright light where his eyes should be (think Kurogiri from MHA), this man offered them forbidden knowledge in exchange for the corresponding price, what they understood for a corresponding price was of course their lifespam, their soul or their sanity. In a desperate gambit they offer all the values that they had on them at the time and, unexpectedly, he accepted the trade. With this new knowledge in hand they seek to change the fate of mankind in their respective worlds and if posible, seek help again from this terrifying new "Ally". TLDR: Lovecraftian horror gives away forbidden knowledge at a bargain As for my review, its well made but it sometimes stretches too long, but its not really a problem to me. Its also a bit nationalistic? But not really racist, it is however a very idealized fantasy Chinese empire where a returner came back and made all the right choices to make it the greatest nation ever made, but its not the tipical malicious jingoism where they shit on every country, its a goverment that's basically perfect with little to no corruption that solves everything they set out to do and its very honorable and everyone likes them and wants to be like them, basically China is a huge Mary Sue, but at the same time, its a somewhat pure and innocent kind of Mary Sue, something like the 60's Adam West Batman, but not as charming. Anyway, 5 stars, hope this gets picked.
It was ok for me even if the story has nationalism but an mc that was just a puppet of a country was not my thing. A God creator of all was just a puppet of his mortal aunt. Mc is just going to be a sponsor for the country to be stronger he was living in without knowing it and even if he knows that, he will gladly appreciate it that they take advantage of him because of the plot that he was a good civil person. All I want is an mc that make his own rule not follow other rule. That is why I read Chinese novel for breaking the rules of the top but now all I see was just follow them and be good to them WTH. Brilliant Idea But Disaster Strike Again
For the person who picked up this book thank soooo much. I am so happy someone picked it up as I though it would be buried forever. Thank you. Once again I give my gratitude to you for being a special human being and apricciating this novel's worth.
Good Book. It features an op mc BUT he doesn’t know he is OP. This book seems to incorporate themes of fantasy(his bookstore is connected to other worlds), mystery(he doesn’t know yet that he is OP, we, the readers will read along to find out why he’s OP) and myth (gods and demons exist within his world). The author also seems to be rather respectful to foreigners, at worst, he has a neutral opinion. Only con is idk what the plot is. It seems like we are just following the mc’s ‘discovery’ (like i said he doesn’t know he is OP neither does he know about other worlds and gods, he’s basically in the dark but somehow connecting the worlds together.) of fantasy and sci-fi elements.