Author: bafflinghaze
Chapters: 113 chapters + 13 extras
Publication: 2021
Summary from Chrysanthemum Garden:
Wen Zhihao is tired of life. When he dies…meh. That’s life.
But when he gets transmigrated into the body of a young cultivator of the prestigious Golden Sun Sect, full of possibilities…no thanks! He has no effort/energy to work hard on cultivation! He just wants to be a salted fish!
…it turns out sleeping = meditation and absently watching beautiful scenery = meditation.
And meditation = cultivation…
This is not the Dao of Indifference. This is the Dao of the Salted Fish!! With calm emotions, Wen Zhihao accidentally cultivates strongly!
…but he’s still a salted fish, bah. Don’t make him fight!
Feat: slow build / slice of life~ [subtitle: Salted Fish Cultivator~]
MY REVIEW:
Made it to chapter 53 before giving up.
I really tried to give it a chance, but I just got SO BORED. I understand that this is a slice of life novel, but the writing and characters really couldn't keep my attention.
If you've read enough fanfiction, then you can easily recognize the writing style. I don't know how to describe it other than amateurish writing that adds too many unnecessary details in most sentences.
The characters themselves weren't that interesting and were pretty stereotypical. Wen Zhihao basically treated everyone around him as kids just because he was mentally older than his peers, and Sun Fuyu was the pure shou who fell for the first person to be kind to him. Their fluffy interactions actually weren't that fluffy for me since it felt like an older bro spoiling his younger bro with the younger bro mistaking his feelings for something more since someone was nice to him.
Author: 扇墨竹
Chapters: 74 chapters
Publication: 2020
Summary from Novel Updates:
After the three-and-a-half year old MiaoMiao was rescued from the human traffickers, the entire very rich Wen family placed the little princess that they had nearly lost into their hearts.
So…
When Father Wen just finished a video conference, and was just about to get ready to go inspect the company, MiaoMiao tugged the hem of his clothes, puffed up her cheeks and stared at him.
“If Daddy doesn’t accompany me to the hospital, I refuse to go get the body checkup!”
“Okay, okay, okay, I’ll listen to everything the little princess says.”
So as a result, during the health checkup it was discovered that Father Wen had early stage lung cancer. Due to the timely discovery, Father Wen recovered very smoothly.
Brother Wen planned to take his wife and sons to a foreign country for a vacation, the tickets were all booked, but MiaoMiao wanted to be with her nephews, so they changed their destination at the last moment.
Brother Wen gently patted the troublemaker MiaoMiao and said, “Wherever you go on vacation is the same, so we’ll just follow what MiaoMiao says.”
On the day of departure, the flight they were originally planned on taking crashed, with no survivors.
The Wen family looked towards their naive and innocent daughter, she is their lucky star!
From then on, the Wen family’s MiaoMiao is the Wen family’s sky, the Wen family’s earth, and the Wen family’s truth.
***
MiaoMiao has an older sister called System, but no one else knows.
Sister System told her that as long as she gets close to her family, she can use her family’s Intimacy Values to increase her family’s wealth, charm, health, luck, and even change their tragic future.
MiaoMiao worked tirelessly being a little tail to change the fate of her family. When she peacefully returned to kindergarten, she met a little chubby boy.
The kids at the kindergarten laughed at him for being fat and bullied him. MiaoMiao immediately stood in front of him to protect him.
“So what if he’s a fatty, Fatty has good potential!”
When MiaoMiao discovered the Sister System can help the little fatty lose weight, MiaoMiao chose to help him without any hesitation.
When little fatty got skinnier, he became known as a little handsome boy, he could even fight well too. After counterattacking he grew up with MiaoMiao as childhood sweethearts.
After growing up, MiaoMiao discovered that from early on, she has held this “good potential” in her hand.
MY REVIEW:
I only read halfway through chapter 9, but it was enough for me to realize that I wasn't interested in this book. Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of slice of life novels, but I am starting to realize maybe I'm not into slice of life novels from a kid's perspective.
Being a kid is really limiting compared to an adult, and their daily antics aren't that interesting when they have a system that basically explains everything (including how to solve their current problems) to them. There wasn't much tension or anticipation because all of her family's problems were solved almost instantly.
Also, the book goes into excruciating details about MiaoMiao's day including solving math homework and her whole Kindergarten itinerary, which was really boring for me as a reader. I think I just need more excitement or drama in a book to keep my attention.
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