Xiao Yu'an has already died once and now he's about to die again. He has been transmigrated from his life to him as a dominant CEO who liked web novels to the world of his favorite story to him.
Yu'an awakens as the evil ruler of the equally evil Northern Empire and he knows exactly who will kill him! It'll be none other than the protagonist, Yan Heqing, a brave prince who swore vengeance after having been conquered.
Yu'an knows that he must change the plot of the story in order to survive but… was the hero always this handsome?
I loved this. I originally read some of the comic 1st and found it a bit meh. The novel is 100% better and I'm glad I gave the story a 2nd chance.
The main and side characters are brilliant. It had great pacing and I was invested in the plot.
Xiao Yu'an (ML) is a cinnamon roll who deserves happiness. I really liked how the relationship between him and Yan Heqing (ML) developed. I'm praying the series has a happy ending as the ending for this volume left a tear in my eye.
Definitely will be picking up vol 2.
On a side note, Rosmei have done a fantastic job with making the paperbacks for these. The paper and print is high quality. I will gladly buy books made by them again.
I could barely read the last few pages through my tears 😭 First chapter threw me for a loop and I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this book (TW for animal death and suicide). However once the MC transmigrated, I fell in love with Xiao Yu’an and the story. Nice amount of humor throughout the book also.
Similar to Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint and SVSSS, the MC is transmigrated into a novel and we are dealing with the Butterfly Effect with every decision made. This is vol. 1 published by Rosmei with two more volumes expected (no release dates yet).
✔️Transmigration ✔️ Historical ✔️ Enemies to lovers
It starts out as a silly little story, we're all laughing at the main character being transmigrated to his favourite stallion novel, but things get real soon. Xiao Yu'an turns from a funny little guy to realising that yes, those were just characters on a webpage, but now they are real people and his actions affect them.
I love all the side couples and if anything happens to any of them I will cry like a baby (already did a few times, so I'm sure it will happen again!).
Also, I can't emphasise enough, one of the side couples is sapphic!!! Haven't seen that in a danmei before.
Well i thought this will be a nice, maybe fun read, but hey, it ripped out my heart and trampled on it :D and it probably will, because there are still two books missing.
It starts like any other transmgiration novel, killing himself in our world and whoops, he's in a stallion web novel as the emperor, that will be killed by the hand of the stallion harem collecting male protagonist. There is some part, where Xiao is a... domineering CEO in his former life, and hes spouting those CEO lines all the time in over the half of the book, and I really didn't get the humour? I guess it's a chinese thing maybe. And he always talked in front of the book chars of main female lead etc., which was a bit ???? i mean, he's the emperor okay, but if the emperor of a country spouts nonesense all the time, wouldn't the people try to get him off the throne? I dunno. I kind off would have liked the stor ymore, without the transmigration stuff, but well whatever.
The first half of the book is sweet, Xiao tries to change the story of the book, save people who are dying in the novel, and ofc tries to get on the good side of the MC, whos destined to kill him. It's really nice, like.. it's all so cute, but there's this whole underlying... thing.. like.. will it really work?
Suprise at the 70% mark it suddenly turns so.fucking.dark. Like holy shit, i didn't expected THAT plot twist to happen. I loved it, but also ... ;_; hrng. I really doubt this will end with a happy end? I'm really curious, because.. ugh. It's well written and you can understand all the characters and their decisions in a land full of war or eminent war.
The worst (and best because drama) is to see all the efforts Xiao Yuan makes to change the story, but .. it probably turns even worse for him and the ones he wants to save.
Me: Finally a light hearted danmei novel, I have been reading way too much angst recently! The humor is so funny! My friend: Hm..... Uhm...
So yes I ate my words a hundredfold and am now in pain waiting for the next volume. Xiao Yuan... Your warm eyes and smiles and spontaneous singing are everything
Suffers from extreme pacing issues and lack of character development. Honestly, if we were given more time to flesh things out between each plot development, this would read much better.