well, not gonna lie, i read all of jiong jiong you yao's novel and she's not exactly very good at starting novels but before reading i am prepared thqt they were gonna be bizzare.

but when you just read something with an oh-so-interesting synopsis but the content is just blargh, it ticks me off.

i think qidian itself has a lot of really good romance novels, and webnovel translated some of them but unfortunately, they are dropped. you see, not a lot of people would pay for a logical novel so let's just get stuck here.

    ags2020b Nah... That's also our enemy here... Harem is good, when all the characters, and I mean all of it got the highlight they deserve.
    Writing a novel where the men have a massive harem is hard because the novel tends to become boring quickly.
    -The sex scene becomes repetitive as there are too many women.
    -we tend to forget who is this certain woman as there are too many characters.
    -the only highlight the women get is when they are having sex.
    -most harem has gloomy or maybe not so great protagonist, the only great thing he might have is his dick, big lust, and his cheat. Everything else suck.

        shadowdrake27 True!!!! We want a harem with a plot!! Break the stereotype of the harem stories!!!
        -don't make the Protagonist gloomy and dense!! Make him smart and cool!!
        -don't make him a pervert and a jerk!! make him the kindest person but still a sadist but caring at the same time!!! that's hot!!!!
        -make him respect others don't treat other people as his enemy all the time!!!
        - I don't want every girl he meets to become one of his harems!! At least make some of them not interested in him at all!! Create a lot of diversity and balance!!!
        -don't make him the only one with a harem and cheats, make someone else has harems too!!! Not as an enemy, but as an ally!!!! That way, the protagonist will have friends to talk about their same interests.

            SrtaA or they were both drugged, slept with each other, both no recollection of the night, woman pregnant, raises child on her own

            Variation: child somehow gets raised by the father, mother thinks child was a death born or miscarriage...

            And even without child they often just fall in love. A girl from the childhood, someone they saw once in the past and ever since liked them or even just someone they saw once outside their office window etc you name it

              SrtaA oh yeah and somehow it's always the supposedly strong female lead that has to endure without a way out. Yes people in love may act stupid sometimes and endure even if they could escape but then don't describe it as if she can't escape. If you write she can't escape she's not strong.

              So as nearly always the synopsis in the book is wrong. Often there are "snippets" from the book that sound amazing but you'll never read them in the actual novel? Wth! So I rarely read them anymore

                  Alpha_Medic actually I never read this because I usually don't like to do/read/ etc things that are hyped. And most of the time those things aren't you know the real deal. Just what I'm thinking

                    123removed yeah! And isn't is fun to have a confident woman who also may tease you? I mean I'm not a man but as a woman I like to read more about those strong woman who can keep their men in check (in a balanced way of giving and taking hope you get what I mean).

                    Question to you men out there: do you really prefer a shy innocent girl or a woman who knows what she want and how to get it? I mean both have their charms but would you be satisfied with the forever pure girl?

                        shadowdrake27 oh my goodness yes the hindrances and arguments have gone missing nowadays it's just peace, joy and pancakes (Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen) how we Germans would say. Nothing to build and strengthen your relationship.

                        And also endless indulgent and pampering without stop... No wonder the girls go insane and do stupid things if no one ever stops them 🙄

                            Reinesse

                            Yeah but the thing is the synopsis is wrong most of the time. I noticed that (for the books I read) most of the time the snippet from the synopsis is nowhere found inside the novel. So what if the snippet is the reason I'm reading the novel? It feels like fraud in broad daylight

                              Lievel_Veltrandt absolutely! I am currently reading a good novel with a strong FL. Yeah she has her weaknesses and hadn't has much time to shine yet but I feel like there'll be more. Just not to long ago she crashed her car into an enemy and jumped out in the last second. Yeah not very intelligent but I think the characters are very well written and developed. (doing a bit of advertising I usually dont: the days when im with you)

                              Also I really liked its not easy to be a men after traveling into the future but you nearly forget that the FL is a woman. And I think it got dropped after nearly 1500 ch 😭

                              So what I wanted to say is that there are a few hidden gems out there but it takes much time and failure to dig them up and uncover them in this dirt. There are way to many novels that get pushed out by webnovel 🙄

                                Winzentwinni

                                Peace, joy, and pancakes. I love that, haha. We don’t have an expression like that here in the U.S. that I’m aware of.

                                It’s frustrating to read a story or romance without struggles because it’s not relatable. Struggles always happen in real life relationships. The people you fight the most with are often the ones you love the most.

                                    shadowdrake27 yeah and you have to get to know your partner. You just can't decide I love him/her now and then be so dedicated... Love just doesn't work this way.

                                    I mean I can understand that you sometimes just want to read such happy (peace joy and pancakes 😉) kind of story's because I was like that too and even now I get the urge to read something light like this once in a while. But it doesn't last long. And also it's just once in a while.... You can't read such brainless things the whole time

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