scarlett1414 Oh, God...I hate that too. There was one story I liked where the female lead is a doctor, and I'm glad the manhua version ended that way (I think it was CEO's Sudden Proposal or Flash Marriage Deep Love, depending on who translated it). However, the readers of the novel told me that the doctor female lead for no reason decided to switch careers later in the story and become a designer. Like what the f?! How does one switch from being a doctor to a designer? It's like all these CEO authors have some sort of obsession with not just CEOs, but the entertainment industry.
What’s a trope you are tired of seeing?
Harem, isekai, video game leveling up type of power system, and overpowered main characters, it's amazing how common these type of series are to like 90% of readers on this site and any other.
Mai0414 Novels with too much smut. Don't get me wrong, I don't have an issue with such content. Its just when every few chapters there is a 5 chapter long smut scene, it gets old rather quickly. If you can't seem to conjure up any real content, then maybe you should be writing porn instead of a novel... JS
Tomoyuki That happened?! WTF?! Do you really think any real life doctor would one day switch careers for absolutely no reason after spending more than a decade of study, med school, and residency on top of a student debt of more than 50k!? Hell no! They would absolutely not do that! The Fck!? Where is the logic in that?!
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Mai0414 I know, right? I think the author of that webnovel needs a reality check.
The manhua was so much better. The ending fell off a little, but the manhua improved on most of the characters and didn't bother with the horrible drama that the original webnovel was known for (divorce, 5-year timeskip, switching from being a doctor to a designer, running away overseas, murder, kidnapping, etc.).
Yo. What trope is this? I WANT TO READ IT 
Misguided_Rooster I laughed so much at this list OMG!!!!!
The trope i hate the most is DragonBall syndrome...
X is recognized as the strongest entity in the land which everyone recognizes.
Until you leave it.
Then Y is the strongest on the planet which every also recognizes.
Until you leave it.
Z is the strongest in the solar system, which everybody knows, its common knowledge that is never before mentioned.
The question is... if everyone knew about Y and Z how the fark was X ever considered the strongest? And NOBODY brings Y and Z up in X's region because... reasons. But everybody knew about them.
This is called power creep. Once goku beats someone, they have to invent a more powerful villain or the story ends. It happens a lot. The plot looks like this:
MC is weak or average
Villain needs to be stopped
MC randomly gets new power or does a small “training arc”
MC beats down villain in like 30 seconds
MC is strongest in universe
New villain shows up and beats MC
MC randomly gets stronger or trains for about 5 more minutes
repeat forever
I don't agree with the "what readers expect" part.
no way I can help with that, just look at what you like and work from there.
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Coming across a comment on Disqus, I just remembered another trope I really, really hate.
Aphrodisiacs. Or situations where the protagonist and a beautiful woman are forced to do dual cultivation (sex) in order to survive. It can be excessive qi and their meridians are about to expode, or some stupid gu, or cure for some poison, or to give the qi to an injured party to repair his/her meridians, but come on. Often it's just used as an excuse to justify the male protagonist getting laid with a beautiful heroine and adding her to his harem. Worse, he often ends up raping her (because aphrodisiac) and she somehow falls in love with him because...why, exactly? Because he declares that he will take responsibility or he randomly becomes strong later? So being strong justifies rape? What the f?
MC always becomes a lord of death in system novels. Like always, it's fine when done right, but not all the time.
Tomoyuki this is a good point. some MC's potentially power trips ladies. LOL
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Misguided_Rooster Sisters are cute! Sisters are justice! Well, unless they have no comedic effect, personality, or anything of the sort in the story except for looking pretty.
DemonizedDemon
That's what he said. He isn't against women, or sisters for that matter. He's simply disgusted by the fact that they add women to the story simply because they're women.
I'm tired of seeing a trope where the MC suffered from family problems, found out her fiance was cheating on her, then got pregnant of had a one night stand with some unknown man who happened to become a CEO, then got abusive and yet they still manage to keep the relationship despite how abusive and toxic it is.