Mostly abusive love, were one gives all his/her love to another and the other just for the other to keep rejecting, until in the end something happens and bla bla bla, they get together and live happily ever after. oh! and also Smutty stories with no feelings, that completely turns me off, i just bolt from the novel.

    Umm, I have one question, didn't all of you pay attention to the tag? Because most of the r18+ novels have their tags. Be it harem, incest, or sxescene, gore whatever it is on it. Sometimes there is also a warning in the description.

    In my opinion, consistency in the story/character is crucial. I'd like to explain it but it's going to be long text. So, I'll just sum it up. In an example, a smart MC should act to know how it supposedly means smart. If not, it would be a cliché. I'm not saying I hate clichés, but too much cliché is not good. It's better to add it with an element of surprise or something related with 'out of mc's control'.
    Sometimes, I imagine a spineless author making a smart MC. Quite fascinating indeed. Well, more precisely a lazy author. Working hard to irritate the readers.

      Chaotic_Joker for me it's especially when they keep changing the He and She for a character. In Chinese novels have difficulties to determine if the character is a boy or a girl.

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          Nerdy_Joker_101 sorry I didn't reply earlier. I'm seeing this just now. As for the profile photo I guess you changed yours before I did mine😉. And as for trial marriage husband I didn't really finish the book so my thoughts are based on the impression I got from the first few chapters. I was busy reading rebirth of the godly prodigal, history's number one founder, elixir supplier and yh so didn't have time to finish trial marriage
          Although I write romance I'm not really a fan of it, come to think of it my novels barely have any.

              Abuse, incest, step sibling (it’s weird), sexualizing children, too possessive and play type construction. I want to be able to envision the story, characters and scene. Perhaps I’m too picky?

                Darth_Xiane
                Forty Millenniums of Cultivation is technically a sci-fi / cultivation hybrid story... but they never hide that and it is out in the open from the very start.
                What I love is how in the later chapters the author uses the book to explore many diverse and interesting concepts.
                Like Dark forest theory of the three-body problem, and The three laws of Robotics in a different context.
                Some of the stuff just blows your mind.

                    1. Novels with harem.
                    2. Novels with never ending face slaps like how the MC gets looked down on and then the MC will redeem himself and he will be the centre of attention (e.g. Library of Heaven's Path, like almost every chapter has different kinds of face slapping incidents, it's annoying in the long run)
                    3. Have you guys ever realized how redundant some paragraphs in Chinese novels in particular? Rather than adding other details, Authors chose to rephrase some paragraphs instead just to reach the minimum or maximum number of words per chapter. It's like a waste of time to read. You're expecting more information only to be led into circles.
                    4. Arrogant MCs
                    5. MCs' with disgusting or lecherous personality.
                    6. Open-ended endings or forced endings with still a lot of questions left unanswered.

                    There are a lot of things to not like but most comes down to bad writing quality/storytelling. Here are a few examples

                    • Bad motives for actions. People have a reason to do things and it is the same in a novel, just make sure there is a good reason. One of the worst things that is seen in a lot of novels is the idiotic young masters that for really poor reasons does everything he can to make the life of the mc worse. More often than not these guys have poor motives and are therefor seen as spoiled idiots. If an mc has to constantly battle these kinds of fellows than it doesn't make him look cool or anything, the mc would just be an idiot beater (in other words create good well thought through opponents because the level of opponent rubs off on the reputation of the main character)
                    • hypocrisy. A lot of main characters complain about the situation they or their family or country are in but when they are the ones in power they do the exact same thing to other people/cities/countries. This one can make me unsubscribe from a novel.
                    • nationalism. Nationalism is bad but patriotism is okay. The difference is in how you view people not from your nation. Do you respect them or are they seen as enemies? Another difference would be in how bad actions from your own side are viewed, do you want to improve to prevent those bad actions or do you try to justify them by blaming the victims? (E.g. what is often seen in translated novels is the inability to separate the actions from a government to the actions of its citizens)
                    • harems. I don't necessarily think an harem is always bad but since I have only read 2 novels (out of 250+ novels in the genre) where I thought the harem was implemented in a somewhat acceptable way I generally am not a fan of harems.
                    • And my last point in contrast to my previous points is more a personal preference thing than something that can be objectively measured. A main character does not have to have an unlikable aspect but somewhere there are very very very few main characters who do not have an unlikable aspect to their personality. Don't get me wrong I'm not asking for a perfect person because I think there is a difference between an unlikable personality and aspects that are not great but not unlikable either. For instance the novel Super Gene has a main character who is so greedy that he wants to earn money from family, friends, everyone. He even charges his direct family for resources and makes a profit in them. Being cautious with money is smart, being frugal can be a way to become rich faster but charging everyone, including close family's, and charge enough to have a profit margin ridiculously higher than what is average for the rest of the world is going too far for me.
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