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Im still against the idea of authors being allowed to delete reviews but i've come to terms with it; Qidian is Qidian. I'm of the belief that all criticism, good or bad, should be allowed. The negative spam bots and the trolls do need to be accounted for, but I feel like Qidian should just make a bot detection system, and find some report and review system for trolls. Giving authors the permission to just silence all criticism is going way overboard.

Instead of asking for a recommendation, Im recommending you fellow readers to go read this novel. Ill be transparent and state that its a trial read, and even though the growth rate is pretty fast already, we all know how weird and kinda shady webnovel/qidian is when it comes to picking up trial reads. Im hoping by recommending it to others, it will grow even faster and therefore have a better chance of being picked up.

Here is a short summary of what the book is about so that whomever views this can get a gist of themselves whether it'd be a novel they like:

Xiang Kun is a 30 year old programmer who recently lost his job because his company went bankrupt. After a long night of drinking, he blacks out and wakes up 2 days later in his apartment feeling... different. After visiting the hospital and determining he's fine, a weird series of events start to happen. First his all his teeth come out, and brand new ones start to grow back in their place, all his hair falls out, and all his skin peels off as though he's a snake going through shedding. He also determines that he is slightly stronger, and has better senses, and he no longer craves food. In fact, he vomits whenever he tries to eat. He's worried a lot at first, and thinks he's contracted a serious illness, but I'm all sure us readers know; he's become a vampire.

Things I like about the novel:

• The MC is very intelligent. As soon as the changes start to happen to him, he starts logging every single change, whether its obvious things like how far he can see/hear, experimenting to see what foods he can stomach more (even though in the end they still make him vomit), to his weight, his mental stability, and his sleeping patterns. He even sets up cameras to record himself and save for his log of experimentation, like recording himself drinking blood, cutting himself to see if he regenerates, and sometimes recording himself sleeping to record his own sleeping habits. He goes through his whole change very scientifically, and I really enjoy it as this isn't something you see often in novels.

• All the characters, while not fully realistically fleshed out; they are a lot better developed than most other novels. There hasn't been one 'young arrogant master' or some d*uche trying to make trouble with him yet, although he has stopped a knife waving psycho. Who i would assume to be the female lead, while we haven't seen a lot of her yet, I feel like she's developed well and funny as well since she nicknames the MC 'saitama' due to the fact that MC is super strong and is bald.

• While I don't know if there will be more 'vampirical' humans besides the MC, there has been one other vampirical creature that the MC has killed and drank the blood of to grow stronger, so im interested as to where the plot will develop and how the mystery of how the MC became a vampire will get solved.

If you have read to here, thank you for taking your time, and I really hope this post at least persuades some of you to go read this novel. I enjoy it a lot, and I feel it'd be a shame for it to not be picked up.

I think they screwed up and sent it to everyone. I got sent it aswell but i never even participated.

The message said "Dear ARMY, ..." so I think whoever has the username "ARMY" won, but webnovel sent it out to everyone instead of just "ARMY"

Edit: Nvm "ARMY" is literally the the type of contest it was I guess. The participants were the army. I dont recall ever participating though.

SarahWeaver6 See above, Im also not trying to dogpile on that one author, i just wanted to point out how that author cant seem to take any criticism so i would not be surprised if he had been badgering qidian admins to remove my review. I had even complimented his writing in my review, i just had too many qualms with some elements of his 'novel'.

and censorship does not have to be this whole grandiose political thing, censorship at its simplest is "the suppression of speech" and deleting negative reviews is just that.

JVenior

I can almost guarantee you that there were no inflammatory/trolly statements made about the author in my review, i might have been a bit boisterous about how he was using polls to decide the direction the story was going, but im pretty sure i made no attacks against the author. it was about the novel itself and the points i disagreed with in the writing. It might have been considered 'spoilery' but i only talked about things in the first 20 chapters, and its a 600 chapter long novel ffs

Made a short video showing off the frustrating bug

So far these are confirmed to be plagiarized:
https://www.webnovel.com/book/10851620606190505
https://www.webnovel.com/book/10835104505183005/Forgotten-Conqueror
https://www.webnovel.com/book/10843788005186705/The-Good-Student
https://www.webnovel.com/book/10848515506189505/The-Snake-Report

This one, though not 100% confirmed, is almost certain to be plagiarized as well
https://www.webnovel.com/book/10863697606193405/What-Is-It-Like-To-Be-Eternal%3F

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/hacker/

25 chapters in and pretty much dropped by the TL, its an actually completed novel at around 1.8k chapters and it seems pretty interesting from those first 25 chapters that came out, so....

Pickup pls?