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A review by vespix
The Husky & His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
Did not finish book. Stopped at 66%.
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Trigger warning: wanton sexual harassment. This reprobate one liked it anyway.
Unlike Heaven's Official's Blessing in the same genre, I found 2ha well written and/or well translated. The prose was good, the humour hit, the plot got satisfactorily far in its almost 500 pages. The plot is twisted and fucked up, but you have been warned of that already.
Taxian-jun, the evil emperor of the cultivation world, had once been just Mo Ran, a disciple of a proper cultivational sect. He'd had a bright future ahead of him, but his mentor's failure — refusal — to save his belovedʼs life had pushed him onto the dark path. He'd avenged himself in time, defeating his mentor, Chu Wanning, and keeping him as a pet captive for years before ultimately murdering him.
In the first chapter, we see the last of Taxian-jun. Tired of living, he takes poison rather than fall to a rebel army at his gates, and passes with no further regrets. To his surprise, he wakes up after that, and it is in the body of his fifteen-year-old self, when his life was good and none of the tragedies that would form Taxian-jun had yet happened.
And so Mo Ran, in possession of all his wisdom and memories from the previous life, decides to cheese his way through his second run. He already knows the steps, the traps and opportunities. He is prepared to save his beloved's life on his own, and to hell with his mentor...
Alas, his once-terrifying shizun Chu Wanning is irrevocably superimposed in his mind over the man heʼd held as a bed slave for years, and between the resulting blunders and his attempts to meddle, the future may yet twist out of Mo Ran's hand...
Unlike Heaven's Official's Blessing in the same genre, I found 2ha well written and/or well translated. The prose was good, the humour hit, the plot got satisfactorily far in its almost 500 pages. The plot is twisted and fucked up, but you have been warned of that already.
Taxian-jun, the evil emperor of the cultivation world, had once been just Mo Ran, a disciple of a proper cultivational sect. He'd had a bright future ahead of him, but his mentor's failure — refusal — to save his belovedʼs life had pushed him onto the dark path. He'd avenged himself in time, defeating his mentor, Chu Wanning, and keeping him as a pet captive for years before ultimately murdering him.
In the first chapter, we see the last of Taxian-jun. Tired of living, he takes poison rather than fall to a rebel army at his gates, and passes with no further regrets. To his surprise, he wakes up after that, and it is in the body of his fifteen-year-old self, when his life was good and none of the tragedies that would form Taxian-jun had yet happened.
And so Mo Ran, in possession of all his wisdom and memories from the previous life, decides to cheese his way through his second run. He already knows the steps, the traps and opportunities. He is prepared to save his beloved's life on his own, and to hell with his mentor...
Alas, his once-terrifying shizun Chu Wanning is irrevocably superimposed in his mind over the man heʼd held as a bed slave for years, and between the resulting blunders and his attempts to meddle, the future may yet twist out of Mo Ran's hand...
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexual harassment