This is a novel about someone's life so it's only natural. It may be a webnovel, but the inconsistent pacing is unlike one. It meanders just like a river flowing along the mountainside, like this unnecessarily long sentence.
For a webnovel, not compared to books in general. Real review under the equality signs below. Avoid if you want sorely power fantasy, wish-fulfillment, intense action, cultivation stuff, clear cut good/bad, and fast gratification. TL DR: read if you like politics, nuances, thinking, and philosophy and likes to enjoy a long detailed read that will eventually thread together. Seriously, check the tags it's hilarious that people complain that "this is about politics, scheming and conspiracies" when it is tagged exactly as such in the first place. What it is NOT is action, power fantasy, xianxia. What is this about? Politics, slice-of-life, existential philosophy, nuances, maybe even a bit of an examination of reincarnation/time-travelling tropes.
JOY OF LIFE MOVIE
So don't rate it less stars simply because it lacks cultivation and fighting, the same way you wouldn't rate a really good slice-of-life romance movie 1/10 simply because you were expecting to watch a horror movie but walked into the wrong room at the movie theater. At best, you can say it has Wuxia elements. It has never been Xianxia even "technically speaking". Once again, it's not a cultivation novel. Yes, it's slow, it might be hard to wait for chapter-by-chapter updates, but then when you in one go you feel so deeply charmed by the atmosphere it gives. Mao Ni's novels just has that very weird charm to it. But hey, this story was all about nuances and motivations since the beginning you might not like them all or agree with all their choices, but they leave you thinking and questioning. I am not saying he is a "good person", but that he is an interesting person. Their value is not based on their appearance, but on their individual strength, intelligence, etc.) He is able to play with his wits and pull onto his connections when needed. His women are able to exist and thrive on their own ideals rather than serve as his attendants, and their attraction to the MC will not stop them from going against the MC if they need to. (This is despite the polygamy and the small "harem". He has his own way of acting that makes him very human and still very logical. He's not the cookie cutter hot blooded vengeful prodigy, nor is he a Gary Stu in the making. I just have to say, our MC Fan Xian is a very interesting character. I'm saying this because the whole transmigration will actually play a big part in the plot, as well as the MC's character development.
It's one of the rare reincarnation/transmigration novels that actually talk about the different moral values between a modern earth person and a society that resembles ancient China. Like the description says, the MC's main goal is to survive, so he will do many things to acquire great political power in order to survive on his own terms. And his choices regarding what to do with his identity. It's not at all about the power of friendship, or about the "you insulted my face so I will kill your whole family!!" you see in a lot of CN's, it's all about the political balance that the MC has to juggle with. Each of the "villains" are so three dimensional that, even until the end, you aren't always sure what to feel about them (the same way the MC also have mixed feelings about them). There's always more secrets to be revealed. The focus and the charm of the story isn't about the fighting, but much more about the atmosphere, about the characters and their choices. Yes, we also get some grand battle scenes, but those only take a small percentage of the story. The main character actually only fights occasionally. If you're looking for a story of cultivation and fighting scenes, then this is not it. (Warning: Spoilers tags here might have spoilers from the raws)
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