Author: Yang Chen（314）

When writing your webnovel, what "surface appearance" means is the packaging and appearance of your novel.

In our daily lives, we're well aware of the importance of packaging in influencing how well a product sells. Oftentimes, the packaging is even more important than the product itself. Yet, many authors tend to neglect their work on the packaging of their webnovel. They believe that this is the responsibility of the website staff, and that only the website staff can help design and beautiful their novel's page.

What authors don't realize is that no matter what website you post your novel at, you as an author can modify quite a lot about your novel's appearance. These factors are quite influential in the success or failure of your novel. Since improving your novel's surface appearance is vastly easier than improving the content of your novel, it could be said that this is especially important as well as efficient.

As for the surface appearance of your novel, it can be categorized into the seven types below.

1. Your novel's title

In your packaging, one of the most important elements is your novel's title. For any novel, in most normal circumstances, the reader will find out your novel's title before any other information about it. The title is the most important factor in whether a reader chooses to click on it and read your synopsis or not. It also helps the readers to understand the most important elements of your novel. And so, there's no need for me to speak any further about the importance of your novel's title.

In that case, what type of a novel title is a good one? I believe that a good novel title should accomplish the following points.

（1） Simple

Simple here refers to using easy to understand words that even elementary school students can recognize, rather than using some highly esoteric or difficult words that few people can read in order to sound fancy.

（2） Only English words in the title

Don't use a title with words from other languages. Nor should you have numbers, punctuation, or individual letters in your novel's title. This will make your novel title look more professional as well as make it easier for readers to search for your novel.

（3） Easy to read and remember

Perhaps "easy to remember" will make some authors confused, but actually, it's connected to being easy to read. A good novel title should flow quite well when people try reading it out loud. That's why you shouldn't use words that are difficult to pronounce. Otherwise, if readers can't even remember the title of your novel, how are they possibly supposed to remember your story?

（4） Not too long

This is also an issue about readability. If your novel's title is overly long, it's not easy for readers to search for it or remember the name. Normally speaking, the average book's title has around two to six words in it.

About the length of your novel's title, there's something else that needs to be noted. Amongst authors, there's a saying that the shorter your novel's title is, the better, because this helps your novel to be ranked farther in the front. In a way, this is correct, because many websites often put the novels with the shorter titles first when giving recommended reads on the front page, so the titles that are shorter will naturally be at the forefront. However, this alone shouldn't make us conclude that a shorter title is always better.

The influence of a novel's title has so many factors involved, and being on the recommended list is only a tiny portion. If you can have a better position on the recommended list, of course, that's a good thing, but if you choose a shorter title just for this, then you'll definitely lose more than you gain. Besides, even if you have a really short novel title, can you guarantee that there are other recommended novels out there that don't have equally short names? What if you're in the middle? Honestly speaking, there's no real difference in being at the left or in the middle of the recommended novels section.

（5） Not esoteric

When choosing your novel's title, it should be just like writing your novel. You should consider your general audience. And since you're writing a webnovel, your general audience would obviously prefer to read words in an easy to understand manner. If your novel title is overly esoteric or poetic, or sounds too philosophical, then your novel's popularity will be greatly affected. The majority of readers probably won't even click on your novel to read the synopsis.

（6） Appropriate bandwagoning
From a certain standpoint, bandwagoning can be advantageous. For example, since "Library of Heaven's Path" is a highly popular novel, perhaps you could write a book titled "Library of Hell's Path," which will naturally bring your novel some attention.

However, it's obvious that this actually isn't so much of a good thing for either the readers or the website, so it's quite easy for your novel to become suppressed if you bandwagon too much. For instance, if you really do call your novel "Library of Hell's Path," then it'll be quite difficult for you to receive a recommendation on the front page because it'll be too similar to the popular "Library of Heaven's Path." Not only that, there are also disadvantages for the author, because using such a copycat name will make some readers displeased as well, making it harder to attract some readers.

And so, that's why newcomer authors should only bandwagon appropriately and observe what type of novel titles are the most popular. Then, you should create your own original title that's similar in spirit but not in style.

（7） Express the uniqueness of your novel

A good novel title should express the uniqueness of your novel. The best-case scenario would be that your title expresses the main wish-fulfillment point of your novel. For example, a novel named "Returning to the Yuan Dynasty" can already tell you the two major information points that this novel is about returning to the past and historical fiction. Or, the famous franchise "Spiderman" tells you simply from the title that the story is about someone with spider-based abilities as well as being a superhero story.

In conclusion, when naming your novel, a good method would be to organize your novel's keywords and special vocabulary as well as all the most interesting factors in your novel, then categorize and modify them while seeing which point or points would be the best to put in your novel's name. Finally, come up with an excellent novel title based on the above seven points.


2. Choosing your genre to categorize your novel as

After choosing your novel's title, you should choose the specific genre your novel belongs to. Actually, perhaps it's not quite appropriate to use the word "choose" here, because the genre is really decided by the content of your story, not what you as an author choose.

About choosing your genre, the most important, and basically the only rule there is, is to "never do false advertising." That's because the end result of false advertising will be bad for everyone.

For example, even though you're clearly writing a novel about mystical abilities in a modern-day setting, you placed your novel into the alternate history genre. This way, readers that enjoy alternate history novels will happily start reading your novel but will leave disappointed, while readers that enjoy modern novels with mystical abilities won't even be able to find your novel by genre.

For most novels, it won't be difficult to classify its genre at all. However, there are some novels that have elements from multiple genre types. Perhaps your novel is both modern as well as xianxia, with science fiction and military added as well, and even fantasy. This doesn't mean that your story is bad, however, this type of story will often confuse the author. Just what overall genre should the author classify such a story under?

First of all, what you should consider is the matter of which story elements are truly the most important. This is the foundational issue at hand.

However, if you as an author really feel like all the elements are equally important, then you'll just have to make a decision and choose one genre on your own. There are two factors you should consider here. First is that popular genres will have more readers, and the second is that less popular genres will have fewer novels and thus less competition.

These two factors are a matter of not being able to have your cake and eat it too. For newcomer authors, you can choose a genre based on your own confidence in your novel's ability. But normally speaking, it's more recommended to choose a less popular genre to categorize your novel as.

All of the same could be said for your story's synopsis as well. Make sure that your story's synopsis matches the genre that it's supposed to be under.

If you’re confused about how to write a popular webnovel, perhaps this book will be able to help you out. 

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Author introduction:

314 (Yang Chen): He is China Literature’s general manager, Xiaoxiang Academy’s general manager, Qidian’s head editor, China Webnovel Literature Committee member, Jiangsu Province Webnovel Author Committee vice-chairman, and a qualified expert on all internet literature. He has discovered many popular topics and greatly helped the industry to expand, along with having personally advised many top-tier authors. He is from the first generation of webnovel researchers. Yang Chen started working in the webnovel editing industry in 2005, and is highly skilled at summarizing and analyzing the business theories behind webnovel literature and is famed for his outstanding creativity in the industry.

 Small Team Leader（Zhou Binglin）：Small Team Leader is a high-ranked general manager for China Literature, as well as the head editor for chuangshi.qq.com. He is originally from Guilin, Guangxi.

Small Team Leader is a top-ranked editor for original novels as well as a veteran web novel expert. He has helped to discover countless popular topics as well as frameworks and has advised numerous platinum-ranked authors. He’s also one of the first generation of web novel reviewers as well as authors.

Translated by Coldtaco
Edited by Aelryinth
In his previous life, Plants vs Zombies swept the globe, earning millions of US dollars in just nine days, breaking many records.
If it were sold at three USD per copy and it made 1.5 million in sales, it would rake in 4.5 million USD in sales, or about 27 million RMB.
On the other hand, what was the monthly profit for I Am MT?
In 2013, when the Chinese mobile games market was in its early years of development, I Am MT made fifty-five million RMB!
Plants vs Zombies relied on the global market.  I Am MT only utilized the Chinese market!
Plants vs Zombies was a standalone game relying on sales, the number of sales would inevitably decrease over time. On the other hand, I Am MT was a free game. Even after operating for three to your years, it's profitability never decreases, and even continued pushing updates.
The success of Plants vs Zombies could not be replicated, but I Am MT's profit model could be reproduced again and again!
When the two were compared, the profitability of Chinese card games was obvious.
I Am MT showed the Chinese card game genre to the world, and made a path for Chinese developers. As the benchmark for card games, I Am MT was copied many times, and similar games still showed up four years after its release.
I Am MT was well worthy of the title of "The Original People's Card Game", and held the top spot at the app store for a long time before Soul Hunters made revolutionary changes to the genre
Chen Mo wanted to utilize the same profit model as other Chinese games, and I Am MT was the first step. Its features were very suitable for what Chen Mo was currently looking for.
The first feature was that it was easy to make! Most of the art for I Am MT was on character cards. Coding, level design, playstyle, and original art weren't problems for Chen Mo now.
Its playstyle was quite simple, and the rules are also clear. As long as the art was of acceptable quality, the actual development time wasn't too long, maybe two to three months at most.
The second feature was that it was appropriate. I Am MT didn't rely on the other Chinese games, which relied on inciting negative emotions to force players to spend money. It was in fact the exact opposite. The game treated free players extremely well, giving out a lot of free runes, especially during the holiday season.
Moreover, the game didn't have highly strategic PVP or group PVP aspects, therefore free players would feel less frustration.
Chen Mo had to consider the threshold for players in the parallel world. If he started with heavy firepower, the players might not be able to take the frustration. He might end up being on the receiving end of angry fans, damaging his name in the process, and when that happened, he might have to crossdress.
From that perspective, I Am MT was a decent game for testing the limits of the players!
The third feature was that it was easy to promote!
Chen Mo had given this point a lot of thought.
What was the core of card games? It wasn't playstyle, but IP, intellectual property!
IP was a buzzword in the Chinese video game industry. Many video game developers would throw money at protecting their IP, many video game designers wouldn't shut up about IP. It would come up more often than eating.
Why was IP so important, and why is it worth so much money?
In card games, IP decided the card's worth. If you had Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and I had Hawks and Zoro[1], the two games would obviously have completely different player bases, and the price that the players were willing to pay for a legendary card would also be different.
Three Kingdoms were essentially the worst IP, because everyone was familiar with it. There were many companies who made games using that theme.
In his previous world, Naruto, One Piece, Fate[2], or Jin Yong's[3] works were the most popular IPs. As long as you got those IPs, making money was easy by changing the art on some existing game.
A card game without an IP was a card game without a soul. Yes, it was that extreme! If you wanted to make a card game, you needed to have an IP!
Chen Mo had considered how to solve the IP problem when he decided on making a card game.
His first thought was to buy a larger IP in the parallel world, but he gave up soon after learning the prices.
The people in this world had better knowledge of intellectual rights and preferred to support the originals, therefore the prices for IP were also higher. In his previous world, a popular IP would be in the realm of seven digits, but it would only be higher in this world.
Of course, not all IPs were that expensive. For example, popular but non-mainstream novels, or anime IPs could be acquired for a few hundred thousand. However, seeing that their success would be limited, Chen Mo decided against it.
You always get what you pay for when buying IP. Paying for a less popular IP would be a waste of money.
Chen Mo was now stuck in the situation where he didn't want the cheap IPs, but couldn't afford the expensive ones. Even if he could afford them, he wasn't about to spend that much money!
Therefore, Chen Mo decided to make his own IP, and I Am MT would be the most suitable IP.
Of course, Chen Mo had other choices, such as redrawing One Piece or Naruto, or rewriting The Legend of the Condor Heroes, or Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils?[4]
-That might be a bit too much...-
Novels and anime required a long time to gain popularity. Moreover, with Chen Mo's current art skills, he couldn't hope to reach the likes of One Piece or Naruto. If he managed to draw a chapter a week, who knew how long it would take to reach a reasonable level of popularity.
Although novels were slightly faster, they weren't suitable for going straight from writing to game. They usually went through a movie, animated series, and then finally developed into a game. Novels that were made straight into a game were few and far between.
That was because the character of novels relied on the reader's imagination, and the characters in the games were concrete. The process of going from imagination to being concrete required the characters being slowly set into the minds of the readers, ensuring that the IP would take off.
After going through many different choices, I Am MT was the easiest to recreate, and what Chen Mo thought was the best choice.
The animation industry in this world was doing quite well. As long as Chen Mo provided an animation company with character designs, story, and scenes, the quality of the product probably wouldn't be too far from the original in the previous world.
After all, I Am MT was created by a couple fans of animated series turned games, meaning that it was low cost.
I Am MT was very popular. It's first episode received more than thirty million views on iQiyi[5], and was sometimes even referred to as a cultural phenomenon, becoming part of the memories for WoW[6] players and animation fans alike.
Therefore, it was entirely possible to make this into a super popular IP, which would allow Chen Mo's game to start off flying!
Of course, there were also risks involved...
The biggest problem was that part of I Am MT's success relied to some extent on the story and large user base for World of Warcraft. There wasn't a game called World of Warcraft in this world, so the audience might not understand some parts of it.
For example, what did MT mean? What was the Main Tank's job? Why does MT have that job? What features do people with the same job have? Why was he the main character?
These things didn't need to be explained to World of Warcraft players, but could the audience in the parallel world understand the references to World of Warcraft in I Am MT?
Taking a step back, if they didn't understand it, would it affect how popular the animated series got?
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TL Notes: 
[1] Character from One Piece, an anime
[2] Fate is a video game series by Type-Moon
[3] Jin Yong is a famous Chinese novelist
[4] Wuxia (Chinese martial arts novels) by Jin Yong
[5] iQiYi is a Chinese video streaming platform
[6] World of Warcraft


Chen Mo liked calling himself a video game designer, despite being a mere video game producer.
After dying one day from work-related stress, he transmigrated into a parallel world as himself, right after he graduated. He was now in the body of his younger self, who also aspired to be a video game designer. 
Will he be able to fulfill his dream after being reborn in this oddly different new world, and become the best video game designer in that world?
Follow Chen Mo on his romp through video game classics as he brings the great games of the past to a whole new world in pursuit of his dreams!
Note: This Novel has been continued as a passion project by its translator. The continuation of this novel will not affect the result of Trial Reading or Voting Pool. 

For the preparation of Book, Mu Fan didn't worry. He searched the internet to look for what type of books are popular nowadays.
In the Fantasy store, there are many books from his last live. If he spent some Fantasy points, he would be able to get any book he wants and draw as his own
After all, this was a world with many anime characters. They wouldn't know the novels from his world.
However, Why… Why is the ACG culture here so crappy? All the novels are about the same. Some overpowered Character will transmigrate to another word with cheats. This kind of novel where ever it is published it would get hundreds of fans all over the world.
Well, that's fine too, after all this is the era of ACG.
So now he was searching for novels, he didn't want to make a book and it turns out that it was already published. That would be a crime so he couldn't afford to do something like that without searching.
Copying someone else's work isn't a simple crime.
Next, Mu Fan started searching for novels. But he didn't find anything he knew, he found the best seller ones, one called "Love Affair" and "Fantasy System" and "Dark flames goblin"… He didn't hear anything about those works before.
Sure enough, there were no books from his former world.
Looking at the sale details of these books, Mu Fan couldn't help but take in a cold breath. Those books had the same sale detail as the best sellers from his past world. Fortunately, he had his fantasy system and his writing talent. He really wanted to make a book and sell in Akihabara.
There are many books in this world.
But… Mu fan looked at the names and his mouth couldn't help but twitch. The pen names were "Sayane" and "Eromanga". Those two were Akihabara best sellers.
"Yes, I won't be able to face those two, I should just make light novels, let's drop the manga thing." Mu Fan looked at the two names and dropped the idea of making a manga.
For now, writing novels is the most secure way to make money. There were many publishers in this world which made it hard for him to choose.
So he began searching for the most popular one of those. There was Kadokawa, Fukimi and Jump j-book, but their style was different. Before he was in the Qidian, which was easy because it's the biggest publisher in China. But now he had to select from those three and he had to select a novel to publish.
Mu Fan hesitated for a bit, then he stayed in the interface of the Jump J-book library.
There was a big event going there which made him happy. A competition to decide the king of this year, the author needs to submit his work and as long as it gets chosen in the newcomers draft, he will immediately get 50,000 yen. The rest will be decided later and the king would get millions of yen directly.
50,000 yen wasn't a small number for him, and the king's reward doesn't have any relation to the sales. Jump J-Book is really the best for newcomers.
Mu Fan was happy. He was short on money. He chose to participate in this event and win himself some funds to solve the crisis he was in.
Thinking about this, Mu fan remembered Tomoya-san who said that he was a famous blogger and knew some people in the Jump J-Book.
Let's see what the best seller here is, then write a novel and then ask Tomoya-san.
"Open Fantasy Store and search for light novels."
"I.S Infinite Stratos!"
The first thing that appeared in front of him is this work.
In fact, this famous work was very popular in his past life but he didn't like it that much, because the plot was weak and boring, except for the harem part. The reason that it was a hit in that era was that there weren't many authors who write about a single boy in a school full of girls.
In this era, many novels were having that setting and many have harem too. It would be difficult for this novel to shine in this world.
In the end, Mu Fan found the novel he wanted.
"Exchange 'Accel World'!"
Mu Fan murmured in his heart and the little fantasy points he had disappeared. The novel disappeared from the store and appeared directly into his mind.
This novel was extremely popular in his past life. Although some people couldn't stand it because the protagonist was a fat boy, people who could see clearly knows that this was a famous work and it seemed natural to Mu Fan. Also, this novel was within the rules of the competition as the competition main genre is a game. Perhaps this novel will create a sales miracle in this world.
Seeing that there is still no one coming to the club room, Mu Fan started typing on his phone the novel he had in his memory, After a just a little bit Mu Fan hit the 3,000 words mark, due to the novel being in his memory and his talent in writing he was way faster than normal person.
"Ano… Who might you be?"
While Mu Fan had his head down looking at his phone, a beautiful female voice called out.
Mu Fan looked up and was stunned.
It was a beautiful girl dressed in a white short-sleeved school uniform. She was wearing an exquisite skirt complementing her pretty figure, matched with tight white stockings which gave a very pure feeling.
Her hair was brown, silky and ran over to her shoulder, a savory neck and a delicate beautiful face that looked at him with a gentle smile.
Looking at this pretty girl, Mu Fan was stunned for a few seconds and instantly a name flashed in his heart.
Regardless of the character or family or beauty, She was recognized by any boy in the school. She was…
Yuuki Asuna.

After crossing over to another world which seemed to be a fusion between many anime worlds, The Fantasy System was unlocked for Mu Fan. After finishing the tasks given by the system, Fantasy points are given which allows him to gain access to the Fantasy store that was full of daily talents and more.

Yuuki Asuna: You know how to cook a lot of dishes. Can you teach me?

Sagiri: I don’t know anyone called Eromanga-Sensei.

Many more characters and interesting plots await us.

~Translated

World War II, and Japan's defeat, deeply influenced Japanese literature. Many authors wrote stories of disaffection, loss of purpose, and the coping with defeat. Haruo Umezaki's short story Sakurajima shows a disillusioned and skeptical Navy officer stationed in a base located on the Sakurajima volcanic island, close to Kagoshima, on the southern tip of the Kyushu island. Osamu Dazai's novel The Setting Suntells of a soldier returning from Manchukuo. Shōhei Ōoka won the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Fires on the Plain about a Japanese deserter going mad in the Philippine jungle. Yukio Mishima, well known for both his nihilistic writing and his controversial suicide by seppuku, began writing in the post-war period. Nobuo Kojima's short story "The American School" portrays a group of Japanese teachers of English who, in the immediate aftermath of the war, deal with the American occupation in varying ways.

Prominent writers of the 1970s and 1980s were identified with intellectual and moral issues in their attempts to raise social and political consciousness. One of them, Kenzaburō Ōe published his best-known work, A Personal Matterin 1964 and became Japan's second winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Mitsuharu Inoue (ja) had long been concerned with the atomic bomb and continued in the 1980s to write on problems of the nuclear age, while Shusaku Endo depicted the religious dilemma of the Kakure Kirishitan, Roman Catholics in feudal Japan, as a springboard to address spiritual problems. Yasushi Inoue also turned to the past in masterful historical novels of Inner Asia and ancient Japan, in order to portray present human fate.

Avant-garde writers, such as Kōbō Abe, who wrote fantastic novels such as The Woman in the Dunes (1960), wanted to express the Japanese experience in modern terms without using either international styles or traditional conventions, developed new inner visions. Yoshikichi Furui tellingly related the lives of alienated urban dwellers coping with the minutiae of daily life, while the psychodramas within such daily life crises have been explored by a rising number of important women novelists. The 1988 Naoki Prize went to Shizuko Todo (ja) for Ripening Summer, a story capturing the complex psychology of modern women. Other award-winning stories at the end of the decade dealt with current issues of the elderly in hospitals, the recent past (Pure- Hearted Shopping District in Kōenji, Tokyo), and the life of a Meiji period ukiyo-e artist.

Haruki Murakami is one of the most popular and controversial of today's Japanese authors. His genre-defying, humorous and surreal works have sparked fierce debates in Japan over whether they are true "literature" or simple pop-fiction: Kenzaburō Ōe has been one of his harshest critics. Some of Murakami's best-known works include Norwegian Wood (1987) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–1995).

Banana Yoshimoto, a best-selling contemporary author whose "manga-esque" style of writing sparked much controversy when she debuted in the late 1980s, has come to be recognized as a unique and talented author over the intervening years. Her writing style stresses dialogue over description, resembling the script of a manga, and her works focus on love, friendship and loss. Her breakout work was 1988's Kitchen.

Although modern Japanese writers covered a wide variety of subjects, one particularly Japanese approach stressed their subjects' inner lives, widening the earlier novel's preoccupation with the narrator's consciousness. In Japanese fiction, plot development and action have often been of secondary interest to emotional issues. In keeping with the general trend toward reaffirming national characteristics, many old themes re-emerged, and some authors turned consciously to the past. Strikingly, Buddhist attitudes about the importance of knowing oneself and the poignant impermanence of things formed an undercurrent to sharp social criticism of this material age. There was a growing emphasis on women's roles, the Japanese persona in the modern world, and the malaise of common people lost in the complexities of urban culture.

Popular fiction, non-fiction, and children's literature all flourished in urban Japan in the 1980s. Many popular works fell between "pure literature" and pulp novels, including all sorts of historical serials, information-packed docudramas, science fiction, mysteries, detective fiction, business stories, war journals, and animal stories. Non-fiction covered everything from crime to politics. Although factual journalism predominated, many of these works were interpretive, reflecting a high degree of individualism. Children's works re-emerged in the 1950s, and the newer entrants into this field, many of them younger women, brought new vitality to it in the 1980s.

Manga (comics) has penetrated almost every sector of the popular market. It includes virtually every field of human interest, such as multivolume high-school histories of Japan and, for the adult market, a manga introduction to economics, and pornography. Manga represented between 20 and 30 percent of annual publications at the end of the 1980s, in sales of some ¥400 billion per year.

Cell phone novels appeared in the early 21st century. Written by and for cell phone users, the novels—typically romances read by young women—have become very popular both online and in print. Some, such as Love Sky, have sold millions of print copies, and at the end of 2007 cell phone novels comprised four of the top five fiction best sellers.

this is made for the purpose of getting the authors badge  at any rate I'll just compile world literature

I want to thank all of you for reading this far and I have been diligent on updating this! Since some of you might think how did I updated 20 episodes in a day then the answer is this was from wattpad and now I publish this to webnovel! Wattpad is pretty bias since most of their popular novels are only romance but I heard news that webnovel is popular on action novels so I gave it a try! If you want to then please give me some power stones to support my novel and don't forget to rate my novel even if it's a bad review since your review can help me on further improving this! Today, I'll ask you some questions that can improve this novel so feel free to comment down below!

Comment your answers on the answer part.

Question 1:
Is my novel good or bad? Is it trash that can't be recycled? (I think I'm being harsh on my novel but I want your opinions)

Answer:

Question 2:
Do I need to develop the characters more or if I need to lessen my characters?

Answer:

Question 3:
Is my plot unique or cliché?

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Question 4:
Is my novel fun to read and interesting? And if your answer is no then how can I improve it?

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Question 5:
Do I need to make more battle/fighting scenes to make it more thrilling?

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Question 6:
Are you a silent reader who doesn't comment on novels that you read but you enjoy it?

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Special Question:
What ability would you like me to give to new characters(if there are)?

Protagonist's side:

Antagonist's side(Some are not bad guys but they're other survivors):

That's all and please answer it because as I have said before, it will help me improve my novel and also motivate me.

A virus broke out leads to people becoming infected. The infected turn into a mindless zombie that infects others by biting them. Some people resisted the virus while some others evolved and obtain powerful abilities. John, the protagonist of the novel, obtained an ability to manipulate time itself and can go back to the time before the virus outbreak but it can only be used when the host died. With this ability, he gathered strong artifacts, reliable allies, and knowledge so he can keep improving himself whenever he returns to the past. Now that he has this kind of power, he will make sure to live once again in this virus infected world.
In the middle of nowhere.

Xu Lei, who was in the Deputy Captain's office in the Provincial Public Security Department in City B, frowned upon hearing Lu Jia'er's words. His looks indicated that he felt sorry. "Professor Lu, I am sorry, but I cannot promise that I would be able to protect Su Han's safety. That being said, if I can meet her, I will definitely pass on your words on to her!" 
Xu Lei's answer might sound lacking a sense of righteousness, but it was the sincerest reply of all. Yesterday, MSS took over the case of Su Han's disappearance. This morning, privately, Xu Lei asked the Captain about it and the Captain claimed he was completely in the dark as well.
Though it had been merely a bit over two years cine Xu Lei became the Deputy Captain of the criminal police unit, as a soldier with over a decade experience in the Special Force, Xu Lei was second to none when it came to perception and acute sense. In addition to the small cases, over the two years, Xu Lei had processed several major cases. He would carry out his task with drive and force to fight a quick battle to force a quick decision. Given his style and means, though he was transferred here all of a sudden, he had gained a firm foothold within a short time and had been recognized and admired by his leaders and subordinates.
Besides, the disappearance of Su Han was no regular case. A girl that wrote novels had gone missing for no reason and this case had caught the attention of MSS. Anyone would have wild imagination about the inside story.
During the past few days, Xu Lei searched for some of the novels written by Su Han on the Internet and he read some book reviews as well. Many readers had given positive feedback on Su Han's novels, praising that the style of her writing as excellent, and the plot was novel, as if a breath of fresh air had blown into the literary world. She was a best-selling author that had cut a figure during recent years. Her works were popular. Unlike her works, the author herself was low profile. Apart from a Weibo account for publicity, nothing connected her with the outside world. There was no picture of her on the Internet. However, from her words and the interests and hobbies posted on her Weibo account, people could tell that she was a young female with a large stock of information.
Someone said that it was all a stunt to generate some buzz by remaining so mysterious, while others claimed that she was the shadow ID of a famous writer. Some believed that she was actually a he. There were many versions. Every time she published a new book, more new theories would rise and then repudiated, discussed. Heated discussions would be stirred up, which made her new novel more popular than the last one.
Of course, the quality of a novel was not supported merely on social buzz or heated discussion. The most critical part was still the content. She appealed to many readers with her stories and words. That being said, no matter how wonderful a work is, there would still be some critics. Even those comments were objective. Generally speaking, the reviews of her novels were quite good.
A mysterious writer had gone missing in a strange way, which was investigated by the mysterious MSS. If this were a novel, the story would be thrilling.
As his thoughts wandered to this place, Xu Lei asked at once, "Professor Lu, when Su Han writes her novels, is there anything unusual about her? Like, some eccentricity?"
"There is nothing unusual! Apart from writing, most of her time is spent on reading, reading extensively. Is that eccentricity?" Lu Jia'er asked.
"Besides reading, has she told you how she gained in-depth knowledge on the subject matter?" Xu Lei went on.
In an instant, Lu Jia'er had understood what Xu Lei was implying. "Deputy Xu, are you asking me if Su Han would do something privately that exceeds what is proper to have in-depth knowledge and that has caught the attention from MSS?
Xu Lei loved to chat with Lu Jia'er. For one thing, she could help him let his guard down so their conversation could be relaxing. For another, she was the most intelligent woman he had ever met. No matter how subtle he was, or obscure, she could get the point he was driving at accurately.


This is a therapeutic romance novel that mixes psychology and science fiction.

Lu Jia'er is a professor in psychology who is able to read the minds of anyone in the world. One day, she meets a special man, a legendary genius in the IT world rumored to be ugly—Jin Xiangdong.

In fact, he's not ugly, and it's love at first sight for Lu Jia'er. This is compounded by the fact that she can't read his mind. To figure out what's so "special" about him, Lu Jia'er accepts his invitation to join an artificial intelligence research team. In her spare time, she would pursue him.

She: "Can I chase after you?"
He considers for a few seconds. "It wouldn't be easy!"
She: "That's what I call a challenge!"
He gives her a friendly reminder. "Time is precious. Don't waste it."

Turns out that he was right. Not only is he difficult to chase, but he is also mysterious.

When the secrets slowly unravel, what kind of ending could it be?

Website        : qidian china 
Views            : 242million
Rating           : 8.8(12689)
Chapters       : 1648
Status           : Completed
Word count  : 5.28million
Author          : Heavenly Silkworm Potato
author level  : lv5
No of works  : 3
Disscussion   : 1858
Year started  : 2009
Translated works : The Great Ruler, Wu Dong Qian Kun
Genres         : Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Harem, Martial Arts, Xuanhuan
Tags             : Adapted to Anime, Adapted to Drama, Adapted to Manhua, Alchemy, Arranged Marriage, Arrogant Characters, Battle, Academy, Beast Companions, Beautiful Female Lead, Broken Engagement, Childhood Love, Cold Love Interests, Confident Protagonist, Cultivation, Determined Protagonist, Early Romance, Fast Cultivation, Genius Protagonist, Ghosts, Hard-Working Protagonist, Lucky Protagonist, Male Protagonist, Marriage, Mythical Beasts, Pill Based Cultivation, Pill Concocting, Politics, Polygamy, Pregnancy, **** Victim Becomes Lover, Revenge, Romantic Subplot, Ruthless Protagonist, Spirit Advisor, Strong Love Interests, Wars, Weak to Strong
Popularity    : One of the most popular novel in China. 
Last edited   : 25/nov/2018

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Website       : qidian international 
Views           : 10million
Rating          : 4.2(110)
Chapters      : 1648
Status          : completed
Translator   : GGP
Editor         : GGP
Popularity   : Very popular
Last edited : 25/nov/2018

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Synopsis :
In a land where no magic is present. A land where the strong make the rules and the weak have to obey. A land filled with alluring treasures and beauty, yet also filled with unforeseen danger. Three years ago, Xiao Yan, who had shown talents none had seen in decades, suddenly lost everything. His powers, his reputation, and his promise to his mother. What sorcery has caused him to lose all of his powers? And why has his fiancee suddenly shown up?

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POSITIVE REVIEW : 

The story is impressively fleshed out and entertaining. The novel is basically split into many different kind of arches. Fights, Alchemy, cultivating, and story. Each side is given its time and described in amazing details. I personally really enjoy the sheer amount of detail the author describes the alchemy in the story with. How the flame used to create pills is moved and controlled. As well as the varying steps in mixing medicine. It makes you feel the effort and difficulty people are having crafting their various medicines. A nice part of these arches as well is if you get bored of one of these parts you will not have to wait too long to get to another part. It leads to an extremely varied and interesting story with many aspects to enjoy and pay attention to.
I also enjoy the MC who is very complex and follows his own internal code of right and wrong. Watching him get vengeance on those who slight him make for some of the most amusing and bloodiest scenes you will ever get to read. The MC's connections and the burgeoning romances among many different characters is also interesting to see as circumstances brings the MC close to a variety of characters and type of people. All in all it is a very enjoyable read that I think anyone can enjoy. I would especially suggest reading this if you enjoy stories about underdogs and bullies getting their comeuppance.
-By Teunayven(NU)

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NEGATIVE REVIEW :

I had high hopes for this novel seeing it's popularity but I was totally disappointed. The story itself is bad but the translations further ruins the fun for English readers as its full of pinyins for even common words which can be easily translated.
Why am I saying it's bad? Let's see...
MC's luck is so good that even the Lady Luck would die from jealousy. I understand that in such genres MC should have heaven defying luck but BTTH crosses the line. MC would find that even his sh*t is gold.
Author would waste chapters in introducing some beautiful one dimensional female character in every arc. They would fall for MC because of his awesome powers and superb looks. Author doesn't focuses on any character development for the female characters... they are their just to fangirl and bring trouble for MC as arrogant young masters can't stand MC's charm *cough* The female characters are all looks but zero personality.
Battles are dragged out and honestly most of them are hardly any impressive. The most annoying part is that author would define MC's handsome features during the middle of a fight ~_~ We already know that MC is syper handsome as author explains it in every two chapters but does he have to mention MC's handsome features during the middle of a battle?!
The training is the most annoying part. Honestly the cultivation levels are hardly any impressive in this novel unlike ISSTH. Author would waste dozens of chapters for the process in which MC refines Heavenly flame. Chinese novels are 60% training and 40% adventures but in other novels at least the training part is good... BTTH has the worst training arcs. I get headaches whenever I read training arcs and that includes him refining heavenly flame or pills.
Boring world building. From what I have seen so far there is nothing impressive or unique. Perhaps that will change later on.
 -By strixflash(NU)

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My thoughts : Guys this is one of the most popular novel in China. The cultivation novels today are said to be heavily influenced by this novel. This is also highest viewed novel in whole of Qidian. 

In my library : No

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This Source World turned out to be a Source World of entertainment novels and manga!
Some people might be wondering. Can entertainment ever be iconic? It's niche, commercialized, and stale, isn't it?
In reality, entertainment works were never-ending. In it, some iconic works were immortalized with neverending praises over the generations. Of course, there was also highly popular works. For one, take a look at the smash hit, "I'm Really a Superstar" [1]. Its author became a Platinum High God from that one series.
There was also the super-popular manga "Bakuman." It definitely fell within the category. This manga followed the story about a group of mangaka drawing manga, competing with each other. A similar comparison could be made with the monthly ticketing war in the Qidian novel website. The latter was not that authoritative, because of various reasons that we already know. However, the various rankings in "Bakuman" were adrenaline inducing. It certainly depicted the emotions of fighting for a dream...
Zhao Youyue was a little speechless. What was she supposed to do here? Compete with the creators in the Source World for rankings?
As she rearranged her thoughts, she realized that this world might just be the ideal cash cow! After all, she had just started a publishing company in the real world, and so, was always lacking in outstanding creators. Outstanding creators were a form of high-quality resource. Everyone basically fought over them. Her small company had only been able to pull in outstanding creators like Su Li and Han Leng, all thanks to her personal relationships.
Of course, it was precisely for this reason that she would have to give them the best conditions out there. If not, they would grow to resent her, no matter how close they were.
Zhao Youyue would never be stingy like that. She would not go so low as to exploit Su Li and Han Leng just to earn more money. She hoped that they could create classic works and flesh out new iconic female protagonists for her to pick up and win in a breeze…
Zhao Youyue had always believed that a character card was more important, compared to a bucket load of money.
The resources in Zhao Youyue's company were limited. With big generals like Su Li and Han Leng, there was nothing much left to go around. The rest would be used on maintaining "Altair's" popularity, so that it would always be recognized. Then, it could remain as the most popular Doujinshi character out there. Altair would also appear in all forms of Doujinshi novels and Endless-type novels. It might be a passerby big boss, or a talented onlooker minding his own business. Anyways, many Doujinshi writers loved pulling her out to join in on the fun, so that Altair's fans could be happy. Wouldn't it be nice to cheese some points and tips?
Zhao Youyue had been at a loss for a period of time. The "records" that she obtained from making trouble in the Source World and from Su Li and Han Leng did not help in the expansion of her company. These included the horror film that she had obtained from the previous Supernatural Source World and the CG animation obtained from the "Witcher" series gaming Source World...
If her company did not have enough capital, she might not be able to monopolize the biggest benefits from the dark technology she had researched. This was an era where capital was the King. Many talented entrepreneurs were only working for more capital.
Zhao Youyue had never thought about establishing a cultural Empire, but now that she was in this entertainment-type Source World, it was practically free lunch from the sky!
There was a relatively balls to the sand [2] hindrance in the entertainment-type source world. Even though its' development of science and technology was very advanced, it was, however, lacking in cultural development. In such a situation, plagiarists from other parallel worlds, or in other words, the main protagonists with the "Superstar System," could reap the benefits…
To Zhao Youyue, this would be particularly useful. She could fully display the abilities of the character card of "Zhang Yanwei" in this Source World that would never limit the abilities of the card. She wanted to see if she could come up with some groundbreaking technology.
Such an opportunity might just present itself. A group of main protagonist plagiarists might do their bit to help develop the cultural industry in this entertainment Source World. Zhao Youyue, the mad scientist who was obsessed with climbing the technology tree had already started her journey to the sea and stars.
Of course, if there was an opportunity, Zhao Youyue was very interested in researching those main protagonist plagiarists…
This time, when Zhao Youyue descended into the Source World, she would have full control over her abilities and identity. It was an otaku cutie high school student named Yuan Shawu. She also had a brother she truly doted on. His name was Yuan Zhenzhong. He was already in university, and he was a light novel author.
However, it was quite obvious that Yuan Zhenzhong had no particularly outstanding talents in terms of his creativity, or in other words, the golden finger. This only made him a second-rate light novel author. The money he earned from his novels was used to support himself and his sister. That was already quite impressive for a second-year university student…
Let's not even mention about this light novelist's previous failures. He did find some success with "My Sister Is Just So Cute." God, what a siscon…
But let it be known that novels do not directly reflect the personalities of their authors. For example, many light novel authors had no sisters, but they still wrote a lot of siscon novels which are forever popular. The problem here was that this Yuan Zhengzhong did have a sister, and this sister is actually 'just so cute.'
That was right. Why would Zhao Youyue ever possess anything less than beautiful?
Lady Zhao, as an appearance con [3], not only had high requirements for other people's appearance, her requirements for her own appearances would be sky-high. Therefore, her possessed had to be amazingly beautiful. Most of them were beautiful teenagers, until her last addition.
Descending into a Source World was not like a literary world where she could choose a female character as she liked. In that case, Zhao Youyue was determined to choose the better-looking character. Be it the "Two Dimensional Gate" or the Altair God character card, Lady Zhao was an appearance con before she was an artist, composer or scientist. Apart from their identity and background, all three of Zhao Youyue's characters in the Source world were beautiful chicks!
Even though Yuan Shawu was an otaku high schooler who did not know how to dress up, she had the necessary basics down. If, at her core, was a Lady Zhao, one could only imagine the ruckus she could stir up in this entertainment Source World!



Translation note:
[1] "I'm Really a Superstar" (我真是大明星) is a novel written by Chang Yu.
[2] "Ballache" (蛋疼) is a term which describes a feeling of helplessness, confusion, and agitation which leads to a person feeling uncomfortable.
[3] "Appearance con" (颜控) "颜" here means "looks," and "控," which originates in Japanese, is the transliteration of the English word "complex." "控" is often added after a noun to form a phrase, which means "being attracted to and obsessed with." Therefore, this term refers to those people who are obsessed with good looks.


An introverted girl has had enough of the isolation inadvertently formed by her solitary nature. Things changed when she discovers that she has the ability to transverse across the fabric of our universe into the dimensions of multiple storylines. Not only do these storylines leave her with invaluable lessons - they also impart a portion of their power - if she is deserving of it. The time has come for Zhao Youyue to change her fate. Never again, will she remain as a Side-Character!

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