Li Xiao Yao left S. T to become an ordinary security guard. While working, he happened to enter the VIP room and found Lin Wang Er still in the middle of changing. As revenge, she took him on a ride and kicked him out of the car. After hours of walking, Li Xiao Yao finally managed to get back home just to be kicked out of the house. But unknown to Li Xiao Yao the girl was actually… Nothing much too say. Everything that I wanted to say has already been covered by the other reviews. I enjoyed this novel for the first 350 or so chapters. It was repetitive but was still fun to read. I started getting bored at that point, but seeing that it was one of the first novel's I've been reading, I forced my to get to read upto 490 or something. But the stupidity bugged me off a little too much. I understand that a a game novel will naturally involve grinding and quests, hence... The story keeps mentioning the female leads double D boobs, keeps repeating the same joke about how a certain character will be unable to get a girlfriend because of his ugly face and how OP the MC is. Every time the MC fights, his team mates will be like.... His attack is so high. The stupidity became even more later. The MC gets attacked by a rival guild while he and his team are doing a high tier quest. They manage to beat them back, but seeing that their enemy will definitely come back again, a suggestion to call the guild for reinforcements is made. But the MC is like No. We can handle it. And then he with a 10 man team annihilate more 10, 000 players of the enemy guild, with brute force, no strategy. Did I mention that the enemy guild is supposedly one of the top guilds? Yet they can't defeat even 10 players. IMO the author should have mention the game is about 10% reality not 90%+ since in reality you can atleast counter, dodge, and use experience fighting tactics, sad to say it but this is the only Virtual reality novel that actually makes its MC weaker in the game than in real life, is really sad, did no one tell this author what a bad idea this was? Worse Virtual reality game novel ever created. Considering their combat skills and equipment I don't think it's a long shot to say they can't take out 100 people in a cramped corridor with a bunch of AOEs which they have plenty of. All in all I really enjoy this web novel because the jokes show how close the guild is and MC gains the respect or hate of the right people imo. Even the plot will not make any sense at times. Easy to browse since there are a ton of chapters, but you'll just facepalm yourself all the time with this story. Well, not really wars, because the MC manages to save the day pretty much singlehandedly. This is because of how he gains OP skills and abuses a hidden system that most people don't know about to no end. The system itself appears to need skill, and his real life martial arts abilities just happens so to be the same system. It's not well written at all. At the end, it just gets weird. The level of descriptive writing the author has isn't that high, and it isn't forgiven by how his scenarios and general plot is all over the place and doesn't really make sense. All in all, I hated myself for finishing it. I liked it at the beginning, but then it became repetitive and then I realize nobody is going to die in this novel, good or bad. Therefore, there is no real tension. Later in the story, some random side story comes into play, and it becomes a little bit more prevalent for no reason. The author describes the female leads' appearance almost every time they appear. The MC spends over 12-18 hours playing the game, but somehow has time to hang out with some of the ladies in the real... Maybe the MC's world has more than 24 hours in a day. Like yeah, blah blah blah the MC is as OP as usual. Bro, how is he doing that? Would a GOOD story repeat, for effect, long chains of random numbers that increase by one... Would a good story exhaustively describe every female character, while adding no details for any other character? The MC started the game with a new style, which others see as trash. Sometimes it's good to boast around and being op in the sight of others, but for me it seems rather boring. It could have been worse that's for sure, but... I'm actually sad that this novel isn't really getting a good rating. This novel is actually good in my opinion maybe it's just me being biased since this is the first web novel I've read. Although it can't be called perfect or great this is enough not to be called bad or worse. I know there are a lot of plot holes or plot that has been forgotten but which novel doesn't have these? It's just in ZL it's more plain obvious than the others. Right now I still stand to say that this is a good novel even though some jokes kept being repeated for awhile but later on in the country wars the novel actually begins to get better slightly. Instead, let's consider the fact that rather than going ballistic, he just accepts it. But god help you if you try to hit on the woman he's guarding. Nothing in this novel makes sense. It started out fairly well, but the female leads start to get bland quickly, and the MC has plot armor thicker than a tank. In less than 150 chapters, it's already become a bland web novel that's low on originality and makes use of the same lazy tropes that so many web novels before it have used as a crutch for poor pacing and lack of an actual plot. Actually, it's this long because of many uninterresting plot points. What irritated me the most is : 1- The real world is part of the story but is often neglected. I mean seriously, the dude don't remember if it's the protag is a... As for healers, listen carefully, ok? And even if the game allows that, there should be many demerits in doing so, such as stats growth. Now, let's say we can distribute aquired stat points as we like and put everything into physical stats like strength or endurance. What happens to your healing spell? It doesn't grow with you that's what happens. Say at level 10 it heals you by 50%. When you reach level 50, you'll be lucky if you get 5% out of it. And stats are WAY too unbalanced. They drop powerful items so they're made hard to defeat in a group let alone soloing it. In The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, the protag can solo bosses by using extreme tactics to deal heavy damage and using pets and other NPCs to assist. I really enjoyed reading this at the beginning but as you progress throughout the story it becomes more and more repetitive and the plot holes just grow into a ditch for the author to throw the plot in. The MC is a mercenary who becomes the female leads bodyguard to protect her in real life and in game. BUT, in the game the female lead ends up saving him on multiple occasions and in real life his is inept at his job and constantly leaves her unattended to work on... The biggest problem with this novel is the MC, he is unrealistically righteous and a hypocrite. Seeing how he used to kill people for a living I don't understand why he feels the urge to help every single person he sees. The real life side plots are a chore to go through and absurd. SWAT are morons and antagonists are forgettable. Not to mention that the female lead's dad is a twit. He outright states that he doesn't want the MC and female lead to develop a romantic relationship and then immediately proceeds to drug the MC with an experimental drug which would make him fall in love with her using the excuse of 'if you love her you will protect her with your life'. The author is obsessed with boobs and legs feeling the need to include a description about them every couple of chapters. Character development has been minimal and romantic development feels completely tacked on and quite frankly just gives you a tease, there is a harem but you won't remember anyone outside of the female lead and her best friend. The RNG system in the game is broken, the MC's luck stat is far ahead of anyone else's in order to justify his ridiculous rolls he rarely gets any bad dice rolls. The PvP is interesting but somewhat unbelievable since the author does forget about some of the MC's skills and in later part of the novel the MC can straight up mow down players in one hit. If you have nothing else to read then give this a go, just lower your expectations before you do. Anyways, author focuses on too many things at the same time and it gets hard to understand whether it is a slice of life or is there some greater plot behind the scenes. IMO this LN is a good filler material when you're waiting for some other LNs. For better options within same genre VRMMORPG or real world with game elements I would recommend Legendary moonlight sculptor, Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari, The Amber Sword or Gate of revelation. The first is king's avatar. Second the rebirth of the legendary guardian. The romance here is good at first but it becomes brainless later... After 600 chapters or so, you will wonder why you are still reading this novel and you really cant give a reason other than the little cute girl but you will tire out quickly because it's just MC+gang fighting XX boss... The guild he builds somehow runs itself and he stays billionaire...... Then we have zhan long. There is romance but it doesn't develop. So far, I like zhan long the most, it isn't ridiculous and we see the MC struggle alot. Some say there is also 'the world online' and it is a good read so far but there is no RL element because RL becomes the game. I don't even understand what the author is trying to go for. His attitude barely reflects that aside from his seemingly professionalism regarding his job. I'm pretty sure in every single game out there, raising some stat like Spirit increases how well heals do. He's ex-Special Forces, trained in martial arts to a very high degree, and yet none of that is present in the game; having to rely on innate passive effects to actually gain Evasion so is this a actual VR game or a traditional MMORPG? So they should be relying on personal skill to evade but Evasion is a innate passive skill that needs to be discovered! OP pet is OP literally. Conveniently every single good drop fits into the current situation! He needs a weapon? Drops a STR weapon. He needs a gift for someone? Drops a piece of equipment that specifically is good for that person at that moment. What about the other gear that drops? Explain to me how this random common enemy drops a high tier weapon? That's not how games work! Take for instance his very first Green-tier weapon, average grade in this story, is dropped from a common enemy. Excuse me but a game boosting about a high realism as a feature and this is what occurs? A healer without proper equipment, let alone even keeping someone alive, isn't even worth mentioning in any game. The MC's heals can basically top off anyone by just leveling up the skill and he isn't even using equipment or having stats into Healing, that is ridiculous. Although it is explained as a nearly turn-based RPG. The Author explains the combat as a normal VRMMORPG should be, but because of the restrictions of the turn-based parts, the MC cannot use his martial prowess to it's full potential, all he is left with is his quick wits and soldier mind. Also while the Heroine has a supernatural power? It breaks my heart when the author tries to make the a character interesting by breaking the rules he set himself. It is true that some people can somewhat achieve the power that she has got, but clearly not to the godlike extent that she has. It doesn't take the brightest mind to understand that her power is clearly too overpowered and unbalanced, while the MC's gear gets nerfed at some point because it is OP? The author is not really consistent with the content that he introduces, which is understandable as the novel has to be interesting and fresh which he doesn't achieve very well. However this is also pretty repetitive. If the reader wants a more clear view of a competitive I would suggest reading 'King's Avatar' instead. However, ZL is a very light read and comfortable to binge read, it might not be the most unique novel but it does what it sets out to do well. The fights are awesome and grand, while the overall combat tactics is pretty well explained and doesn't hinder the pace of the story too much. And it has indeed been achieved, it is not obscure in any way. A quick reminder is also that this is VR novel, which not many authors has accomplished in the past to be truly representative of the Gaming community in real life. Although the author didn't accomplish this it is still fairly well done and deserves the attentation that is has achieved. While it will never be the best, it is certainly not horrible either. Have a good read! Forget about the self creating skills, his studio, and even his combo that will go up if MC can correct his stance..
