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Just let the man be a hunter!
Honestly, I think this story would've been improved about 1,000x over if it had stuck to it's inherent premise which is that Cheng Duo was a hunter. Instead, this very quickly discards any idea of Cheng Duo being a hunter, while continually insisting that is what he is and the further it moved away from it's beginning concept the more bored I got.
Some things I actually liked were that Cheng Duo wasn't a transmigrator in the usual sense. He literally found himself moved into a parallel historical world with ger. He didn't replace anyone's identity or have a family to support him. He also tells the truth about himself and his identity to the ML when they get together. Cheng Duo also didn't have the traditional values of the world so he very much treated the ML as an equal despite his identity as a ger. This actually led to some conflict early on because the ML thought he was leading him on and Cheng Duo had reasons to avoid a relationship. Other than though, the author could never seem to make up their mind about the world building regarding gers.
On the laundry list of things I didn't like, was how quickly this fell into pretty standard tropes for the "transmigrated into ancient times" trope, such as aforementioned complete discard of his identity as a hunter. He sells a few pelts and carcasses, then immediately starts getting involved in establishing other businesses that quickly make him very rich, such as creating a brick workshop and the establishing the ubiquitous hotpot shop.
The real killer that shifted the story happened when the ML's identity took center stage.Due to the ML being related to a powerful general and the collapse of the current empire, Cheng Duo goes from business man (i refuse to call him a hunter when he wasn't doing any hunting) to legendary general to fucking Emperor The story went from mildly entertaining to straight up boring. I literally dragged my heels on finishing for over a week because I wanted to do anything but read the last 10-15 chapters. I would pick it up and immediately was bored to tears.
Also, ngl, I was deeply disappointed that the discussion about Cheng Duo not being able to have kids did not, in fact, allow me to have a ger story that didn't result in babies. It was just a set up for ML getting pregnant. I kind of hate that almost all of these BL ancient times transmigration stories have ger and mpreg. I want ancient times transmigration stories. I do not want babies. At least it only happened at the very end so the entire pregnancy was skipped over and the kid only appeared for two chapters but honestly, I really do hate that happy endings always seem to involve kids that one of the parents resents the other parent giving attention to in some bizarre form of expressing jealousy. Like, if you want that to be part of it, at least fucking own it and let both parents love the child without being resentful that the other parent shows some love or attention to the child that they didn't give to you.I get that the author might've needed to resolve the whole issue of making Cheng Duo emperor thus requiring him to have an heir but again... see my very first line that this story would've been vastly improved if it had stuck to it's title and inherent premise.
Honestly, I think this story would've been improved about 1,000x over if it had stuck to it's inherent premise which is that Cheng Duo was a hunter. Instead, this very quickly discards any idea of Cheng Duo being a hunter, while continually insisting that is what he is and the further it moved away from it's beginning concept the more bored I got.
Some things I actually liked were that Cheng Duo wasn't a transmigrator in the usual sense. He literally found himself moved into a parallel historical world with ger. He didn't replace anyone's identity or have a family to support him. He also tells the truth about himself and his identity to the ML when they get together. Cheng Duo also didn't have the traditional values of the world so he very much treated the ML as an equal despite his identity as a ger. This actually led to some conflict early on because the ML thought he was leading him on and Cheng Duo had reasons to avoid a relationship. Other than though, the author could never seem to make up their mind about the world building regarding gers.
On the laundry list of things I didn't like, was how quickly this fell into pretty standard tropes for the "transmigrated into ancient times" trope, such as aforementioned complete discard of his identity as a hunter. He sells a few pelts and carcasses, then immediately starts getting involved in establishing other businesses that quickly make him very rich, such as creating a brick workshop and the establishing the ubiquitous hotpot shop.
The real killer that shifted the story happened when the ML's identity took center stage.
Also, ngl, I was deeply disappointed that the discussion about Cheng Duo not being able to have kids did not, in fact, allow me to have a ger story that didn't result in babies. It was just a set up for ML getting pregnant. I kind of hate that almost all of these BL ancient times transmigration stories have ger and mpreg. I want ancient times transmigration stories. I do not want babies. At least it only happened at the very end so the entire pregnancy was skipped over and the kid only appeared for two chapters but honestly, I really do hate that happy endings always seem to involve kids that one of the parents resents the other parent giving attention to in some bizarre form of expressing jealousy. Like, if you want that to be part of it, at least fucking own it and let both parents love the child without being resentful that the other parent shows some love or attention to the child that they didn't give to you.