I don't know if it was the translation or the original story but God that really dragged in places.  At one point I lost track of where I was and somehow skipped 10 to 20 chapters and I was like... well. It's fine because everything gets repeated so much I knew what had happened and didn't really need to read it.
I wanted to like it because Luo Shuyu definitely seemed like an actually intelligent protagonist but it just dragged so much.