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>>20451697
>It's getting tiresome having to re-open these fucking abortions just to quote them at people when they want to get smart. My apologies for shortening it... Jin Roh was beaten to death during a match against outer disciples at his sect. Seeing the vacancy, our body snatcher swoops in and takes over Jin Roh's life. Occupying the space where his soul must have been. He then goes on to say...
>'Jin was full of wanting to become a powerful cultivator, a master among masters, and do whatever it is the dickbags who run this place do, which is presumably to be dicks, dickishly. I kinda... didn't care about his motivations. My body now, buddy. Sorry, not sorry.'
>You're right, he's not a psychotic at all. Didn't steal another man's body, and there surely wasn't a demonstration in the first two chapters where the body snatcher had to actively suppress Jin's memories and being, lest he be consumed by it. Disregarding all of THAT, take the dialogue at face value. What the fuck is redeemable about this writing style? What's worth DEFENDING?
>Do right by yourself and stand for a better quality of writing.

Anon, I don't think you have the context to judge it properly. It wasn't supposed to be treated as 'Jin doesn't care about the person that got killed*,' but instead as a comedic twist on an already beaten to death 10000 times 'I transmigrated to another's person body in Xianxia' cliche. Taking it to at face value is retarded as hell, you are missing the entire point. I do think that Beware of Chicken is not a masterwork of writing, but it's one of the better works in the genre and the stury works by paroding it. Things like cultivation system being basic as fuck and not imaginative is not a problem because these things NOT MATTERING is the exact fucking point.

The story is basic, the protagonist is OP MC without trying, it's basically a wish fullfilment of another kind, but it's still a funny, comfy story. I do not write this to tell you that you are wrong, but to say that you lack the context of the genre and your expectations for the story might not have been the right ones. This is anti-xianxia story, you are not supposed to like it FOR being xianxia.

*I don't know how you could have missed that (probably due to audiobook, audiobook fags are known for missing details because books are written to be read by eyes, not some fucking person reading them out-loud), but the original guy is no more dead than new Jin, and his 'soul' is just as broken as Earth guy's, who died too after all, it's just that together they make a whole person and Jin has control..
On another topic, I don't remember you mentioning Worth the Candle, why? It's not only one of the best webnovels, but also the most serious work in the genre. If you want something where the character is a horrible person and the story treats that fact seriously, then try it.

>>20451697
>It's getting tiresome having to re-open these fucking abortions just to quote them at people when they want to get smart. My apologies for shortening it... Jin Roh was beaten to death during a match against outer disciples at his sect. Seeing the vacancy, our body snatcher swoops in and takes over Jin Roh's life. Occupying the space where his soul must have been. He then goes on to say...
>'Jin was full of wanting to become a powerful cultivator, a master among masters, and do whatever it is the dickbags who run this place do, which is presumably to be dicks, dickishly. I kinda... didn't care about his motivations. My body now, buddy. Sorry, not sorry.'
>You're right, he's not a psychotic at all. Didn't steal another man's body, and there surely wasn't a demonstration in the first two chapters where the body snatcher had to actively suppress Jin's memories and being, lest he be consumed by it. Disregarding all of THAT, take the dialogue at face value. What the fuck is redeemable about this writing style? What's worth DEFENDING?
>Do right by yourself and stand for a better quality of writing.

Anon, I don't think you have the context to judge it properly. It wasn't supposed to be treated as 'Jin doesn't care about the person that got killed*,' but instead as a comedic twist on an already beaten to death 10000 times 'I transmigrated to another's person body in Xianxia' cliche. Taking it to at face value is retarded as hell, you are missing the entire point. I do think that Beware of Chicken is not a masterwork of writing, but it's one of the better works in the genre and the stury works by paroding it. Things like cultivation system being basic as fuck and not imaginative is not a problem because these things NOT MATTERING is the exact fucking point.

The story is basic, the protagonist is OP MC without trying, it's basically a wish fullfilment of another kind, but it's still a funny, comfy story. I do not write this to tell you that you are wrong, but to say that you lack the context of the genre and your expectations for the story might not have been the right ones. This is anti-xianxia story, you are not supposed to like it FOR being xianxia.

*I don't know how you could have missed that (probably due to audiobook, audiobook fags are known for missing details because books are written to be read by eyes, not some fucking person reading them out-loud), but the original guy isn't dead, and his 'soul' is just as broken as Earth guy's who died too after all, it's just that together they make a whole person and Jin has control..
On another topic, I don't remember you mentioning Worth the Candle, why? It's not only one of the best webnovels, but also the most serious work in the genre. If you want something where the character is a horrible person and the story treats that fact seriously, then try it.