This is an infrastructure novel where basically the MC goes back into a non-existent historical world to help a falsly accused general. Yep, in an infrastructure mood recently! This one is a bit longer, and MC also brings out the relatively classic stuff for an infrastructure novel.
MC, ML and their relationship
MC is an arts student who transmigrates into an ancient setting. To feed her younger siblings (twin sister + brother), he gets a job working for the county government by offering all sorts of modern innovations. He’s a pretty gentle person overall.
ML is slightly younger the MC who gets picked up by the twins when he was battered and bruised. His family was basically framed for treason by political enemies, and various escapes went wrong so that he ended up in MC’s family. He’s known as the second brother in the family. His personality is pretty clingy/jealous around MC, but otherwise pretty reliable when MC isn’t around.
MC basically thinks of ML as a younger sibling early in their relationship. On the other hand, ML does a lot of comparisons between his actual older brother and MC, only to get confused by the difference between them. After enlightment, ML pursues MC and fairly quickly convinces they’re OTP. Otherwise their relationship is…mutual worry when apart and super clingy when around? They spend a decent amount of time away from each other (ML on fights, MC supposedly in peacetimes but always subject to surprise attacks). Oh and they roll the blankets a bit when they met hehe.
The second half of the story
The first half of the story is way better than the second half (sigh). The scene where ML’s enemy falls is a bit jarring and the scene isn’t really satisfying. Instead, it’s pretty frustrating because almost nothing goes to plan (did the protagonists not think there’d be a problem???). Anyway, it wasn’t satisfying.
And then later down the line, I think the author wanted to show how terrible an emperor’s suspicion is, and that MC/ML hold way too much power but they don’t really care for it. MC parts with some of the “friends he made along the way” as part of the handover of power to the emperor. Furthermore, MC’s younger sister also decides to “act as a hostage” under the eye of the emperor while MC goes back to his more remote lands (it’s also to forge out her own destiny). Yeah I get it, it’s realistic, and character-fitting…but as a reader who wants the stories to be more ideal than not, it’s a frustrating read. Maybe it could’ve been executed better?
However the side stories weren’t too bad…so it’s given a pass.
Conclusion
This is an infrastructure story where the relationship storyline between MC & ML was actually quite strong for an infrastructure novel but the second half of the story was more frustrating than it could’ve been.
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