人生扮演游戏 (Life playing game)

★★★★★

This is by the author of 亏成首富从游戏开始, one of my favorite novels. This one is a bit different, the MC has a system where he get games from earth if he create good games, and he has to cosplay some aspect of the game. Like if he is making a game like sifu(martial art game), then in real life he has to act like a martial art master. Or if he is making a parkour game, then in real life he'll have to be a parkor expert as well, and later not just him, his company employees also needs to participate.

It is slow going, and not as fun as the previous one, but interesting enough for me to continue.

no harem.

我只想好好当个反派 (I just want to be a proper villain)

★★★★

Very interesting premise/setup. MC is a villain in a novel world, however this world is messed up with 10 different stereo MC with system inside, each with his own FL and plot line. Example MC like the super rich system where if you spend 1 dollar, you get 10 dollar back. Or the system that grants you literatures from earth to show off and plagiarize to gain fame and fortune, or the MC that's the dragon king of the underworld in another country, but coming back to find his wife/daughter been mistreated, or the MC that's the medical healer, and gets rewarded with jade beauty because he saved her grandpa, etc. etc. Think of the top 10 cliche MC/plot line/system, it is included. MC has his own anti-MC system where if he thwarts the other MC's system like prevent them from getting fame or advancing their plot line, then he takes their providence from them and become stronger. The MC actually just want to play out his plotline as a villain (thus the title) and enjoy life, but with 10 MC in the same world, the plot lines intertwine with each other and MC fight with each other so nothing goes as planned. On top of that, the FL of the various plotlines can hear the MC's inner thoughts, so they are now also aware of their own destiny and horrified about been forced to love MC due to how the story is written, so some of them team up with MC to fight the other MC to gain control over their own life, some fall in love with MC, and others just want to have their own life.

quite interesting plot and setup, but author isn't good enough to control how the story goes so it can get messed up at time, just leave your brain at the door and enjoy all the anti-cliche stuff.

火力为王 (FirePower is King)

★★★★★

no harem, no system, the only cheat is that the MC is very talented at using a gun, but nothing super human. very good writing, and plot. MC is a college student vacationing in Mexico where he got caught up in a secret American mission to deal with the cartels, and he learned that he is actually pretty good with a gun and joined the private military company that saved him from the cartels and started to taking over the PMC and grow into an arms dealer. the first 1000 chapters are very good, but once it advanced to where he met his "teacher/mentor" and how he got his american passport, it kind went off a bit, but eventually it comes back to just doing missions and making it as an international arms dealer. I actually considered doing a translation of it myself, but just don't have the time.

虫族就是这样子的 (This is how the Zergs are)

★★★

MC has control over a Zerg Mother Nest and will travel through different worlds in different times, in each world, the MC would control the Zergs to integrate into the world secretly by producing zergs that's based on the native population.