Chinese Novel Review 1

Doomsday Stewed Salted Fish

Rate 4/5
COO 68 + 5 extra

Summary:
As a low-leveled alchemist with white skin and good looks, Gu Fan is greedy for life and fears death. She only wants to earn some small money.

Transmigrating to Earth where monsters are everywhere, Gu Fan quickly went to the human base and continued to sell medicine for a living.

Her medicines are high quality and inexpensive, and all major forces want to pull her in to join the group.

Gu Fan was somewhat worried and didn’t know which one to pick.

Lu Ya: Pack up your things and follow me to City C tomorrow.

Gu Fan: Can I not go?

Lu Ya: No.

After so many times, the entire Jiangnan base understood that Gu Fan was the woman of Young Marshal Lu Ya. Love is hard to part with; you take it wherever you go.

Gu Fan: No, no, no, he just wants my medicine!

Stationed on the front line of the battlefield, S-class Young Marshal & greedy for money and afraid of death, Aunt Salted Fish.

Review:
A cultivated x apocalypse setting. MC is a low rank cultivator who focus on alchemy then transmigrate to an apocalypse world. I like when MC refuse ML firmly and she is not mary sue. She understands that she is weak and cherish her life. But after she cultivated and become stronger I felt her character fade out a bit.
MC was arrested because she was suspected selling fake drug. In prison she met ML cousin, she gave him a pill to heal his wound. Then ML cousin beg ML to save MC. ML is a young marshal with S ability.
He realize MC hide something so he want to test her. He force her to follow him fighting an S rank monster. MC is really timid because of her lack of fighting ability, she only want to open a pharmacy and sell drug to earn point and live in leisure. ML keep forcing her to contribute for the army. He swindle her to join army 2 times and promise her that she will be safe as low medical troop. When the fighting become worse, MC was asked by the army leader to the frontline because despite her C ability but she has high efficiency. MC refuse because ML has promised her not to go to the frontline. The other contempt her because she didn't want to fight in frontline despite having ability. MC keep thinking if her approach is wrong because the other and ML said she want a stabilize environment but she didn't want to contribute. Then she realize that she has her own conscience, she told ML that she bought the villa and car with her own points and never harm the other. She deserve to have that stabilize environment because she paid for it, she is not obligated to fight in frontline and saving other and risk her own life. ML then accept her view and never force her again.
They seem separated for a while, MC focus on her pharmacy and ML focus on his mission as army leader. Then ML propose to MC to have a fake relationship with him because he was forced to blind date. MC agreed and began to get close to ML. The other friends realize that ML like MC and use fake relationship as excuse.
MC then realize ML feeling but she never knew how to love. She keep their relationship as friend.
The base was attacked by beast tide. MC gave ML a lot of pills for wounds. ML arrange her to join the younger family in safe bunker. ML grandpa who is the base leader died. ML and the other saved because of MC pills. The base relocate and trying to make new base. The other powerful leader tried to use MC but MC refuse and separated.
MC and her friend met ML again after some times. ML save them from S rank monster. Then ML cousin triggered a lot of monsters. ML leave behind to hold the monsters while the other running away. ML half sister tried to kill MC. MC is saved then directly blow the half sister throat with her gun. The half sister husband is furious but the other leader said MC is justified because the half sister want to kill MC first. ML is missing. Some people in the group tried to kill MC but failed. MC then went away with her friends. She break through her cultivation and directly become like a powerful rank A. This is where I felt it's sudden, MC indeed have progress and become stronger. She also realize after the beast tide that she need to be powerful in order to stay alive.
After her breakthrough, she search ML. She found him in a cave, he was injured and blind. MC then healed him. ML realize that MC is stronger and become equal with him. MC then agreed to have relationship with ML. Because MC can make pills, she was respected in the new base. ML keep accompany her during her retreat. Here I felt that MC become stronger and even though she agreed to be ML girlfriend but she still focus on her cultivation. Her attitude is like, I'll accompany ML during my break, then make pills to have people good impression, the rest is for her to improve cultivation. She told ML that she will accompany ML until his death then retreat from human base. But her attitude didn't show it.
After some years, when MC woke up after her retreat. ML said to her that he is actually a high cultivator who saved MC once in the cultivation world. This world is his tribulation. MC cried because she felt the cold ML who love her is gone and become different since he restore his memory as high cultivator. The high cultivator keep assuring her that he is still the same and still love her.
They went back to cultivation world. MC refuse to be together with ML because she didn't want to climb high. Her cultivation is still too low compared with ML. ML keep following her. In the end MC got swindled by ML and worship his master as her master. They become brother sister with the same master. MC cultivate again. ML realize she is pregnant and tried to save their child. MC woke up 3 years later, seems like her level is the same with ML. ML is afraid MC will hate him because he save their child during her retreat. MC said she didn't blame him then plan to go sightseeing with ML.