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Title: It's Not Easy to Be a Man After Traveling to the Future
Author: Madam Ru/ 汝夫人
Source: Web Novel
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Description:
After dying from a strange terminal illness, Ling Lan was reborn into a world 10,000 years into the future. Although she dearly wished she could just live a peaceful and uneventful life in her new healthy body, fate had other plans ...
Forced to disguise herself as a boy just so she could inherit her deceased father's premium military benefits, Ling Lan's journey to adulthood was full of challenges. After much difficulty, she finally turned sixteen when she could drop the charade. But before she could grasp her newfound freedom to get married and start her own family, a twist of fate results in her being thrown into the Federation's top military boys' school.
With these twists of fate, Ling Lan had little choice but to walk further and further down a path of no return, one of cold and aloof dominance ...
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You may have guessed, but I love, love, love gender bender novels. I don't know what it is about them, but if I see one, I'll snatch it up. This story happens to be one of my all-time favorite Chinese novels ever.
If you've read The Good For Nothing Seventh Young Miss, which I've also recommended, it's kind of like that dynamic, but much better written and more complex in plot and themes. To me, Good For Nothing Seventh Young Miss would be rated a B or Cto this story's S-tier ranking. That's not to dunk on the former, but just show how good this is. Of course, not everyone prefers something complex over a simpler read.
The female lead, Ling Lan, is very overpowered but she doesn't feel like a Mary Sue because she often suffers and has her own trials with great stakes. The other characters, including her best guyfriends, all have distinct, likable personalities; no harem here, but having loyal fanboys/companions is great too.
There is some romance that comes way later into the story, but it's not the main focus at all, which I'm glad for. I like that the male lead isn't stronger than Ling Lan either, but still very intelligent and helpful, like a queen is to her king; it's a breath of fresh air from all those other novels where the main gal is super strong but then some guy comes and dominates her.
Just to warn you, this novel can get heavy in Chinese nationalism and anti-Japanese and anti-West sentiments. I guess it's to be expected since it's a novel written by a Chinese person centering around the Chinese military. If you can look past that, it won't be too bothersome. It helps that you kind of grow up with the main characters since they were children, so you feel as if you're one of them.
The story is on hiatus I think, but it's thousands of chapters long already, so it'll take a while to catch up anyway, and I don't think you'll regret it. At the very least, after reading it, you'll take a lot away with you.
