Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?不是，我电子女友咋修成剑仙了

Caught up to 92 Chapters. 3.5-4.5/5

Honestly, after wading through so much garbage that other novels are, this novel feels like a masterpiece even though it's just good, not amazing or anything.

This is a comedic, happy go lucky story. The author seems to have a big plot in mind so nothing feels like it was simply thrown together last minute. Story alternates between game world and real world.

There are a few novels that do this, but i've never seen this concept used in this way. It is a breath of fresh air, with so much shit to go through. You won't be wowed, but you won't have a bad time either.

The interactions between the leads is cute, but i do find it a bit lacking. It reduces in frequency after the initial stages as the plot starts moving along and we have to deal with a lot of the other things.

My original (short) review, "mid quality, possibly AI mtl/edited AI mtl(the terms keep changing) and a mid story with a dense protagonist… subpar overall but decent junk if you don’t mind that. although not for me mc’s denseness levels are still quite acceptable for some people." got a comment saying I didn't read the novel so I wanna just expand onnat.

Protagonist. The story features Chen Huai’an, a college freshman diagnosed with terminal cancer, who ends up downloading(kind of) a suspicious “virtual girlfriend” app. The guy already had shitty luck; his parents died in a wildfire, the girl he was dating left him (such a new plotline), and he has basically no money. All of a f#cking sudden a pop-up game installs itself on his phone, which he is 100% convinced is by hackers... Even when his in-game girlfriend "sends him a gift" and he receives it irl he's still convinced some random hackers are doing all this.

The dude's a broke, almost-dead cancer patient who was holding onto his money yet starts dumping thousand of yuan for a random self-installing phone app. There is some rationale (he’s lost hope, wants to indulge, etc.), but it still feels forced. He's supposed to be extremely logical, having gotten into a first-tier university but then just invests everything in this game. Even if the text explains “he has nothing to lose” it still comes off as contrived. His whole approach to problem solving is to just keep paying. The mind boggling speed at which he invests in his “girlfriend” and decides to “save Li Qingran no matter what” (while ignoring his real life problems)... If you still need me to say more things just pull the trigger bro.

Story & World Building. Qingyun Sect, Wanqing Mountain, “Inner disciples,” “Outer sect,” “fire poison,” “thunderfire talismans,” “celestial-grade pills,” etc. All jammed in at a crazy pace with little attempt to detail or differentiate them from the usual cookie-cutter xianxia tropes. The “betrayed by all senior brothers who now dote on the new junior sister” is a CLASSIC dogblood or “white lotus” trope: Li Qingran used to be loved, is expelled unfairly, leaving her with “destroyed spiritual roots.” So original.

The whole plot from which Li Qingran got expelled is bullshit. The entire sect turning on her for a minor tournament fight is never convincingly explained. The story just says: “She accidentally hurt the new junior sister, so the entire peak tries to kill her.” Feels ham-fisted.

The same can be said for when a second prominent female character is (properly) introduced, an antagonist to our FMC, where it got revealed she wanted Li Qingran dead for vague “I want her water spiritual root or her Taiyin Dao Body” reasons. Again, really original there.

The text is nearly 40–50% dedicated to listing out gacha items, recharges, “buy next formation,” etc. I get that that's the point and it was somewhat funny to a point, but after some time it'll just be repetitive junk. There is a sense that the entire cultivation realm is actually purely a shop interface for the MC, which is very much reminiscent of low-quality system novels. The story is more so about the comedic (not really) “pay to save Li Qingran from [random stuff]” than actual cultivation. Again, I get that the cultivation realm is kind of marketed as a shitty gacha game, but still.

Tone and pacing issues. There are a lot of erratic jumps in tones. In just a few paragraphs, the story can jump from the supposedly funny “I will buy one more recharge!” to tragedy (Li Qingran is near death, drenched in blood, or the MC’s real-world broken bone from climbing "Mount Tais"). Then it goes back to comedic in-game shopping. Poorly done slapstick.

To talk more about the whole Mt. Tai thing: The MC “flips off fate” and tries streaming a mountain climb out of nowhere, all so he could raise money for his digital girlfriend (remember, he has bone cancer by the way). The narration and the surrounding world treat it... flippantly (chat members mocking, then quickly sending huge donations, then random “mirage” event). The author tried justifying him having (quite a lot of) viewers by saying he had spent money on advertising, but again, forced plotline. At the start of the live stream, there's a bunch of viewers claiming him to be a fake, wanting to “expose” him for lying about cancer. The mc says that his papers from the hospital were free for all to view, yet some randoms who were "nearby" (an hour away by car, not really "nearby" by my standards) for whatever reason decide that isn't enough and want to expose this "fake" for themselves. Of course, they were wrong, and then they go with him to climb Mount Tai, etcetc.

To talk a bit more about Li Qingran, well, she’s effectively a tragic, pitiable figure designed for the mc (and readers) to coddle. Her basically sole goal so far is occasionally deciding “I must repay Senior.” She's a standard damsel xianxia heroine, devoting a vow to repay kindness, yet her character has no real dimension.

These were mostly actually story-related, so the last thing I want to shortly talk about is the translation.

AI MTL. The main reason I say I'm confident in this being AI MTL is that the terms keep changing. One time Mount Tai is addresses as Mount Tai, the next it's Taishan (which is a direct pinyin transliteration of 泰山), and further than that it's also sometimes addressed as Mount Tais which is a clear f#cking mistake. U can't use "Tai" as plural lmao. Also, the entire time, the female lead was calling the mc "Senior", yet one chapter suddenly switched to "Predecessor"(which is either a mistranslation for 前辈, or, even if it is another term, still a misinterpretation. "Predecessor" doesn't make sense in the context.) The grammar is subpar too which points towards a low-mid level AI TL.

Also this entire concept of girl within a gacha game isn't new. It's already been done with "The Dungeon Monsters Keep Offering Sacrifices." The plot isn't a lot better but the translation quality was miles ahead of this last I remember.

Mtl have only 123 chapter :/

Have potential, would read this if this have 500+ but now, it not worth the wait.

Turn off the brain to accept common sense.
It doesn't mean it's bad
According to me it deserves 7/10.

This novel is like you SIMP idol/VTuber spend a lot of money with the style of young master of Cultivation.

may the fellow daoists slap my face with cold hard Rating of this Novel

Man the terminal illness mc strikes back!!!

honeslty i came for a brain dead plot.
what i got was a onahole. absolute fun.

Honestly, it's quite good. It's a mix of one of those lowkey bigshot immortal tropes with actual romance, actually funny comedy and raise-a-disciple novel.

It reminded me of a very good work that I read a few years ago, in which mc from earth exchanges souls with a cultivator. I read about 100 chapters, it was very interesting. I'll look for it later