Al-Mos... Qui-t-o Live A Second Life

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Description

I was once a bad person who died after misfortune and found myself in another world, with a seemingly.. unusual body.

I don't have arms and just legs, I don't have ears but I can hear using those two long antennas and most importantly, I can fly.

It seems that I don't have a body of a human... So.. what's the point of continuing living with such a disgusting and terrible form?

No... Wait.. it seems I have an ability, shapeshifting! That's means I can still go back into human forms, don't I?

But everything has consequences, so it was also true with this ability. I should be able to defeat the form I want to mimic first before I can use them.

So, will I be able to continue to live in this another world, or will I just die as well?

Note: You can also view this story in another site; Webnovel.com and ScribbleHub.com

If you want to read my book in advance.. you can do it by being a member in https://www.patreon.com/zhowen_xialin. I'll post a week chapters there.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Zhowen

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Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 14
Views: 11,205

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loimprevistoRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
The story currently reads like a rough draft and could use a thorough revision to clean up grammar and make dialogue flow better. I suspect that the author is not a native English speaker so I don't consider it a big problem; I'm glad they're making the attempt to share their story in a language I can read and they can always revise the language later. Color-coding the system's notifications/speech would also improve the readability.
At its heart this story is about regrets and finding a way to moving forward with life despite the burden of those regrets. The MC's reincarnation is almost like a purgatory, with every milestone forcing him to confront memories of his past and his victims. It comes across as a very unsubtle allegory but it's still enjoyable to see the MC's moral progress along with his power progression.
The biggest turn-off for me was in Chapter 8. The MC is visiting someone recently widowed by his own actions. He is attempting to atone by completing a task from the husband, whose dying wish was that he bring a gift to his wife. When he arrives he sees that she invited another man to visit, then sees that man rape her. He waits until the other man leaves then delivers the gift while condemning her for cheating on her dead husband. He is later notified by the System that she killed herself as a result of his words.
Hopefully the author will use this as part of a character arc to show the MC look back on what happened and come to empathize with the wife. With the arc unresolved I found it difficult to stay invested in the character or care about his further moral judgements.