"Absolute trash," says Shen Qingqiu, immediately, straightening up. "Just—complete and utter garbage, but the kind of garbage you can't stop reading. There's the seed of a good idea there, you know? A character¹ you really care about. But he's constantly mistreated by the narrative, like, WAY beyond what's necessary for his character arc, and every chapter you're introduced to a thousand useless cannon fodder characters, just for them to be slaughtered offscreen in the next update two weeks later. And don't get me started on the wives." It is very clear he desperately wants Nightingale to get him started on the wives.

¹ This footnote is so obvious the typist forgot to put it in at first, but. Luo Binghe.