Has anyone ever read a cultivation novel? It's also commonly known as xianxia novels. Those Chinese novels that usually are based around an underestimated protagonist rising up from being an underdog to succeeding in their life. Those Chinese novels where the main protagonist rise up from nothing to become an immortal badass in life and achieve godhood as a happy ending. Those Chinese novels that spans on for a million, give or take a few hundred thousand, words before getting to the end.

For those who've never read one, the main premise of those exaggeratedly long stories is the overcoming of challenges forced onto the main protagonist by society. Society being just about anyone who stands in the protagonist's way of getting their plans done as quickly as possible. It usually follows the scheme of two over-confident idiots meeting, butting heads and then duking it out.

The one who butt heads with the protagonist is almost always better than the protagonist themselves in some way or form; usually combat-wise. The protagonist will almost always get dealt heavy damage early on in a fight, if one were to ever break out. The protagonist will almost always get time to recuperate by themselves after seeing the-one-they-butt-heads-with's power level. During this recuperation period, the protagonist will rise exponentially in power level while the author busies themselves trying to make a relatable comparison to how amazing is the thing that the protagonist is doing.

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After powering up, the protagonist will go and get a rematch with the-one-they-butt-heads-with. The usual rising back like a phoenix cliche. The-one-they-butt-heads-with will lose in a shameful display of defeat at this rematch, back off from the protagonist with their tails between their leg and will live in the sneer of others for the rest of their live for having lost. Most likely, this is the death sentence to the-one-they-butt-heads-with since this person will almost never be mentioned again. A heavy implication that this person failed to cultivate correctly and died off-screen.

There's a reason why I'm focusing on this particular aspect of Chinese cultivation novels. It's not like I'm going on a nervous tangent or anything, okay? The reason is... how to put this... I might have beaten up a protagonist earlier and sent him to the recovery wards to recuperate. The moment before he fainted from pain and exhaustion, the protagonist would've look completely like the terminator if he had sunglasses on while saying "I'll be back."

Should I send him a letter of apology? I don't want to have a death sentence on my head!