Reasons why Tang San and his cohort is disliked by me.
Note- English is not my first language.
Started reading DD 1 during lockdown then DD2(didn't finish it tho)(Didn't watch donghua)
I was reading mostly brain rot with typical chinese mc so didn't care much bout tang san(just didn't like him,cared more bout cultivation system and world tbh)
Recently, i read some fics out of curiosity and saw how much villified tang san was, then reread DD outta curiosity,(this happened like 2 years ago, mostly skimmed through the novel tho)
Imma write a bunch of shit showing what I remember:
Tang San: DD1
Dude stole his sect's cultivation techniques( I think he was in wuxia world, and stealing this thing there means creating a life-death feud+ this guy was orphan and prob raised by sect and when found committed suicide)(it's not like they were gonna leave him alive tho)
Outside the gate of his elementary academy, guy was going to kill a guard cuz he was an ass. So imma ignore that killing someone for ego(only verbal abuse)is already stupid, but here our protag was also either stupid or ungrateful.
Why stupid, dude has zero idea what kinda supernatural powers exist, has no background(in his eyes). So this dude just lost temper over ego, and was gonna frame that village chief(also this framing is also stupid)(what was he supposed to do after the guard died, escape from source of info? Frame village chief? What if he was caught and enforcers searched his body cuz he surely didn't have personal space storage+ this would be taken seriously for obvious reasons) Remember, this guy is supposed to be raised by assassin sect(or atleast had sufficient training from it), not some lil kid.
3.(No complete sure bout this) Didn't tang san knew about xiao wu being soul beast, then why tf did he allow her to participate in Continental tournament(like why take such big risk with her life). Either dude didn't like xiao wu and cared more bout soul bones (unlikely imo) or just another case of stupidity. (Ig you can classify this as love?)
Tang Hao: DD1
Whole Tang San childhood shit, like little dude had to cook his own food by like 3-4 yrs. After martial soul Awakening, dude only first showed love to TS when he saw TS's twin martial souls. Mf told to him to give up being soul master after seeing only his grass soul.
( Very controversial). I mean, why tf did this guy take his pregnant soul beast wife across a tour throughout the land. What stopped him from just hiding in some remote forest/village. Unless, a contra can't detect aura from preggo beast+ ah yin didn't inform tang hao of this. (Author didn't likely think too deep into this, imo tang hao is too stupid to pull this off, or maybe he informed his clan about his pregnant wife then his clan tricked tang hao do that he could get her 100,000 yr soul ring without issue+ tang hao forms life-death feud with Spirit Hall)
After that shit, why did he plant ah yin in a fuggin cave (her form was a fukin plant). (Also, didn't this guy know about the forest where her people lived and were willing to sacrifice for her.) (Imo guy's just stupid).
Yu Xiaogang: DD1
Trash was contemplating TS first soul ring being 10 yr. Seriously? Plus trash is incapable of actually fighting any 400 yr old beast and almost led to death of both (imagine if TS wasn't a reincarnation or had no background). This shit is just stupidity.
His line that there are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters. Like , yeah, correct (remember that sword guy from sun moon empire who had low innate lower but was powerful at academy without any heaven defying treasure), I mean guy's level 29. Ig, dude's useless according to his theorem. Also, if you wanna prove this theorem, why tf are you taking a talented soul master as disciple (who would still reach top without help) instead of someone with low talent?
3.about twin martial souls, when he told TS that weak BSG with low innate power so he must have another powerful martial soul to be full innate, did this mf forget about Bibi Dong(like he was her lover, he must have known that she had two powerful martial souls and she was still innate), about liu erlong, he is a theoretical master , how tf trash couldn't identify that she was part of his clan (like pretty sure their martial soul mutates very commonly, so he must have done decent research on it)
Tang San: DD2 (been a while since read this so memory is a bit fudgy, take it with grain of salt)
Whole shitick with his daughter. He ripped her soul into two pieces(or was it three?). One part coincidentally fused with Auspicious Beast who coincidentally fell in love with Son of Destiny and then coincidentally sacrificed herself to him. Another part coincidentally decided to crossdress and disguise as a boy and became roommates with "Son of Destiny". (Must be his luck). Also, somehow had butterfly martial soul capable of fusing with an eye(must be his luck) . Plus, his treatment of Huo Yuhao(like bruh, imagine in DD1 ashura god for trial puts xiao wu in fatal situation without informing TS that this is a trial.)(or whole removing key parts of tang sect techniques, poor tang ya)
This one's a conjecture: No replacement for spirit hall. Like , his destruction of spirit hall is valid(they were his enemies) but he should have created some organisation that awakened martial souls for commoners. Like, they have zero chance of any social mobility.
Same as above: No replacement prison for slaughter city. Like I find his destruction of that place a bit sussy, but build some alternate prison ya know (where tf are their prisoners going to go now). Yep, now evil soul masters are everywhere and fucking with the entire continent.
Man, being a commoner in DD2 era fucking sucked, gamble with years of saving for chance of martial soul Awakening and being treated as cultivation resource by evil soul masters.
Tbh, it's not like Spirit Hall was a good place (Bibi Dong was a madwoman, Qian Renxue most likely assassinated several kids during her mission), but it's not Tang San is a righteous good guy.
don't know why I wasted my time writing this. (I am pretty sure a lotta more examples exist, these ones I remember more clearly, also they most likely occurred cuz author didn't think deep).
Tldr: story/narrative treats tang san as righteous and smart guy, but dude is anything is but(same for his group). Plus guy's a hypocrite (No problem being hypocrite and evil, but this mf fools even himself mentally). Plus the shit he pulled during DD2 and the fact that he seems like self insert of his author (whose reputation is in -ves in entire webnovel fandom). Though most fanfiction are stupid ai slop.