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The Illustrious One: The Rise And Fall Of King Niche
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The Illustrious One: The Rise And Fall Of King Niche reads strongest on Serialized, Spectacle and Tension.
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How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
The story of Zhiwei Lin and how he rises to power, and how his reign of greatness ends.
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