After more than ten minutes and perusing several books, Ye Nai gave up, unable to continue after the beginning.
The vocabulary was too obscure, every single word a baffling novelty; the text constantly used long sentences, some paragraphs appearing as three lines, but lacking any punctuation in the middle, forming a complete sentence.
The popular novels weren't much better, equally disorienting her.
The content summaries promised popular romance, a tangle of men and women loving you, loving him, him not loving her, and her loving him again, but reading them was excruciating; the nobles' favored popular novels had noble backgrounds, with the first chapter laying out characters, each followed by a lengthy string of names, family history, and titles.
Twenty pages in, still on the first chapter with just character introductions and no actual plot, Ye Nai immediately gave up after forgetting the beginning while reading the end.
