What Chinese fantasy novel cliches do you dislike the most?

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Please feel free to pick multiple options, but try to limit your selection to what you consider your top ten. To try to keep things somewhat objective, I've organized the options in alphabetical order.

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What do you dislike most?

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Arrogant characters in general

Character tries to kill MC, then gets mad when MC fights back

Characters who actually "fail to see Mt. Tai"

Coughing up blood

Defeated enemies are connected to more powerful enemies

Elder/Senior Brothers bullying MC

Enemies always assuming MC is weak

Extreme emotional reactions

Every female character falls in love with MC

Fatty best friends

Flowery descriptions of females (jade skin, milky skin etc.)

Giving, saving, or losing face

Harem

How characters get offended easily

Hypocritical main characters (complains about being bullied, then bullies others etc.)

Ignorant or immature people who are millions of years old

Knowing the MC will never lose or die

Long chase scenes

Last minute power-up out of nowhere

Law of the jungle / survival of the fittest / strength is everything

MC always traveling to a bigger/larger place

MC hides identity for flimsy or seemingly no reason

MC's terrible family/clan

MC can automatically use new abilities

MC is stronger than his level

One-dimensional villains

Overuse of "Mt. Tai" trope

Peanut gallery/ reaction crowd

People rushing to fight MC even when he is clearly stronger than them

Plot exposition via eavesdropping or monologuing

Powerful ancestor hiding in magical item

Powerful Senior interferes to save someone from MC

Rape as a weapon or excused/dismissed

Repaying kindness with malevolence

Ruthlessness (wiping out clans/sects, etc.)

Secret realms/trials or tournaments that further cultivation or provide needed resources

Slapping faces

Supporting characters who get forgotten

Strong female characters who get nerfed or become irrelevant

Young Masters

SPECIAL: I actually LIKE many of these cliches

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