The way I watch Chinese animation series is that I watch the animation first and then I read the original novel later. But this animation, I couldn't watch the animation first because I felt it's kind of boring at first, so, I stopped watching. It's not that I don't try. Believe me, I've tried twice. Then last month, I was so depressed because of political situation in the country I'm currently living in, Myanmar. So, I needed to relax. Hence, I thought about reading a novel and I chose this animation's original novel Ren Zha Fan Pai Zi Jiu Xi Tong (lit. The Scum Villain Self-Saving System). (Sorry that I couldn't write the novel name in Chinese because IMDb doesn't allow me to. That's why I wrote it in Pinyin.) I didn't like the novel that much at first. But the more I read it, the more I felt it was kind of good and I got hooked to it, you know. When I hit half part of the novel, I started to watch this animation for the third time. This time, I could watch it again. Maybe because I already knew the whole story and so, I didn't feel boring. Hence, I could watch it. I watched this animation (the whole 10 episodes) in a day. After I watched, I realised that it was kind of cool animation like the ones I love. Just one little thing that I couldn't watch it without reading the original novel.
So, overall is that this is the first animation that I've encountered "to read the novel first, watch the animation later" situation. If the animation team could do a better job, it'd be better than now.
