Well quite the problems your dealing with. Good luck and try to don't pay much atention about the reviws, it's more sad than anything esle, what they are doing.
The part about the Chinese, I confess I laughed a little. I read a lot of Chinese novels and the characters they create for their stories are very dumb. I associated this part of the text with this situation and didn't even care much if it was racism or not.
All told, I totally agree with you, but I recommend that you stop reading the Mtl novels, as the toxicity there is very high, I recommend that you read on the Chinese site wap.faloo, there are some bad Chinese novels, but there are also many good ones to read.