it can be interpreted as stiffly, maybe?

Sadly I have to disagree with this. It clearly not the author fault, this is the translator fault, what you didn't believe me? If that the case, it clearly you are a newbie reading in here. It is by already an open fact that Webnovel is lacking in translator aspect. You can find some that are good at early, yet the quality going downward as they literally change it to machine translation. Heh, did you even can make a story yourself? If not, then don't blame someone unrelated because of your narrow view 🤣