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weak writing but otherwise OK
I finished this in the end, despite the weak start. The story was OK but didn't really show much originality. It felt like most of the issues could have been resolved within 5 minutes if the MC and LI just sat down and talked, instead we got each of their issues drawn out into full episodes. It felt like the writing wanted to make this story really wholesome, but for that the characters were acting out too much. And they shyed away from making the characters truly problematic.. so in the end we got these rather meandering fights and conversations which did resolve their issue but didn't really hit that emotional reaction they were going for.
The LI started out with some red flags: lowkey threatening the MC with blackmail - which he never followed up upon, nonconsensual touching at the workplace, a noncon first kiss.. and acting as if he could emotionally manipulate the MC to date him. Yet, somehow he turned into the most vanilla and loving bf once the MC gave him a chance, and followed MC's every whim as if his life depended on it.
MC was incredible passive and barely did anything by his own volition for the first few episodes, then actually started to grow into his own and make his own choices. I have really appreciated this, however, he quickly turned into one of those guys who wants to make his partner's decisions for them once they got together. I honestly didn't understand most of the time how he came to certain decisions, as it wasn't explained by the narration. And then he tried to force his own views onto the LI - eg. the LI was low contact with his neglectful family and MC kept pushing him to keep in touch with them and insisted that this was the right way, instead of trying to listen to the LI and accept his choices.
Overall, the story often felt boring, and a bit frustrating but it had a few cute scenes and they had surprisingly good kisses - especially for a J-BL. The characters could have used more depth and personality, instead of relying so much on the narration.
The LI started out with some red flags: lowkey threatening the MC with blackmail - which he never followed up upon, nonconsensual touching at the workplace, a noncon first kiss.. and acting as if he could emotionally manipulate the MC to date him. Yet, somehow he turned into the most vanilla and loving bf once the MC gave him a chance, and followed MC's every whim as if his life depended on it.
MC was incredible passive and barely did anything by his own volition for the first few episodes, then actually started to grow into his own and make his own choices. I have really appreciated this, however, he quickly turned into one of those guys who wants to make his partner's decisions for them once they got together. I honestly didn't understand most of the time how he came to certain decisions, as it wasn't explained by the narration. And then he tried to force his own views onto the LI - eg. the LI was low contact with his neglectful family and MC kept pushing him to keep in touch with them and insisted that this was the right way, instead of trying to listen to the LI and accept his choices.
Overall, the story often felt boring, and a bit frustrating but it had a few cute scenes and they had surprisingly good kisses - especially for a J-BL. The characters could have used more depth and personality, instead of relying so much on the narration.
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