I love the angst in this- I liked that the CEO wasn’t overbearing or that the bottom wasn’t naive and coquettish. There wasn’t a lot of sex scenes that are thrown randomly and the pacing was good. On that note, the ending.
It was a happy ending, which I really like because both of them deserved a happy ending (top having been ostracized by his family + no personal connection because he was in a foreign country, and bottom bearing the weight of the elder child + growing up as working class, struggling aspirations that stemmed from monetarily gains). The ending fucking sucked tho- wdym we only see a time cut of 2 months, of them just walking on the beach and stealing a kiss????? The gong/top should’ve worked his way back to the bottom/shou’s heart by coming to his shoots/films, having dates with each other, explaining their situation to the bottom’s brother, etc. also the ending their relationship hidden from the world is kinda ironic considering that they met/got together from fake dating and trying to spread rumors of top/gong’s gay relationship publicly. It would’ve been nice to circle to them fully embracing their relationship by being public but ig not how the author want it to end ://.
Side story: I like that the author is doing a retelling of folk stories, I think it’s very cute and I really like alternate universes- but the ending was just so abrupt that I feel people would feel more frustrated about the ending than to actually enjoy the side stories.
I love the angst in this- I liked that the CEO wasn’t overbearing or that the bottom wasn’t naive and coquettish. There wasn’t a lot of sex scenes that are thrown randomly and the pacing was good. On that note, the ending.
It was a happy ending, which I really like because both of them deserved a happy ending (top having been ostracized by his family + no personal connection because he was in a foreign country, and bottom bearing the weight of the elder child + growing up as working class, struggling aspirations that stemmed from monetarily gains). The ending fucking sucked tho- wdym we only see a time cut of 2 months, of them just walking on the beach and stealing a kiss????? The gong/top should’ve worked his way back to the bottom/shou’s heart by coming to his shoots/films, having dates with each other, explaining their situation to the bottom’s brother, etc. also the ending their relationship hidden from the world is kinda ironic considering that they met/got together from fake dating and trying to spread rumors of top/gong’s gay relationship publicly. It would’ve been nice to circle to them fully embracing their relationship by being public but ig not how the author want it to end ://.
Side story: I like that the author is doing a retelling of folk stories, I think it’s very cute and I really like alternate universes- but the ending was just so abrupt that I feel people would feel more frustrated about the ending than to actually enjoy the side stories.