This manhua was overall a pretty good one, with more realistic approaches to romance, very nice art, and decent development of main characters and plotline. Realistic approaches and not an overly dramatic approach was this manhua's advantage.
However, I would not classify this as a masterpiece because of a few things.
1. Pacing For one, the pacing is meh with the author focusing entirely too much on irrelevant scenes and very little dialogue in one chapter. Sure not bad when one is reading through after it is finished but while it was pushed out weekly, the bad pacing was evident. Some or rather a lot of chapters went from point A to point A. For example, it would start with the main character planning to talk to somebody, meeting them, saying a few words and then boom cliffhanger when nothing has happened... Many times she would end the chapter with no substance and even end it as a cliffhanger when it didn't classify as a cliffhanger.
2. Realistic? People tend to really overhype a piece of work if it slightly deviates from usual tropes and stereotypes. The other thing was there were quite a few stereotypical plotlines but its not always a bad thing. It's just I see so many praise the manhua for being realistic without being cliche when there were many cliche and stereotypical aspects. For example, "meeting each other as childhood friends", "don't want to be with you bc you'll be discriminated against", "meeting you when I'm older and then we work out as a couple (Red head and uncle)", etc.
3. Side characters One major flaw were the side characters as the author did not seem to know what to do with them and inserted or developed them with poor timing. Side characters were pretty useless except for giving audiences a bit of fresh air from the main couple. She did not bring them in earlier in the story and instead inserted them right when the main couple had major issues which was bad timing. Most people cared about the characters bc they were cute or had relatable struggles but in general, they wouldn't and shouldn't evoke much emotion from the audience due to lack of development and screen time. i.e. "I don't know much if anything about this side character and she expects us to care for them greatly", which is a flaw. One major hint of the not so decent side characters were the fact that most readers didn't even remember their names and only referred to them by their hair color.
4. Lack of development for main characters and only scraping the surface of complex issues Main characters STILL did not get enough development in terms of their dynamic with each other AFTER they got together and that is also due to the fact that author chose to use that time to allocate for the side characters. There was slight emphasis on Huan's sexual inexperience but she didn't or couldn't delve into that and the lack of approval from Yuyang's parents which were glossed over, etc. The misunderstanding in their relationship was just Huan forgetting Yuyang's bd and hiding the fact that he was sick which was a miscommunication problem that could have been developed more and used to show their dynamic as a couple. Instead she just chalked it up to them having an almost perfect relationship without them explicitly communicating and whatnot.
Despite the flaws, I still enjoyed the manhua and thought it was decent. I would've liked her to still focus more on the couple and develop their relationship more but she really didn't do that, which is probably why she dragged the misunderstanding and unrequited love part so long as after they got together, not much happened. She didn't dive into the topics deeply and only scraped the surface. Topics about acceptance, relationship struggles, etc. and sort of glossed over it quite quickly with just showing family members or friends accepting it easily. Still a manhua I would prob re-read.
This manhua was overall a pretty good one, with more realistic approaches to romance, very nice art, and decent development of main characters and plotline. Realistic approaches and not an overly dramatic approach was this manhua's advantage.
However, I would not classify this as a masterpiece because of a few things.
1. Pacing
For one, the pacing is meh with the author focusing entirely too much on irrelevant scenes and very little dialogue in one chapter. Sure not bad when one is reading through after it is finished but while it was pushed out weekly, the bad pacing was evident. Some or rather a lot of chapters went from point A to point A. For example, it would start with the main character planning to talk to somebody, meeting them, saying a few words and then boom cliffhanger when nothing has happened... Many times she would end the chapter with no substance and even end it as a cliffhanger when it didn't classify as a cliffhanger.
2. Realistic?
People tend to really overhype a piece of work if it slightly deviates from usual tropes and stereotypes. The other thing was there were quite a few stereotypical plotlines but its not always a bad thing. It's just I see so many praise the manhua for being realistic without being cliche when there were many cliche and stereotypical aspects. For example, "meeting each other as childhood friends", "don't want to be with you bc you'll be discriminated against", "meeting you when I'm older and then we work out as a couple (Red head and uncle)", etc.
3. Side characters
One major flaw were the side characters as the author did not seem to know what to do with them and inserted or developed them with poor timing. Side characters were pretty useless except for giving audiences a bit of fresh air from the main couple. She did not bring them in earlier in the story and instead inserted them right when the main couple had major issues which was bad timing. Most people cared about the characters bc they were cute or had relatable struggles but in general, they wouldn't and shouldn't evoke much emotion from the audience due to lack of development and screen time. i.e. "I don't know much if anything about this side character and she expects us to care for them greatly", which is a flaw. One major hint of the not so decent side characters were the fact that most readers didn't even remember their names and only referred to them by their hair color.
4. Lack of development for main characters and only scraping the surface of complex issues
Main characters STILL did not get enough development in terms of their dynamic with each other AFTER they got together and that is also due to the fact that author chose to use that time to allocate for the side characters. There was slight emphasis on Huan's sexual inexperience but she didn't or couldn't delve into that and the lack of approval from Yuyang's parents which were glossed over, etc. The misunderstanding in their relationship was just Huan forgetting Yuyang's bd and hiding the fact that he was sick which was a miscommunication problem that could have been developed more and used to show their dynamic as a couple. Instead she just chalked it up to them having an almost perfect relationship without them explicitly communicating and whatnot.
Despite the flaws, I still enjoyed the manhua and thought it was decent. I would've liked her to still focus more on the couple and develop their relationship more but she really didn't do that, which is probably why she dragged the misunderstanding and unrequited love part so long as after they got together, not much happened. She didn't dive into the topics deeply and only scraped the surface. Topics about acceptance, relationship struggles, etc. and sort of glossed over it quite quickly with just showing family members or friends accepting it easily. Still a manhua I would prob re-read.