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I had just finished the author’s other work about ‘something in the dark’ and honesly, it wasn’t that great, but I wanted to read this one cuz the art looked great and I’m glad I do, I really loved it. The story was a nice quick read with light angst , I WISH THERE WAS A NON CMECORED SMUT SCENE!

The story was meh brinking on shit, the only real upside is the art, the okay smut and some cute parts. The flow of it is a complete mess, things happen so quickly but slow at the same time, characters have random fluctuations of emotions, the seme comes off as a prick at the start but kinda cools down, ig he’s suppose to be a tsundere (honesly his characters rising half bad). Uke is just dumb, he can’t really think for himself at all and his attachment to the manager feels ungrounded and not explored well at all. GOOD LORD THE MANAGER , he’s written off as scum and only scum for the pure sake of being scum, the author doesn’t even bother to show any reason as to why Uke would like him nor give him any redeeming feature other than his looks, highlighting the Ukes dumbassery, he literally left him to get absused but still defends him until someone has to STRAIGHT OUT TELL HIM TO QUIT, same thing with his confession (someone else always had to tell him everything, about the semes feelings and about his own feelings) As I read I thought the paceing and veryhtimg was getting better around the middle but it went straight to shit again. I’ve read worse. The best characters is the bar owner but even then he’s a stereotype (but I honesly don’t mind at all). Maybe I’m too harsh, there must be some people who liked it enough so that it has a 9 rating

Ngl the amnesia cliche is one I tend to avoid BUT the “I’ll still fall in love with you all over again even without my memories” plot, that shit, I eat that shit up. I love it. Almost wish they gave me a little more angst

Rix finding everything Nuah does as cute is everything I want and more, AGSHFHAKFKHKJSHAD THEY’RE SO CUTE I CAN’T HANDLE IT.

The Decker looks like a handheld vacuum. You can tell by that one body shot panel that they wanted to make it look cool but it’s just not working....

I love how supportive they were when they thought he was gonna loose his virginity. They’re such cuties it was adorable

Aside from little plot progressions (within pretty short chapters), the same interactions between the MCs have been going on for the last 5 chapters. Ik it’s cute and it shows how dependant he is on her but have many more times are we gonna see the “don’t leave me/ hate me” “I won’t (but I’m lying and only _whatever her name is_ can lift your curse), say that again and I’m gonna get mad” conversation.

Ik we out here simping for dad but baby ML already stole my heart. Took him 25 chaps to make an appearance and I love him already.

I’m a sucker for puppy dog MLs, can’t wait till he grows up and becomes more attached to FL

But if ur coming from the first instalment, you should already know not to take this shit seriously, and from that standpoint I really fucking like it. The smut low key nosebleed worthy

But there’s a lot more than just personal feelings and your own agenda that come into play when your in a position of power like the emperor. (I might be getting my stories mixed up but iirc this dude is one of the few emperors that actually does his job as an emperor ie. during the whole foreign delegates pork incident he doesn’t get blinded and another event I don’t remember.)

Yeah he seems pretty stupid rn (but to be fair I wouldn’t know what to say if I were him) and it’s not like he can just selfishly be like “no I don’t want a concubine” when part of his job is to pass on his lineage and his wife is potentially infertile. There would also be a whole shit ton of politics that come with rejecting a ducal family (but I can’t really comment on this area)

TLDR; Ye his a little dumb but can’t blame him