LaLaLiyah's manga / #Shounen Ai(4)

This is my first time commenting on a story, but I’ve related to the main character so much I felt the need to comment how I felt. The story does a good job remembering to keep it realistic yet since it’s ongoing I can’t help but feel the characters are living in such an outdated mindset. Qiu Rang, is he mentally ill? His parents died from an airplane so yes he can be very clingy to his Ge. Many stories justify the weird obsession with their personality just being very possessive by nature, but Qiu Rang also can’t understand basic human emotions and boundaries. Even being pampered very well as a kid, said individual can still grow up with knowledge of right and wrong, and Qiu Rang’s Ge as seen in the story does scold Qiu Rang to learn right and wrong from childhood. So why does he still not grasp human decency besides the author needing a second love interest? He Wei growing up in such a suffocating family and lack of parental love, no one to scold him right and wrong yet he is the person in the story who has the most empathy for others? Yet the author chose to continue to hurt He Wei by making his little brother attempt to rape him multiple times, yes the author made him do that because it makes no sense for an actual person with a sane mind to do that, if we argue the author isn’t making Qiu Rang do it then we can conclude that the author wrote Qiu Rang as a mentally ill character. So, mentally ill or not, I cannot find myself to have any sympathy for someone to constantly be selfish and harm others for the sake of their own happiness, no matter how cute they draw Qiu Rang or how desperate he looks for his Ge to look at him. He stole He Wei’s fathers attention from him to be sick, yet Qiu Rang just wanted He Wei to look at him. He is Bai Lin’s crush, yet the author had He Wei have a crush on Bai Lin. Qiu Rang does things to so desperately have He Wei look at him yet fails to see that he hurt He Wei so much that his desperation fails to make me feel any sympathy. I had hope for Bai Lin, a seemingly mature character that is smart, always thinking ten steps ahead, yet the author chose to make this wise character less than what he could actually be. Is the morale of this story the consequence of blinding love? Modernly majority can agree blinding love is toxic, Bai Lin who could have been one of He Wei’s support is instead a character creating an unrealistic plan to use He Wei of his own gain to have Qiu Rang only rely on him. Has He Wei done something so unbelievably bad in his past life? Does a good person no longer exist the moment they are born with a silver spoon? I want to skip every chapter about these two, they don’t know what consequences are, they don’t actually care about anyone but themselves, how could I want to read about them falling in love, having a good ending. Even karma isn’t something I would read about, because they’ve already done so many wrongs yet He Wei is written to be so forgiving, when in reality it takes such a strong person to revisit such a traumatic place again and again. But for the sake of a love story, He Wei’s feelings are overlooked more than they should be. The story is so unnecessarily toxic it’s frustrating. There is no argument, He Wei is the one who suffers the most. I’m on chapter 71, He Wei and the one only good character Wan Jun are together, they have clarity of their feelings together and He Wei realized he never had feelings for Bai Lin, and finally stood up against Qiu Rang. That is where I’m allowing myself to drop this story, that should be the end of the story. I hope the author learned a lot about how to write characters while working on this story. It’s not completely awful, but compelling enough for me to say that it desperately needs better character writing. What’s good is that the art is beautiful, He Wei learns that he actually has rights, and Wan Jun is exactly what He Wei needs. That’s all the good things, and don’t make me bring up the horrible age gap they both have during the story. Even the main couple has horrible issues that are over looked that reflects on poor writing that ends up being very distasteful to read. Three stars, I won’t give it anything higher if anything I think three stars was heavily carried by the beautiful art and how committed the author was for continuing to make every character unlikeable.

The Seme is an ass hole, if you’re reading hoping for the twins to be happy together and heal drop it now because when Ray wakes up he moves to another city leaving Kile with Lou. Edith gets captured, Asher retires from the Bureau yadayadayada. It’s not a satisfying ending at all. Lou has been a complete asshole to Kile, had sex with him because he looked like his twin, Kile suffers and gets everyone’s anger taken out on him because his twin brother is dead. All Kile does is forgive and forgive and at the end of the story, he doesn’t even care to be with his brother anymore, he wants to make Lou (who used him as Ray’s replacement) feel better for being an asshole. Does anyone really care about Ray? Or Kile? Or do the two of them just have to accept how shit they’ve been treated because of how selfish everyone in this story is. Lou’s love for Kile doesn’t even make any sense because I thought the whole thing was that he went batshit crazy for a year because of Ray, now that Ray is awake and alive suddenly Lou likes Kile? But before Ray died it was suggested in the flash backs that him and Lou were in a relationship but when Lou goes to find a solution for Ray to escape Edith, Ray has sex with Asher? Mhm, the plot is all over the place, the ending was predictable in the worst way possible and all the characters who sucked in the beginning still suck after 80 chapters. One star and shove it up your ass so you don’t waste your time.

Both characters are incredibly annoying, the story felt like things happened for the sake of having a story. Incredibly irritating dynamic, no sense of logic, how could people actually enjoy this? Could you even consider this enemies to lovers? I guess so just in the worst way possible. The whole beginning felt so childish, and not in a good way at all. Because of how much frustration this story gave me, all I want to say now (it’s completely my emotional side speaking don’t take it to heart) this author fucking sucks at attempting to make a love story with a “quirky” dynamic and the only thing they’ll ever achieve is making forgettable characters and an even more forgettable storyline. I bet my whole life I’ll never read a single story after this shit show they created got so much love for simply… hm, nothing. What a fucking joke.

Was interesting and unbelievably sweet until the author made the cause of MC’s sleeping issue so half assed. Yeah the ML planted a dream snake in him when they met a long time ago, feels like a horrible reason just for the sake of a story? Yeah I guess so, not really interesting anymore. What a boring ending since I already feel the story coming to an end.