L.Bergljot's manga / #Beautiful Art(298)

I do like the ML and the FL but the female lead has trauma and the ML's forceful nature doesn't really help. On ch. 5 when the FL said she felt like she had to carry out her "duties as a wife" because the ML chose her was a definite red flag. She shouldn't be feeling a sense of responsibility to do things with him. I don't know if the FL's trauma will be addressed later on but at the moment I think there's not enough discussing going on.

It's really interesting, just hoping for no romantic interests. Especially since he's a middle aged man, so if he were to be romantically interested in someone who's of similar age as his body it'd be... Not okay...

I'd like to rate it 5 stars but the Nagizuka thing really bothered me... He shouldn't have made Makoto come out like that, but he apologized and tried to make it up to him. But I felt like Nagizuka's one-sided crush (which apparently he's had for a while now) was simply used to elevate the couple and like the translator's note (or joke?) mentioned the mangaka never let it go. Like the exhibitionism at the last chapter? Couldn't they have done something for Nagizuka? When they portray it like this it makes it seem as though Makoto is insensitive about others, especially when he knew Nagizuka liked him but didn't hesitate to be close with Shiro in front of him. It just really bothers me how the author decided to use Nagizuka's crush on Makoto...

It's really cute though it was absolutely heart-wrenching and tragic in the beginning (I may or may no have cried...). I'm not sure if the female lead is strong, per se, but you would definitely need a significant amount of strength and resilience to go through what she did. ch.24 rereading bcs i forgot but im starting to remember why i dropped it... i understand she grew up sheltered and is thus naive but it feels like she literally learned nothing from her previous life. she's still so airheaded and ig they're going for the more heartwarming route but by god does she irritate me sometimes.

Looks absolutely amazing but it's really sad this is only a one shot.