Ambrosia's manga / #Beautiful Art(23)

50+ 53: I absolutely adore this. It's refreshing and sweet and melancholy. Beautiful art and characters with some depth. Uke that has social anxiety or rather in public spaces, and seme that is used to giving up what he wants. Sweet seme and tough uke where it could have been reversed. Also rich and poor trope where the uke dotes on the seme. Both are quite thoughtful and considerate, while the uke is more straightforward in initiating at first, the seme becomes quite affectionate as well. Very wholesome couple with a good build up of the relationship in the first half, and a nice blend of affection and smut in the second.

list - 9.5+, mutual, master, favorite

list - enemies

list - 9.5+ 60+ Wow this was a great read! Plot, romance, action, mystery, betrayal, love, it hit every point I wanted it to. The bickering childhood rivals dynamic was a great start, with a natural evolution of sexual curiosity and intimacy that grew to a great love nurtured by the years apart. This is a couple that would truly die for each other, and it was great to see their deep love. Even better that everything was consensual, and just the right balance of romance and steamy scenes mixed in with the plot. Great characters too with our mischievous but righteous uke and serious but smirky seme. Both strong and smart, capable and noble, with a great friendship foundation and loving bickering. Set in a world of murim martial arts that I usually don’t read, but it was really well done and easy to follow.

list - seme pov story was ok, art was absolutely gorgeous

list - office 37: this is kind of pointless but also kind of fun to read. Art is gorgeous, they are both super hot. Uke is the insecure type to thinks they are very plain and not good enough, and so they are very dense/oblivious to the seme's advances. But granted, he's been cheated on and taken advantage of before, so he tries not to read into the signs. But so far it's all been about him overthinking everything and ignoring the very obvious signs. It's funny how very attracted he is to the seme though and lusts after him, it reminds me of punch drunk love. Seme is a fine specimen and likes to tease the uke a little bit but is mostly quite kind and doting. But so much of the misunderstanding is bc he is just not straightforward, why doesn't he just say the important part. He definitely shows through his actions that he likes him, but the uke is clueless and so doesn't pick up on that or overthinks those situations. Though that kind of vague flirtations and pining does make for good sexual tension, it felt like edging with the slowburn lol. They've finally confessed their feelings in words and started dating, so it should be all fun from here.

lots of physical affection but are they healthy? i think the relationship is healthy but they both have issues