pluckaduck's manga / #Maid(4)

cute and poignant story

above average OI. people who are disappointed bc mc isn't whom they want to project themselves to be... recalibrate your expectations. i like how ash felt so alienated and distrustful. she acknowledges something all OI authors subconsciously wanted but never admitted in their characters: the desire to experience a perfect love to the extent they can forget their homesickness. her relationships with each ml isn't ideal, most of them being deeply in love with another person before mc, but it's realistic in that sense, and a reasonable explanation why she doesnt bring herself to fall in love until she gets her epiphany.