Rae D.'s manga / #OTP!!!(59)

I had the time of my life…. a. fucking. ball. This is a feeling I haven’t felt since reading Love Shuttle (which makes sense because it’s the same beautiful author!!!) key characteristics about this author: aesthetically pleasing muted color palette, the way she draws eyebrows behind bangs, the way she draws blush to look so damn seductive, sex scenes only a true woman of culture could create, an absolute cutie head of an MC, some of the most respectful and courteous yet hot tops in all of BL, etc…. (oh yeah and also….. her OBSESSION with incest ). lmfao, like…. girl FRIEND what do we need to do to help you get that out of your system once and for all?? . Lmfao, lemme stop. If that’s what she trying to do… that’s what she tryin to do lol. I’ve only read two of her works…. but why have I seen 3 INTENSE cases of brotherly incest

I simply had a fantastic time tbh. This is an instant fav of mine. The comedy resonated with me heavily. I laughed the entire time all the way till the end. Latte is an adorable and hilarious and ratchet character. She was so commendably fresh and full of life! Arwin is the most beautiful man I have ever seen lol. The two of them are the cutest couple on earth. Good fucking vibes: very light on drama, very heavy on just vibing, very heavy on simple and cute romance :3 This had many many good things going for it, and a couple of bad things that aren’t exactly glaring or anything, but also cannot really be overlooked. Literally any and all criticism I can have for this story has to do with the way it ended. Here are my problems with the story’s end ranging from biggest to smallest: BIG - The way she ended Ibelin's story was so so bad. It was quit ew. Not enough care or effort went into it at all. I’m not mad that Ibelin and Latte didn’t stay friends or that Ibelin didn’t get some kind of redemption arc. But they made Ibelin so lame for nothing. Like excessively lame in a way that was truly giving “now let’s shit on the FL just for being the FL”. I loved how this story for the grand majority of it was not falling into that dumb shit, yet here we are doing this at the end. *sigh*... Also, it’s actually just not a good look that Ibelin and Latte didn’t stay friends but that Latte decided to become best friend’s with Kenneth of all people??? I can see how things played out that way but there's a misogynistic pickme girl tiny pieces woven into the way that played out….. Latte not being friends with Ibelin because Ibelin doesn’t know how to be a good friend and never seemed to care about Latte the way Latte would need a friend to reciprocate care, that’s perfectly fine and makes sense. However…. If that’s the case, why did we become bffs with Kenneth??????? It’s not adding up tbh. Not the “feeling overwhelming sympathy for one of the hot male leads” ish. It’s gross. I get it stalking is wrong and all that jazz and he’s got a sad backstory and blah blah blah, but none of that makes up for his shitty behavior throughout the story and he didn’t have even half of the amount of redemption it took for Latte and him to be being friends all of a sudden lol. We did not keep that same level of “woe is you poor thing” sympathy for Ibelin lol. (Again, to be clear, I don’t think she should have had it for EITHER or them, but to have it for only one of them and that one be Kenneth is not a good “girls girl” look shrug) MEDIUM - I already mentioned Kenneth when it came to his vs Ibelin’s endings, but I have a different qualm about Kenneth as well outside of that. Kenneth was a hella lame love interest and I am mad that we even attempted to do an alternative route ending for him. It was gross and imo tactless and I basically skipped the whole thing. It made Latte seem a lot less self-respecting than I like to think she is canonically. If we had to have an alt route ending (WHICH WE DID NOT AT ALL) I would have much preferred the prince. MEDIUM - In general the ending was a bit of a mess. Not only was it rushed…. We also took a very long break from the story about the main couple to add in a bunch of extra side stuff when……. No one had had nearly enough of hearing about the main couple’s ending first. I would not have hated (or skipped) most of the extra stuff had it simply come afterrrrr I got my fill (or something even close to my fill) of our main couple’s story. All and all it just wasn’t a good move and leaves a not wonderful taste in my mouth to end the story with SMEDIUM - The prince…. why did he fall off of the face of the earth halfway through the story??? Lol. It felt weird and unbalanced from a story writing perspective that he never comes back into play not even like once. SMALL(-ISH) - Arwin’s character lost a good bit of flavor after he and Latte got together. I am not the maddest in the world at it because it is a pitfall I see happen in tons of manwha in this genre. It was just preeeetty disappointing to see because I liked him so much and we were doing so good with him for such a long time *big sigh*. Anyways, I got my critique out of my system. I loved this. This has a score that it deserves but then there’s the extra brownie points it gets for many, many things. To name a few of the more unusual ones: androgynous male lead, male lead is the wizard, MC does not exploit modern world knowledge to get ahead, MC is (more or less) an actual side character and remains one till the end of the story instead of eventually taking the FL’s spot, ML without overly tragic backstory and emotional baggage, a very very natural progression of falling in love between the main couple, …. etc If not for the first of the main problems I listed above, I would be willing to give this a 9.8 on god (for the comedy!!!!!). But because of that pretty bad problem, I’ll be giving this a 9.7. P.S.: so……….. MC thinks that she looks better as Latte than she did as Hyejung, but…… HYEGUNG WAS FOINE AS HELL?????????!!!!!!!!!!!! Lmfao, it HAD to be said bro. Like…. What was she talkinabout??!! Hyejung was an absolute baddie

This was so fucking adorable. And not just (or mainly) in a romantic way. But in a way that cute things are just bound to being cute!!!!!!!! I love love loved how cute it was. It was forever and always adorable!! Aside from being cute, it got unexpectedly dark-ish lol. Not actually anything dark, but def “dark” respective to how cute it was. Ursch is one of my all time fav MLS a breathe of fresh air, I love him. I’ve always been into the tankers trope but him giving palatable yandere-light wrapped up in his adorable appearance is TO DIE FOR!!! Behold, an actual arrow was shot straight through my heart when I saw him: hahaha. Ah, he is too cute in appearance, so fun and fresh with his baby yandere shit and ultimately just super fucking cool because of how OP he is! He had loads more personality than so many of the actual adult MLS in this genre and that’s sad lol. The MC is cute and fun to watch and behaves in unexpected ways. Honestly, she makes a lot of choices that most would consider wrong, but it’s so alright because there isn’t that much at stake and she isn’t like other MCs in the genre in that sense. The author very purposefully set up a goofy vibe for the story so that everything the MC does no matter how silly ends up being okay! This couple was so amazing for me. They treated each other so previously and with respect and had a surprisingly adult air to their romantic partnership. Also I very much appreciate how the MC is obsessed with Ursch and he responds to her obsession with obsession of his own! It’s a splendid dynamic honestly, and I was DYING to see more of it . Which brings us to the main reason for my sorrow tonight and the main reason I cannot give this the fantastic score if like to give it…. the author dropped the webtoon before she finished it! And not just before she finished it, but literally sooooooo early on. If I had to guess, I’d say this story would have been at least 100 chapters if it ever got completed, but we only got 16. it’s honestly sick and twisted and sad! such a beautiful 16 chapters. I would legit by this entire thing if she wrote the rest of the webtoon bro, because the art style was sooooo darling precious! I’ve been talking about the art and the main characters and how cute and likeable both are, but I should also mention that the plot is also very interesting!!! I like the video game set up and being able to use your game powers from the real world in the game. I liked the status checking and inventory and all of that. But what was by far the most interesting piece is what we set up in the very last chapter at the very end of everything: the idea the Ursch from the future brought the MC into this world to turn her into the Demon King!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It’s actually fantastic. It made me light up to hear. And so the stark contrast to me discovering the main plot and then immediately finding out they won’t be finishing the webtoon had me . From characters (main and side) to art to plot, to freshness, this story actually had all of the making of being one of my fav in the genre. Horrible news that it will never finish. If this webtoons was finished and kept up the same level of quality I, seeing now, I’d see myself giving it a 9.5. Regardless I adored these 16 chapters that I read, so I’m giving it a 9.45! P.S.: me never getting the chance to see adult Ursch is a mother fucking CRIME

Could’ve should’ve would’ve been a 9.6, but they very blatantly decided to give me an upsetting ending when a happy one was clearly in their sights. How upsetting lol. No, but like actually. Like why the hell would it end like this? Ugly move bro Anyway, I loved so so so much of this. Only other bit problem in addition to that ending was that it was lacking some depth in the plot. Anyway yeah, wish the ending wasn’t so upsetting so I could give this a 9.6, lol. So so so much of this was giving 9.6 material. Like so many parts were beautiful (as expected from this author.) But… they couldn’t help themselves when it came to killing off both of the main characters at the end, and so here goes the 9.5

This story was significantly better in the first half (for the first 50 or so/107 chapters) than for the second half. Not to say it got horrible or anything, but man did some things fall off. In the beginning there was romance yes, but there was also a lil political intrigue, there was both action and the promise of action, there were fantasy secrets yet to be revealed..... the second half? Only romance, lol. Romance that I ate the fuck up!!! (

I honestly feel blessed to have been able to read this story. Blessed. This was so beautiful. So fun. So great. So hot and steamy. So many twists and turns. Lovely little characters. So many sad moments and happy moments and complex emotions. Such a huge air of maturity surrounding every aspect of the story. It was incredible. The plot was… wild, lol. I can truly say I’ve never read anything like this. Like genuinely unpredictable as fuck. At no real point in time did I know what the next course of action would be for these characters. If you told me on the earlier chapters that we would end up here where we are at the end? I would’ve barely believed it. Chae-ul is one of my all time fav BL MC’s. He was such a lovely little dumpling of a middle aged man. He is such a darling dear with an extremely pleasant demeanor. And yet, he’s also such a freaky guy! Lol. I loved that for him much. And unlike ho wither stories would’ve handled it, it wasn’t like he stopped being lovely when he became freaky and vice versa. You know? It wasn’t like flipping a switch to two separate sides of his personality. He would simultaneously be equal parts lovely sweetheart and mischievous freak-a-leek! I love love love that for him so much. It made him so unique to me, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like it in an MC. Chae-heon was such an intensely sexy and respectful lover. He was sexy. He was respectful. He was sexily respectful. He was respectfully sexy. Lol. But for real though, his every single breath was a sexy one. His every single thought concerning Chae-ul was a respectful one. With this much sexy and this much respect, what more could one ask for in a man? Not to mention his two dicks, iridescent snake scales under his skin, billions of dollars saved up in the bank, openness with his affection + emotions, and wonderful resting deadpan facial expression? Girl hell yeah. My goodness, I cannot remember the last time I saw a fictional couple as mature as this one where both parties treated each as tenderly and with as much respect as these two did one another. Their communication skills were phenomenal to the point of seeming other-worldly. I just- everything about the way they interacted made it abundantly clear that they truly CHERISHED one another. Crazy good chemistry between these two men. Talk about a damn otp. The sex scenes were good good good and I will surely be returning to this story many a time to revisit them lol. Like true “woman of culture” quality going on here. Top tier premium shit. It feels like nothing I say in this review can do this work justice tbh, so I’m going to just go ahead and wrap it up now. Let’s see quickly what else might I have missed? Okay mart was great, side characters were great, story structure & writing were great, humor was nice and fitting. I loved this so very much. It was so impressive. I’m giving it a 9.7. P.S.: the title is really you look back on it when you’ve finished reading the story. Like it obviously fits because of the subject matter, but also it’s so funnily unfitting of the wholesome ass vibes.

I liked this a whole lot. It was a cross between BL and cultivation genre. Although, saying it was a cross implies it was something of a perfect mix to me. This was clearly first and foremost a BL that was just set in a cultivation setting and had many cultivation genre aspects all throughout it. I know for some of the girlies in the comments who aren’t into the cultivation genre they were a bit confused about why these elements were added in if they did t really contribute to the story. But for me who eats that cultivation shit up? Yeah I was super into it! It’s not often I see these genres I like cross. It’s like the excitement I feel when I see a BL otome isekai or an otome isekai cultivation manwha. I just love when two great things come together. Anyway, yeah I def loved this. It was simply good. Nothing too complex or complicated. Just a nice little entertaining story. I hope these two babies live happily together forever because they deserve it. It gets a 9.5.

Very high production value - very impressed by this art style One of my fav MCs such a relatable and adorable cutie. Sex was sometimes a bit disappointing. Would have preferred a smidge more drama or conflict for intrigue