Hmmm it seems like both of the characters might have some skeletons in their respective closets... Assuming you can fit anything else besides the rampant queerness in those closets

Mari's deepest wish is purposefully not stated, though of course, I would believe that her wish was to stay with Hezhou forever, in an unchanging bubble. The fact that this can't happen, as her wish was reversed with the antler's return to the deer, potentially means two main things. One, she just has to suck up leaving Hezhou and marrying the guy her parents probably betrothed her to. Or two, even if the world isn't perfect and she can't remain "pure", there must still be a way to adapt as the rest of their world has, and as Hezhou clearly wishes for her too.

Mari slowly turning to water feels like she's trying to fight against the flow of time and the change that comes with it, and in doing so is having her "self" washed away in the process of trying to fight the tide. And it's interesting that the solution to Mari's spirit being washed away involves a "soil god" associated with the earth and stability.

The language gap tag is sending me

COOL GRANDMA! COOL GRANDMA!

GILF for sure

I am very unnerved by how their big dangly earrings stayed on during sex. That's just asking for trouble, the kind that hurts enough to be a mood killer.

I noticed that they both have been shown sleeping in their earrings before this too, I wonder if the author just forgot that they aren't supposed to draw the earrings during these scenes lol

Alright lets take some guesses on what we think a lesson in desire is gonna be. Is it:
A. Madame butterfly manages to fuck her through the mirror.
B. Bai Yuetao is told to strip and masturbate in front of the mirror.
C. Other (please elaborate in the space below)

Considering the pacing and the self awareness of Shen Aoqing so far, I have a feeling that she's gonna try to avoid Jiang Xue for a bit to figure out her own feelings, but that they'll sit down to discuss what they actually want their relationship to be pretty soon.

Naori stabbing herself with the ice pick was so fucking metal of her

I appreciate the artist's commitment to just giving our protagonist the biggest breasts of all time.

I'm very curious to see what miss butterfly dream's plan for this situation is, and on the subject of "why would this guy have married her if she has no status and he doesn't think she's hot" and this might sound far fetched but honestly maybe he's gay. Marrying a woman with no status would be preferable in that case because then he can spurn her without any fear of the family retaliating like they would have if he married a woman from an influential family.

However we already saw him flirting with another woman, granted it was filtered through the memories of mirror lady, so I'm not so sure the theory holds any water.

I think people are gonna look back on the 2020s as a real golden age for sapphic horror. And this series is definitely shaping up to be a really wonderful addition to the ranks

The financial calculator vs the calculated smile

So what are the odds that she's lying and the surgery was a success, but that she just really wants to keep kissing anyways

Koto seems to be getting more and more posessive and restrictive towards Aya. I worry about how far she'd take things to keep Aya dependent on her. Agreed with @Chikaon that meeting someone who's roughly her age in a similar situation is a good thing, but it does seem to be provoking Koto a lot so we'll see how all this pans out.

Curious to see what role Erika will have to play here.

Having your body powered up through one person's alcohol alone is simultaneously the most yuri thing ever, and also such a shounen cheese move lmao.

"Heh, you've only seen a fraction of my power! Wait until my bartender arrives and I drink the special sake mixed with her hands!!"

Wakaba not realizing that Komaki is just into her and really jealous/immature sure is a dynamic lol. I'm not sure who's the less mature one between the two of them at this point

Just vaguely curious here: is there a manga term (yes, I know this series isn’t Japanese) for this “person gets a chance to live their life over” genre, parallel to “isekai,” etc.?

Tensei means resurrection or something like that, hence all the "isekai tensei - reborn in another world". While not quite full starting over, one could consider "trying again" a tensei perhaps?

Thanks! The genres are definitely related, albeit this is “reborn in the familiar world.” I haven’t actually read many of these, but I’ve seen plenty of series blurbs about “Pathetic SOB wakes up and is back in middle school/high school, etc.”

Speaking of “rebirth,” this one is pretty fluffy for a series that starts out with the protagonist basically killing herself with alcohol poisoning. I know the plot is ostensibly drama, but the MCs’ character beats are mainly gorgeous women being adorable.

In otome isekai/villainess circles we sometimes call the trope regression, since you could view it as the character physically regressing to an earlier age with their memories intact

Wait is Asumi actually gonna have sex with her senpai finally after all these years?

Also Asumi is totally a goner now that she's dipped her toes into bdsm lmao.

Also the situation with Nanao is so like, casually unhealthy lmao. It's fine now but Asumi trying to pull back from it all is probably for the best? Although I do really feel for Nanao in this situation...

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Whoa

the art and stylistic choices continue to impress me, especially the shower scene in this chapter. I truly feel like we're experiencing a yuri rennaissance with all these new chinese series getting translated now.

the ending we deserved

This panel alone was enough to get my heart racing oh my lord

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I hope we get a good flashback of them flirting while the painting was being made

tianli has to learn sooner or later that after a certain point, apologies are best left unsaid as theyre simply an attempt to assuage the guilt of the person who did something wrong

The contrast between the exaggerated shounen-esque violence and banter amongst the cupids compared to the bittersweet melancholy of the actual act of guiding others to something you can never posess, with the added history between Koharu and Aki makes for a really insane gap. Is it jarring or is it moe? I can't quite tell yet...

Between the wall regeneration in chapter 13 and the groundwork being laid for how important peoples faith is in giving magic to the ruler, I'm starting to feel the storm clouds brewing on the horizon. It seems like a very nasty death spiral where losing faith means losing power, which in turn causes more loss of faith and power. Not to mention the potential liabilities of having Sara in such an intimate position of power next to the current regent. I've read the pre-serialized version so I know what could happen in the future, and while this story has diverged in quite a lot of ways already, I do know that some things appear to be set in stone and I'm terrified of when they may come to pass.

Hopefully we get some more good relationship development before shit really hits the fan though. I need some sweetness to survive the storm and make it to the other side.