I'm interested in f/f omegaverse stuff so I looked up the rest of the non-translated chapters and ohhh man. If anyone reading this is on the fence about whether or not to continue reading, I don't recommend it. The plot just gets more convoluted and also dumber. Reading up to the latest chapter felt like a complete waste of time. :/ I don't know how to do spoiler tags so I won't elaborate here, but I'm so annoyed.
ty to the person above who explained how to do spoiler tags
The pacing and plot is so incredibly dumb and I'll zoom in to the part which irked me most. We spent a whole long bunch of chapters with Zhixu looking for her sister Zhishu, and then it turns out that Zhuci already recognised Zhixu from early on, because she was in a relationship with the sister until she disappeared - this is revealed in ch43. The plot (and subplot about Zhuci getting involved with Wangque) then drags on until ch48 when Zhixu finally talks to Zhuci. Zhuci claims that she doesn't know where the sister went after leaving the company and offers to help Zhixiu in her search for her sister.
Then some more meandering stuff with the relationship and search for the sister happens, until ch59 (11 chapters later, nearly 19% of the story so far) where it's revealed that the sister actually died from overwork years ago?? And Zhuci knew all along because she was RIGHT THERE when it happened and the sister died in her arms?? I know the sister backstory plot isn't what most people are reading this for, but it's such an important part of Zhixiu and her character motivations that to drag it out as bait and then come out with this ~twist~ just feels like a cheap trick.
Worse, it turns out that Zhixiu actually knew about her sister's death years ago! But she refused to accept it and suppressed the memories! And she eventually left home in search of her sister and her parents just left her! Zhixiu learns all this from her mother and has ZERO EMOTIONAL REACTION to finding out she had some kind of traumatic memory loss in the past?? Caused by her sister's death?? It's like a total non-issue?? I can deal with plot fuckery without blinking but the "character writing" (in quote marks because it's non-existent tbh) is completely unacceptable especially after readers have invested so much time on all the previous chapters.
And for those reading this for the f/f relationship: the two leads may get physical and intimate but they can't be honest with how they feel about each other - the writer is having waaaaaaay too much fun with the "they're interested in each other but not being honest" shtick, which may be fun but after close to 60 chapters it feels like the relationship between the leads hasn't made any meaningful progress. All the tension and anticipation for them to get together properly is just gone.
TL;DR reading this feels like the writer is trying to milk out as much drama as possible from a paper-thin plot. I'm fine with paper-thin plots in short series, but the way it's dragged out makes reading this a slog. 1) The story loses any sense of tension it had, which in turn causes 2) the character motivations to fall flat and 3) without decent characters you can't develop any relationship for readers to get meaningfully invested in. Massive waste of time all around.
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