Awwww!!!

This is really fucking good. The storytelling is really tight and efficient and I love how it shifts your perspective on things over time by giving you different amounts of information. Really admirable to finish this in one volume without wasted space. It was interesting and unusual and painful while still being emotionally realistic, and the resolution made sense in the context of the information we were given. It felt like a oneshot with a one volume page count, and it required all that time to convey its ideas. Incredibly difficult to do, a very impressive piece of fiction.

ITS SO FUCKING PEAAAAK

I can’t believe I missed all these updates??? It’s getting so interesting now, I’m hooked for sure. This was created in a lab to match my interests, I’m so excited for the next update.

HOOOOO

I love this kind of thing sm. And once again. Yellow girl hot.

The fact that the absurd trickeries involved in keeping them apart are lampshaded moves the alarm going off from genuinely infuriating to hilarious (and also genuinely infuriating). It’s so fucking funny.

Poor Mai lmao. Nothing ever goes right for her. Imagine this shit happening to you over a girl you’re obsessed with for your entire life!!!

yurry.

oh fuck this hits

i need this series back sooooo bad

It’s peak

that kiss scene gave me butterflies.. ughh

I KNOW i was about to come comment on it and then that stinger ending happened and grabbed my attention but like. Oh my god. So intense. The way their eyes met in the beginning was exactly the way people look at each other before a super passionate kiss, and I was convinced her knees were gonna give out if it went on any longer. That face she made at the end… waow…

Also! I have to say, the whole “I’ve never thought of being with a woman before” comment really added a lot of me too! It gave me a sense of “oh this isn’t de-gendered sort of unsexed fluff yuri, this is Homosexual Gay Shit and that really adds a lot. It means a lot to me when the acknowledge that, idk it changes the feel of things. Is that just me?

Anyway it’s really cool at how that kind of nod that This is Gay works even in a manga where we’ve only heard a man mentioned in passing.

I’m def following this series, for a while there I was worried it might just be shallow wish fulfillment stuff what with everything going right, but the past couple chapters have added a bunch of interest points. Excited to add another series to my following list.

Curing the world of darkness, one lesbian deep kiss at a time. God bless.

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surprise negom guest appearance

Manatsu I love you so fucking much. gyaru yuri really is the best.

ITS SO FUCKING PEAAAAAK!!!

crazy to me that people are trying to say this was a miss from nmi. sometimes things aren't for you and that's fine! It doesn't mean the work is bad though. "I like this media" and "this media is good" are not equivalent thoughts. I think the fact that this work has 5 pages of comments despite being a single chapter is a testament to how powerful it is, emotionally. If it was bad you wouldn't have cared: what it is is disturbing. And that's clearly intentional.

I've been talking a lot lately to a friend who feels compelled to provide emotional labor for others, and this makes me think of that real-world scenario in a way that good sci-fi is supposed to. Are some of us not "designed," trained to fulfill the needs of others? Do we not take for granted the work of others in our lives? Fickleness, unreliability of the heart, and compelled kindness: both of these things exist, and they engage with each other in destructive ways. Loneliness, heartbreak, codependency--many different dynamics arise when people who are "programmed" in certain ways interact with each other, and I think this manga does an excellent job of evoking them, bringing out those emotions, so that this emotional conundrum can be processed and considered from within.

It's a really fantastic oneshot demonstrating both the depth and range of nmi's abilities.

Wow. man this manhua is really art, huh? That hurt to see, it's such like... a realistic depiction of someone struggling nobly with the life they've been thrust into, trying to do the best they could with the tools they had, and stumbling bc they don't have some qualities they simply weren't able to develop. It's really tragic, and empathetic. It's so interesting how that interacts with our experience of her as homophobic, and as making her daughter hurt and worry. I would like to see this more in works of fiction, honestly. I think it's a really important thing to think about, and come to terms with.

yellow girl is super hot. followed.

holy shit

Speaking of "debt-collecting ghost", there is this short story from Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi (known in English as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio). A merchant borrowed a huge sum of money for a business trip. By the time he returned, his creditor had already died. In the same day the merchant's wife gave birth to a son. The merchant knew it was the reincarnation of his creditor, so he put aside the amount he owed in a drawer. Every expense for the child, whether food or clothing, would be paid by the money from that drawer. The child was sickly, so the money was soon drained paying for his care. One day the merchant found that there were only 300 coins left in the drawer. The nanny just happened to walk by with the child, so the merchant tell him: "There is not much left. It's time for you to go." Hearing that, the child fell dead on the spot. His funeral expense was exactly 300 coins.

Moral of the story is that everything happens for a reason. If your children cost you lots of money, give you grief, or just don't turn out like you expected, it's all because of your own karma. If your kids dies young, it's simply because you and their yīnyuán (因緣, meaning fate or predestined relationship, known in Japanese as innen, in Korean as inyeon, in Vietnamese as nhân duyên) has run its course. It certainly doesn't excuse people mistreating their sickly children like Lan Ting's parents. They're just shitty people.

That's super interesting! Thanks for sharing.

woah the art in this is insanely beautiful

I need… updates…

It’s sooooo cute that they become conscious of each other. I love that kind of thing.

THE GOAT IS BACK

I do wonder what's going on with the mother, and at the same time yeah, our girl needs to do what she needs to do to protect herself. Stressful ass chapter.

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So sad when she said she gave her "true heart." Our sins will always catch us in the end.

That part cut so deep! Agh, and it makes you think how many years she spent working hard to build the skills to marry this person, and to learn she was being lied to must be so painful.

I like that they're not glossing over it quickly, or passing it off as a misunderstanding. It is a pretty fundamental betrayal of trust, and re-reading the story you can absolutely feel how she felt like she was being made a fool of. I hope they have to build their trust back up from this point with no easy fixes so they develop something much deeper and stronger, but I imagine something about the empress learning why the emperor passed herself off as a man will smooth part of the situation over. But it does seem like they're committed to some level of rebuilding the pieces of a relationship, so I'm quite pleased with the whole thing. It's so important to let devastating moments like that carry the weight they deserve in the shape of the narrative.