Adding on to this, we tolerate certain behaviors from cats and even find them cute because cats don't understand, but the same thing doesn't apply to humans.

No one will lecture a cat for having "mood swings", demanding attention, or batting things off the counter and breaking them. One exposed belly and they're forgiven.

Something about a rotting apple.

Try re-reading the extra, but imagine that the apple is a metaphor for their relationship/Huang Qi's feelings. From budding leaves, flowering, bearing fruit, and so on. Might make the story direction slightly clearer.

On an unrelated note, I don't understand why this chapter was posted in a long strip format, when it was clearly intended to be separate pages? This made the reading experience a bit frustrating at times.

The raws were posted as long strip, although formatted with the intention of printing it out as a mini zine. It's just that each strip is slightly too long or too short which makes splicing them into equal pages impossible, unfortunately.

Also Caicai x Youji when pls
Youji even said she'd treat Caicai right for the rest of her life sob

I think you mean Youzi, Youji is her mom

This chapter is in the past right?

Yeah. Per my notes https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/posts/875010 Youji has longer hair when Youzi is 6 than when Youzi is 14. And there's the "hard to believe you're already a mom" line.

Also it's clearly about how Youji and Chen met and became friends.

To add onto this, the series they're filming was aired during ch21 after Ren Wei went abroad (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_moms_a_superstar_ch21), post-university and when Youzi was 4 years old.

oh look. Ren's appearance on the idol talent show is showing on tv. lol

Courtesy of Xiao-Pei's mama lol

Jing Xiu at 1am on her birthday: she forgot :c

maybe it's something specific to do with the time I don't quite get, but I'm sure, before the end of the day, she'll get her gift. At least, we can hope!

People who remember your birthday usually make it a point to send a happy bday text at midnight sharp :p usually

And I've never really seen people who only met twice to only confess and said she loves her.

She did say like, not love :p

What a great concept. Can't wait for Gill to break free from her initial programming and experience awakening feeling emotions.

You're in for a treat then, there's one scene portraying what you basically said and it was very goosebumps inducing

That tag refers to "older adult" characters (i.e. not mature themes or mature content), though I don't see any women like that in this work so far.

oh shit i thought it meant mature content, will submit a suggestion to remove the tag then

For anyone asking, university arc (2) will most probably be the next update with a progress of 80/106 pages, releasing this month!

The critical thing here though, and what separates her from so many other protagonists, is that despite having this knowledge she still makes some of the same mistakes because fundamentally she's still the same person with the same flaws and personality.

It's a common fantasy to imagine "if only I could do this all over again, I'd be better this time and learn from my mistakes". But realistically even in a situation like that, it's really difficult to change our own tendencies and behavior. If you know the exact circumstances and have thought about it over and over you can probably do something different in the moment, but to make long term changes to your own life it requires a lot of reflection and self awareness that can be really difficult, especially in the moment when emotions are running high and we're more likely to slip back into our old ways of thinking.

YOU GET ITTTT

So... this is basically all sponsored content now? Someone should teach the artist to be a bit more covert about this.

It's a little unfortunate, but since we're getting all chapters for free the artist's only source of income is through sponsored chapters + income from physical release sales. Besides, she's currently working on a 106-page chapter for university arc (2), so I'd reckon a guess that from now on we'll get huge long b/w chapters for plot, and short-sometimes-sponsored colored pages in the meantime.

So much for "Chinese censorship doesn't allow sexy yuri"

Unless the author actually lives in Taiwan or something.

It's censored on Weibo. I'm blindly guessing the crabless version was posted briefly somewhere for grabbing or PMed to the interested parties.

both! the minimally censored versions with the nips black box'd was briefly posted on weibo for the rest while the fully nude ones were PMed to us

Those blushes were so heartfelt.
Also a wild and hot rival (or at least, troublemaker) appeared!
Thanks for the chapter!

President Tao? She's Ningwei's girlfriend and Youyan's boss. She appears in chapter 2.

right on!

the opening lines sound like they were aiming for dickens.

That's what I thought too! The juxtaposition stood out a lot

I'd honestly say Manhua : actors, murderers.

The number of really weird Chinese comics about Yuri killers is staggering.

Just off the top of my head:
Savior
Kill Me Now
Killing Mr. Park
Let's Kill My Husband
Killing You

If you add in webnovels, it skyrockets way beyond that list too.

Uh what? All of those series are Korean.

That's what I was thinking too.

As far as I can tell the raws haven't updated since April which is a huge bummer cause this was a huge chapter.

A new chapter with a whopping 86 black/white pages just dropped yesterday, sooo ;)

On another subject, that Yu Bai is a real piece of work. His wife just died, he has just buried her, and he's already seducing other women and stealing kisses from them!? Screw mourning, I see...

It's revealed in the next chapter but he kisses her only because he realises that celestial lu yao is his newly reincarnated wife

Is it just me, or Chinese artists are producing new yuri series every other week? That, or they are being picked up for translation than before.

I'd say both, but that's only because there was a huge surge (10+ iirc) of new and upcoming GLs that were announced/released during August.

So the protagonist, while half blind, did not recognise the emperor and just thought it was a random woman as she called her Jeijei, which i google tells me is a term for an older female friend basically calling them big sister.
Is that right?

Yep, generally speaking. We put a TL note in ch1 about this already, but in some cases jiejie is used to flirt, just like used the same way as unnie and onee-chan. It's especially popular in Chinese wlw circles.

The art is gorgeous, but I must admit I'm having a bit of trouble telling the characters apart at times. Just to make sure, the woman(?) in the first two pages of Ch. 2 is the "emperor" and the one that gives our sickly protagonist the fluffy scarf is the wife who defended her in Ch. 1?

The woman in the first two pages of ch2 is indeed the emperor, and also the same person who gave MC the fluffy cloak! The lady who defended MC in ch1 is Xiao Qianxue (the original FL of the novel MC transmigrated into), who doesn't appear in this chapter.

Don't tell me the corpse she transmigrated into, is the body of the lady the Emperor loved before?

That would cause some... drama, to say the least.

The corpse is just a corpse (lol), no relation to the overarching plot whatsoever! But there /is/ a subplot about the Emperor's dead love relating to MC

whoever jeijei is I’m rooting for her, that was fricking cute

We'll know in chapter 3!

I’m wondering if she was faking it or if the “debuff” from her soul and body not being integrated fully just has a bad effect on her eyesight

It's the latter! That's why she keeps coughing and can't see at night lol

On another note, MC was transmigrated into this mission world through the body of a suitable corpse, so the higher her fusion levels, the more she'll grow to look like her original body