khyie's Reviews (267)

 Ahhhh this was such an enjoyable read. I think possibly my favorite part was seeing the genuine development of the two leads from rivals to lovers. This story really took the time to build up their relationship and bring the two characters together in a way that felt believable and heartwarming. I was a little worried about how I was going to feel about a plot that hinged around others forcing them together but the roommates were so genuinely well intentioned that it ended up coming off more sweet than awful and they never did anything that I felt crossed the line from “means well” to “gross under the circumstances.” I even actually took delight in their antics, especially when it spread to the rest of the school.
I really loved this story and I highly recommend it! 

 This took me on an emotional roller coaster. I can't say in terms of plot it really did anything new or special. The MC was god tier OP at everything he did, the ML was your typical domineering president type but their relationship felt organic and it was so well-written that it was satisfying, bittersweet, and had just the right amount of fluff. 

 I can't say I quite expected it to go where it did regarding the gong, especially as it amounts to both a critical think piece on the pushover shou and the obsessive gong, but I think it actually does lose a bit of it's impact by bringing them back together in the end.

Still, kudos to the author for writing what I thought was going to be a pretty stereotypical pairing only to be like nope, they're both wrong (though really, the gong more so) and they both need to take a step back and figure themselves the fuck out.

And I'll acknowledge this--even if I do think that the message would've been stronger if they'd continued on their separate paths, I appreciate that the shou really did put his foot down and say 'no, nope, I'm not going to continue to deal with this' and that you can see the gong actively trying to reach out and have healthy relationships with people outside of the shou.

Seriously. The bar is so low with these novels. 

I love this story to pieces.  Is it messed up and over dramatic?  Yes.  Does it feel a bit rushed at the end?  Yes.  But it was an enjoyable rebirth story with a, frankly, crazy ML.  It doesn't do anything new or interesting but I like the artwork and the tension between the main characters.

Most of the rating is just in the fact that I found this story to have some of the most interesting and realistic family relationship dynamics I've seen in a cnovel.  Neither of their families are perfect and in some cases the relationship is strained but they haven't cut all ties and there's still that feeling of 'as much as what you did hurt me, I still love you and I know you still love me' that is present in a lot of families.  The ML has the harder relationship strain to overcome but he's not completely closing himself off.  I liked that bit of it.  The rest of it was very meh.  It's a light, fluffy novel otherwise.  It does make it a bit difficult sometimes because the tonal shifts are a bit odd and the story veers between fluff and serious drama and some of seemed to come out of left field.  I'm not sure I actually liked it, but it wasn't a bad read.