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This is my 2nd time trying to MTL it, got to chapter 68 this time and was just to meh to continue, last time I'm pretty sure I got further but its been a while and I've slept since then. I might pick it back up when the translation is out as I know I missed some stuff, not the easiest to understand MTL but not the most difficult. Honestly if I rated it right now would probably be a 1.5-2 but since I MTL'd it and haven't finished it I gave 1 more star.The characters are good, not my favorite but likable. I guess my main problem is with how the author handled the plot Don't read the spoiler unless you want to read a rant 😁Spoiler
I liked the set up of a streamer meeting his idol and getting to know the real him and eventually falling in love but that's about it.
- I didn't like how the white moonlight part was presented, I would have been okay with it if the guy still wasn't in the team or wasn't being forced by such a scum, I know it was kind of his choice but still seemed unnecessary. Could have had him and ML originally party of the same team, broke up with ML because he wanted to go further, join a different team and then come back later in the story to cause a little bit of issue between the MC and ML.. Or could have had the white moonlight break up with the ML because he LIKED the manager or was jealous of ML's talent anything else
- The way the MC falls for and basically confesses to the ML is the same as the white moonlight... like really they couldn't have their own special romance? I would have love to see the ML being passive because he literally just had his heart broken and the MC would pursue him and show him he really liked him, like announcing it to the team, chasing him out in the open, etc, everything the ML's ex didn't do.
- I didn't like that the MC wasn't gay to begin with or at least didn't know he was gay, it just felt like he was going along with everything, it was like the author told him how to be and he was like okay instead of showing us his personality. And this is coming from someone who likes stories were one is straight and does everything for love but this was just ugh.
- He is the typical shy shou, which again is usually okay with me but didn't work here. I think this story would have been better with a more proactive shou who shows his love and seriousness to ML who just had his heart broken... again, I mean seriously the ML and his white moonlight broke up like a day before the MC and ML meet.
- the esports in this novel is kind of a mess, some chapters spend WAY too much on it and other chapters not enough. Though I'm getting a bit tired of LoL esport novels, anyone know of any other esport novels about a different game?
- The MC is a coward, it literally takes him like 3 months and a lot of alcohol to tell his mom that he broke up with his ex girlfriend and from what I've read of spoilers there will be more drama with the mom about him being gay, such an overused danmei trope and with everything else being so meh in this novel I just couldn't. Why cant there be parents who love their kids for who they are? Is a Chinese thing? I don't know but its so tiring. The conflicts for the story could have come from so many other places with out pulling the mom card.
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