- #1
It was pretty good. Really nice to read a sincere ML and a couple who communicate.Partway thorough it felt like their relationship had developed to a certain point and their professional endeavours had developed to a certain point and the story became less interestingly written for me. Most of the detail was devoted to frequent romantic and intimate moments (which some people will love but didn't progress the plot in any way and became rather tiresomely repetitive for me personally). The professional pursuits felt more summarised than before, and that had been a large part of what I'd enjoyed about the first half of the story. It felt like the author was spending most of the time giving standard happy endings to the main supporting characters, which was nice if you like everyone settling down neatly, but, again, felt like the story was no longer really going anywhere interesting.I'm afraid I skimmed the last 30 chapters. But I skimmed rather than dropped because I liked the characters and did want to stick it through to the end with them.There were a number of other irks which are minor and common in Chinese webnovels - for instance, I never enjoy the trend for having a hierarchy among the male friendship group with, of course, the ML at the top and friends always deferring to him. Not a huge issue, but it drags a decent story down for me; there are many common-found minor things present that readers of this type of novel will be familar with and may or not may not be as tired of as I am. At least the more selfish family members didn't do the typical popping up constantly to scheme and manoeuvre for advantages....This overall has a pretty good tone and a mostly interesting plot. The core characters have nice relationships with each other and it's nice to see some slightly different industries covered. It's very easy to read and one where the main couple tend to always succeed at what they do and overcome challenges smoothly (in fact, I wish there had been more genuine challenge and struggle in some of their pursuits). If you like a lot of fluff and couple moments, you will be fed this in masses. I wanted more from the second half, but it lost its feeling of momentum and focused on comfortable aspects that I wasn't personally as interested in, while skimming over the things I was.