The Supporting Male Character Just Wants to Be a Tool Man Chapter 140 Discussion

This is freaking hilarious but also so soft.

It’s the little details — when MC tickled ML while he was washing dishes, when one takes the initiative to dry the other’s hair after taking a bath, when MC, tipsy, tangles their fingers together so that ML would stop poking his face, ML’s habit of pinching MC’s cheeks.

It makes me yearn like no other.

What I love:

• The translation is motherf*cking superb. If you can spare it, go give kofi to our awesome translator/s!
• The banter, the bickering. I’ve read other Chinese BL LN that has banter but I’m just like “meh, okay”. But I found the back-and-forth here clever and realistic while still moving plot/relationship.
• The face-slapping, for me, is not too over-the-top. MC’s witty and sharp mouth made me chuckled so many times — he can entrap people with his words like no other. Cannon fodders are actually smart here; if MC had been in any other scenario, HE would be the one getting face-slapped. But MC’s situation is just so freaking unique and humorous.
• The parody of cliche BL tropes has me in stitches. Frick, I’ve never seen anything like it.
• NO DUBCON BETWEEN MAIN PAIRING, NONE IN THE SLIGHTEST. Omg, I never thought I’ll get to read something with no dubcon
  MC: I’m gonna take a bath

ML: I’ll join you

MC: I’m too tired for sex

ML: I know. We won’t do anything

AND THEY DIDN’T. They bathed and went to sleep cuddling.

• The prose, the parallelism, the realizations. This not only have humor but heart. Look, I read Chinese BL novels with my brain turned off so this caught me off guard. I want to study it like an English Literature graduate.
• We all know communication is key but this is the first time I saw a story DISS people who refuse to communicate. If you don’t even TRY to communicate your feelings, don’t play the victim; relationships are a two-way street. MC and ML communicates so awesomely.
• The sibling dynamic is just so precious here and so accurate. Big bro and lil bro are such little sh*ts to each other and I love it.

I can go on and on about this story. Suffice to say, I love it to bits.