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Receptioning the newcomers is a task for YuYang, and he ends up helping the unsociable and towering ...

• Author: DJun
• Genres: Shounen Ai / Romance / School Life / Drama / Webtoons

Though the main relationship is between Yu Yang and Li Huan and I do think they're a cute couple, the fact that most of the chapters have been dedicated to them, their relationship and these characters still feel very shallow. Also the relationship between Uncle Pan and Zhong Qiu Jie was suuuucch a waste of space and really creepy. I liked Uncle Pan at first when he was just a side character and a supportive adult for Yu Yang, but it's majorly creepy how he ends up actually seriously dating Zhong Qiu Jie, when he's a literal 36 year old man and Zhong Qiu Jie just turned 18, like I don't care what the legal age is in China, THAT IS SO CREEPY AND GROSS UNCLE PAN SHOULD KNOW BETTER. He literally acknowledges their age difference and thinks of Zhong Qiu Jie as a child, he should have stayed as a responsible adult and helped Qiu with his identity crisis, but not actually gotten romantically involved with him !! I had to skip through most of those sections because of how much it hurt to read. Just a major disappointment.
Anyways the couple that actually made me keep reading till the end was Huan Wen and Ji Yuan. Huan Wen's introspection on being gay and having to hide that from his only family was much more nuanced, developed, and relatable than Yu Yang's experience. Not that Yu Yang's experience was badly written or inaccurate but it felt at times, almost too dramatic for the sake of being dramatic. The homophobia he experienced was more on the extreme side while Huan Wen's closeted experience in my opinion speaks more to realistic experiences for gay Chinese people. His conversation with his grandfather wishing for grandchildren hit me really hard and made me cry. It's something I personally relate to. I especially loved the exchange he had with the girl on that blind date, where they both shared their fears of being themselves and having to hide who they really loved. The relationship between Li Huan and Yu Yang felt more like a fun fictional couple, but the relationship between Huan Wen and Ji Yuan feels much more realistic and relatable. Even though they had less chapters than Li Huan and Yu Yang they somehow managed to have a deeper more nuanced grasp of love. It's a shame their story was relegated to the last few chapters. I think they definitely deserved more.
The author was really all over the place with this story overall (the misunderstandings Yu Yang had in the beginning were so stupid and juvenile it made me cringe) so I can't give it a high rating. At least the art is really nice and consistently good.