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Are we just handing them out so long as the story doesn't contain sexual assault or rape?
Cuz while everyone is a green flag here, it's just not that good of a story. The world building is meh and spotty at best. I will always dock points for a tail coming out of the middle of the spine too...... I think the biggest issue with this story is just how extremely narrow it is. The pacing wasn't great but I feel like that also boils down to this incredibly narrow story. The entire story is almost nothing but these two characters in this one apartment. The other characters are barely more than off screen plot devices. You barely glimpse any settings outside of the one apartment. It doesn't make for good story telling.
The characters also just aren't consistent. Why is it that Dodong always has his cat ears and tail? No other character is like that. I guess just to make him more cute? Why does Dodong act way more animal like than anyone else? (It's almost like the author was like, "I want to bang my cat, but if only they could turn human.... That would be a GREAT story idea!)
Also the shifters seem to spend way too much time in animal form, because they can't actually communicate more than basic things through body language. Especially with other species. Society cannot function like that. (Also, hello animal abusing director?????)
The writing suggests a more novice writer. As far as the sex, the story spends way too much time building up to it, and then seems to suddenly jump a bunch of steps and just splats it into the story in a rather forceful way right after the MC was like, "He's obviously not ready, I'll keep restraining myself." He'd been keeping a ton of space, not even kissing or getting handsy and then BOOM, though sex. You get one sex scene, and then it's off screen irrelevant drama that gets wrapped up immediately as well and then end of story. It just wasn't a particularly compelling read.
Art is good, writing is extremely mid, characters are all big green flags.
I wouldn't give this above an 8.0-8.2 at best though. And that's only because the art is good and the characters are green.
And it *never* gets sorted. Sh*t happens, but MC is right, why aren't the omegas carrying their damned inhibitors? Why is everyone turning a blink eye to not just spousal abuse but physical assault at the work place? Why are people having sex literally everywhere?
The MC definitely has prejudice towards alphas and omegas but it's not unfounded. He literally cannot understand things about them past theory. So of course he's uncomfortable and unsure around them. On top of that he's constantly dealing with sexual harassment in the form of unwanted scenes of indecent exposure from others, and those people are _never_ punished for it. In fact, HE got punished for someone else's deplorable behavior. And even after that, that behavior that caused such an uproar and is INCREDIBLY unprofessional continued on without restraint or curbing.
It was all so bad that he actually quit his job because of it, which the story seems to low-key forget. They just start to pretend like he quit his job simply so he could travel. If this is the MLs company, I'm surprised he didn't turn around and crack down on all of this considering it led to his very capable lover to quit.
It's a light read, but the unresolved issues do mean you have to sort of turn your brain off to the over arching issues that cause problems for the MC in the plot.
I might have read the side stories in the past but I don't really remember and have no interest in reading Mr. Lee's relationship drama that cause our real MC so many issues and was so astonishingly unprofessional. I don't need to get frustrated reading that fucking train wreck.