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So the story follows 2 main characters, Jun Shen the brunette rock-star in training and Zhixing Yu, a blonde oil painter living a slummy life and who secretly obsesses over Jun Shen, his neighbor. As it so happens, Zhixing and Jun, despite being in the same high-school have never spoken a word to each other to this day. As Zhixing gets closer to realizing how futile his love/crush is, he feeds a magic cat(god) and is granted a wish in return. I WANT JUN TO LOVE ME!~ His initial request is denied, as LOVE is too powerful to force--even for a kitty-god. Instead, our MC Zhixing is given a week to make Jun fall for him and to help, the kitty-god turns Jun into a cat!

Our story unfolds with the days as the week goes by and Jun/Zhixing slowly get closer. The two can't talk since Jun's a cat but he does understand Zhixing and while they begin to get closer to one another, Jun pulls away when he realizes Zhixing's feelings for him. Unfortunately, this one gesture leads to the spiral of drama we see--as we learn about Zhixing's and Jun's individual pasts and the cat-god interferes.

*SPOILERS*

Zhixing grew up a child of divorced parents and since his father went on to become a glorified artist, his mother always hated how similar Zhixing was. This is revealed to have tormented the kid until he saw Jun and his band for the 1st time (just a bunch of kids playing music on the street, not professionally). Zhixing is personally afflicted with how much energy Jun is putting into a "hopeless" path and sends him a fan-letter under the name "William" that basically says "Git good cuz right now you suck. I like your voice though and hope you succeed. Show me you can." and this spurs Jun into becoming the rock-star he is today. Unfortunately, as Jun got older, he refused to acknowledge his feelings for this "William" and plays a part in one of his friend's leaving school after he's outed as gay (the friend, not Jun).

This brings us back to the main story where Jun has just flinched away from Zhixing's touch--having figured out the way Zhixing feels. As the days follow, the two don't interact and it is revealed that if he fails to make Jun love him, Zhixing agrees to have the cat-god take away his feelings for Jun entirely. When Jun learns this, he begins to freak out and we spend the remaining chapters in a dream-realm that cat-god send' Jun to. In this realm, Jun is returned to his days in high-school, where he undoes his mistakes from before. He helps his gay friend stay strong and meets his lover, he works to understand his feelings, and all the while--the GF Jun had originally at the time is now swapped for Zhixing. He sees Zhixing as male but everyone else see him as the GF of the real past. One thing leads to another and Jun hurts Zhixing again in this dream world--failing to fix things before it ends.

Now Jun is freaking out, knowing that the day after tomorrow Zhixing will forget his love for him but thankfully a Deus Ex Machina appears in the form of Jun's old friend and current band-mate. This guy apparently figured out that Jun is a cat, texts him back and forth, and basically shows Zhixing that Jun loves him all in one sitting. Honestly, this part of the plot is weak-sauce but the ending is just so sweet.

The ending is happy. It ends with the two of the MC's together in love, openly sharing how they feel. 7/10 in that the story plot was a mess but if you sort through it, it's actually a very sweet story with minimal drama~ (づ￣ ³￣)づ

I've reread the end so many times, still don't really know what happened.. Was it all dream and they are actually together already or the 'cat curse' broke and they are like together out of nowhere.. waa! I don't knoww..
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Is this good? Like iam not a fan of cross dressing and overly femenine uke bl

I want to read some mangas with cool art kinda like retro or futerestic I can't describe it but sumn like that help please

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Shimizu Yuki has the best Yaoi stories I have ever read. Love Mode was my first of her Yaoi stories and I am always stunned with tears at the end everytime I read it. Unlike other Yaoi, Shimizu really serves us something poignant and endearing while its both highly explicit and sensual. There are not many authors who can weave in so many storylines and couples so well! Usually there are favourites and ones that you'd want to skip but every couple in this couple, you will want to read. I think my favourite thing about Shimizu stories and Love Mode is the dialogue and the Art. There is a very intriciate and touching focus on words and small features such as fingers, eyes and such that make it most evocative. It's such a well thought-out story that you can always come back to read.

The word polar is so fitting to this story. So far, It seems everyone around haru is questioning what makes him so special. His teacher thinks he’s unfocused, the inner voice repeatedly asked what is It about him that he should keep reviving over and over again, the side characters all wonder what tf makes him such a gravitating person. And to be honest, the outside version of him IS kind of lacking. It’s like...all he wants is to be a member of ISO, and everything else is just...happening around/to him? I can’t put It into words, but it’s like he’s a bit off. This inner voice is probably his real self or rather, all of his actual emotions/behaviors and things that he stopped feeling the effort to do because of the experiments. I actually hope the two do merge and he starts acting in earnest like Nakyoung (albeit sis was wild for using them in her suicide plan)

Any reincarnation manhwas with a tan ml ???

His last words were meant for the bastard. I will never forgive him, no matter how he regrets everything.

hey i want to know your top 5 bl

r there any straight stories that like arent incredibly annoying and cringey

Wow this author knows how to make people laugh and cry hard! The only thing I didn't like too much was the relationship with the coworker. It was a bit forced. If he wasn't ready to move on, he shouldn't have forced himself. Who said you have to be married to be happy? Everybody got hurt because he tried to accept her when he wasn't ready. And Koharu never called Masamune dad

Was that the end? If not how many chapters are left?

any genre, as long as it is manga :D although i do prefer the sad ones more :D plssssss