Entwined
technically they exchanged rings, but this is not a perfect story. kinda moved too fast to exchange rings. like they used to be uni students together and one helped the other out in the rain once, but he was also mad at the other guy for stealing his girl... and then there's some family drama with the guy who was helped, the uke. like he's the black sheep of his family, but suddenly that's resolved just with his brother being like ok to him. also was said he killed his mom at birth, but then his mom was apparently still alive until he was 4 and writing a diary of his baby days... and some weird stuff happened with his butler, not sure if his butler actually likes him or hates him, cuz he caused the butler to get beaten and permanently burned because he told on the brother's secret relationship with his butler so his bro and the butler are still in love but can't be together because the brother is supposed to be next head of family. anyway, whatever about that, unimportant. there are some messages about being a family and creating one if your blood family doesn't accept you, but it all happens too fast. just cuz they spent one night together while drunk and seme feinds uke beautiful. beautiful art indeed, but idk this story was kinda all over the place. tried to do some big and good things, but i don't think there were enough chapters to make it bloom. this story in same universe as Koko made Yaru towa Kiitenai! and shares a side character.
If You're Gonna Plow, Go Deep.
this was a very sex heavy story. endearing art. the plot had some serious stuff going on with all the family relationships and coming out and farming and the town, but it could have been even better if there was less fucking. seemed like the seme only cared about fucking the uke every single time they met and i'm seriously not sure where there was even romance between them for love to develop. technically they did exchange rings though... basically uke comes back from tokyo to do lotus farming. since he's new, his dad signed him up to get assistance from government committee. seme is his contact. they have a ton of sex and uke gets over the crush he had on his friend who is now his sister's husband. honestly a decent plot and good supporting cast, but way too much fucking. hot though. guess i'm not used to seeing good plot along with hot sex.
Mr.Levi and Me
loved this one so much, such a sweet heartwarming story! uke picks up a foreigner outside his apartment and takes him in. turns out the guy is here on a working holiday visa but got scammed by his roommate. he's in japan cuz his grandpa loved japan and he wanted to meet the guy his grandpa used to have a relationship with. but also he gives the uke a handjob for being his saviour and he catches uke jerking off lol. so they meet the grandpas friend and it was fine and the seme confesses to uke on advice of the friend. uke doesn't know what to think cuz he hasn't fully accepted himself as gay. but then seme says he needs to go back to his country and uke gets kinda desperate and wants to fuck one more time. but uke is also scared and seme has a big dick so seme gets limp upon seeing uke's scared face. FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SEEN THAT IN A BL?!?! SO GOOD LOL. anyway seme goes back to his country and uke is all sad until a few months later seme is there again collapsed outside uke's apartment building. they reunite and it's beautiful and after that uke wants to introduce seme to his family. very sweet but realistic cuz some problems with the grandma. seme then proposes and makes rings for the both of them!! and grandma comes around once she seems seme is genuine and kind. then we see uke practising with a dildo so he can fit seme's whole huge dick inside lol. and another extra about them going to the seme's country and meeting his family. overall just s good story and had some coming out and internal gay discovery moments done in a sweet way.
Unreachable
kinda not well written, but 4 stars for the effort of the story lol. so in uni uke is totally in love with seme for 3 years. but one day seme says some rude things to him and suddenly he just hates seme lol........... so never wants to see seme again. but during this time seme realizes he actually misses uke and wants him back. so he starts pursuing uke back but uke is totally stubborn and refuses to even consider a relationship now. i mean good for him, but this change is sooo drastic....... some drama with another guy liking uke and another guy liking seme. guy after uke goes off to military and he meets his own uke there but they don't get together yet. our uke currently has kidney failure and goes off to another country to get treated and get a transplant. seme trying to find him desperately, which is weird cuz he followed uke to the airport and knew uke's flight number......... well eventually seme finds out which country uke went to and which hospital. but uke moves hospitals and seme thinks it means uke wants to avoid him, so seme decides to withdraw the investigation. 5 years later. uke back in china. meets seme through some friends. seme gets injured cuz of uke and uke takes care of seme. then the guy after seme, still after all these years lol, hires some nasty thugs to kidnap uke and take lewd photos. uke escapes and seme finds him and beats up those thugs with bodyguards. guy after seme goes to jail i guess, he's gone. uke finally decides to give seme another chance. after all these years goddamn. i mean obviously he always had feelings so why was he being so stubborn........but anyway after that the guy after uke initially gets together with the uke he met in military training. and all seems good. they also exchange rings and kinda suggest will marry in another country.
Sit, Wait, Kiss Me
they are childhood friends who got separated but this point is not touched upon much. one day uke finds a dog in an alley and brings it home. he works at an animal cafe, so he likes taking care of animals and knows what to do. after bathing the dog he finds the dog has turned human but only he can see the human form. then he finds out that with kisses the dog can maintain a real human form that other people can see as well. somehow they start having sex cuz uke is just so attracted to seme's human form and seme as a dog likes sex lol. but one day seme's human memories return and he remembers that he only became a dog to save his brother's life. his brother is in a coma and he made a deal with some guy that if he lives as a dog, time will be added to his brother's life or something like that. anyway after that seme kinda pulls away from uke cuz he realizes it's not so okay to randomly be having so much sex. and he feels bad for using uke's kisses to get human and see his brother. also he wants to leave uke's house cuz the more time he spends human, the less he is helping his brother, supposedly. so after one hot night seme leaves. then uke also meets up with the guy to make a deal. he will save seme's brother if he can make seme fall in love with him again while seme's memories of him are erased. after that they meet at the hospital and uke suddenly hugs seme, making seme feel kinda awkward but seme is attracted. then they spend time at uke's job together and that powerful guy kinda meddles to make it hard for uke to get close to seme. they do nearly fuck one time but then seme feels so bad about it he tells uke to forget it. uke is hurt by that and they kinda drift apart. uke thinks for sure he will fail the bet now. but then he tries again after some time to contact seme. they finally get together and confess and have sex. but then that guy comes out and says time was up and uke is too late. but then another supernatural guy comes out and says first guy was just messing with you all lol.... and he saves seme's brother. anyway a lot of confusing shit and nothing really made much sense or had great continuity throughout. also the resolutions are so fake and superficial and pretty dumb. none of the characters are well fleshed out... in the end there is a proposal scene where they have rings for each other on the beach. but not much depth to this story honestly.
My Sweet Husky Papa
cute story with some deeper messages i guess though sometimes confusing dialogue or i'm too tired to get all the details. uke is 34 year old dad of 16 year old son. seme is 26 years old. both are paying for this matchmaking company's events to find a partner. uke loves son a lot and never finds anyone after he starts talking about his son. one time they meet after an event and go out drinking. they get to know each other and get along well. seme falls fast for what a good father uke is cuz seme's family was cold and he had distant relationship with father. he is son of powerful man's mistress. uke gets dead drunk and seme takes him to hotel to fuck him. suddenly uke's son calls and he picks up and says he's coming home asap. on way to door, uke throws out his back and seme has to help him home and goes in the taxi too. uke's son is waiting and when seme sees uke and son interaction, he falls in love with the family and decides he wants to be a part of their happy family. they all exchange contact info. after that seme gets invited over and they fuck pretty fast. another day, son invites seme over as surprise for dad. seme starts talking about what a great father uke is and what a great family they are and stuff like that. uke gets upset and runs out, seme follows. turns out uke doesn't like it when seme praises him about being a great father cuz he doesn't think he is. he didn't do parent duties when son was a baby and that's why his wife got depressed and left. well he was actually out working to make money so it's not like abandoned the family..... anyway after that they don't meet for a while cuz uke was like you only like me cuz i'm a dad and you're searching for a father figure to fill the void inside you from childhood trauma. something like that lol. and uke thinks maybe seme is right and feels bad. but he goes to talk to his consultant at the matchmaking company and she shows him how he loves both the dad side and other sides of uke. seme runs off to see uke again. at uke's place uke and son having huge argument over son wanting to move out and be an idol. son storms off and uke and seme try to call him. eventually son calls seme and says he's staying with friend until tomorrow night. now uke and seme make up and have sex again ofc.... uke tells about his past trauma with ex-wife and why he reacted so strongly before. i actually did not understand his explanation but i think it's probably what i said ^. and they live a cute life afterwards with the son. uke kinda proposes to seme but ofc no marriage in japan. they just exchange rings cutely. then a smutty extra of uke cosplaying like husky during sex and some hints of reversing positions but ofc never happens lol.
The Crows Marriage
around 10 year age gap. last year of high school uke and seme 27. they met as children and seme's kindness made an impact on uke but seme barely remembers. there's some complicated inbreeding marrying thing between their families. basically uke's older sis was supposed to marry seme but she ran off. since uke likes seme, he offered himself instead. they need to have sexual contact for seme's spiritual power to be high. otherwise he can't talk to the god/spirit anymore. anyway they kinda touch but there were no feelings so they never did again. they were getting closer as friends though. and eventually seme's powers got so low he couldn't talk to the spirits anymore. but then uke came and was like let me help and seme confesses too and they have sex. and then uke's older sis comes back and they all have a big discussion with the 2 families to stop this tradition so everyone can just do what they like now. fast forward a bit and uke has moved away for uni. seme comes to visit him and they have sex. exchanged rings at the end but was nothing too moving for me.
Shinkonsan!
both stories have childhood friends, marriage, and rings and they're in the same universe. actually the ukes are friends. concept pretty good but art is so messy and i would say just not well executed plots. first story is evil seme and kind uke who reached out to him as children. uke is the only one seme can be real with and vice versa, though in different ways. seme only reveals his frustrations to uke and if he doesn't, he kinda goes violent. uke is always keeping a kind image but only treats seme kinda badly but i guess it's special treatment? they both love each other a lot but uke is so tsundere and keeps doing things to purposely piss off seme. the story starts with them already married, but uke keeps saying he doesn't know how it happened and how he doesn't even like seme. idk tired of tsundere stuff second story is about son of famous actor and his father's mistress's son who is his childhood playmate. he ordered uke around and made uke do anything and treated him kind of bad. but uke was happy to receive any attention cuz his mom was not really there for him. they both like each other but both feel insecure. uke is insecure cuz he's just seme's play thing and there's nothing concrete to tie them together. seme is insecure because he thinks uke likes his father or something like successful men. so around age 18, seme goes out to do acting and modelling jobs more to improve himself. this only makes uke more insecure about their relationship. he has sex with a guy for seme to see and seme calls them disgusting and leaves. after that seme works even harder and uke feels even worse until uke leaves the house. 8 years later seme finds uke again and asks to marry him. uke pretends to hate seme to protect his heart from falling again or something. he gives seme a choice like date with no sex or sex friends and never date. seme chooses to date and uke is really frustrated cuz he actually wants to fuck seme. after uke watches one of seme's stage performances, he gets so moved and forces seme to fuck him and break the deal. seme at first complies but then thinks uke did this to get away from seme because he hates seme. seme says let's just end it since you hate me so much and no need to fuck. but then uke reveals the truth of everything about how he actually loves seme and they get together.
Muri Kon
28yo uke, 20 yo seme marries for the sake of their villages to prosper. but they have to have sex to close out the ritual but uke doesn't want to do it. they go back tokyo and start living together. uke's mom threatens him if they don't fuck, they'll die. this is a lie lol but uke doesn't know and seriously begins considering seme as a partner. they fuck and seme disappears next morning, pissing uke off and hurting uke too cuz he thinks seme left after completing the ritual. but seme had only gone back to the village to report. weird cuz he could use the phone lol..........anyway, uke stays with a friend meanwhile and then seme comes to pick him up again. they go home together, go back to the village to do another ritual???????? and live happily ever after at the village!!
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