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Not to kinkshame or anything but who is into that??


Ha, you won't fool me into revealing that extreme kink! What if my friends and family and boss find out that I admitted to liking sweet emotionally open romance!! :(

More seriously -- I feel like I've read and enjoyed things like that! Sometimes it's a nice change of pace, and in m/f it can focus more on the woman's non-romantic arc! But I think it works for me only when there is sooooo much external angst and conflict, but not in a way that it feels like the entire world is rigged against them in a (non-fun) melodramatic way. It's a tricky balance. Also not really what I expect from an otome game!

It's also funny how as long as there's no open declaration of feelings at the start (and everything else is exactly the same), it feels like an entirely different trope. Even if the characters are comfortable with things as they are and aren't angstily pining!

Also WOW the first chapter declaration was...that's such an ending otome scene!


wtf how did I end up on the GouJian path again??? YOUR LOVE IS NOT ACTUALLY DESTINED, GOUJIAN, BACK OFF. I wonder if that's why the bit above happened like that.

:DDD

Wu Zixu knew before you did!

ShaoJiang seems so great and I love her and I appreciate her bond with her snake/dragon god (and her shippiness with FuChai).

You could potentially try going to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and read more about them! I think that actually is translated (and then you can tell me all about it :P).