Lulu's Manga

dns. seme rape's the uke

DNS. I wouldn't have minded had the fl been a couple of years older and she had the role to protect an older teen ml. In that sense, they would have been surviving, but I am seeing a full grown, immortal fl, who's hundreds of years old, who takes in a young child, and they become lovers. I wont even start this. This is wrong. I see lots of Daddy daughter tropes, why can't I get one Mommy son story? Not, A way older fl raises the ml and then they turn into lovers. The gap is too wide, it is too wide. I have another story with the opposite and I dropped it or will drop it too.
What gets me isn't that there is this age gap, it's the fact that fl raised him.

completed
I quit almost at the end and skimmed the last few chapters. This has so many flaws, I don't know where to begin.
I loved this at the start, the survival plot, the getting out of her shell, the revenge and finally being able to live in piece, waiting for her brother to come home. then everything fell flat, except the art, that got better. The brother, who after getting run out of the home, and is now older and is travelling all over the celestial realm to fight monsters, can't go home and assert his right as the true heir so that his sister isn't abused anymore. Especially after he stopped getting letters from her for YEARS. Poor Rudy was just used as a plot device. Ramona didn't add anything to the story, I liked her, but after the fl remembered her past life and stated changing the plot, Ramona as a central figure just fell flat. She didn't even get to become a knight. What started annoying me was how the fl as she started getting into different situations, she'd just smile and everything would work out, and the people around her would be so impressed. That's not plot.
The dialogue oftentimes was redundant. The names were called WAY too much, and overall not dynamic. The first part wasn't bad, but after that, it went downhill. The next thing that bothered me was how everyone sympathized with the first prince. I feel for him in his childhood and what he went through with the queen but to make it look like he was being manipulated the whole time since he came back, is too big a bite for me to swallow. Right from the start, he tried to harass and trap the fl, and did increasingly bad things to the other characters. I can't reconcile that. I wasn't feeling the fl and ml. They didn't get the time to develop, because of the other two male characters, whom I liked but the romance fell flat to me. I didn't hate this entirely but I don't like it either. It felt like the author either changed, or had a mind swap, because it was centrally focused on Adriana at first then it felt like all the characters had to become a focal point. It's too bad, I'd have rather seen a fight over the right to inherit the dukedom from Adriana and her useless brother than this. It just fell flat.

Overall this was great. I liked the story. Mr. Han needed to be sent to that other lab and experimented on, just because. As others have pointed out, there were a lot of loose ends, but what I'm more curious about, is how Yul was treated in the book vs the manga, because it said, it was darker in the book.
I needed Reok to make it clear to his brother and father that they mean nothing to him, but I guess that much was clear with them not being at the wedding or helping out at all. I kinda liked the mom, but she basically threw her youngest son to the wolves because of power, even after he was being ignored and verbally abused by his father and older brother.
I think more needed to be done with the pharma faction. organizations like them never really die down, since the head got taken down, why not purge your palace of their spies, and anyone else not loyal to you, Reok, not the crown because they are shit.
Is Yul pregnant in that last panel?
I need more of the story, it needed more time to really season.

The uke seems like a push over

I don't understand this, and I guess that's a good thing. I'm not broken to the point where my brain can reasonably understand porn, and what goes into it. I understand that Ed was driven up a wall by that bastard Chang, and time was running out to repay the money so he turned to porn. What I don't understand is why he didn't go into straight porn, given that he was straight, and in the aftermath of him being found out, he turned to prostitution. That part was hard to see how far he'd sunk, but what got to me was how Chang raped Ed, and nothing came out of it. I feel like there was so much trauma in this story but everything was just fine, in favour of Ed and Creed finding love. I lost Ed in this, I don't know who is as a person. I somewhat get Creed, and his explotative nature and some backstory about him, but I feel like I don't know the characters. I feel for Ryan, he looked like he is on the cusp of shattering any minute, but I love that the food truck idea is good for him. I feel so bad for him, and really wanted to know why he got into porn and why he is so distructive. These two are the epitome of communication with sex instead of dialogue, and I wished more time had been spent for these two to communicate.

Dnf at the sides. I don't get how they even make a couple. They don't talk, only have sex. Sex can't be the tie to a successful relationship. They don't communicate. The only redeemable part was Kim Yu Hwa, after the uke humiliated him infront of everyone, and then the seme gave him a chance and then he gets killed off. That was just so horrible. He wasn't a central part of the manga, but it just doesn't sit right with me. Also the victim blaming was very disturbing, and down right disgusting. The uke acted like every artist who sought a sponsor did so willingly. I'm sure some do, but some don't. He himself is in the position he is in because his grandfather has money, and for him to act like he was so disgusted by people prostituting themselves, but be accepting of himself being a participant in the act as well, is baffling. I don't know why I kept reading this for so long.

DNF somewhere in the early 20s. I can't stomach this anymore. Why is the uke still in show business when he was in so much dept? Why couldn't he take a break and find an ordinary job to start paying off his dad's money? Why was he even paying off his dad's gambling in the first place? Those two, the dad and the brother didn't even try to carry any of the weight leaving him to having to do it. Being assaulted by those gang members to take off the monthly interest, and to top it off, the uke had to resort to prostitution with the seme to pay off the dept. His father still borrowed money and the seme, while somewhat kind in giving him cloths and an apartment to stay, was really shitty in how he talked and treated him, plus the sex between was anything but enjoyable. While he consented, and of course he has to, he's selling his ass, the uke is always in pain and the seme really didn't care. This is a terrible story and not for me. Another thing is the almost rape of the uke, and apparently, it happens more than once. To top it off, after being assaulted, the seme started assuming all the bruises that the uke had were love marks and was forceful with him, and the uke, even though he knew the seme was never really gentle, didn't explain and let it happen.
They weren't even hiding their 'relationship' because the seme wanted to get at his grandfather, but wont that affect the uke in the long run?

This was beautiful. I'm glad Nok got to shake off his evil boss with his own power. Yes he had help, but he was the driving force to do it. I'm glad he ended up with love of a partner and friends, and a career that he's proud of in this life. I wanted a baby though.

I came in for the smut and the art, and thought it would be great after the opening, but this makes my skin crawl. I normally wouldn't rate something that only has 8 chapters when I know it's probably going to go into the 100s, but it has to be done. The ml is garbage for taking advantage of the fl who was neglected and abused by her icky father, who apparently locked in dark closets as punishment because she wants to walk about the town. She has the mind of an 8 year old. The only books she's ever read are children's books and she isn't around adults who even talk to her. He meets her and the first thing is does is to start fondling and kissing her. Disgusting and reeks of a way to get around pedophilia, by saying she's of age. The art and smut is wasted on this.