excaliburedpan and I both happen to be reading
this danmei book at the moment, so I thought I'd throw up a post for any comments if anyone wants to read along now or later, and shove my locked-twitter read-along thoughts somewhere more accessible. I'm going to break it up by blocks of chapters, then do an Overall Thoughts subsection. Assume spoilers.
There are 81 novel chapters, then Extras.
Re: Chapters 61-65
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- They’re fighting Binghe’s absentee dad, who has apparently heard ALL ABOUT the humiliating gay romance ballad about them and has Questions. Ideal. All I want from a novel honestly.
- Two chapters of dumb bed trick comedy at the height of the plot, just, great okay fine
- Binghe got his intelligence from his mom, the heavenly demon side is just *sees people emerge from fighting in tent* 'o a threesome?'
- (Clearly the oversexed desperate romantic who jumps to conclusions shit is demonic, tho) (weirdly the Ruthlessness might also be a mom thing)
- I was wondering why the Shen Jiu backstory didn't come up more/weigh on this relationship, bc how could Binghe resist Rare Shizun Lore, but the way it comes up in canon super decentralises it&renders it suspicious, so it's not something I can see Binghe super worrying about