OK, why the fresh hell am I unable to see the chapters not uploaded by Rom-Com Heaven? I don't have the other group blocked or something, am I going off the rocker or is something wrong with the MD site?
I'm a fencesitter when it comes to Chii, but yeesh, her near-constant state of arrested development is starting to inch me closer to the camp that just wants to skip chapters focussed on her.
The author really needs to drop some massive kind of twist as to the root of her behaviour , or pulling...
He's a pathetic, rich, powerful loser who thinks of women simply as fucktoys to kowtow to him and he's become obsessed with the MC because she rejected him for being a cheating, abusive asshole.
Dudes like that (and sadly, these pathetic creatures exist IRL too) don't operate on anything...
This is my personal take (and just to be clear, English isn't my first language either), but "you've been looking troubled since this morning" sounds better - "been looking" implies the state of troubledness is still ongoing.
People are out here calling Kusunoki boring when it's been hinted at that there's stuff we don't know about (yet). The little tomboy said she changed severely between when they saw each other in elementary school for the last time and meeting again in high school. And it's been patently clear...
Casting the subtext about the age gap aside...
I felt that. Getting up in age is scary, especially when it comes to romance - and worse, being inexperienced in romance.
On the one hand, we knew they were going to get back together.
On the other, the journey is (usually) more interesting than the destination and that journey was cut woefully short (yes, yes, this is an adaptation blah di blah di blah, there's certainly worse out there).
So she prattles on about "geniuses ruling over those beneath them", does fratbro-level hazing rites for new employees and steals someone else's work with just enough legal distinction to make it pass off as her own?
Yup, she's your average tech CEO.