Dex-chan lover
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- May 4, 2024
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One benefit of this story churning through plot at soap opera / telenovela speeds is I worry less and less about falling into the same traps as BTD where the other writer dragged out the weakest plotlines for dozens of chapters. You have to laugh a little because its so over the top, but I do feel like there's also some moments of intentional dark comedy like the "So Filthy." line delivery/timing. Anna setting up Lily's seduction by Rose for years despite trying to do the exact opposite is also bleak comedic punchline.
As obvious as each character's different conception of love is, it is their personal toxic understanding and relationship to love and sex that prevents them from truly connecting to the one they desire. Its possible that none of them can truly give the other what they want, and there's a great potential tension in that...if the author delivers.
After five chapers, one wonders what the Lily of the Valley in the title really refers to. For anyone unfamiliar, lily of the valley is a beautiful white flower with an intoxicating smell that contains compounds toxic to the heart. Is Lily the lily of the valley? Is Rose? Is Anna? Or is it a play on the Japanese word for lily, the flower being the toxic love geometry between these three women?
I'm less interested in blaming any of the characters for what happened and much more interested in what will Anna do now.
As obvious as each character's different conception of love is, it is their personal toxic understanding and relationship to love and sex that prevents them from truly connecting to the one they desire. Its possible that none of them can truly give the other what they want, and there's a great potential tension in that...if the author delivers.
After five chapers, one wonders what the Lily of the Valley in the title really refers to. For anyone unfamiliar, lily of the valley is a beautiful white flower with an intoxicating smell that contains compounds toxic to the heart. Is Lily the lily of the valley? Is Rose? Is Anna? Or is it a play on the Japanese word for lily, the flower being the toxic love geometry between these three women?
I'm less interested in blaming any of the characters for what happened and much more interested in what will Anna do now.
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