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yue-muffin · 29 days

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Chapter 5! Another reason why this story is great and realistic: The characters are a little older (late 20s to early 30s) and they've been in other relationships before falling for each other. The realism is actually sort of refreshing. I end up reading a lot of danmei where the MC and ML are each other's one and only true love, they never are in a relationship with anyone else even in the past, and that can be a fun fantasy in its own way, but if you like a little more realism, this one is for you.

Here's a little author's note from the side story:

Big respect. Also, Descent was labeled a switch/reversible relationship on NovelUpdates. I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate, but it is true of the side story at least.

As for the rest of the chapter...

Alright, personally, I would never have energy to do such a stressful job and then go out drinking on my day off haha. You can forget driving an hour to go see someone right after my shift ends, no matter who it is lol. Actually, my current job is nowhere near as stressful as Fang Hao's and I still don't have the energy to do more than chores and grocery shopping on the weekends...

Anyways, back to poor Fang Hao whose ex cheated on him. Fang Hao does seem to be a very serious guy, so for him to actually develop feelings for this person who then tries to blame the relationship not working out all on HIM is...

Surprisingly, though, Fang Hao is very assertive at work (well, it's a requirement of the job), but he's not as assertive in his personal life/relationships. He "had always been unable to argue with Lu Jiawei, so he could only leave in haste".

And this last line is kind of painful. "Maybe he was just a rather boring person, as Lu Jiawei always said."

No!! You two were just incompatible, but that jerk decided to string him along instead of just ending it, then tries to emotionally manipulate Fang Hao when he gets caught. Also, "always"? What kind of partner always calls you boring...

There's an interesting part embedded in all that, though. His ex uses this as an excuse for not breaking up with him: "Every time I tried, you would become upset, and you would start to fall apart if things were out of your control".

Now, this is a guy who juggles airplanes in the sky as a job, and one wrong direction, a delayed reaction, or even mishearing a single digit can cause a catastrophic accident and loss of life. Yes, he's always in control - in fact it's essential at work that he's 100% in control when he's "on" the air. It makes sense that this bleeds into his personal life to some degree. But it makes you wonder how he acts when he does lose control. We don't see it, we only get Lu Jiawei saying he starts to "fall apart", but we can't really trust this guy's word too much. He spent the whole time explaining his infidelity blaming it on his boyfriend for being too "boring".

Overall, interesting developments in a chapter where nothing actually happens...

#my descent liveblog #switch couples are really rare in danmei...#i was pleasantly surprised to find one here #still not sure if it applies to chen jiayu and fang hao #or just the side couple

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