DANMEI Reading List (RAW) Pt. 2

306. Never Marry a Man Who Has Space

Translator: Little Yen

Chapters: 109 + 7 Extras

Status: Read up to Chapter 52

Tags: isekai, abilities, younger ML, straight MC, love/hate

Synopsis:

From doomsday transmigrated into the male-only mysterious world, Liao Han found that the most unlucky thing was not turned into an extremely beautifull, little weak chicken but being married as daughter-in-law to someone delicate (pampered) with a Chūnibyō disease.

Strive hard to educate this 'lunatic' into an upright boy? Liao Han said, forget it! Go away! Get out as far as you can!

Impressions: Errr... dropping this for now. The world setting is good! It's very unique. It's the MC & ML who are killing it for me actually.

So our MC is from the zombie apocalypse world, he transmigrates to another world as the concubine of ML. Like mentioned, this world is really interesting. Everyone is male. 10 out of 100 people has Space. Anyways, in simple terms, those who has Space are the husbands, and those who don't have will be the wives. The 'Husbands' can have many concubines, and they will choose  a main wife/'contractor' among their harem, its the only one who can cultivate in the Space with him and get the same benefits. (Space are really useful)

So yeah, MC transmigrates and becomes ML's first concubine. Accdg to the rules, he will be joined by many more in the future. ML....is a spoiled brat, a bear kid. It might be cute but this bear kid is also very powerful and cruel. MC temporarily caters to him and tolerates him cos 'after all, he's still a kid', he also takes advantage of his identity as the concubine of the City Lord's son to study about the cultivation methods in this world. MC and ML gets along fine, ML would suddenly get angry for some reason and punish MC, punishment is (somewhat) ineffective to MC, ML stops getting angry and picks him up, they get along fine, rinse and repeat. At the end of the 2nd volume (c51), ML has realize the buddings of first love, but as a low EQ kid, all he can think about is 'possessing' MC. At first he treated MC as a pet, now his identity has upgraded to ML's 'important property'.

MC is a steel straight man. First, he treats ML as a son, and is willing to cater to his whims cos ML could end his life anytime. ML's punishments are cruel but they can be said to be quite ineffective to MC. The bear kid can really toss people. Fortunately, our MC doesn't really care, our MC is also kind of heartless, so its just like punching cotton. I originally thought that MC is a go-with-the-flow kind of guy so I was surprised how much he rejected ML when he starts to feel ML's affection. MC insists on being straight in this men-only gay world.

It's probably because MC & ML are both hard characters that's why I can't like them. ML is cruel, the way he retaliates is very nasty, makes you feel like your  whole life is under his control. And I don't like that after his anger passed, he will treat MC like nothing happened. No apologies or guilt whatsoever. #SPOILER For example, right after marriage, our ML became angry with MC for speaking up, and left him stranded in the forest for 3 days! If it was anyone else, they would've died already. ML picks MC up later and things go back to normal as if him leaving MC in the forest never happened. Another case is when he became angry with MC again for some reason, and kicks him out of the palace and made him live in some kind of place for servants/laborers. I think MC stayed there for a YEAR, some guy over there even became interested in MC and wanted to marry him. Then ML takes MC back to his Palace with great fanfare, showering him with gifts and being dependent on him again. No explanation whatsoever why he was kicked out in the first place. During those 'punishments', MC was able to cope with it both but it can't be denied that it was full of hardships. 

So although it was surprising, it was also good to see MC being cruel to ML, even if its just in words, cos he knows to hit where it hurts, especially since ML started to have feelings for him. I really like the world setting, it has cultivation, bloodlines (MC has a butterfly bloodline) and magical space. Too bad that MC & ML relationship is too...unequal, I can't stand it. Maybe it'll get better later, once MC becomes powerful too~ and ML can't kick him to the curb whenever he wants to.

Nearest reco: Rebirth Waste Strikes Back, its also an isekai world with cultivation, but I like it more since the MC is OP from the start. Aanndd.. Transmigrated into the World of "Demon Lord Wu Zun", for a proper yandere younger ML~