Stories like Merry Marbling, Melting Point, Unintentional Love Story, and Projection are really nice. They're somewhat deep in later chapters WITHOUT the needless drama/angst, toxic personalities or backstories, or sexual-abuse-leading-to-romance buildup that some writers exploit a little too much to get attention. There's also space for humor as the protags seem to have a bad start at first and stumble into all sorts of stupid accidents and situations that eventually help them grow feelings for each other. Also, the seme-types here are more caring, funny, and mature in all sorts of ways. The uke-types, for that matter, are not the usual type just wanting to get laid- they're not naive, pathetic, or helpless like most and actually have "character" so to speak.
Does Melting Point have a novel? Because it updates so infrequently
Sadly no- but you can try Unintentional Love Story- Pibi's older BL which have a lot of similarities with Melting Point. The art isn't as refined as Melting Point though- this one is really topnotch- hard to find anything that comes close. Mint Candy Love and Alpha Trauma are also good- but you'd have to be patient with the uke in Mint Candy Love coz he acts like a jerk to cover up his homophobia while in Alpha Trauma, you have an over naive omega who follows the seme around like a puppy and tries to get under his skin.
Sorry, I meant the seme in Mint Candy Love who acts like a jerk most of the time.
I feel like ML is a blaring red flag. My red flag senses are tingling damnit. I just want a fluffy love story cmon why is the market saturated with redflags?