Just pass this one by

Well, this is junk in every way possible, pretty much. This fails as any kind of compelling story, and even manages to fail as smut somehow as well. Everything that happens is so stupid and illogical I just can't even believe it managed to get published in this state.

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The author uses lame cliches/stereotypes as the two leads. Hibiki is a typical top; older, taller, rich, powerful, etc. Nono is a shoujo heroine in a beefcake's body; he's a ditz, innocent, doesn't know what AVs are, assumes everything's his fault even when he's done nothing wrong, blah blah blah doormat. Furthermore, trying to use Nono being a beefcake as some kind of subervesion of the bottom stereotype was a complete waste of time, and was only present to satisfy the reader's fetish of the beefcake bottom. The muscles are all aesthetic; somehow he can't seem to push people off of him when his personal space is being, ahem, violated. In reality, a guy who is stacked like Nono would be able to punch Hibiki's lights out the second Hibiki started playing with his nipples.

Now, I realize none of this is Nono's fault. No victim-blaming. But I have a hard time with authors depicting characters as complete doormats who won't lift a finger for their own sakes under any circumstances. When a person is being attacked or violated in some way they don't want, there is an animal-brain instinctual response that most people have to push the perp away. We see later that Nono is completely capable of pushing Hibiki away. So why didn't he do it in chapter 1? Oh, I guess because we gotta shoe-horn in an early sex-scene to grip the reader in the lowest-common-denominator way possible.

So, Hibiki rapes Nono in the first chapter, and then later agrees to help Nono with his suit problem (with no strings attached, I might add), even though Nono's been avoiding Hibiki because of the rape, and only asks him as a last resort. And then of course, Hibiki forces Nono into sex again at the hotel in a much more predatory way because he knows Nono is a doormat and that he can get away with it (aggravated abuse of power). The fact that Hibiki basically raped Nono twice is never acknowledged by either Hibiki or Nono, and then the manga transitions into a romance tone and storyline, where Hibiki the playboy has to somehow come to terms with now being in love with Nono, and starts trying to "win his heart the right way" without him ever admitting any wrong-doing from before. This doesn't feel believable, and doesn't even feel a part of the same story. Blaaaaaah.

Meanwhile, from Nono's perspective: Nono is raped by Hibiki twice, and then Nono decides he's now in love with him? I need Hibiki's dddddddd so bad, it's the only thing that can reach that good spot! Stockholm-syndrome cliche!

Having sex with a hired prostitute in a communal bath is hella inconsidertate. Why would this even happen? Hibiki has gotta be well-off, why would he do something like that besides the fact that he's just a bad, selfish person?

Alert! Inverted nipples cliche!!!! Oh, but then let's forget about it completely halfway through the manga.

I don't understand Hibiki with respect to the share-house. Does he live there? Why does a CEO need to live in a cheap share-house? In some chapters he seems to, but in others he doesn't (the chapter where Nono ruminates that Hibiki has been coming to the share-house regularly every weekend -- wouldn't he always be there if he lives there?? idk...). Does Hibiki just go there for catfishing because he knows the owner/manager only lets hot guys rent there? What if the hot guys aren't gay? He's gonna sex them up anyway, like he did to Nono? What is even going on here.

The author doesn't seem to understand what a scene transition is at all. Every time this happens it's completely jarring, and takes me right out of the story. Let's look at one example. Hibiki comes to the share-house to meet with Nono. Nono has just seen Hibiki get into a car with someone else Hibiki bought a suit for who seemed to be promising Hibiki sexual favors in exchange. Hibiki and Nono sit on the couch and have tea. Hibiki leans towards Nono, and Nono pushes him away and runs away to his room while Hibiki has a shocked expression on his face. Then Nono just starts furiously masturbating in his room, and Hibiki.... what? He just continues sitting on the couch sipping tea? He's frozen for hours with a shocked expression on his face? Nothing? He doesn't go to check on Nono or ask what's wrong? And then immediately after the voyeuristic masturbation scene with Nono, it's just the next day suddenly. What happened to Hibiki? I have a hard time believing he just got up and went home (or to his own room...) without going to find out what was wrong with Nono, and why Nono pushed him away. WTF even. This isn't even the only instance of this.

Setting a comic at a share-house like this has some implications all on its own that the author doesn't seem to understand at all. It initially sets the tone of this story as a light-hearted comedy starring an ensemble-cast who are the motley tennents of the share-house and the ways in which they affect the straight-man (the comedy genre straight-man, not the sexual orientation) main character's life. Like Maison Ikkoku, for instance. But then the bathroom rape scene ended up happening, which turned it into this jarring and badly-written smut-style comic that isn't really good at anything. The other tennents are barely shown, and when they are, they aren't doing anything particularly interesting or funny. It's just a waste of time to set this in a share-house. Perhaps this is just another reader fetish thing that doesn't interest me so I didn't notice. This could've just been set in a normal apartment complex and have the others just run into each other in the stairwell or elevator, if they even needed to be in the story in the first place. Kaoru could still be the manager of the complex and still appear in scenes in that context without it feeling forced.

The art in this isn't really good enough to justify trying to make this a smut-style story. Smut is best left to artists who have amazing art, like basically anything by Zaria (Mob for Jack, Kinbaku, etc). If your art isn't top-shelf stuff, you should probably stick to writing stories with actual plots and character development. Really, even smut requires a specific type of plot to be satisfying even if the art is good, but that wasn't present here either. Speaking to the story's art itself, it feels messy and sketchy and unfinished in a lot of places. It took some time to try and figure out what a panel was even trying to depict sometimes, which also takes me out of the story. No comment on the uncensoring.

Like, what is that thing on his lower-back in the first panel (upper left) of this page?
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/our_house_love_trouble/uu/our_house_love_trouble-chapter-3/29/

Anyway.

I know I've only really talked about the main couple, but this is actually a story about 3 couples, all composed of some combination of these share-house guys, but I'm not going to really go into any more detail about the other romance plots because it's not really worth it. All of my comments generally apply to all 3 stories. All 3 "romance" stories are incepted by rape. All 3 stories are rape-to-love (although I would argue the 2nd couple at least is friends and/or seems to like each other beforehand). Everything that happens is nonsensical, BL-crazyworld BS. The art is middling. Most of the tops are unlikeable (mostly for the same reasons). Some of the bottoms are also unlikeable (for varying reasons). This isn't worth reading imo. Generally, the stories aren't satisfying, and while the vignettes at the end are kind of funny, they're only funny because of the BL tropes they're kind-of making fun of, not because any of the characters are likeable or relationships are compelling. Skip this one.