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This was so refreshing to read. Two people who genuinely like each other, communicating and supporting each other because they want to be together. The level of communication is so satisfying in the way that they want the other person to understand them, as well as understand the other person, to avoid hurting them. A healthy relationship were fights/disputes makes the relationship even stronger and brings them closer. It was nice to see MC heal his relationship trauma and see ML experiencing falling in love and opening up to being in a serious relationship.


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Kinda wish ML hadn’t quit his job without telling MC as it was quite unfair that MC had to carry unnecessary worries and a bigger burden that could’ve been avoided. It does make sense that ML wouldn’t want to work there anymore, and he also got a new job offer so it didn’t cause any problem in practice. But he’s also rich so I guess he can do what he wants, and if that is living together with MC it’s a happy ending after all.

I’ve been here so long. Can someone plz just spoil me when the misunderstanding will be cleared up? I don’t dislike it, I’m still here for a reason, but I’m starving because of the lack of romantic developments and heartwarming feelings.

Why didn’t the guy who hired him just tell him everything he knew??? He obviously knew something super sus was going on . The build up of the story was so good and now it ended faster than I could blink. It’s not necessarily a bad ending, it just feels more like being slapped in the face and being told “that’s it, you’re welcome”

I feel like his brother will appear, see Hwanyoung, and be like: ”begone demon” . My Shayla, he probably thinks the dog will be hurt if he pets it

Criminally short are there any side stories? I though the story was beautiful tbh, y’all are so superficial it’s quite ironic

This genuinely gives me anxiety but I can’t stop, I need a happy ending and some kind of closure. I can’t even think of a form of punishment that is enough for the crimes the father committed. The main couple are kinda finding each other and support each other but hate that the light-haired brother feels ”tarnished” and broken and the dark-haired brother feels guilty & disgust over the situation which will probably be misinterpreted by the light-haired one. I hope they can work through the shame and guilt together and help each other heal.

When she tossed the bouquet I-

This chapter was so lacking in substance, just him over explaining his perspective to someone who really doesn’t care at all. It was like the reverse of show don’t tell. We already had the image of him that what he was talking about seemed to promote, that he’s doing his role as a worker of his company and knows about the sports world from personal experience, it’s like his whole character so this whole conversation just seemed so forced like he was speaking from a script of his character description or something. The romance is slow burn, the previous chapters in the pool were good, but there’s a difference between slow burn and slow paced. I would not say the story is slow paced, the plot does not feel dragged out since there are other things happening that helps move the pace. The lack of… anything in this chapter feels off since there’s is a certain amount of things to take in from each chapter and this chapter, containing barely anything, is the same length as any other so you’re reading the same amount of pages which feels lacking. This chapter was kinda ”go girl, give us nothing”.

The ”would you sleep with him if he asked” also feels very unnatural since main characters usually have small talks and have been slowly building, or re discovering, a deeper relationship were they can begin to open up. We know that the athlete probably harbored romantic feelings and admired the MC, whilst the MC saw him as a younger brother and now is somewhere in friends-work territory. Since MC hasn’t even begun to have doubts about if his feelings could be romantic the comment about sleeping together from a third party feels like a way to force the romantic pace to go forward without the characters actually interacting. It would make way more sense if MC was at the stage where he’s trying to convince himself the relationship between them is purely work related (because he’s in denial of the romantic feelings being there) but since there is no doubt there is no self-convincing needed either so everything just falls flat.

There was also a bit of a sentimental(ish) moment where MC made a comment about the other guy having children and he answered that he wish he could but can’t, followed by hinting at him labeling himself as a beta for work hinting at the reason being gender discrimination. (I know the whole point was to drop the hint that he’s an alpha too but sill) Immediately followed by ”so if he asked, would you sleep with him”.

Also, I know the author didn’t literally give us nothing and I don’t mean no disrespect, this chapter stood out from the rest in a bad way because the rest, all other chapters, were good.

What if: another spin-off after this finished, with red-head as the MC. Hmmm

Thank you translator for the amazing chapters.
Y’all, if you go to: https://archive.org/details/little-mushroom-yi-shi-si-zhou/mode/2up and press (…) you can download the novel as an e-book. It’s easy to navigate and the story is sooo good, better than I can describe which is why YOU should read it :D (it’s so underrated I wish the fandom was bigger ). I would recommend starting from the beginning to get into the world building and history which will help later on, you also get to know much more about what the characters think and feel which helps especially with the arbiter since he doesn’t say much lol (there’s more to him than his mysterious person I swear). You can probably skip and start where these uploads end (I’m not really sure what chapter it is novel wise) but I promise even the first few chapters will help you understand so much.