In the beginning of the novel, the MC suddenly found himself as plant, who can see at 360 degrees because of reasons. Despite that, y'know, plants do not have eyes. But whatever. No big deal. MC is an elf so its probably just elf magic?

MC then sold to this guy who wants to gift MC to ML (who, apparently, is his brother, but we dont know that, until much later, because... uhm the author forgots reasons?). The ML is the former captain of a military legion that disbanded because of some political reasons. In the background was some conflict between empire vs freedom fighter. Ok, so far so good.

ML then tries to raise plant!MC, and somehow, in the span of a night he turns into a pampering, overbearing owner of a plant. I mean sure, why not, we know pampering MLs and pampering MLs that pampers their cats, dogs and hamsters to high heavens and then f*ck them. But somehow this novel takes this even further for an ML that suddenly pampers his f*cking shivering PLANT like crazy and his entire crew just? rolls with it??

But this is not the worst part, no, no, at least this part is still coherent. Cause whats next is just plot convenience after plot convenience. Ooh the crew cant get this egg they want? why dont this fricking crazy guy just suddenly crashes in? Ooh the crew is stuck in this planet? why dont call this merchant friend and to have him navigate this dangerous asteroid belt where the army chasing them cant get into but somehow the merchant can. And so on and so on.

But all this can still be palatable if the story have decent writing. Which this story doesnt have. The story lacks cohesion so bad and just jumps from one event to another so suddenly that reading this can be very confusing. The author like the show dont tell approach so much that they forgot that in order to show something you must tell what the hell are you are showing first. Which also leads to the case that half of the characters are just... forgettable, cause author never introduced them in the first place. This makes the reader cant remember half of the main crew 80 chapters into the story let alone the various baddies.

Speaking of the conflict the author clearly wants to say that both sides in war is all wrong. But rather the battle of ideology that was expected, it was more this all ballsh*t insane characters just wants to mess with the main characters for some reason? Its never really explained why this crew is important other than that they are the main characters.

Mood whiplash is also a problem in this story, where a cute moment can suddenly followed by an (incoherent) action piece.

tldr; the story is directionless, the characters are forgettable, the writing is confusing

The MC starts off as a plant, then turns into a tiny chibi character and then slowly "grows up" from a chibi to a toddler and child and only then into an adult.

Also, during his chibi days he, for some reason, has to relearn how to talk and walk and etc like a baby, despite having spent 50 years as a humanoid elf before becoming a plant (which is just really weird). So for a looong time the MC is not in a position to express consent, yet the ML has already decided that they are lovers. Bc apparently he is so good at understanding his plant that can't speak and can hardly communicate?

The other characters in the world see the grown ML and toddler MC pair and refer to him as "son", but the ML gets grumpy and doesn't understand why the world doesn't see them as lovers. BECAUSE HE'S A TINY CHILD!

The language the author used to describe the chibi period is also fetishizing - like "chubby white cheeks that invite people to take a bite" and "his eyes filled with tears that made people want to bully him and made the ML think about pushing him down" etc

Let's start with action scenes or I would call them 'big' events which basically lasted a chapter or two when it would have been more appropriate to write them in more details. Honestly, I was very confused when something big happened in novel, because one moment I am reading how main couple being lovey dovey not listening singer and then the next second 'boom' everyone teleported and for some unexplained reason only our elf MC left in that building... I still got no answer why they left only MC, was he special? Did they want to blackmail ML?

Another plotline which was never explained further was why they hunt Lydney? Some people who read novel would say 'how did you read! it was explained!', but I strongly disagree. Yes, it was mentioned that Lydney was not as simple as he looked at the start, he is genius and studied complicated mech tech and had indeed internship in some laboratory and completed research earlier than those professors... and here comes plothole. Lydney did said he graduated, but he didn't get employed for some reason? (which I suppose was because he was pure human = he die earlier than anyone else in there) and uh... he was then marked as someone to kill? I mean look, Lydney never mentioned that he showed anyone his completed research, neither did he was taken seriously, was his research leaked and then hunt began? After that, his past was uncovered and they finally realised that their team was under attacks cause of that... It was never mentioned again.... ever.... that topic was dropped.

On that note, more or less it was explained that ML had powerful ship and team, but it was again never explained why Ivan was so stubborn about hunting him (and as mentioned above Lydney). I mean, look there are 200+ military teams and Ivan and Free Alliance were still bothering 'retired' major. Why?

I also want to point out lack of detailed description of characters or how some objects in that world work... When ML team was introduced, it was never mentioned how many people are in that 'team' so I imagined about 50-100 characters among which only 5-6 were mentioned. About in the middle, author finally decided to tell us that it was indeed small crew and consisted of seven people (original team; later it included 2 plants and pure human Lydney). It wouldn't bother me much, if Leston who barely appeared in first half, became more 'regular' by the end (I honestly imagined him being more middle aged, but in extras it was mentioned he is pretty young), I also imagined twins being brown haired or blonde (cause as I said, it was only mentioned that they are twins and nothing else! so my brain did the work for me). Once again in the end, author decided to be like 'oopsie, did I forgot to mentioned that almost all team members have black hair and black eyes, except 2 plant people and Carl?'. You couldn't even imagined how much I wanted to headbang myself into table. Another example are some side characters like Palatine and Uncle Ye, first was introduced as teacher of one of 'villains' and he worked long time and became priest, he also had white hair and grey eyes so I decided to imagine him as more 'old' kind of guy, of course it was completely wrong thing to do, it seems he looked not as old as all information given to me described. It may have been my bad since all people or creatures in this world live very long time, but author.... could you mention this detail? I mean you could just write 'unlike his age and looks, palatine looked like human in age of thirties' that would really help and not mislead me.

Same goes to never telling us biology of this world. There were two male couples mentioned to have children, one was wolf couple and another dragon couple. However, even if it was mentioned author never bothered to tell us anything more and we could only assume since it's interstellar everything is possible (and actually makes me happy), but it once again points out on lack of even sparing 1-2 sentences to tell of how it works, cause I was very curious and I feel like our MC elf-plant would want to ask too, but he never did so I never got answers.

There are many more things to point out, but I don't remember some and I feel like I already wrote too much so I will mention the very last part which made me sad that it was never shown or mentioned in epilogue or extras. It was... moment of Jamie's wife.... 'rebirth'. She was left as ethereal being in minds of the readers and was never given shape or personality. Does author hates hetero couples? Yes, I came for BL, but I won't mind the only such couple ever mentioned in this novel. By the end, I was expectant to see her as Jamie himself, but author just made him wait and never show his 'happy ending' that made me depressed. He was one of the few characters in the team who got story development and he was still waiting his wife as he did whole novel. Author, you could easily cut main couple scenes cause honestly, by the end it was the same sweet fluff and dog food as usual almost every chapter, I won't mind if you skipped and showed something else.

Everyone was unique and interesting and I talk about secondary characters as for our main couple... Dragon ML was shown to be cold and be warm only to his plant aka MC, but when MC became 'human' his obsession and being pe*vert suddenly skyrocketed, he always teased MC and it took me off guard. MC was just being MC and I mean he was just there and didn't do that much to the plot, except giving us toothache with love fluff. As some reviewer said it later became only of him being described as beauty.

Secondary characters were much more interesting, some had story and most, if not ALL got their second half. However, I have complains about few who didn't got as much attention as I wished to...

IVAN! What happened?! Her character development never appeared even on the horizon! And you didn't misread, it is indeed 'her' not a typo. Her past was mentioned, but never her own 'feelings'! Except some sentences we never figured out her personality or thoughts or ideals, was she really just war maniac? What triggered her? Did she actually liked Ariella? After Ariella and Raven tried their best to save her, she just goes, takes Ariella's soul pendant and 'su*cides'?! She is a villain! Main villain of whole novel! Give her at least extra to explain what was going in her head in the end! Also why she was given clearly 'male' name? Look in my country 'Ivan' is male name and it's not neutral, but I could spare it as usual country name differences which may have not been known to author. It made me feel that it was some hidden meaning to her having 'male' name while she was female who looks like male.

Lorenzo also was one of characters who got pretty good start as being 'important', but after actually sparing us with his description he was made into cannon fodder and let Dean 'punish' him? Question mark cause I am still confused what happened with Lorenzo and if he is dead, why he was only special among his species.

Extras gave us some insight into Palantine, Leston, Cessie and Dean what I found to be useful and interesting. Especially Cessie since in novel he was at first 'villain' and self-centred what easily caused us to hate him for abounding his father and 'killing' and stealing mecha fighters, but why he was like that and why he 'changed' so fast was all explained in extra. I appreciate this.

MC only manage to turn into a thumbelina in 48 chapters

plant loving, shota

also based on the possiblity that the both of em are the last of their races so they're like, clinging to each other all the more

Like when the MC and ML got married and I'm like... wait what? Did that just happen? No warning author?! Not even a f*ing clue?!??

Brothers where one couldn't keep his s*upid comments to himself. Please, stuff his f*ing trap! ?

Then you had all the plants that were kind of creepy. And is it just me or did the MC and ML make plant "bonding" popular?

Then there was the crying fat robot/andriod...

When you think really deeply about it, Auguste is kind of an a**hole.

Like the android Auguste met when he went to buy items for plant Jianjian. They meet him and his human again later.

at the end when Dean is talking to Jamie and saying something about decoding memories of original mechanical fighters, I guess they're like war robots with a 'soul.' I skimmed so I don't know the significance of this, but the big villain had a subodrnate who could do it but was slow, and Dean the genius who could do it much faster but wasn't on their side, Lydney was smart and had the potential so I guess they wanted to either get him or get rid of him for convenience sake? I'm inferring, since it wasn't exactly stated.

I so wish we got to see him being badass with his magic a lot more than we did, but he's pretty incredible. It does make me wonder, how dire was the situation of the white elves, how strong and dangerous were their opponents, when they were slowly dying in war if Hai'an, an average elf, can be this strong.

First-

3 plants are specifically introduced to us at the beginning of the story; Jianjian, some plant with eyes, and a canivorous rose that can eat people. Later, all three of them will gain humanoid form. Jianjian I could understand why, because originally he was a being with a conscience, but the other two are literally just plants and they get turned into 'humans' and are married off (or to be married off, since they have partners.) I didn't see a reason for that.

So we have the awkward pairing of a child 'forced' to grow into a teenager, and a plant that's turned into human form for a few months at most, and the two of them hook up. Leston is at least an adult, but he also gets with a plant that wasn't even his, transforms it, and has s*x with it (him, in this case.)

Second-

Where are all the women in this world? Females are barely mentioned. We have Ariella, who dies. Ivan is considered male for most of the story. Alexia who looked like Jamie's dead wife was some kinda monster and I think Hai'an killed her? Auguste and Carl's mom is mentioned when she's shipping them off and presumably dies, the twins' mom is also mentioned just as she dies. There are a couple of male pairs mentioned/implied to have sired children, one ayulon pair, and the wolves. so, can men in this universe/time have kids? or was it like surrogacy?

The only female there from beginning to end, who don't go anywhere, don't die, aren't crazy, are Alia and Red Shield, one of the mechanical fighters. But even Alia is alluded several times (Ivan as well) to being like a man.

Jamie, who waited for over a hundred years to resurrect his wife, is still waiting for her at the end of the story.

Third-

As for Ivan and her motivations... clearly not right in the head at all. could be how she was raised, or she might still have ended up that way even if she grew up normally. clearly showing psychopathic tendencies. But she really just decided to start a war, created a bunch of different personalities, and made them 'enemies' while playing everyone for a fool just to encourage war. literally was on the side of the empire and alliance at the same time, even pit herself against herself as her own fiance's jilted brother.

Fourth-

The huge ass conflict in the story? Ends very quickly. Auguste just decides, let's kill Ivan now. so they go, and they really do end the bad guys in one fell swoop - Ariella (the ayulon/dragon married to Ivan) killed, Raven (mechanical fighter with a nadine core 'soul') self-detonates, and Ivan just kills herself by taking Ariella's burning soul stone. I think it all happens in one chapter, too.

he was a plant, literally