The MC is clever and he knows, what he wants to do. He doesn't condemning the ML for his past. He doesn't want to chance the ML's personality immediately to love him. He just slowly express his feelings to ML.

The ML is reserved at the beggining and he is very suspiciously of everything and every movement, that the MC does. He thinks, that the MC is just a young boy, who is ignorant. After he spents more time with the MC, he will realize that the MC is hiding more than he thought.

They will getting to know each other better and their feelings will appear front of our eyes.

"If Ling Nian believed them, then he'd be a fool. He sneered twice and was about to invade their light brains to check when the virtual world opened.."

I hate the word light brain... only MTL would come up with such a dumb phrase for a futuristic computer utilizing photonic integrated chips (PIC) -> google that.

"It was designed according to the ancient legend, the elf's intellectual brain was exquisite, and it was also designed as a Q version."

Who the hell reads the above sentence and thinks "this is English"? It's f*cking not lol. Someone explain to me what an "exquisite intellectual brain of an elf" is because I'm 100% sure the author didn't write that and MTL did. FYI, Q version = chibi.

"All the "correct statements" he left behind personally while wearing a vest were bumped back by people without vision."

I'm actually dying, what is this??? LOL??? should have been translated into: All the "correct statements" he left behind personally on his alt were buried by people who made the wrong guesses.

Eg. the example given by an earlier reviewer: "He invested himself to researching that topic for so long, he wasn't even interested when someone said they had new information about that same f*cking topic."

Chinese (and many other Asian languages) utilize double negatives a hella lot. Authors will frequently write "it's not that he didn't like A..." or "it wasn't not big" to mean the opposite "he liked A"/"it was big." However, MTL does not catch this.

Using the earlier example, what the author actually wrote was this: "He invested himself to researching that topic for so long, no way he wasn't interested when someone said they had new information..." however, the MTL-editor-translator didn't catch it.

Slow clap. 🙂

-Our MC has a little kink for ML's waist (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

-ML really likes to eat vinegar & one-sided suffering.

-The brotherhood aspect... don't underestimate it. I found it rather cheesy at times.

-A little dog food every chapter, but the emotional/official romance develops on the slower side.

-About plot holes: They probably exist (?), but I don't notice/care about them much.

-The extras: I wish I hadn't read them. They were saddening to read. Although they do end on a happier note, I still would have rather not read them. Of course, this is not to discourage from reading them, since they do provide more background & conclusion.

-The mtl, if I could summarize it in two words, is "mildly confusing". I understood about 70%, inferred 20%, and in general unable to understand about 10%. If you plan on reading the mtl, there's a simple list of character names in the spoiler below. May contain spoilers, at the very least you'll know about some more names.

List of main/main side characters: Only the ones who are already introduced in the tl will get a small description

Format: tl name - corresponding mtl name (s) - description

Astra - Li ZouXing - MC

Wen - Gu WenCheng, Consultant, [Counselor/Advisor/etc] Cheng - ML

Simon - Xi Nan, Xinan, Sinan - Crybaby

Liam - Ji Yu, Jiyu - Xi Nan's friend, handkerchief guy

Linus - Ling Nian - Technology guy

Svorin, Savorin, Swarin

Wasser, Worther, Worser

Li ZouXing - MC - Astra

Gu WenCheng - ML - Wen

Wo Se - Roux (Secret persona of ML)

Xi Nan - Simon

Ling Nian - Liam then Linus

Ji Yu - Jiju / Jiyu

Cheng Yang - Solaris Academy

SuiXing - Vagor (star) - planet sui

Ye An - Ian (freed s*ave at auction)

Alfred - Alf

Reverie - Dream Team (Team name)

Light brain - photonic computer

Cpt. You Meng - most likely Cpt. Edward???

Winnie - not sure if MCs d*ck or a person.

Le Si - ??? Brother of the girl in the hot springs (Winnie incident)

Bu Wei - most likely Marten?

??? - Si Wo Lin (First year with highest rating)

??? - Weiss - white star sea (mermaid planet)

I mean there are stories where you know in the end when everything works out after the MC was transmigrated, the MC will again go back into the novel world for a brief visit to change some stuffs or slightly change the novels ending in a different way. So while this does happen in this story, I was impressed in the sense that the author really didn't shy away from showing that the novel ML was involved in a harem and was having s*x with different harem members in front of the MC when MC was again transmigrated into the novel for a short time. The angst here, the hartbreaking scenes that the MC was forced to go through really made me agitated. I mean after all that fluff, it had just the right amount of angst. And how the MC doesn't really get out of the depression, that he gets into after witnessing the novel ML's relationship with his harem members, when the MC was transmigrated back into the alternated novel world he belonged to with the ML and all of their lovely team members. It takes time and effort from the ML to cure MC's depression and this makes their relationship much stronger.

(Yes, the ML somehow knew that the MC was going to a different universe for a short time and it was the ML who I think requested or threatened the author to make one of their friends to accompany the MC in that journey. And the ML was also there in a spirit form so the MC didn't know that his original lover was also witnessing all that heartbreaking scenes. But the novel ML sort of saw that spirit ML and that brought a lot of anger and changes to the novel ML. I will say that the novel ML deserved every bit of angst he got from that event!)

And also the fact that to accompany the MC in that brief time in the novel, it was MC's friend who was transmigrated alongside with the MC. It not only showed how important the team members were to our protagonist couple, but also showed how fragmented and strained the team members were in the novel world despite being showed that they were 100% loyal to the ML in the novel world. It just shows that be it love or friendship, everything needs constant effort to make them stable and full of warmth.

Whatever happens, the protagonists and antagonists feel good will towards him.

MC is so flirtatious with the protagonist and says / does double-meaning things to him whenever he can. The worst thing is that our ML is dense and sees the MC as a baby.

She literally sees him as a lovable brother no matter what he does. Later ML says sun to MC I die his sun: ") It's so beautiful!

Adorable group: ") They accept them very quickly when they find out about MC and ML's relationship (in their world apparently there are no boy-to-boy relationships)

As stated before, I loved the first translator and her explanation of why she chose the names. It made the translation fun for me because the names had meanings. The final translator's naming conventions annoyed me. Every time I read the name Walter I felt like rolling my eyes (seriously, the Big Bad in the universe was named Walter??)

Did it stop me from finishing the story? No. Do I have opinions on translator naming conventions now? Yes. Yes, I do

My pinyan name could mean beauty, sparkling, or blossom among other things. You wouldn't know if I didn't explain (my brother calls me old man which is another pinyan meaning 🤦‍♀️)

So now I think obsessively using "Chinese Sounding" names to "keep immersion" is as annoying as changing to western names