Because it's a spacial overlap and not a ghost romance, the MC and ML soon share phone numbers and communicate through text and calls.

Update: I read the raws so I will explain for reviewers who are using MTL. The spacial overlap is a secret inheritance in the MC's family. The 2nd floor of his house randomly "overlaps spacially" with a different person's house in a different part of the world (but same universe/timeline). So there's no alternate world or time travel here.

The MC lives in the countryside while the ML lives in the city. So the MC's house's 1st floor is just a regular house in the small village while the 2nd floor of his house connects to ML's city flat. But the MC's house is still physically in the countryside, so if he tries to go out the ML's "front door, " he would only be walking downstairs into his own house.

As it happens, the door/transition space, is only ONE-sided. Only the MC can see the ML and interact with the objects in the ML's home. The ML cannot see the MC or any objects that the MC brings in from the countryside. But, the ML can see the stuff the MC is using that belong to the city.

Example: MC wears ML's slippers. ML will see slippers moving around as if worn by an invisible person.

Example2: MC brings in vegetables to cook on ML's stove. ML will not see the vegetables but will see the stove/pan burning.

This is how: A) MC can clean up after the ML (if the ML throws his own clothes around), B) MC can secretly use the ML's electricity to charge his phone, C) MC can cook for the ML.

Finally, MC can move items from his side to the ML's side through a special cabinet. I believe this closet/cabinet is fairly tall (because later MC moves his luggage over), but basically, if the MC puts his own stuff into the cabinet, it becomes visible to the ML and physically transfers to the ML's side (but it's not big enough to transfer people). So this is how the MC puts the cooked food into the cabinet using the ML's lunchbox, and then moves the filled lunchbox to the table.

The MC can eat food that the ML brings in (however, he lies to the ML at first, telling him that he couldn't). One of the big reasons why the MC doesn't just randomly use the ML's stuff or eat the ML's food from the start is because the ML will see him doing it. Literally imagine an invisible person/ghost holding up a cake or bites/crumbs disappearing into thin air. VERY weird for 'regular' people!

Hope that clears things up!

A lot of the slice-of-life parts and farming parts are thrown into the backburner for the romance of the MC going to the city and visiting the ML's company. his plants die his dogs and chicks are given away It felt a bit counterproductive to how much time the earlier part of the story spent on describing the MC developing those part of his life.

There's also a lot of abandoned plotlines, like the Han family elder who wanted to give the MC a return gift, the MC's poor farm/village animals, and what's going to happen to Uncle Niu, the MMORPG parts, etc.

The ML also does not act like a CEO (he's truant most of the time) and suddenly decides to leave his company for a few years (with no prior prep work) to study for a phD in a completely different city (suspend your disbelief here guys)

The MC's fear of being alone, the lost feeling, the struggle to find fulfillment or meaning in life, the outwardly sunny yet inwardly struggles and fear of being found out/ostracized for his mental health were all very realistic.

Yet, though the story states implicitly that having a romance to "fulfill" the emptiness in one's life isn't the best option because a breakup can send the depressed person back into the pit, ultimately this is what happens to the MC.

He finds comfort in the ML, a mutually lonely person, and even after he meets the ML in the city, he's resistant to going back to school because he's lost his drive. When he goes back to the country with the ML, he's still thinking that he finds the countryside life the most calm and healing.

BUT, the ML continues to pressure him to go back to school (from the view of an "adult" knowing zero about mental health). Then the ML tries to support the MC by also physically joining him at school, which is super ridiculous because that's like slapping a band-aid on an internal wound; not fixing the core of the issue at all.

Furthermore, the author had the MC leave the two puppies and 10 chicks he had been raising in the countryside, in favor of the ML, essentially forcing the MC's daily interactions and emotional support to ONLY come from the ML (MC doesn't have any friends).

Rather than detailing the journey of the MC coming out of his depression, instead his life meaning is immediately replaced by the huge co-dependent romantic relationship with the ML, the deux-ex-machina that supposedly makes everything better.

Thus, the wrap up was super rushed and contrasted a lot with how the author had been handling the MC's depression up to that point.

You can call me oversensitive, but the topic of depression is one very near and close to me. I've had a close friend go through almost the exact same thing (and no family like the MC) and it was especially bad because their mental health had been so dependent on their significant other and they had no one else. It is SO important to have a network of support and to build bonds with more than one person which is why this book is especially irritating because the ML is so jealous & overbearing and refuses to let the MC get close to others despite it being best for his mental health.

A BL novel (also magical realism genre) that handles the MC's journey with depression extraordinarily well (with a relationship) would be [Spring Trees and Sunset Clouds].

MC is young (19) and has just been orphaned ; he was raised by a single dad and losing him hit him very hard and he develops slight depression that he gets treated for... this is not a huge plotline so dont worry. He does a bit of livestreaming but there is not going to be any entertainment industry drama. ML is 27 and is the typical rich, arrogant, cold gong type. He has a dark past that included his stepmom killing his mom (who was her sister btw), marrying his dad and abusing him through his childhood and then kills his dad and tries to make it look like suicide. His maternal grandparents try to get him to forgive her and try to say that he is being unfilial but he completely ignores them.

There was also a really weird and awkward scene where ML grabbed MC's d*ck and compared it to a cucumber. This was when they were still in the brotherly stage and ML was still thinking of MC as a kid... Ahh, it was so strange.

ML dropped everything to go back to school in pursuit of a PhD so that he could accompany MC in school. Then they get together and consummate their relationship at the drop of a hat.

What happened with MC's dimensional shifting house?! They better have burned that sh*t down otherwise there might be random people walking into their later...