perhaps I didn't read it properly because towards the middle I was reading a little faster. However, as 2 individuals with vastly different backgrounds, age, interests and lack of interaction, I just couldn't find the romance believable. It was like MC suddenly felt that ML was worth pursuing and went all in. ML did have superficial feelings for MC at the beginning but I think all the "females" did. There just wasn't enough chemistry. MC interacted with everyone else way more than ML before this sudden trigger (or the build up itself wasn't convincing).

rebellions are not new to Zerg society at all. In fact the current twisted order came about because an S tier male rebelled so hard against his then-female oppressors using the magic of being genetically predisposed to rapid innovation in war technology that he turned it all upside down in the worst way possible. Female-led Zerg rebellions founder because males make + innovate most of their technology in this universe, so even if the rebels fought their way to the top, all it'd take was an S-tier male surviving long enough to flip the script again.

Obviously you can also imagine hellish dystopias where females extract tech advances from males while keeping them under heel via brainwashing and strict laws, but it'd be a society just as precarious as the one depicted in this story, especially if you also add in external aggression from any other race wily enough to exploit those natural gender fault lines.

make some changes in society, it wasn't all attributed to his skill or beauty or whatnot; the efforts of many other people were acknowledged, as was the fact that his comics came along at just the right time, socially speaking. There's some obvious suspension of disbelief involved wrt the barrenness of Zerg entertainment media, but I feel like this is the one story I can decisively handwave that for because the MC's success felt earned enough for me.

MC was born to his shemale dad on a landfill planet. When he was 16, he was kidnapped but saved by ML. MC is a rare male, so he and his loved ones were brought back to the Capital Planet. Before this, MC had released a small comic that was well received.

MC was a minor and ML was a 25 year old shemale. The relationship between the two was more like ML was protecting MC because he was a male. As time went on, they began to have feelings for each other.

Throughout the novel, there would be descriptions of the unfairness of the treatment of shemales and demis by males of the species. This led to males being kidnapped and abused by pirates (made up of shemales and demis).

MC becomes an extremely popular comic who helps change the current toxic situation of the genders.

He seems to have two states, emotionless Uber OP and shy little girl with nothing in between. He seems not so much in love with the MC as baffled why the MC would be in love with him and otherwise overwhelmed with "feelings".

The author seems to shy away from the ML having thoughts and trauma. It's mentioned in passing but then never followed up. Likewise, They started to develop actual depth to their romantic relationship, but then the ML just dropped off for a bit while the MC focused on his career. He shows up for a date every once in a while and then drops off again. Very frustrating