I love it so much like you don’t understand how much they just cured my mental health. I love that they are so straight up in love and communication is key
This is probably one of the most wholesome stories I've ever read. I love how lighthearted it was. There's no unnecessary drama at all. I love how Duang and Qin communicate well in their relationship and how they show their care for each other. Both of them are green flags for each other and definitely suit each other well. Rooting for their cute family, along with Fluffy, to be even happier in the fictional world.
Nawet nie umiem opisać słowami jak bardzo kocham te nowelke Ich relacja dla mnie to jest coś niesamowitego, coś co rozczula moje serce do granic możliwości i wiem, że pewnie dużo osób powie że nie widzi tutaj nic niezwykłego. Dla mnie jest to pokazanie relacji tak dwóch różnych osób, którzy uczą się siebie i przede wszystkim szanują się i kochają takimi jakimi są.
( miałam przeczytać po tym jak wyjdzie cała drama ale no nie wyszło XD)
I actually really liked this. Yung kilig ko and I always had 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 look on my face.
Although, it is far from perfect, I think this is my fave thai novel so far. There’s a wattpadish feel to it, but I really enjoyed it. I read from 2 different sites and it was such a struggle since Thai language is actually very complicated to translate.
I could almost rate this as a 5 for the enjoyment value alone (all the kiligs and the “awww”s) but there’s just a lot of things that really bothered me. i.e. The endless “wife” jokes; Some of the interaction/dialogues during the Chiang mai trip with the cousins; Jetana’s endless flirtation with Qin.
For example, the “You”s, that I had to assume were actually “Ter” > which has totally different feel than “Khun” or other thai word for “you”. The usage of “kha”s.
I loved seeing Qin’s POV, since he’s very quiet, we can’t actually hear his thoughts in the series. So it was really cute to see how much he actually loves Duang behind that cold exterior.
Their relationship, and how they communicate their feelings to each other, is just so heartwarming 🥹
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Some of my favorite quotes (there were so much more that I can’t screenshot everything)
- “He's my exception in so many ways. He came into my life like he could leave easily—but that's not true. He's still here. And he's here in a way that makes me feel like he's not suffering how I am. The way I am.”
- “I keep a private world that I don't let people into easily. But does he know?
He's already in.
Just like when I started leaving the blinds open in my room, letting the varm sunlight in.
He's like another sun.
Like a tattoo that seems like I let him choose—but I didn't.
I chose the moon because the sun didn't suit him.
He is the sun.
To me... he is the sun.”
- Then I realized - on this road we were traveling, I didn’t own anything.
That was when I knew I couldn't stop myself from liking him. I couldn’t control who he liked or didn't like.
And I couldn't stop others from liking Duang either.
But today, I learned one more thing I didn't have to worry about anything in the relationship we had.
Because he would always be there— Not too close, not too far from me.
Reminding me, over and over, that this was the one thing I never had to doubt.
- We locked eyed through the rear view mirror. He smiled when he saw that my mood had lifted, and I wasn’t surprised that he could read me so well -
Because he really had been paying attention to me all along. 🥹💕
- "Has he changed you this much, Qin? You're not the person I used to know."
"No, Tiw. I haven't changed."
Because it's true—I haven't changed at all.
I'm not forcing myself to be anyone else. I'm still me. It's just that everything is slowly being unlocked. If I'm the padlock, then he's the key. He opens me up, revealing parts of myself that have always been there.
"It's just that... I've never shown this side of myself to anyone before."
What resonated: It’s not often that I come across romance books that take us on the journey of the MCs falling in love. These are my favorite types of stories to read. We like each other; we’re together. Now, what do we do? Following Duang and Qin’s story—their “what do we do now?”— was mellow in a sense. Soft. There wasn’t unnecessary drama, they communicated with each other, and there was character growth. There were also lots of good quotes. I wish I had a physical copy to annotate.
What didn’t land: The biggest things that pulled me out of the moment were the numerous top/bottom stereotypes and editing oversights, such as grammatical errors, with the most notable being the lack of consistent use of the past tense, random italicized phrases, and I didn’t always know who was speaking. Usually, I can maneuver grammatical errors, giving grace to indie authors, but these were so often that it was distracting.
"But would Duang ever know... How much he meant to him? No explanation. No conditions. No reason."
I loveeeee cute romance stories and I literally cried in every single chapter😭💗
The main couple has one of the simplest, sweetest, most natural love stories I’ve ever read, their relationship was built on love and mutual respect they weren’t even officially together for a while but they always treated each other like they were.
My only issue with the book is the way the story was told, the beginning didn’t really feel like a beginning and the ending didn’t feel like a proper ending either. It kind of just starts when they’re already trying to be together and by the end you don’t really get that sense of closure which felt a little weird.
This book felt extremely mid to me but i am open to the fact that i don’t speak thai and i read a translated version may have affected my experience. It definitely has its moments and duang & qin have a very sweet experience but the pacing felt strange to me, it also felt like many moments in this book could have been expanded more but just weren’t. Its a very dialogue heavy book which isn’t a bad thing but in certain moments I found it hard to figure out who is talking to who & random characters who the author expected us to know randomly showed up, which i know they’re characters from previous books but I never read this authors previous works so I was mad confused.
2.5/3. la relación de ellos es muy dulce y me gustó bastante, aún así no puedo pasar los comentarios machistas que se hacen a lo largo de la novela y que lo llamen a qin con términos femeninos aún cuando el expresó varias veces que no le gusta, especialmente por su propio novio.
4/5 ⭐ "Aunque llegó a mi vida como todos los demás... De alguna manera, sabía que un día, sonreiría, reiría y lloraría con él, y no me arrepentiría de ningún momento. Si es correcto, es correcto. Una mirada a sus ojos, y lo supe." — Qin.
This book was super cute! Very subtle and cliche but done right. I had fun reading. Can’t wait for the series adaptation! I can imagine teeteepor as duang and qin.