Now..how Wonderful It Would Be, If We Are Patient With Ourselves? ❤️

Life Senjou no Bokura

Alternative: Life, Us from the Line; Life 線上の僕ら

Status: Completed

Author(s): TOKOKURA Miya 2016 released

Genre(s): Drama / Romance / Slice Of Life / Yaoi

Summary:

The serious Ito and the child-like Nishi meet by chance during a single player game of "White Line Game" on the way home from school. Falling in-love, Ito gets frustrated over the fact that they only get to rendezvous on the white line and suddenly kisses Nishi. From high school, college and then to adulthood... A deeply moving work depicting the lives of two men who are madly in love with unchanging feelings within changing realities.

What I felt while reading this manga (my notes from 06.05.2022):

Nishi-kun is so cuute and childish. He is my spirit animal. Very relatable character with how he wears his heart in his sleeve.. Eventhough it means he is more likely to get hurt, he accepts himself as a whole and lives his life openly loving Itou-kun with all his might. Whenever Nishi cried, let's just say he was not the only one crying (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

Itou-kun with his serious demeanor, would look like a regular guy. But I liked how well he paired with Nishi. He was way too stiff and rigid and the poor guy was so confused because of societal norms. But I am happy that he understood what matters at the end.

Such a wholesome read and one of those mangas where the characters grow old together. It gives me hope yk (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠).. Everybody in the comments section warned me to have tissues in hand. I ignored of course. Look at me being a crying mess with just 6 chapters. Worth every drop of my tears (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

10/10 recommended, especially if you are going through midlife crisis and questioning whether true love exists on top of everything (-.-//)

Faith is like a flame. Sometimes it burns brightly, sometimes it's just a flicker. But, it's still there, always there, waiting to grow strong again....!✨

Also the mental image I always have in my head of Hua Cheng nodding to himself with a satisfied smirk, so damn pleased, as he's set everything up perfectly to give Xie Lian everything he needs to get to the dungeons and rescue Ming Yi and escape back to Heaven. Hua Cheng made Yin Yu reveal the shackle so it would be suspicious enough for Xie Lian to follow after him to see where he needs to go and exactly, step by step, what he needs to do to get inside. Hua Cheng gave him all the luck he needs to roll the dice on the exact number to open the room and then the dungeon, and then get back out and into Paradise Manor all on the first try without so much as a scratch on his lovely little head. It was such a flawless plan! Gave Xie Lian all of the pieces he needs to put the puzzle together, and Hua Cheng knows he will. He's finally fulfilling his purpose of allowing his beloved to get through life with ease, yet still being able to do it all on his own. His wonderful, strong, intelligent beloved...

And it just cuts to Xie Lian thinking he won't roll the right number even with the borrowed luck and making Wind Master do it TWICE and them having to run from everything trying to kill them, probably with Yakety Sax playing over the montage.

...You tried. You tried so hard. Unfortunately Xie Lian has some issues he needs to work through, but man you really gave it your all. You did so good. You did it, buddy. Good job. 👍

(Another cut to Paradise Manor on fire.)

Bro had 800 years and he utilised it fully, not wasting even a single minute!

The fact that hua cheng is canonically the best in bed out of all the mxtx tops is funny to me only because i imagine him painstakingly studying erotica novels and the kamasutra

Taking notes only he can read only because his handwriting is abysmal

Highlighting information like he's learning for an exam

Practicing dirty talk and seductive lines

All completely shamelessly because he must know all these things. Not that dianxia would ever do such things with him, dianxia's so holy and pure, but just in case! Just in case! This is just in case!

Hua Cheng is not fantasizing about it happening, this is just in case something wild happens and dianxia needs him to do this! This is purely practical knowledge!

Xie Lian's inner monologue - Book 6, Arc 4, Chapter 104

"You want to see me feel sorry for myself and self-destruct?

Well, I won't!

I will never!"

And this is why everybody should love Xie Lian! And he deserves all good things in life!!✨

Obsessed with Xie Lan as a character. Like I know everyone reads these books for the romance but the individual character concepts are hilarious.

Xie Lan is a prince. He eats poison on the reg. He’s forever stuck looking like he’s nineteen. He’s the oldest guy in the communication array. He knows kung fu. He dressed in drag to catch a ghost on two separate unrelated occasions. He’s the world greatest detective. He’s kind. He was forced into a trolley problem and chose to pull the lever. His cooking is awful to the point it could kill a god. He’s kind. He tried to give CPR to a ghost. He’s the unluckiest man alive. He’s been kicked out of heaven multiple times. He’s kind. He caught a kid from certain death and everyone was pissed at him forever about it. He regrets nothing but coming back to heaven.

Whatever you do, don’t retire!

-Keep doing what you do, for as long as health allows

For many, helping others might be an ikigai strong enough to keep them alive

-Studies suggest that sense of community, clearly defined ikigai and healthy diet ==> almost eternal youth

2 absolute sunshines who can annihilate everything single-handedly.

do you know the violence it took to be this gentle?

lan wangji and hua cheng do.

I think about it often. He really had nothing to hold on to other than his God. And he never thought of himself as anything other than a devoted believer of his God. Whatever he did, he didn't, he achieved, he lost, everything was for his God. Hua Cheng was faithful beyond limits.✨❤️

! warning: tgcf spoiler !