skygiants

Yeah, I think my favorite thing about it is how little time it takes both of them to realize that despite all the wacky misunderstandings, they are SO into each other and there's no reason not to just go for it! Shoot your shot! Like neither of them is really held back for a single second by being worried about what anyone else might think of them, their only obstacle is misunderstanding of/concern for each other's feelings.

I also did very much extremely enjoy the number of actual human women in the plot who were just there to have a good time in an MMORPG and their extreme bafflement at Jing Huan, who has met one (1) woman in his entire life and has absolutely no conception of what it would take for a human to be attracted to one. There wasn't much of the lesbian guild leaders in the plot, but I really enjoyed that they were there in the background just doing their thing, and one of them was a chill lesbian and one of the was a drama lesbian and neither of them particularly cared about Jing Huan or Xiang Huazhi at all once it became clear that Jing Huan wasn't the particular person they had beef with.

The game concept definitely gave an opportunity for the author to play with all the nonsense tropes without actually having to commit to a universe where those nonsense tropes were real, and some of them ... worked better for me than others.