From what I've understood, Ryan is protective and possessive of Ji Xiao Ou because she - who he thought was an infatile herbivore - picked him up and nursed him to health when he was injured, and did it out of a good heart... In a world where its kill or be killed, being shown such selfless kindness, I can only guess at his wish to shelter it.

Along Ji Xiao Ou and Ryan's adventures, she's risked herself many times selflessly to protect him, so he thought to repay her - if it is to protect this reckless and weak little human, than its best to have her in the tribe where he's chief.. I don't even realise when he falls in love with her, but it is a mixture of her kindness, appereance (the most human like a beastman is, the more evolved they are) and pheromones...

Not a Beauty and the Beast in the slighest - because Ji Xiao Ou, despite being physically weak is very witty and resourceful.. When Ryan's strenght fails him, she helps him, when Ji Xiao Ou suffers from not having claws or teeth or fur, Ryan will be those things for her..

ML 🍇 her FOR MULTIPLE DAYS

I lost it when she went to visit college and left him alone with the tv and bro was learning abt the black market and lowkey left and bought several guns and an engagement ring for her (we never found off who sadly)

When the parents found out she was so nervous and they asked her to leave to have a chat and the parents and ML chatted for abt an hour and she was getting worried so she walked up and heard her father ask “for how long will you be with my daughter or smth” and he said depends and the father got angry and ML interrupted before father could say anything and say “depends how long forever is” ‼️‼️‼️‼️💜💜💜

oh and they had a son.. I kinda feel bad for him since in the animal world living independently after 2 years of age is normal but.. I wish he got to spend more time with his mom..

To be completely honest, I was a bit pissed with how forceful the ML was with MC but the novel literally had the tags so I wasn’t too surprised. But then I was mega pissed when the MC automatically switched to loving the guy after she returns and he finds her lmao. Like she was literally trying to hide from him? But then all of a sudden she just accepts him????

Now lemme talk about the end. It actually was a satisfying end. Like it didn’t leave me feeling like I wasted my time at all. But it also didn't make me feel like it was the best ending ever.

i mean since she got back to her world for 3 years and had the time to mature and reflect about everything, she went to the beast world clearly indicating she was already accepting him and everything that follows to being with him?

especially the part of her getting preggo, cuz considering it was presented as such a huge concern on her part, I thought we would've been given a more elaborate story on that, and the event that follows when she came back for longer terms like the tribe situation? Laurence didn't die, right? Is he still tryna usurp Ryan? What about the wolf clan? What happened to Holden?heck, what is even up with Ryan suddenly acquiring guns? How did he even purchase them?heck where did he even get money???

The start of the story is very intriguing and doesn't hint much to the later parts. We simply get to know the MC. Her strength, intelligence, tenacity, strong determination, and her soft heart. She is very perceiving of the situation she is in and tries to make the best choices possible to stay alive. However, she is still very gentle and tries her best to protect the little cub she regards as her first and only companion in this strange world. She is very persistent when it comes to saving him, despite being very weak and scared herself in actuality. She is afraid of the unknown universe, the wild beasts that attack her abruptly, and being all on her own in this dangerous land. Despite all that, she doesn't want to implicate those around her, and tries to solve her problems on her own. Without her knowing, these attributes impress the ML genuinely, and he unknowingly falls in love with her cureless. He himself tries to deny the fact, but soon realizes the truth and decides to hold on to this treasure.

First of all, he is passionate. He is like a beast. No, he IS a beast. A very cruel and indifferent, yet a very doting and affectionate beast. Also, true to its title, a very gentle beast. We can clearly see just how much he tries to restrain the overbearing beast inside him just so that he won't scare her away, to the point of deceiving her, even driving her to painful despair despite feeling her grievance, just to keep her by his side. Whether he succeeds or not, is not the problem. He obviously fails, a lot, in his attempt to hide his cruelty. Actually, he is generally very honest. He rarely hides his beastly side from her, and he clearly indicates the fact that he seizes whatever he wants regardless of the other party's will. But she is so frail, so timid that he knows he will lose her if he simply keeps pushing. He knows that he has to win her heart, along with her consent, to be with her. He does hold some of his ferocity back, while still monopolizing her in his pawns. He manipulates her life to his heart's content and believes he has every right to. Later, he is willing to comply with her desire to take things slowly, but his true temperament doesn't allow him to rein his beastly side in too much, and when he cannot deceive her anymore he tries to take her by force, which he has to regret later. He doesn't abandon his imposing side however, and when she willingly returns to his side, he keeps holding onto her forcibly, refusing to believe how she truly does want to be with him. And when he sees her sincere heart, he devotes himself to her, and agrees to do anything to keep being with her, even if it means doing things contradicting his real nature. And that's when I genuinely felt that he was truly a commendable ML, one that deserves to stay with the woman he loves. He can even do things that are very hard for him to do due to his own essence. Their worlds are utterly disparate, their natures conflicting severely, but they do try to make amends for the hardships, sacrificing their own bottom lines. Especially the MC. She is in a very difficult environment, facing several hardships and unable to fully accept the regulations. However, she still endures all that for her love, a love that is extremely difficult to bear, one that requires endless sacrifices. The male is lead is a very unfathomable and strenuous person to love, but she accepts all of him without reserve, despite all her sufferings. The ML is also willing to accept things that are very unlike his personality and life, simply because he wants to be with her, and for her to be happy. They do make an unorthodox but affectionate couple, and I am in love with their love.

He let her complete her degree, and visited her world with her in order to see her parents. Although there was the "fortunately, she died" sentence, they were already fairly on in age and her father had already passed away. Before they were sick, she visited at a consistent pace. After her father passed, she pushed herself to cross back and forth and it really hurt her body, and her mother was also in pain without her father before she passed. I didn't really feel like the author was trying to kill them off.

That said, I still wish he was more willing to live in her world with her. Just as he feels uncomfortable in her world, she would be much more so in his. She has her loved ones and she's utterly powerless in his world; she has no social life at all or anything apart from ML in his. To be fair though, she didn't complain about this, so I guess outsiders shouldn't comment on their relationship if they're happy. But she literally HAS NOBODY EXCEPT ML. He doesn't even let her son get close...

He also never r*ped her (I think). Their first time was after she had given her consent (I think?? there was an incident where it almost happened and she tasered him, but I don't think they did it then), although there were some abandonment issues and it wasn't exactly fairies and sprinkles. But she did totally consent, and she was no longer a minor.

Except the gunpowder thing at the end. Introducing it to a world not ready for it only harms everyone and ruins the ecology, but fortunately realism isn't a thing.