it focuses on how we deal with outer appearances, overcoming hurt, self-esteem, inner beauty, how we express love, what's deserving/undeserving of love, and love tied up into saving/being saved.

It concludes with everyone is deserving of love regardless of past hurts and/or outer appearance and that being happy + loved is how we experience beauty in life :')

the FL is bullied when young and her parents side with the bully. They also emotionally ab*sed and neglected her. They add to her feelings of inferiority/low self-worth by comparing her to Luo Bei's white moonlight/her cousin! >: (

NOT Luo Bei (thank heck!) but is instead an abandoned, unhoused fox beastman with a scarred face, tragic past, and also struggles with feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem.

I wish the story mentioned the human-beastman dynamics + world-building further... considering the not-so-great implications it has for beastmen servitude (ML was almost sold to black market s*avery/beastman trafficking in his tragic ML past)

It is really hard for me to judge how s*um the ‘pet’ was, since I do not understand the dynamics of Beastman adoption relationships in this setting. We do not have the slightest hint whether either of her parents were beastmen or if there is reproductive isolation. How likely is it for the adoption to develop beyond a pet-master relationship? It is clearly common, but is it always a default engagement scenario? Or is it meant to be guardianship for the abandoned children? The former seems more likely considering LY is able to “adopt” an adult later, but their relationship only truly enters the dating stage once they express mutual interest in each other. The adoption relationship is protected by the government with clear regulations like a marriage, but it is truly unclear what such a commitment actually means within this setting.

I appreciated that the protagonist does not accept his belated apologies regardless of whether he was actual s*um or not. LY reflects at some point that her assumption that his solitary behavior was just his nature was wrong, but I think she just did not realize his breed was a White-Eyed Wolf. He himself makes a comment that his attraction to her cousin was out of a competitive instinct with his brother. Did he truly not realize anything about this over 13 years?? He never had a desire to cuddle her or wipe her tears? At least when he was a child he knew to be by her side when she was upset, not even looking back at the adult her when she is in clear despair.

He did not attempt to court her cousin before their adoption relationship ended, he just never bothered to suppress his instincts to give his other benefactor an actual chance. LY and her wolf were very similar in many ways. He and her both looked at the other pair with envy. The difference between them is that while Liu Yu wanted to be treated the way Luo Nan treated her cousin, she never considered taking him for herself. She truly tried to make things with Luo Bei work, but LB took her so for granted that he had the ease to eye another master for 13 YEARS.

He is not exactly wrong for resisting her. She did make a unilateral decision to tie their lives together. He IS wrong to claim that anything about their previous relationship had to do with love. He puts on a very realistic Loyal Dog act toward the end of the story, but his feelings for others have never been more than fulfilling his own desires. He puts in effort to craft a bracelet she wanted a long time ago as an apology gift, but he ignored her statement in the same flashback that any gift would have pleased her. He completely misses the point of that moment. It is all too little too late. Not to mention this little NTR guy always carries the danger that he will suddenly realize that his ‘feelings’ were just instincts drummed up from his owner finding someone new. After all, he has shown he can’t distinguish between an actual positive impression versus instinct. I do believe he missed her and the way she treated him, but that feeling has everything to do with his regrets and nothing to do with her best interest.

The "adoption" of humain with animal characteristics!

I'm like : what are their legally ?

I know in my country, the law provides that the legal nature of animals is the same as object (you own an animal) that's why I find it strange that they marry their "pet" as it's strange to see a human marry his car

Even with Luo Bei, the one she spent her 13 years of life together, she still decisively cut off their relationship after she knew that he didn't love her. Also, when Luo Bei begged for her forgiveness, she didn't waver even a bit.