Found a bug.
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I found a bug too, Shay seems to automatically assume mc is vegetarian when mine is not. In fact my mc will eat pretty much anything.
Thereâs also this bit in Shayâs confrontation scene with mcâs mom that repeats for me:
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tâs probably the right idea. Your mother shifts her attention from you to round on Shay instead. âWhy must you drag Oliver into this?â she laments. âI only have two children, and yet you want to murder one of them?!â
Your mother sighs again, and rounds on Shay. âWhy must you drag Oliver into this?â She wags an accusatory finger at your neighbour in exaggerated anguish. âI only have two children, and yet you want to murder one of them?!â
Stat wise I feel like a good guest performance should boost lead singer mcâs success a bit, not much but a bit and in the same vein the mountain bike date could maybe give a slight boost to athleticism. 
Notherâ bug:
" The woman returns with your drinks, giving you some time to regain your wits a little. She sets the beer bottle and steaming cup of teh-c down on the table. âCall me whenever you need me.â
We should both have had the beer here.
Would also be nice if we could hint at Shay with Qiu, not just Nat. In that regard poor Qiu is just a day too late with re-entering my mcâs life. While my main mc has gotten over Qiu I think I am gonna make a CEO mc just to romance Qiu but Shay is just too perfect for my main lead-singer mc.
Last bug:
When meeting Qiu in the coffee shop the game seems to assume my mc in fact went to the reunion and the restaurant at the end:
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The back door to the restaurant opens, and one of your classmates, Ethan, tumbles out. âYo man, da hell are you doing?â He glances at the woman standing next to you, and frowns, a little confused. âWhereâs Qiu?â
When you donât answer, Ethan shakes his head and drops the subject. âAnyway. The restaurantâs closing, and youâve been out here for ages!â
âSorry, sorry,â you give Ethan a sheepish look, and obediently follow him back to the restaurant.
I guess the difficult conversation with mcâs family now they know beyond all plausible deniability that he is both gay and with Shay will come in the next update then? 
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Yay, update.
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If you hurry after them, thereâs no option to tell your aunt that the condom is not her husbandâs. Feels like an option we should have.
Duplicate mum chastising.
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FINALLY, THE REVEAL!
This option apparently leads to an angry tirade from the MC, which comes a little out of the blue. Itâs certainly not what I was expecting when I picked it.
No! So close!
Random âatâ. Donât randomly @ at people, allie. 
This note is in a weird-ass place in the screen.
Aaaand weâve reached the end, the end, my friend. 
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Quick placeholder comment to say Iâve fixed most of these bugs
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@JBento Youâre not the boss of us! >:(
Also, I notice that if you do the no-reunion route, the phone call with Joony afterwards seems to imply that theyâre hanging out with you⌠But theyâre supposed to be on the phone.
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oka so fuck goddamn. i cried a lot this update. its so gut wrenchingly good.
qui. goddamn. i just keep coming back for you. this is so gonna back fire so bad. but i gotta say im so surprised that qui is the one thatâs begging and trying to reconcile with the mc rather than the other way around. its such a breath of fresh air for that to happen since the mc usually ends up being the chaser. hot shot lawyer aint so tough now. gods the revelation is so good. i wonder if weâll get to meet their mother again?
10/10 update. fucking good shit.
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This is so good, I feel like I say something to that effect every time you update but yeah. It is. I cried at the Qiu goodbye scene in the flashback. I like the arc from Qiu, following their familyâs expectations but also realising what really matters to them over the years, and trying to get back to MC who they probably feel is the one who got away. I donât know how Iâd feel if this happened in my real life but Iâm so tempted to give it another shot in this story.
But in the last update I was also still kind of caught up doing Natâs route and now Iâm torn 
Also I just remembered, I also loved the scene with Qiuâs mom. I was so shocked when it happened, I donât know what I was expecting for the incident but I guess it wasnât that. It was so sad. Iâm not sure how I didnât end up crying then.
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left this wip for a few months and??? i forgot how good your writing is!@@1!!@# the latest ver is so good ily <33 as a qiu kisser im finally fed with pain and tender nostalgia ty i love qiuâs route sm it feels like a memory of a kiss on the forehead
also i love how queerness is recognized in this wip like that part with shay and anti-queer sentiments and this place still being home despite all that. about ALL that. like yes youâre so right king
ALSO the scene with qiuâs mum? omg the homophobia is sooo good it feels so real 10000/10 luv that experience /j (my heart seized for a min) (this is a compliment btw)
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Great work! As a (part) Malay, reading smth about Singaporeans is damn fun and also surprisingly relatable, especially the classic Asian expectations, though for me itâs less Christmas more Hari Raya. Anyways this hits hard.
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Noticed just some typos and the like:
Qiu is usually precise, deft, almost methodo**[lo]**gical (or âmethodicalâ was meant to be used here, IDK) when he makes love to you. Youâd been each otherâs first times, and at the start, it almost seemed as though heâd learnt all of his tricks from studying a manual.
Also, another typo:
Joony sighs theatrically. âI wouldnât be so sure about that, if I were you.â Thereâs a small pause. âYou know, weâve met up as a class seven times already, and heâs only showed up once. That was two years ago. So honestly (could be that âhonestyâ was meant to be used here as well, IDK), folks have seen him almost as little as theyâve seen you.â
And a last one; this scene follows even IF you manage to avoid the class reunion bit near the end and allow for Qiu to meet with you alone (sorta) at the local downstairs coffeeshop:
You stand there in the alley for a long time, watching the pigeons continue their unceasing search for crumbs that are more-or-less invisible to the human eye. The glow of the streetlight and the moon overhead casts long shadows on the ground.
The back door to the restaurant opens, and one of your classmates, Ethan, tumbles out. âYo man, da hell are you doing?â He glances at the woman standing next to you, and frowns, a little confused. âWhereâs Qiu?â
When you donât answer, Ethan shakes his head and drops the subject. âAnyway. The restaurantâs closing, and youâve been out here for ages!â
âSorry, sorry,â you give Ethan a sheepish look, and obediently follow him back to the restaurant.
From that scene? It proceeds as if you had branched prior choices leading into the scene itself, rather than outright choosing to avoid the choice/interaction. Sorry, hope it made sense.
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Oh dear I left this for a while and came back to @JBento claiming to be the boss of us. Checks out. 
First up, before we get started on replies, Iâve made a post-update poll for Merry Crisis! Hereâs the link!
@Meganerd2012 Think I fixed the error, thank you!
@yb_minhee Yay! Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, I felt like I needed to flip the script on Qiu a bit, mostly because it was mostly MC asking Qiu multiple times to fight for them in the past. Bit of a power-dynamic swap, ey? 
@Cloudy AWW thank you!! Iâm always so happy to hear that folks who liked the IF before continue to enjoy an update. Thatâs the shit, man! Yeah, I also probably wouldnât take Qiu back in real life, but⌠in fiction, the angst is just too good.
Merry Crisis = âTortured by exes life simulatorâ ⌠Shayâs the only escape.
@boobear_o hahaha well, to be fair I did not update in a few months, so you didnât miss anything Thank youuu, so happy and thrilled that you enjoyed the new content.
Oh absolutely. This IF is for the queers, man.
Think I fixed the âdaughterâ problem!
@cloudy and @boobear_o: Iâm glad yâall enjoyed the incident with Qiuâs mom as well.
@Trotskyboi Ooh, hello neighbour!!! Oh yeah, Hari Raya must hit hard.
@Lee_Lee ahh, thank you so much! Iâll get to these! :DD
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I just want to drop in to say I love the update! Naturally. Also, I feel like Iâm about to go into kdrama levels of drama when Joony was like âoh btw weâre friends nowâ. Friends? âFriendsâ? 
One day I will have to decide between ROs. Today is not that day.
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100000/10 update. I LOVE YOU AND YOUR STORIES/GAMES SO MUCHHHH. They are so realistic, inclusive, and just all around dope. This is definitely top 3 wips for me. Please keep doing you and updating this beauty and the tenis wip whenever you can. Thank you so much for all of the amazing reads you have made <3.
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@Radiantbliss Wait⌠Did I understand correctly that you are stanning a Joony-Qiu ⌠something??
Yup, not yet, but that day shall comeâŚ
@000001 Awwww thank you!!! This means a lot to me, especially the inclusive and dope part 
<3
@JBento Hmm. Checks out that you would claim to be the boss of us. Iâm not too convinced about you being the boss of me. I could be convinced though?
HAHA yeah, I knew there would be jokers like you⌠narrowed eyes Gotta be stern with yâall
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Well, hereâs one of my baby pictures:
(I know absolutely nothing about this movie other than âit existsâ, and Iâm still imageâing it into this discussion, thatâs how boss I am 
)
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Well I must say the thought had occurred to me with my main mc too that ultimately Qiu and Joony are more suited to each other than Qiu and my main mc ever were. Still gonna make a second mc (the startup CEO this time) who is gonna steal back Qiu for himself.
My main mc is Shay all the way though. And while it wasnât on the poll still dreading the conversation with the family especially mcâs mom now that they not only know beyond all plausible deniability that he is gay but that he is with Shay too.
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Oh my goodness. You know, you guys make an excellent point⌠I really did not consider this before, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
P.S. You know, @idonotlikeusernames I feel like I know you nowâthe moment I saw the poll result come in, and read the answers, I had the feeling it was you and I came to the forum thread and I was right xD
HAHAHAH!! Bullshit. I know nothing about the movie other than it exists as well, AND that it is definitely not a biography of @JBento.
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