Reviews for Lotus Fragrance
Tung-Levi chapter 1 . 10/29/2013
Well chinese grils hate foot binding deadly...So when I saw the sentence "Yao shows Ivan the beauty of foot binding", I felt a little bit sick...And the strange atomosphere between Rochu confused me a lot.
But after reading the A/n, I realize that this story is happened a century ago.
I have to admit that old Yao was kind of blind and stubborn...not cute at all. Mothers broke the bones by stones or bricks and forced the grils to walk with injured feet. Most girls had to suffer the great pain of fracture every night without any medicine...Medical herb? I don't think every family could afford to things like that...
Anyway, the story is nice. China putting on his clothes was intoxicating. O3O
Syuren chapter 1 . 1/26/2013
Thank you for your recommendation. Smutty thing without actual sex scene, same pleasure like in "Care to Dance". But judging by the title I thought Russia was going to be dressed up in some Chinese dress. I don't know why you don't like it, no lovey-dovey, but that didn't ruin the atmosphere, well with the setting I get it when read the a/n, still didn't play a great part. Rushed? Are you serious? Not at all! I've noticed you write quite long oneshots (oxymoron xD), well make an exception ;) That's not going to make my adoration for this less powerful _
PurelyBloom chapter 1 . 8/26/2012
*flails* I'm so relieved he didn't actually do it! I read a reader-insert where China bound the reader's foot (the reader was his wife; this was more of a Dark!ChinaXReader), and I nearly got sick, so when I saw the description it took me a few minutes to steel myself to read this. Thank the Lord it wasn't what I initially thought. Normally I'd say China would never do this, but after reading the absolutely amazing reader-insert (it was seriously the best one I've ever read out of anything and everything), I'm not so sure XD.

Long review is long. This was awesome. I loved the details and the flow of the words. Also, my dA account is YellowBeast, who, if you remember, is one of your creepers XD.
chibimeli chapter 1 . 6/24/2010
I think this story is quite nice, it shows a different side of both of them
Kanki Youji chapter 1 . 10/13/2009
Two quick corrections, one suggestion, and an offer then onto comments.

Suggestion:

In your first sentence I would recommend an 'and' between 'A faint rustle of fabric' and 'a soft shifting of the body beside him' because it is these two things that awaken Russia, that and it just flows a bit better with the over all sentence.

Corrections:

"made the artic nation sensitive to the slightest lost of heat" - First of all, 'artic' is actually spelled 'arctic' and I believe you want 'loss' as opposed to 'lost' here?

Also, '“Mothers would let their daughters soak their feet in medicinal herb to numb the pain but since we’re not really binding you’re feet, such things aren’t needed.”

“After the soaking, the women would massage their feet in preparation,”'

A slight punctuation error here. When someone is speaking at both the end of one paragraph and the beginning of the next with no interruption there is a special way to deal with quotation marks.

"I would talk as such in the first paragraph...

"... and continue into the next one like so, without an ending quotation on the first paragraph. See?"

An offer:

If you still need a beta reader I would be happy to offer my services, as I am starting to think I could like your writing very much and would not mind making corrections and offering suggestions for it.

Now, onto the story itself:

It is... a bit awkward at times, stilted, almost, but I think overall you did a fine job with it. I intend to read more of your work so as to be able to compare it with your other pieces, but I think that it is not so terrible as you think. Indeed, I enjoyed reading it. For the most part it flowed nicely and it was interesting. I liked the bits of tension between the two, especially during an earlier time period, and the bits of culture class represented.
tabby-chan chapter 1 . 10/11/2009
OMG THIS WAS HOT! Yay RxC! write more plz you have really good work
lady-ribbon chapter 1 . 10/2/2009
God...I just love Russia/China n_n

This was so HAWT.

Yao's so uke aru!

I love you.
be with you chapter 1 . 10/2/2009
What are you talking about? This was great. I love how you portrayed China in this. And as always your writing is so beautifully done.
Hayate-Chan chapter 1 . 10/2/2009
Hee~ to think I just subscribed, what? Yesterday or so?

I absolutely lo~ove your work 3

*giggles* foot fetishes

Can't wait till your next creation~ :3