Keep in mind this is an Asian Korean manhwa as such you must take the beauty standards of South Korea to understand that in a South Korean's mind she is ugly. First off South Koreans don't like freckles as its a hold over from the past when only those that were working in the fields and the lower class would have freckles. Women would do everything they can to lighten their skin as you see in the later chapters where at the tea party she is given lightening/whitening cream. Today in many Asian & even African nations you will still see bleaching cream being sold. Often in the past these were full of heavy metals like lead that was oxidized white. As well she is vastly overweight for someone whom is an Asian. In China and Korea the beauty standard was chicken legs or toothpick legs. This is an article of Toxic Beauty Standards of South Korea that this manhwa's inspiration comes from. Its normal to see this. https://medium.com/past-present-pop/toxic-beauty-standards-of-korean-idols-5bdcf5e4ab83 When we are reading these stories we need to take in to consideration is the manhwa a historical one and where is it coming from? Each country will have its own issues. China is very much the husband can beat the wife black & blue & they will do everything for them come back together. The reason is that it must pass the strict China's laws regarding "a woman is never to leave her husband no matter what they happens". This mindset has loosened up in South Korea but the beauty standards of South Korea as massive as its one of the worst racist nations. Its 3rd place at 87, while Belarus is 2nd at 88, and the worst of all nations Iran at 89. So you are in fact reading a manhwa of one of the racist nations that has beauty standards that has the people constantly going under the knife for plastic surgery. South Korea is the #1 for the most plastic surgeries https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/plastic-surgery-by-country . This is what is the foundation of this manhwa and any South Korean story.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-racist-countries This is the ranking showing that South Korea is the 3rd ranking of the worst racist nations in the world.
Very well written! And really, unless she's literally disfigured someone is going wonder why the writer things xx physical feature is unattractive. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that jazz.
This is not the first time I'm seeing this shit, it's always a fl that has freckles or that doesn't have blond, purple or silver hair color that is considered ugly and to name the story after it, even though she looks COMPLETELY normal, this is so so forced. At least be fking consistent with the title and make her ACTUALLY ugly, that way we'd be having an original plot for once.