Guys on a real note I don’t like this. It doesn’t handle the female leads trauma well ...

Ninieme August 15, 2025 12:07 am

Guys on a real note I don’t like this. It doesn’t handle the female leads trauma well at all. Maybe I’m too early but you can’t live almost 3 decades under immense religious oppression and pressure and then completely go against that with no introspection. Read that again bc there’s always someone in my replies misunderstanding my criticisms. I’m not saying it’s impossible for her to have a one night stand despite her religious trauma. I’m saying the author is missing a key part of the transition which is that really crucial ***introspection.**** Even if she WASNT raised religiously, being faced with death in 6 months would cause similar complexities. I mean all humans know is life and being told you’re estimated death date knowing you can’t do anything is hard to wrap your head around. Everything about her situation is hard to wrap your head around but the only way it’s acknowledged is in relation to the male lead. Notice how after she met him most of her thoughts are like “we are so opposite” “I have to keep my distance” all the complexities of the plot are boiled down to become really simple. Look at the difference between the female leads internal monologue when she finds out she’s dying vs the male leads internal monologue when he realizes he likes her. There’s a huge difference in the substance and the amount of substance. Male leads complex feelings towards eunsong is so much more detailed than her own feelings about her death. Isn’t that crazy??? She’s dying and the author couldn’t afford her 1 full chapter without a man getting in the way or being involved in her thought processes. Meanwhile he gets so much screentime realizing how toxic he was to his past lovers, realizing how eunsong is playing his games, giving up on her for all of 2 seconds, making out with his ex fiancee to realize he needs to peruse eunsong… eunsong isn’t even the main character to the story about her. It’s all about him him him. He’s selfish and narcissistic but he uses all that bad energy to love on eunsong. When she dies it’s all gonna be about him him him. He’s gonna go back in time, he’s gonna fix her, he’s gonna use all this obsession to fix her life and the female lead is just gonna lie there and take it (literally) Like cmon girl you’re emotionally detached enough to keep repeating the same mantra “we are no strings attached” but does absolutely nothing about it. She says it’s no strings attached but she’s moving like she’s compelled by god to keep this “relationship” healthy. STAND UP GORLLL LIVE YOUR LIVE SLEEP WITH HIS FINE ASS BROTHER, SLEEP WITH HIS BROTHER AND HIS WIFE. SHIEEETT SHE NEEDS TO SLEEP WITH MORE PEOPLE. I’m tired of seeing female leads being second leads to their own stories. I just finished watching the first frost cdrama and while I also have my own qualms about the drama it handled the female leads trauma exceptionally, I can’t accept anything less anymore. Either represent these traumatic situations that happen to people properly or don’t write. I don’t think this is the manhwas problem I’m 99% sure it’s the novels problem but… sigh here we are thx for reading my rant

Responses
    RaD August 31, 2025 11:47 pm

    i actually really like this story but you're so right, this is just one of those stories where the fl's problem is just a driven factor to the romance if that makes sense.