Why are the shortest stories the best ones
Another short story I fell in love with. I literally cried in the painful scenes and I really rooted for the Seme to leave. I was really disappointed that he forgave the bratty Uke. They were still too immature to understand how important they are to each other so I had hoped they'd break up and then reunite for, IDK, more than a year later?
Anyway, I really felt he forgave him too fast.
But then the Uke is not like other toxic people. He actually repented and made sure he changed. And as they say, "love is lovelier the second time around", I think this phrase definitely applies here.
AND I FELL IN LOVE WITH THEM.
It's the best decision for the author to make this longer than they initially planned. It's still short for me but I think that made it wholesome. I'm hoping for another masterpiece! You don't need to surprise me because I know you'll do just as great!
Awww. Is that really it?
LOVED IT. It was so funny, so adorable, and so sexy! All bundled into one story. A short one at that! You made me want for more dear author. I swear, I NEED MORE OF THIS.
Definitely dark. Definitely bad (in a wicked type of way). And most definitely not for the faint hearted. I skipped chapters a lot because I grew tired of the rape and smut scenes. I never really got along with this kind of genre anyway. I like to balance the story and the smex scenes not to have one of them overpowering the other.
Can't believe I actually liked Mephisto at first. Though I've been warned by a lot of spoilers in social media that he's a red/black flag, he was the only familiar face for me so I actually rooted for him. SO TYPICAL for a mad scientist to say that he'd rather chop the Uke up and turn his lower half into a breeding mule in the lab, still breathing but without his consciousness. Like a freaking experiment, than to go through the lengths to make the Uke comfortable and inconvenience them. I hate him now and that's just disgusting.
Also, I really have no idea what to expect in this story. And I meant that in a bad way. Usually I'd hope the MC would just leave or run away, or kill themselves to get out of the situation, but this one just bothers me. He don't want to breed or spend any time with his "harem", and he also doesn't want to die yet when he's certain he's been abandoned by his first love (don't let this terminology fool you, this story is not all about unicorns and rainbows).
Edit: First love's actually dead and did not abandon the MC.
If you ask me, I'd rather just die than be humiliated like that. He can't die from old age too because they got a long lifespan, so I really can't tell what the MC is thinking about here, which is annoying because their thoughts and intentions are usually readable for the readers.
Anyway, I don't like the story. It sucks but that's just its genre. It don't match well with me so I hate it. I'm still gonna read it though. I just LOVE to hurt myself. And mostly it's because I started the story, I sure as hell am finishing it.
I genuinely loved it. Every chapter was unhinged, both the MCs were unhinged, and it made me laugh so loud I swear my neighbors were disturbed.
I thought it was all fun and games until the part where the Uke felt lonely all those years, not seeing his husband nor his children. I'm surprised he's even willing to reconnect with them when he's never met the emperor for two years. TWO YEARS. If it were me I would've gone crazy and divorced his ass the moment he took my children away from me.
Granted, he had reasonable reasons to, as court officials wanted the Uke dead and possibly hurt their children too, but to expect the Uke to understand all of that, without telling him or in this case, without communicating with him, Emperor dude, you're sadly mistaken. You could've at least tried to tell him why, why you left him alone all those years and why you harshly made your kids leave his side. It's sad, it's really sad. How painful it must be for him. The Uke sure did a good job hiding his pain because apparently, the story wasn't focused on that.
Too bad the story was cut short. Sure, it's all funny and turned out well, but it has a lot of potential to be a wholesome story. I want it to focus on the couple's relationship, the family's bonding, you know, the waterworks and stuff. The story basically skimped on the drama and focused more on the fun part, quite literally taking the Uke's suffering for granted. I actually cried a lot at the scenes where the Uke expressed his loneliness and I'm disappointed it wasn't focused more in the story.
I love this story. Really wish they made it longer and focused more on the importance of the Uke's suffering and his relationship with his husband and children. But overall, I really appreciated it.
I can never not find the comedic bits funny!
I'm going crazy reading this story. I've never read a story so deep and so beautiful in my life. Every arc is an entire story in itself, it's like I'm travelling through different places in a single story and it's gonna break my heart real bad once this story ends.
I've earned an enlightenment about love in reading this story and I can confidently say, that I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS STORY. Unconditionally.
I sometimes exaggerate on my reviews and comments on the stories I've read, but this is one of the few of them where I genuinely believe that this story is a masterpiece. Read it and you'll understand what I mean. Otherwise, you're missing out something so wholesome and beautiful.
I mean, after reading several dud stories in a row for the past several days, this story is sort of a miracle for me.
Okay, there are a lot of things going wrong here and I'll start with, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE STORY?
It had a good start, a good storyline, good lines, but then it's over 50 chapters and everything slowly went downhill like a pile of trash.
The things that were of importance like the evolution of the MC's minions, apart from Lye, they were no longer included in the story. I mean, we see the Griffin as a chick in one chapter and the next he got big all of a sudden. All the other minions were the same. I thought this was a story about taming monsters and yet I no longer see the essence of taming them and the progress of training them.
Also, I have no problem with the romance bit but aren't they doing it too fast? Not just that, they made every scene happen so fast it's like I reading this in fast forward.
I was actually looking forward to the battle of the guilds, especially the second round because the MC went on and say it's gonna be harder than the first round but then--poof! Nothing. No battle, no fights, no nothing. They skipped that arc and just ended it without even telling us the results.
Everything is happening so fast here and the story is losing its quality just a fast.
I think I really liked the story to the part where the MC got the Griffin, but beyond that, the story is like hail Mary.
I'm rather disappointed. It's not worth the ratings if the story is this crappy. It's very painful for me as a reader that something so good, with potential, and that started off really well, fell like this.
I'm out. Not gonna waste more time here otherwise I'll be slandering this story.
It's a good story and their art is just muah
By this point, I'm tired of this story. It had a good idea and plot but the author failed to deliver it.
There were a lot of things that happened in a single day I couldn't understand how it only took a day for them to rescue the dragon and make her open up, like, she went through a LOT in that place and it only took her a night to be okay??? So unrealistic (not that this story is realistic in the first place but you get what I mean).
Also, what is up with the author sexualizing our MC?! He's a far cry from his past self that I barely recognized him anymore. They're making him out to be a feminine type of male MC when he was all muscles and very manly back then. It's suspicious that they only do it when he's with older guys. OLDER GUYS.
There's something going on here and my intuition as a reader of my years of experience is telling me there's something wrong here and I'm usually always right.
Also, they're focusing on the wrong things here. When they should be more focused on progressing the story, the MC plays a lot with the guys, acting like a freaking conspiracy theorist and trying to figure out the plans of their enemy's when the ANSWER IS RIGHT IN THEIR FACE! There's no need to go through more than 3 chapters in a single scene, JUST END IT WITH A DRAMATIC AND QUICK CONCLUSION WHERE THEY FIGURED EVERYTHING OUT AND THEN CHANGE THE SCENE!
I, for one, do this thing, as I used to write stories, where the MCs go on making conspiracy theories that makes the chapters longer and show the readers how smart their characters are, and it's a rookie mistake to do. It's boring and kind of dumb. It's not just the MC here, they even did it to the guild manager and it's frustrating to see because none of the things he thought of even made any sense!
The MC, Jack, is from the future, he knows the events that'll happen and he's also not stupid and slow that he won't figure something out with someone helping him.
My advice is, to not show the readers the character's train of thoughts and draw a scene where they were just thinking in silence, and then BAM! They find the answer! No need to show us the excruciatingly long train of thought that none of us would even understand or even bother to read.
This just did it for me, I'm done and I can't believe I endured over 90 chapters reading this piece of noob trash even with the sloppy 3D dragons.
Not worth the read and stress, skip this story and find a better one. Or have fun with this junk. Buh bye.
Like, is that it??? That's the end???!! So uneventful!
The end just got me disappointed, like, why are there no sufficient punishment for the Messiah guild? Esp. that dang blondie who pretends to be hero? I want justice. I want the author to finish the story better and this ain't it!
It's hella disappointing! I didn't know that this was marked as completed until today. TO.DAY. How. In the world. Is this story. Effin' COMPLETE?! Arrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!
This is stressin' me out. I was like HUHH?!
It's bad. It's REAL BAD.
I already had an inkling in the first chapter that this wasn't well written and my instincts didn't betray me. The script, the plot, the storyline, they were bad and there were a lot of holes.
It didn't make sense that priests disrespected the duke and outrightly asked him if he was abusing the FL, like, how insensitive can you be?! From what I know, even priests don't have the audacity to speak to a high noble like that.
What's weird too is that the Duke was made out to be a villain. A bad guy who killed anyone, even innocent people to get what he wants, referencing the first timeline where he killed the FL when they took her instead of the "real" saint. But right after he adopted the FL, he acted so timid and gentle like, who the hell are you!?? Acting like a proper person now doesn't change the fact that he killed her for a simple and stupid reason as "they kidnapped the wrong person."
Freaking third-rate psychopath.
Also, what's with the FL hitting people she doesn't know just because they insulted her? I mean, I get it. I have a bad temper too. But the fact is, the FL was portrayed as timid and a pushover, considering how she was treated in the first timeline, but then the author threw her initial personality and gave her a new one as if she just changed her clothes. Stick to your plans, author-nim.
Like, I don't know why I kept reading this. It's bad and in poor taste. Sweeties, I don't recommend wasting your time on this.
The ratings are a shock though. I wonder why people actually gave this a high rating when it was not worth it. I mean, whatever gets you going, man. I'm just an idiot who give these childish stories a chance.
Read it and it was just alright at first. It's an okay story with the storyline and the visuals.
The only reason I'm quitting this is because of the ridiculous encounters of the MC. Like, how many times are you gonna run into people in the streets that needs medical attention? I mean, it's really ridiculous that it's too far from reality you know. I could take a walk any day outside and I will almost never see someone in need of an emergency. It's like, since the start every incident just falls on the MC's lap.
I could take it at first, considering there's a ghost with the MC teaching him all about medical related things, almost nothing is impossible at this point.
Wrong, a lot of things are wrong in this story. He shouldn't even be allowed in an operating room let alone examine the patients like a doctor. There are protocols for this.
Also, it's weird that everyone is just accepting the fact that he's a genius, and by jolly, is almost everyone in this story hot tempered? They get infuriated if someone else is as good as them and they've got anger issues acting like children.
Can't believe it has high ratings. This is so overrated. Buh-bye now.
Thought it was promising until I read more than 2 chapters.
The story fails to get into the details and mostly skips some scenes that it made me wonder if it was an accidental cut. It happened so many times that I grew tired of it. It's like reading a story that has holes when it comes to information and the story just doesn't flow well.
Also, I didn't like that the MC keeps changing his personalities. Like, he gave me the impression of a kind and selfless person at the first few chapters but then he proceeds to get some monologues with all the hidden smirking like a maniac. Plotting some schemes in his mind, like the time when he saves the significant characters in the novel. I'm normally okay with the Main Character being a hypocrite, as they do it just for show but deep down they're kind, but this one just pisses me off because I don't really get his personality.
Also, he gets too meddlesome in the lives of the people around him. I usually like characters who don't care what your background is as long as you're good at your job or that you're a decent person in the time you've been together. This MC keeps pestering one character and then whines that "that" character won't open up. Like, dude. He's entitled to his privacy.
Also, the characters in this story is weird for some reason. They keep changing personalities like a mask. They're looking to be a good and gentle person, to someone who is hard on their parents, like, you got several personalities now??
I'm done man. It's curious how this got high ratings when it doesn't live up to it. It's too boring in contrast to how they advertise it to be. Buh bye.
LOVE IT. Didn't understand half of what they're saying but I'm compelled to just read!
I see people complaining about the art and someone even dropped this after just less than 5 chapters in. You're missing out, I tell you. Compared to ones I've seen before, I prefer this art over ones that have good visuals but very bad plot.
The art is FINE. Don't let that stop you from reading this masterpiece.
I love that this is mostly focused on the MC's self growth and achieving his goals and not on his love life. It's more realistic than other MCs who, regressed/reincarnated/transmigrated, added romance in the genre when it brings down the quality of the storyline.
Although hard to understand, I'm learning a lot from this manhwa than from my bratty college professor. Can't believe I'm interested in business when I've been doing my best to avoid anything remotely related to doing calculations.
The ratings speak for itself. It's fun to read and it's very interesting for a Shounen manhwa that doesn't have the Action genre. The author must've studied hard on business to make this kind of story.
Can't wait for more! I'mma let it marinate for now. Please don't take this down.
I really thought it had potential, I mean the concept of the story is good. But man--most of it just does not make sense.
Like, the Ex-husband loved the FL (original body), we know his type of man. Obsessive and possessive where he would literally put his beloved in a cage and cut her legs off just so they could stay with him. He's the type that won't allow it even if his beloved asks to be killed and will force them to stay alive (barely) because of his selfishness.
At least, in my experience of reading, he's that kind of guy.
But this really threw me in a loop. He killed his wife. HE KILLED HIS BELOVED WIFE! I mean, why???!! Just why??!! What's the point??? He doesn't want to see her suffer anymore??? We know for sure he doesn't love his Mistress so why the heck did he kill his Wife when he's not doing it for the Mistress?!! Like---cut the bullsh*t, you idiot. You don't love this Mistress so why make her your next Wife by killing the original one???
It. Doesn't. Freaking. Make. Any. Sense!
Normally, if this were a different kind of guy I would somewhat understand why he would poison the wife so that she'll stop suffering. Mercy killing in a way. But holy mother of crap that's not the kind of guy this one is. He's selfish. Egotistical. Obsessive. Possessive. Manipulative son of a b*tch. I'd be damned if he wasn't any of them and I'd be damned even more if he actually did it in the act of mercy killing.
It also doesn't make any sense that the Prince wanted to confirm the FL's death, like he wanted to see the body and the Ex-husband wouldn't allow it, but it doesn't make sense that he doesn't believe the FL's dead when several people already saw her corpse in the first chapter.
The ratings speak for itself. So disappointed at the story that I forced myself to read through its 17 chapters. Anyways, it's real bad.
Loved the comedic scenes, the visuals, the character designs, the details and elements need some improvement but everything else overshadows it. I love it, really, no more words.
I forgot how good Manhua is until I read this one. It has a good plot, good flow, good art, and good characters I can't believe this is underrated!
It was fun and somehow conflicting because of the bad scanlations but if you try to give it a chance, it's worth it. I love the character designs, especially the ML. I'd love me some tanned and hot businessmen too .
I love how smart the FL is, even though she basically grovelled to the Second ML at the first part of the story, this was so she could survive and I love how smart she is. She's so graceful too that no one deserves a throne better than her. Even the Second ML wanted her, not because he's emotionally involved with her, but because she's a good leader and a good ruler.
It's too bad that it just cut off like that. I mean, how is the baby?! I wanna see my grandbaby . I wanna see some side stories where the FL and ML get married, have kids, and at some point, get an alliance with the Elves because the Empress now is FL's bestfriend. It's not bad to dream of a world where there are no wars between the two clans and they'd live happily, no?
I hope for the side stories. Please give me some side stories!!!!!
It wasn't that interesting at first, when you look at it generally. However, the parts where the MC and her friends outsmarted their enemies---like, that was so unexpected!
The story didn't make her as a smart woman thirsty with revenge as other MCs but that's what makes it more surprising. Because we didn't expect that she's clever enough to be several steps ahead and f*ck them over. She's using her knowledge of the story really well and she's not really into the idea of revenge because she's more focused on her dreams and future.
Honestly, I love her character very much. She's laidback and so free that you wouldn't even think that she's got a lot of enemies to watch out for, she's not an idiot to fall for their tricks either!
It's sad that there are a lot of major things that were glossed over like her mother's death, her blood relatives' being killed off as well as her crappy life back in the Duke's house. I mean, most MCs get angry and blinded for revenge, but this one is lowkey in her plans for revenge like it didn't really bother her that much.
The story is mainly about the MC's stationary store and rightfully so because that's the title. The other matters are just elements to make it more interesting.
Love the art so much! Especially her clothes and dresses! The male leads too! So handsome and so hot, damn! I love the character designs, their personalities, and also the plot and flow of the story. It's almost as if I'm reading a slice of life genre.
At this point, it's not right to call him a male lead even as the second one. He's just the Ex-husband here as the FL does not have any plans to get together with him.
He's a freaking sociopath. Only having in his mind that his wife is a strong dignified woman and that she's also an angel, like, how the hell does he know that with the ten seconds he met her at the academy?!
I've read someone with this kind of personality before, where the ML is freaking delusional that when the FL acts in a completely different way than they imagined, they abused her. Not physically, but damn, mentally and emotionally.
That's not normal, man. You're just delusional, having this image of your wife by your own delusions, you never even tried to get to know them! You just assumed they're that kind of person! If you ask me, that's called arrogance. Concluding a person's life just by your first impression of them, how f*cking arrogant.
Keep this up and they won't be happy, you won't be happy. That goes the same to the other story I mentioned. The FL divorced them, like this guy. Social issues my ass, at this point you just have to kill yourself, otherwise I'd kill you myself.
Like, for real. I didn't have high hopes at first but the more I read it, the more I felt inclined to read. The story is beautiful, the art is FINE. Like, the blonde ML looking DAMN FINE!
There were a lot of things that need to focused at, like how they fell in love at the early stages of their marriage, most stories take a long time for their love stories to bloom, but this story is okay for not doing that. Because the main focus is the FL's journey to live a completely different life from her previous one.
The dynamic between the couple is sweet, adorable even! The ML being so loyal and kept complimenting his wife at any given moment, he doesn't get tired of it too. The FL falling for his sweetness and giving a chance for love despite being hurt in the past, that's a big step she took, but it's all worth it!
Can't wait for more. I feel the story's ending by now. Probably at 140, but I can't wait for it! Also, she's showing signs of early pregnancy! She's still not sure if she wants to be a mother because of her past (the only FL in every story that I've read, who didn't fall in love with their child, like, no motherly affections to their children), but I do hope she's fine now. What's important is that she's finally happy.
Can't wait to see what'll happen next, with their mini-me's running around the mansion!