The time skip did NOT suit this on-going story for one simple reason. It destroyed the main plot. The whole love operation thing with her calculating love and trying to avoid death.. why has that just been completely thrown away? Especially with Eunhyuk leaving and Dohwa moving on.. wouldn't it make sense that Sooae basically lost all her love points and is back at zero?? Wouldn't that have been a great time to pick up on that plot again considering that's the reason this story even began, like the problem was never fully resolved but just put on hold. Feels like the author is just relying on other troupes like "time skip" and "ML suddenly leaving" to continue this series with more drama when there already was the main drama that was driving the series forward, the pop jelly. Idk.. this series was fun but feels like its dragging itself on by forgetting its plot and adding silly overused kdrama problems.
FOR BEING A TRASH ASS PLOT LIKE GIRL JUST FUCKING DONT ISEKAI IF YOUR ACTING LIKE A DOORMAT LIKE FUCK THAT PINK ASS HAIRED BITCH
This story started off so good. And now it feels so repetitive with the drama surrounding the main AND side couples. Like the revenge started off so juicy while maintaining drama elements well. Idk when but it started to fall apart.. like Yoonsik having feelings for Taerin was exciting until the author used it as an annoying tool to create unnecessary drama and cliffhangers.
They should've had him confess to her, she asks him to give her time for an answer.. they continue focusing on their revenge but Yoonsik decides to become more assertive in their relationship by flirting with her more and spending more time with her. She starts to slowly become more flustered and moved (like in the ep when she was trying on swimsuits) by his sudden change and wonders when he started to like her. Then when he's doing one of the challenges with Jooah or any other girl, Taerin also realizes she's jealous and understood how Yoonsik felt when Kyungmoo bit her ear. She ends up accepting his confession later on and their revenge becomes more natural rather then forced since everyone can tell the two are in love with each other and trust each other which will absolutely turn Jooah and Kyungmo green with envy and the two trashes will turn on each other, trying to get back with their exes who have fully moved on and don't care about them at all. Still revenge but colored with romance.
Rn.. the story seems way TOO drama obsessed that we cannot have a geniune chapter between Taerin and Yoonsik without it being ruined with their exes interrupting or one of them saying/doing smth stupid to ruin the mood. Like don't get me wrong, I love the drama.. but after about 60 chapters filled with it, I didn't sign up for the main couple to become distant over a misunderstanding and reset all their progress. We want them being closer, not the opposite Like I used to be excited to read this series every week but after how chapter 60 ended, they done pissed me off with that shid.
Anyway chapter 61 coming 2day so I will prob delete or edit this comment-
EDIT: Literally NOTHING happened in the new chapter. Literally all that progress got reset from nearly EVERY couple. Why can't any of these characters comit to good decisions and instead make god awful ones? It isn't even drama anymore.. it's stupidity.
First they upload half the chapter then they post the chapter in a messed up order.. Sometimes I wish they wouldn't rush the translation if it means better quality because this is more annoying then waiting.
Him: Planned to replace Odette from the beginning and said replacement has been harassing his current wife. (Fair enough, he doesn't know the former yet)
Also him: Wah! Wah! How dare the possibility of her having a replacement for me happen? I hate the man, who has been nothing but kind, who might want her. Let's make her uncomfortable by assuming she's unloyal and suggest that she has to be the one to cheat publicly despite me having a sidechick first.
If you are able to forgive Claude who didn't even apologize until Athanasia basically had to spell it out for him, you should be able to forgive or at least understand the Duke in this story. Both fathers were negligent and for differing reasons however the Duke acknowledged his own wrongful conduct and came personally to apologize to Penelope. He isn't perfect and not everyone has to forgive their abusers, I just find it silly that people hate the Duke in this story yet praise Claude in WMMAP. This story handled both sides pretty realistically considering it is ALSO fantasy: Penelope isn't so easily forgiving as Athanasia was and the Duke realized to become a better father and reach out meanwhile, Athy had to reach out first and teach Claude to become a better person for her. If you compare their situations and are able to forgive Claude.. then it should be easy for you to forgive the Duke (Unless you don't forgive Claude, then your perfectly valid and this comment isn't referring to you)
I really hoped she would apologize. Even if it was ingeniune or fake, if she had at least showed some little form of acknowledgement.. it would've allowed Caelus to open up about how he was feeling and finally get that final closure.. even if she didn't mean it. I knew she wasn't going to apologize since she's a selfish individual who only considers herself but I still hoped that for Caelus's sake, he could've gotten a chance to finally end the thing that had once plaqued his heart peacefully. But instead.. Diana wants to act like nothing had happened which is instead burying the issue, meaning she isn't in the slightest bit regretful for how she treated him and just wants him as if he's an object for her to throw away and pick up. I no longer blame Hestia for being so obsessed with revenge against Diana.. she truly is the worst. At least Helios thought about how he hurt Caelus and apologized, Diana doesn't care at ALL as long as her feelings are prioritized.
P.S: I know Caelus doesn't care about Diana anymore before someone replies with that, my main point was closure. Caelus had to move on without that which I found sad. At least with closure, it would've had him bring an end to it all completely.
BRO.. GONNA GO BRUSH MY TEETH AFTER SEEING THE RAWS FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER
This manhwa had so many chances to end where the two were actually happy and the writing wasn't repetitive (I actually thought it ended around when Siyoon managed to win over Jeongmin's mom.) But the longer it drags on, the more I think they should just break up. Because literally ALL their problems come from each other dating. They NEVER communicate with each other and both do impulsive things that end up hurting each other (mostly Siyoon.) Like I'm the reader and even I'm exhausted with the constant pull and push these two have. The author keeps having them get into a fight, they make up, get along for a bit.. then fight again. I loved their toxic crazy love but it's reaching the point where it's bleeding DRY and a bandaid ain't gonna save it.
I know Pereshati cares about Celphi and wants to fix or at least help his mom to be at least updated on his achievements but I can't help but feel like she's slightly pushed the line Like.. not every mother wants to meet their abandoned child nor does every child want to see the birth parent who they felt abandoned by. It's an awkward situation that should be handled sensibly with consent from both parties. What I mean is, I wish she would've asked both parties if they were okay with any of this rather then impulsively showing up at someone's house who she barely knew, overstaying her welcome when they asked you to leave and shoving their child's history in their face despite them clearly not in the mood for that. Pereshati has good intentions, I'm not exactly angry with that. It's just.. I feel like I also understand where Celphi's mom is coming from and how not everything can be easily resolved. Just glad Theodore and Pereshati communicated around the issue and both found a more suitable solution (Although Celphi's mom made it pretty clear she wants nothing to do with those people which is pretty justified.)
I hate the "calm before the storm" troupe so fucking much Look how happy they both are.. then I make the goofy mistake of looking at the mfing spoilers and your telling me everything goes downhill NOOOOO-
Watch her do something stupid like fire all the members in Team 3 and justify it with the fact that they treated her "coldly" and "overworked" her.
Wait how tf is she still a virgin?? I could've sworn the beginning chapters showed her and Frederick moving like THAT, did this get retconned or did I get the wrong implications about her affair??
I know it's supposed to be a short story but I really wish it was longer The concept itself is so interesting: a female painter who is struggling against gender norms to make a name for herself meets a neglected prince who is treated like a political tool that is fighting for power. Its a nice quick read if you like historical smut with a taste of plot
TW: Ranting
Perhaps I'm a pessimist who has read too many dramatic novels with intense plots but I didn't expect the plot to play out like this when reading the Prologue.
Like I don't like how surprisingly easy it is for Leah to sneak out not once, not twice but THREE times.. like did we forget about Castle Guards, her maids.. anyone working at all? For a princess to be able to escape her own chambers easily and not alert anybody.. it makes me question how no one has assassinated her whole entire family. It also doesn't make sense when we know two members of the Royal family are obsessed with her, these recent chapters don't pose her half brother or step mother as a threat at all because despite their possessive tendacies, they can't seem to notice when said princess is missing for an ENTIRE night (Like you think they would have spies to watch her or something that would put the tension high without it feeling random and dry)
There should've been a whole commotion at the fact that their princess went missing the entire night yet everything is so unbelievably tame that I'm struggling to remember if I'm reading the same story with every chapter update.. I just feel like the author's words aren't matching up with the story, if her family is obsessed then show rather then tell. I personally just don't feel like her brother presented to be as dangerous as a threat as the author hoped.. only a creepy, disgusting and self-entitled pervert.
While I utterly despise and somewhat pity Rashta... her children are both adorable ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶ They both deserve better parents and a healthy environment to grow up in, so unfair they have to be used as tools by selfish greedy people who are fully grown and cannot communicate with a working braincell.
Wait.. hold up.. is this plot for real right now? He eating out her pum pum right after a failed pregnancy?? What the fuc-
LMFAOOO I love Raul!! Bro is the biggest trooper and ultimate wingman The cutest person to bless this manhwa <3
No amount of redemption can save him. Because don't you just LOVE reading toxic male leads who do things beyond forgiving and your forced to find it "romantic." I'd rather have an ending where she's miserable and resents him forever then to know he gets a second chance.
I've seen people keep complaining about the ending between Narumi and Hirotaka but the manga has always been paced like that. Koyanagi and Kabakura have been dating for YEARS and the manga ends with them being able to start a family. Narumi and Hirotaka only got together at the beginning of the manga and the manga shows them adjusting into a relationship after being childhood friends and slowly becoming more comfortable around each other in a new perspective. Which is why I feel like the story ended with them being able to share a first kiss since for them, they saw each other as friends for the longest time and struggled to realistically adjust to dating status throughout the duration of the story. Meanwhile with Kou and Nao, those two were primarily focused between their friendship and the story ends with them being able to become a couple. The story depicts each couple at different stages of their relationships especially with various unique personalities. More cute moments between the main couple would've been sweet however we've seen what happens when manga authors end up making too many volumes or work too long on a series.. let's remember the author has been working on the series for 6 years including during COVID. I think the story concluded quite beautifully and I enjoyed re-reading it.
Only thing I wished the story did was introduced the parents. Would've been an interesting plot point to see their reactions or views on otakus and their relationships. But I liked the ending and felt it was clever the author wrapped it up the way she did!!