
does anyone have any recs like this manhwa?? im really enjoying the dynamic between the main character and guwon

apparently theres nothing like it, but this one has similar vibes/premise https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/red_mansion/

3 years of buildup to give us nothing, still a good story but,,,

i wasnt hoping for more romance, i was hoping for maybe more conflict, or at least for the portrayal of this conflict to be subversive or something. it was very "the curtains are red bc theyre red", and maybe just too obviously "subtle". I mean, its not bad, but... like... its not a john steinbeck book, its a manhwa

im so sorry, i might just be an unsympathetic brainrot reader, but for real, why did she even run in the first place? like, she didnt even want to and now shes freaking out bc she failed, like, girl why

Might be a stretch, buuuuuut. Maybe bc she was trapped in this power based relationship where she felt that whenever he gets bored of her he might just kill her and she didn't want to live in constant fear?
Honestly? I would have stayed and kept him enamoured, but I'm fucked up in the head so I don't count.
its the usual rebirth formula, which with im fine to eat the slop, but my issue with it is this: the controlling ass ml (which would be okay, if the fl just stood up to him and told him why his actions are fucking annoying and rude, or if he just understood her or listened when she DID tell him), and the fact that there were truly some moments where it was realistic, or that I got invested.
When she went to the ledge to jump and save the dukedom i was literally on the edge of my seat, when she realized she needed to kill sebastian i was wondering "what comes next!", when the prince poisoned her or did literally anything threatening at all i was intrigued
but unfortunately, that stuff is being washed over by this vanilla default blockade of a ml that keeps literally anything interesting/off the beaten path from happening...