Clarifying:
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Seoin (ML/top): Has black hair and has TWO moles. One under his right eye and one on the LEFT side of his mouth. Chapter 33 shows his backstory. He is an orphan and is not blood related to the family. He was chosen precisely because he resembles the adoptive mother’s biological child.
Jaewon (brother): has light brown/beige hair and has ONE mole on the RIGHT side of his mouth. An actual demon spawn. Hates ML.
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So the story has shown that Jaewon is set to make the ML’s life hell. In retaliation, ML chooses to not do what Jaewon wants and continues to act nice and stay in the family. Jaewon seems to want ML to stay alone, hence why creating the misunderstandings with beating MC up and wanting MC to believe Seoin is into him with the kissing part. The mother seems aware of jaewon’s nature, but because that’s her biological child, she seems to want to pretend like there’s no issue. Going as far as to cover up the bullying/beating up incident by bribing the MC’s dad.
The confusing part is, there’s two of the same kissing scenes in Chapter 1 and Chapter 20. The scene in Chapter 1 seems to show ML (black hair) with no mole. In Chapter 20, the scene shows the mole on the right side of his mouth. The question is, which is the correct scene?? Is it purposefully done to throw people off including the MC? Or was it a mistake on the artist’s part for the placement of the mole? If the scene in Chapter 20 is correct, then it would mean Seoin wasn’t even kissing jaewon.
Side note: baby seoin is adorable. Him before all the pain ╥﹏╥
The thing is, I’m a little relieved that the brother is dead cause they don’t have to deal with anymore of his nonsense. But at the same time, that means he’ll never get punishment. Even if Seoin and MC found out what happened due to the brother, they can’t get their justice or payback.
It’s honestly gross how desperate she is. HE DONT WANT YOUR ASS NO MORE. This is one of those cases where the crazy ex doesn’t know that no means no, so you have to act worse in order for them to get the message. Straight up say, “I’m disgusted even being around you. My life feels like hell when you’re in it. You were the worst thing to ever happen to my life.” Hopefully that’ll do. But idk if ML is capable of that.
I really hope she won’t have cause herself to get an injury and some bullshit be like, he’ll feel responsible and have to take care of her or something until it heals. She was fine when she previously went on the show, so I’m gonna guess either she purposefully did something, ML accidentally messed up cause she’s bothering him, or one of the other crew members who’s jealous of him does something.
Currently reading the novel (not far yet, just up to the part in the raws). And gosh damn, cha seonghyeon irritates tf out of me. How is that possible from the first conversation from him. Put him in a ring, I’m ready to knock his ass out. Every word he says is just so annoying. He sounds so condescending. Ngl if someone who’s trying to seek a relationship with me, has a friend like cha seonghyeon- there is no way I would accept any dating of the dude is friends with a guy like that. He’d have to break off the friendship or I’d fr explode from anger every time I see the guy or hear his name.
I’m convinced cha seonghyeon is either doing some weird matchmaker bullshit where he acts like some villain or he’s genuinely jealous and acting like an asshole because ML doesn’t want him back.
Edit: read a bit more chapters. Looks like it’s the first option and he’s trying to look like some villain matchmaker or he just naturally has a terrible personality.
Here’s the link to the uploader’s comment on how to sign up on the app to show support, all free.
https://www.mangago.zone/home/mangatopic/18324855/
Some tips after you’ve signed up:
(1) Go to the search bar on the app and use the title of Little Mushroom in Chinese ( 小蘑菇 )
(2) Then click on the big art at the top of the page, it’ll automatically send you to chapter 1.
(3) On the top right corner you’ll see a circle button with the symbol 详, right next to the share button. Click on the circle. This will send you to the main page with the description of the story and chapters.
(4) Then on the banner art at the top of the page, it’ll show a yellow button that says +关注 right under the share button. Click on it and that’s how you show you followed/added the story to your library.
(5) Next look below the description where the preview images of the chapters are. Below those chapters is a white button that has a down arrow and says 展开目录. Once you click on it, it’ll show the whole list of chapters. Next to each chapter, there’s a like button. Click every like button on every chapter.
(6) Then click on a chapter and just go through every available one to show you read/viewed it. It also gives you an option to use a daily free pass.
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That’s all I know for now. If someone is more familiar with it and/or knows the language, you can add more ways to help.
Another helpful way to understand what you’re clicking on is to download the g0og.le translate app and screenshot whatever you don’t understand on the app, then import those screenshots into the translate app. It should help translate what you don’t get.
Also if anyone still can’t understand the steps listed or can’t see those options/buttons. I’ll consider making a quick video online with visuals, just reply asking for one.
I’d say let the red biatch plan whatever it is for now, and then stab her in the back when the opportunity arises later. It’s so disappointing but BOTH the leads are too soft. They both just are followers that listen to what others tell them and don’t have a big enough brain to plot anything as they are now. Like they gotta hire some freakin hitman’s or gangsters at this point to do the job.
There hasn’t been any development after 50 chapters. I get that both the leads are probably this submissive due to their backgrounds but it IS irritating that the FL at least has the potential to resist or put on a cold act. She can easily do it in front of the puppy dude- she just gotta put that acting energy elsewhere. Her acting cold toward the puppy dude benefits no one.
I get that the FL may be on guard from getting hurt again- but it’s kinda weird that she’s rejecting the dude she likes while also indulging the cheating ex and the homewrecker?? I think she got her priorities mixed up. Cause how are you trying to be strong by keeping your distance for a new relationship but also interacting with your previous toxic one?? Like why doesn’t she put that independent and strong mindset toward the actual people that betrayed her instead of being all friendly with them still???
I do think it’s funny how much people are complaining about the side stories. Like the main story is over, you can leave this story be, no one is forcing you to read the side stories. And if you’re seriously bothered by seeing it update, you can remove it from your list and maybe check on it way later for the chance of the main couple side story starting. It’s one thing if y’all choose to make comments about how much you hate the boss, feel free to do so. It’s another thing when people are just complaining about the story being made and them just not wanting to read despite clicking on the story every single update and commenting each time LOL. Like at least give something to the table about your opinion on the characters/story instead of reciting complaints about how much you don’t want to read. Commenting how much you dislike the side story being made of him and not the main, is not helping the main’s stories come out faster. The author ain’t gonna read or listen to illegal readers wants lmaooo.
Anyways even if people hate the boss’ story, there’s people that actually like dajeong and want to see him happy, as well as being pretty curious about what’s going on in the boss’ mind. It’s crazy characters like this that are so hard to read, but that’s what’s interesting about it. It’s not straight to the point and not one dimensional character personality. The boss is terrible but he’s interesting to theorize about.
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On another note for those that are actually interested in spoilers:
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It’s honestly no wonder the boss ended up like that. His dad is a CREEP. Has full on threesomes and sex right in front of his kid, and is creepy on kid dajeong, touching on his leg. Though I feel like the boss could’ve definitely used another way other than choking him to get them to not marry- I also do think it’s not just because he did it for their sake. The machine translation is confusing, but I’m just guessing he did it because he had previously imagined what it’d be like to do the same as his father? Could be wrong though.
(Now don’t quote me on this as I’m still looking at rough af machine translation)
Dajeong asked if the boss hated him, the boss said he didn’t and thought he was just cute? Fun?
I think the boss also told dajeong about all that happened in the past. Dajeong said something like “do you want to kill me?” Dajeong said he could if the boss wanted to. And the boss just smiled and said he can’t.
Idk if this is true, but there have been talks about whether these two will really be together due to the author’s comments. People are concerned over the age gap, to which they respond that the author planned to never have them be together, only that the younger one has a one-sided love, and that the author thinks it’s funny to trick people into believing it’ll go anywhere. Which reassured readers who are concerned over the age gap. But if that’s really the case, it’s still a lot of baiting of skinship and flirting, so it still defeats that purpose lmfao.
Correct me if I’m wrong though, this is from word of mouth, so I’ll try to check if the author really said that.
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Okay so I didn’t see anything directly that the author said, only comments under their social media of readers explaining what they saw from the author’s story. Something along the lines of: “the boy is the one who will fall in love, there won’t even be a kiss between the two as the creator describes it as a platonic romantic.” And tera is unconfirmed whether he is straight or not.
So I’m unsure whether that means it will be like bromance? Or their relationship will be open for interpretation, no confirmed relationship labels, but will have romantic gestures? The confusing thing is, if it truly is only platonic, why the amount of teasing on both the story and art on social media, plus the tags saying BL and cute couple under every post lmao.
Didn’t expect the next chapter to be the series finale but I’m not mad at Tristan becoming a vampire finally. Though I REALLY hope that there’s extra side stories.
Seeing the amount of people going psycho over their own imagination of what they think is cheating is crazy lmfao. I can’t imagine how much they’d be shit on in the comments of non zero sum, sadistic beauty side story, etc. if they said the same crap, if the bottom decided to sleep with someone else lol. They gotta be living under a rock to seriously believe being fed and sheltered under a roof means automatic relationship and loyalty despite not believing it’s equal treatment (meaning the bottom shouldn’t expect the top to be exclusive).
And it’s the same like 5 people defending it smh. One person be clowning others for arguing saying “stop being so serious!” As if they aren’t doing the same themselves.
Bro must’ve been sheltered so much his intelligence is nonexistent.
I can only imagine it in reality like: Let’s say there’s a pair of siblings irl, one girl, and one guy. They’re both childhood friends with another dude. The sister noticed that her brother and their friend are mutually in love but don’t want to pursue it due to society’s standards about gay couples. So then she takes the opportunity to make a sacrifice that no one asked for, and that she assumed to be the only possible way, by basically drugging and baby trapping the friend, running away once she gave birth, and hoping they become a happy family together. That’s fr so dumb.
The only thing I think would be right is yuuma leaving both their lives for the better. Which I would’ve preferred him to do BEFORE plotting the rape and baby trapping. Maybe even getting into his own relationship so they both wouldn’t have to worry about him anymore, would have been a far better choice? Yuuma seriously decided to take it upon himself to make a life changing decision/action that changed everyone involved’s lives. This was not for the main two’s own good. If it was, he would’ve thought about just ASKING them both how they felt and talking about what they should do about their feelings FIRST instead of assuming. The fact that his only thought process of joining them together was to create a huge problem and dumping it onto them is crazy. And also having a child is not the only way to create a family??
Hopefully she doesn’t do anything crazy to the FL. Up until that shady part at the end, I actually was rooting for her to just take the dude away and be happy with him lol
MY GIRL HUIJIN NOOOO. But ngl I’m intrigued to see how this goes. I kinda wanna see a fight with huijin, I’m conflicted.
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Anyways I think one thing is not a big fan of in this manhwa, is how they continuously introduce new characters with op powers instead of just expanding on the characters the story already has. Like it feels like the OG friend group has been long been left behind to become side characters, for a while in order to have the new characters come into the story. Like why are we adding so many OP enemies when they hardly even defeated one?? And then what’s else is gonna happen, they’re gonna magically defeat all of them at once in the end?
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I do hope that this manhwa is better written than lilith’s cord. Of course lilith’s cord’s focus was entirely different, the plot/action became anticlimactic in the end. (So like the enemy they were building up to be OP the entire story was defeated pretty easily in like one hit and one chapter). Hope that isn’t gonna be the case here.
Honestly annoying when people are mad at a kid acting like a kid. They want a kid to be exactly like the mc with the same mature mindset or something. And then imagining the kid in adult form with the exact same personality as ML. Like are you being fr??
It’s funny and if anything, it’s one of those rivalry friendships that are so fun over time. Also why are people worried about him being the ML when they’re still like 5 year old children?? I honestly like it more when the first meeting with a kid character is bratty cause it turns much cuter when the kid actually develops a connection over time and becomes more attached. Compared to an angelic-type kid that just instantly likes the mc regardless
So I checked out a thread I could find to see the comparisons (didn’t actually go to X because I don’t have the app, only searched for links on regular browser). And ngl I think people are reaching for saying it’s plagiarism. (At least from what I have seen so far, anyone is free to send me more links if there’s more).
The comparison was basically between the cover art/single piece art of their stories characters and one scene from the manhwa itself. I can see similarities which makes me believe this manhwa author was INSPIRED and made their own version or art with the BL author’s work as inspiration. Because looking at all the cover art and single piece art, I don’t see any that shows tracing or being exactly the same. There’s enough differences for it to feel like they lean into similar style. It’s like the two artists who made secret lady and the stepmother’s marchen. Both super similar art and style. I’ve seen several artists have the same style for single piece art with basic color background, headshot, putting shadow behind the character, and those computer pop up bubbles.
Moving onto the scene, yes, I can see the similarities, but again, no tracing, and not EXACTLY the same poses except for the one kiss image that shows the dude’s face up close.
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My opinion:
Do I think this manhwa’s author did anything wrong? Yes I do, because I think the author should admit that at the very least they were inspired by the BL author. It should be obvious that’s the case. However, do I think they plagiarized and stole the BL author’s work/copied their story? No. It’s simply because this scene and plot is literally so similar to so many other stories I’ve read before. Plagiarism in my eyes is full on stealing several word-for-word scenes, tracing, and exact character design/plot. Childhood friend turned fwb is nothing new. That one scene comparison isn’t entirely new either. The BL author definitely wasn’t the first to create a scene of someone pulling up a shirt, making out, or tickling. I just think this manhwa’s author should just apologize and say they were inspired and that they didn’t mean to copy anything.
Can you imagine how many artists would be accused of plagiarism if they included the topic of transmigration historical plots? Everyone who reads that genre KNOWS how recycled the plot is. Imagine getting accusations of plagiarism for those inspired stories by the little mermaid or twilight. What about how hundreds of both BL and straight artists use the same exact backgrounds, accessories, horses, food, etc? Like they use the same rich house backgrounds lmaoo. It’s a fact that artists in general are HEAVILY inspired by any work before them. Both when it comes to plot and art. It’s more rare to find artists who are super original.
I just think people in general have a habit of finding new drama to talk about and attempting to nitpick everything and overanalyze things to prove a point or get more people on their side. I remember when a cute af manhwa got canceled because another author accused them of plagiarizing a red haired FL smh. (If anyone remembers it’s that one manhwa where the FL and ML have a scene at a ball and they both crouch and sneak to the food table, while the ML helps her grab some food).
Anyways here’s the link to the thread I found:
https://x.com/CesileChristian/status/1887527629500338605?s=19
I just don’t believe in making someone’s life and career ruined over something like this. I guess Korea just takes things to another level. Like that one actor cheating on his gf, being blacklisted from the acting industry. Like yes, he’s a terrible partner, but what’s that got anything to do with his work lmao. Or when ppl canceled song jia for owning some dupes of brands.
Some people say that this is worse than non zero sum and no reason. I guess if you count the amount of gang rape+rape in it then yeah. It depends on what exactly you deem as worse (like is physical violence the worst for you or amount of rape, mindbreak, etc).But in my opinion I think non zero sum and no reason is worse- FOR NOW at least until the full manhwa is still ongoing and I actually see the contents in its entirety. I think it’s cause in this one, the mc seems to fight back a lot? Compared to non zero sum, where it the mc is totally mindbroken there. And no reason had some pretty stomach-turning moments that I can’t forget. (That one fisting scene made me wanna vomit). Although if you don’t count that scene maybe I’d think this is worse than no reason?
Ngl I’m surprised these specific genre of dark BL authors haven’t just written full crime documentaries lmfao. That would actually make more sense if they put all that thought to work. It’s pretty wild that there’s still more horrible real life stories worse than these BL fiction works. (Like junko furuta case. If an author actually had that level of detail, I’d genuinely be terrified).
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Anyways on another note, I checked out the novel spoilers thread and despite there being the most content of spoilers there, the way the spoilers was written was so hard to understand- it didn’t make sense at times. It’s like reading a wattpad story of a scene and trying to imagine the scene being described and the writer isn’t making sense LOL. (Ex: “He pushed me against the wall and stared into my eyes. I felt hot as I was on my stomach shivering beneath him). I would read one part of a spoiler of a scene but then some stuff wouldn’t even make sense and felt like a part was taken out to jump to the next action of the characters.
It’s better written here if you find someone who shared spoilers in the comments from what they read in the novel. And maybe like one review was a bit detailed on the novel page reviews section (which still wasn’t enough because they also said they didn’t want to spoil much).
Continued in comments of what I read in the spoilers, below
Okay but like wdym “I haven’t conveyed my feelings to you.” DUH. The Seme never actually explained anything that happened involving his situation with yuuma like whether they truly had a relationship or if he really did like yuuma. And he also never confessed to MC. So how was MC supposed to know anything lol.
I get why ppl are mad but it is pretty funny that people are upset over the accused plagiarism while we’re all here reading on an illegal site that doesn’t support either authors lmaooo. So it’s kinda funny seeing people fight for morals.
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On another note- hope this doesn’t end like ‘Can I take it back,’ where the whole story disappeared off the internet. The best scenario is this author not actually have plagiarized. I can only hope that there’s only similarities due to inspiration- which several stories have done for decades. (Which is why so many sex scenes and romance cliches are nearly all the same and predictable in millions of stories, ppl take what they know from those who did it before them). Like imagine if people get copyright for having a sex position in a story, that another author did before them- that’d be wild LOL. OR imagine the amount of cancellations if they claimed plagiarism with transmigration historical romance stories, omfg that would have to be a whole list of hundreds of manga and manhwa having the same plot being “copied.”
If that’s a fail, then I’d still wanna look at the art for this story every now and then.
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It’s illegally being here anyways so it ain’t like it’ll support this author.
Just now kinda reading this and saw it wasn’t just once but TWO times they did that fcked up closet scene. Imma be real, I’d be so disgusted and over whatever crush I had on the person, the very first time it happened. Honestly if it were me, I would’ve just bust outta that closet before anything happened- then everyone is in trouble. It’s crazyyy that the MC basically forced him into that position TWO TIMES and made him head everything, while also initiating the sex as well.
What is it with authors who’s first works are fluff, following the trend of getting into toxic story fright after lmfao. Heesu in class 2 author, Fools author, in my closet (this author), etc. I’m so convinced that these authors wanna just show ppl they can do toxic love stories and dramatic love triangles too