So I said it before, but as shown, this is a story that two authors worked on hand in hand, with the same characters. So it’s basically an AU. In the other story (kwak hajun observation diary), the mc was playing a zombie game in the first chapter, that had the character look exactly like the ML (I think it was like a romance game set in a zombie apocalypse). They ended up together in kwak hajun observation diary, and so it looks like here, the mc awoke from a dream where he thought they were the characters in that zombie universe.
I can see WHY people don’t like the ML. However the reasons of it being “he sleeps around” or “he uses women for sex” is the most ridiculous reason I’ve ever heard. Y’all are reading a SMUT manhwa first and foremost, sleeping around should be expected. It’s extremely rare for a smut manhwa to have the ML be a virgin. Yall should have expected it because this is a smut, not a regular romance fluff story.
And the second reason being “he uses women for sex.” Are yall actually reading or only seeing what you want to see? Why are you all talking like he’s a scumbag who breaks women’s hearts or plays with their feelings one-sidedly. From what has been shown so far, the sex friends are MUTUAL. Those specific girls CHOSE to have sex with him too, and were also having fun with the sex. The pink bob chick literally went to him to have sex even as she has someone (if I remember correctly?). The tutor who was a grown adult woman seducing a teenager before he even made a move, was in it to bang him too. And that girl sitting on his lap in the classroom was likely having fun on it too. Y’all can hate a guy for being a fckboy, but saying he uses women like it’s one-sided, is when you got the facts wrong.
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Those two reasons have gotta be the dumbest things I’ve heard. The more valid reasons for why people don’t like him, would be how he treated FL and acted cold, or in general being caught with girls face to face. Now THAT I could understand, because realistically I would be turned off if my crush- or someone I developed feeling for later, was someone who I walked in on, getting it on (or implying) with other girls on 3 separate occasions.
So it looks like the story only has one chapter left until the ending (Korean site). The good thing is the other part of the story is quite happy and is just some sweet family time
I can see how the FL is unlikable lmao. Let’s face it, if the roles were reversed, the readers would hate the ML if he acted the way FL does. They’d say “sure, he has trauma but that doesn’t give him the right to act so rude all the time! FL should just find a better man!” The best reasoning most defenders of this FL, is to continuously tie her every word and action to trauma. It’s an excuse they give for any possible negative behavior she has.
She acts cold and like the ML is a bother when SHE’S the one who needs him for her revenge. She’s the one that approached him first, kissed him without consent on the first meeting, and set him up to be photographed and put in an article more than once. She made the offer first to get married for benefit, but she acts bothered when the ML puts in the effort. She acts like every cold ML in marriage contract stories. I just hate it when characters who truly are rude for no good reason towards ppl who did nothing to harm them.
Edit: Gotta say that I could only continue reading this because of the revenge plot and the ML. The FL is actually insufferable. She’s always finding problems with the ML even when he’s shown her nothing but care the entire time. She’s a hypocrite and victimizes herself. She even had the audacity to say the ML “killed her” when she was the dumbass who ran into the road in the first place. She has so many stupid moments that it makes me think the ML’s sister would be a better and more entertaining protagonist than her.
Brooo I hate this development. The fact that they had long-time villains in the story killed off by a newly transformed op villain character irritates me sooo bad. The writing would be better if this was something that was shown early in the story and built up on step by step, then revealed. But the fact that the ex was suddenly one of the most op antagonists as soon as she was turned after 100+ chapters in, is ridiculous. The other powerful villains that couldn’t even be defeated by the main group, was easily killed off by her alone. It just seems like poor writing. It’s the same case with the previous number 1 student being introduced and killed off in one chapter.
Just the fact that the crew of villains were thrown away, makes it feel like any development of the supporting hero characters won’t get that time to shine by defeating them one on one. I honestly think they should’ve kept the purple haired girl in the story as the main supporting villain instead of the ex. It would make way more sense that way. To me they basically threw away any development to substitute the main villain girl with someone who had a connection to the mc. I genuinely think the author put more effort into buffing the villains than actually progressing the powers of the hero group.
It’s nice to see that the cold ML turns into a big crybaby after the development. He cries so much now lmao. Which I think is a nice way to show that he’s become more vulnerable and shows those side to the mc now.
I get ppl still being mad and some are confused as to why he suddenly switched up. But I think the turning point was where the mc granted the wish thing(?) I guess to him, it was like the way it ultimately proved MC’s love for him, and that’s why the ML trusted in him and changed.
This story is definitely for ppl who have a tolerance for red/black flag stories. It’s optional, that I think if they want to skip over the worst part but still know what went on, start on season 2. This is one of the few where it does feel like there was development and it felt like the ML went on to continue proving that later on. It’s also satisfying in a way, cause MC could visibly see him suffering with his own eyes and get his own satisfaction and not just meet the changed ML later without knowing how he suffered like most other stories.
I’m rereading and I do think it’s funny how the manhwa made it more PG. In the novel when her brother shoved her into the mirror, it was said she was covered in blood and couldn’t even walk and had to be carried by the brunette knight. In the manhwa they gave her a single streak of blood going down her face. Even looking at izek side by side in the same scene, he’s more bloodied than her. Which makes me think that the artist may have wanted to keep her “pretty state” even when she’s injured lmao.
It reminds me of those Chinese dramas where they make the female leads never look bad, have a full face of makeup, hair done, while just having a single streak of blood going down their mouth to show she’s critically injured while staying beautiful
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I saw even majority Korean comments are talking about missing heowoon (the white hair guy). Along with that one person saying they prefer the prosecutor lmfao
So it does look like they’re following the novel spoilers. It does not look like the 2nd life will be any better. I’d say the ML gets worse, but the circumstances involving the long haired dude is better. Long haired dude is no longer the threat but the ML makes even worse decisions and puts mc in another world of pain.
Comment sections like this are always so disappointing to see imo. You get a drama story and when drama is shown, readers are baffled. It really just proves my belief that specific shoujo readers cannot stomach flawed male love interests. I mean see how they’re so quick to disregard any internal struggles the male lead has? And yet their priority is love and wanting the FL to be in a relationship lmfao. They’re really like, “srsly? Mommy issues? Who cares, anyways can we get to the FL dating who I want already?!” Where is the ao haru ride fans that actually can handle flawed male leads? It’s more sad to see how rare it is when audiences know the content they’re reading and try to understand the characters.
These are the kind of readers who only like perfect men who’s entire being must be focused on the FL and worship the ground she walks on, never to make her (or the reader) sad/upset. It’s these readers that are the reason why majority of the romance genre is flooded with one-dimensional Male Leads who have no flaws at all, and are bland. Why do you think writers see this and the top types of male leads in the genre are:
-quiet and cold guy that only has eyes/is nice to the fl
-puppy type
-gentleman type
And these male leads all have their world revolving around the FL. It makes these huge fan bases soo happy to see the FL be the center of the ML’s entire life. The ML’s thoughts are actually being shown, his inner conflict and contradictory thoughts/actions, which are so realistic. When the author actually writes about a flawed ML and his struggles, no one cares. To these shoujo readers, they only allow female mc’s to be flawed and have struggles and will only show understanding in that case. I never understand readers like this who know they can’t handle flawed love interests yet still choose to read the story and just yap about how much they hate the other main character while dreaming about the man they want and how they think they know better than the FL. Like bffr, if you were in her shoes, you’d crash out and have your dream shattered the one moment the 2nd lead does something you don’t like.
I was surprised by how soft and woke this story is. It really surprised me that they actually took topics seriously and mentioned it when most mangas brush off those things. It’s also a shock that the FL is the one to have so much common sense lol.
Things like:
-FL telling off her editor that it would be sexual harassment if she hit on her housekeeper.
-FL telling off her editor that writing about her housekeeper and modeling him as a sex worker is bad (also included switching the genders)
-FL telling ML that it’d be inappropriate to sleep together due to her being his employer, that she holds authority over him
-FL pointing out that ML’s past as a minor being with adult women, was bad cause he could’ve gotten hurt and those women would be arrested.
-FL saying how writing about ML could make him feel terrible about it later on when he sees it as a reader or hears about other talking about it.
Although it is a pretty big age gap, at least FL is at least aware and communicates these serious things with ML.
I can’t say I feel that bad about Ari. She’s 27 years old and has been shown several hints of how uninterested he is. She’s broke down twice (the first time she saw he was living with FL, and the second when he walked out on her recently). I genuinely don’t think she’s this naive, I think she also is just in denial and wants to believe he’s interested in her like she is to him. She’s also been pushing for a baby since they first started hooking up. I wouldn’t be that surprised if she tried to poke holes in the condoms lmao. It is pretty wild how she’s also irresponsible at her age. (When she told mincheol if they should just crash her car so she can ask her dad for a new one. Aka she knows her dad adores her and takes advantage of that)
So I saw the spoiler saying that the mc woke up from a dream. But they’re confused as to which story is the real world.
I think since the other story directly mentions the mc playing a zombie video game with a character that looks like the ml, that Kwak ha-jun observation diary is the real world/original. It sounds to me that since mc got to know kwak hajun, he dreamed of them being part of the game world and made up his own scenario. It even adds info like the ml not getting along with his dad irl, in this story. Like his crush and him being in an apocalyptic world together, solely depending on each other (in their own little world).
Which is funny cause I feel like lots of ppl have had dreams where they were in a game they saw/played and with ppl you know irl too. I’ve even had friends tell me they dreamed that our friend group was in some nightmare settings along with the roles we had lmao.
Dang so many complaints saying the exact same things lmfao. Anyways I love the story. The novel is fun too. I am really glad these comments aren’t on the official site- cause these comments filling the entire section with complaints are the types that get stories cancelled due to their own ideal standards. It’s like little mushroom artist saying they won’t continue cause the readers kept complaining that they didn’t like the art.
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Sure I get ppl can dislike the art, but usually when I don’t like the art that much, I just drop the story or skip it. It’s not like making these critiques on this illegal site will reach the artist or help them. I think people confuse constructive criticism with just plain complaints. Constructive criticism points out the parts that are lacking but also provides GOOD advice (by people who have knowledge of the subject) to improve, like suggesting books or videos the author/artist can learn from. Let’s be real, actual good artists would never trash another artists work. And most of these comments would never seek out the artist directly, to tell them that. The comments are just copy paste whining “the art is trash! The artist is shitty!!” Those specific ppl are like bots.
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If you wanna claim yourself as doing a good deed and just giving constructive criticism, you gotta include knowledge of how to improve as well, not just comments of how bad you think the art is. (Not that the artist would see this). Anyways artists all start from somewhere. Not every artist is the highest professional. So many mainstream artists like Pearl boy, k’s secret, etc. started out with lacking art but improved DURING the story. That’s the one thing I hate about specific readers expecting every manhwa artist to be perfect. Y’all’s mindsets are skewed.
Unfortunately this isn’t one of those revenge stories and this will most likely have the FL end up with that scum. I’ve read so many manhua plots like this and have never seen an ending that isn’t the case. The only way is if it’s revenge manhua and the caption describes a new guy.
This guy is pathetic and deserves to be in the line up of the depths of hell.
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What’s even more sad, is that this isn’t even the worst ML from a manhua I’ve seen. There’s this one manhua where the ML approaches FL to use her for his first love’s sake. He seduces her, makes her think he’s in love, impregnates her, steals the child from her womb, uses part of the child’s bone to save his first love, tells the FL her child died at birth, raises (more like he neglects) the son making the son think his mother is his first love. All the while the stepmom/first love abuses the kid. And he also had the audacity to act smug when he sees the FL years later, looking down on her and acting like he did nothing- yet again trying to hook up with her as a side chick with no remorse. And add onto the fact that the FL is a dumbass who chooses him AGAIN. She chooses him over the 2nd ML (which is also a bad guy, but he’s the lesser evil), with the reason that 2nd ML is a liar and also that she loves the ML.
Yall I’ll say this for new readers. Manhua takes their revenge stories serious lmao. They definitely go into the aspect that karma will be given back exactly how the antagonists did it. That includes the worst situations. Straight manhua doesn’t give af, they are merciless LOL.
(Although BL revenge stories are probably a step higher than that,,they also don’t hesitate to show torture scenes in full. And then even further than that is the darkest manga revenge stories. (Actual dark stories that include gore and explicit torture as karma for the evil antagonists. No romance, straight up getting vengeance the entire time. To the point you’d think the person seeking revenge is a demon sending them to the underworld lmfao)).
“I want na haesoo to HAVE ME. I want her to pick me up and take me away. Always keep me somewhere your eyes can reach, cherish me.”
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It hits different when the man says something along the lines of “I’m yours.” Instead of “she’s mine!” Those lines are usually reserved for thinking of the FL, like “I want to take her away, I want to cherish her,” but I honestly think it’s real cute that he puts himself in that position instead.
Went from one psycho to another.
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Yknow when FL started her next life and sort of got on better terms with cesare, I actually was chill and thought AT MOST they can be friends. (Though it’s clear FL’s trauma will never go away when facing him). But with how cesare continues to reveal himself to be the same terrible person with terrible intentions, that hope is long gone. He literally proved her words: “you only care about your own feelings.” If he were to TRULY change, he would let her go and respect her feelings, settling to at least stand by her side as a friend. But he can’t stand not having her.
It doesn’t help, knowing the nasty ahh spoiler he does later.