20 chapters in and this is basically a speedrun of cliches. If you've never read an OI you might find this interesting, maybe, but I've read hundreds atp so it feels like the author/artist is just ticking off items on a list.
Nevermind, the ML makes everything better (≧∀≦) it's so cute how he's pretending to be a harmless puppy in front of her, and the ML falling first is my favorite trope
The switched up to sticking to this manhwa just bc of ML is so real lmaoooo
Suddenly, I'm seeing a lot of pink hair FLs. In the last 5 manhwa I've read 4 of them had a pink haired FL and one had a pink haired dad, older bro, and older sister.
Ch50
I don't know if it's the story or the art, but this is tiring to read. I'll probably look for the spoilers and consider whether to continue this or wait for season 4.
So I did read the spoilers and I'm skimming through a few chapters at a time. Around ch60s the arts starts to look weird. The faces are fine, though they look like dolls, but if you stare too long you notice the proportions are off or their bodies/arms are angled weirdly. The hands, especially, look strange in a lot of panels, so I'm just skimming over the art by this point. I'm almost to ch100 it's so tiring to get through, but there's some scenes from the spoilers I want to see, and I hope the story at least got that far.
I loved the art style in the beginning and loved it for the first 100 ch, but then it got kinda tiring. This got worse in maybe the last 15 ch, and personally for me it was when the mouths in particular started to just look the same no matter what emotion they were trying to express sometimes,
I read this so long ago and it randomly came up in my reccs. Ch27 came out around 4 years ago, and I knew from the spoilers it would be angsty, but it's not complete yet???
I don't know why, lately, I keep finding manhwas with plots I would usually find in short mobile c-dramas (￣∇￣")
Well, a devoted, obsessive, slightly yandere ML isn't for everyone, but I don't mind it so I have nothing against the ML. But he also doesn't really care about the FL:s opinion in a lot of matters, and she gives in too quickly. That title is a lie, in ch6 she just decides to go along with it after finding out about the flower seal.
I don't know why the author/artist thought it was necessary to include her friend being in love with her, honestly. Those were a couple of chapters that went nowhere and had no meaning to the story (this far anyway.)
So, I went and found the novel and read about 160 chapters before pausing. It does ease up later, but the ML is still the same - possessive, to the point of ignoring what the FL would want, but at least she doesn't make it easy for him (though she does give in every time when they're intimate). Also, I stand by the best friend being in love with her being pointless. So far in the novel he's had several chapters, and in every one he just mopes about the love of his life being engaged to his boss and childhood friend.
Also, I'd like to defend her dad a little. FL tends to act a bit out of the norm, so dad thought the crown prince, the most perfect man in the empire, also the most powerful next to the king, would keep his daughter safe/tolerate her craziness. He'd actually been considering breaking off the engagement because she hated it so much and the prince didn't seem into it, either when the cp suddenly comes to him and swears up and down he'll love the PM's daughter.
Well, I finally finished it. I actually had to pause around the ch50s and read another manhwa (all 128 chapters of my in-laws are obsessed with me) but I really wanted to finish it before I got distracted by something else. ML gets a lot better around ch50s, FL also stops acting oblivious and they confirm their relationship pretty early, around ch70s and the rest is the resolution of the plot and them being a couple. If I had to rate the first half it'd be a 3 - 3.5/5, the second half 4.5.
But the mature side stories were chef's kiss ლ(´ڡ`ლ) it's rare finding a manhwa with r-rated chapters (for me, anyway, this is only the third since I don't specifically look for manhwas with mature scenes) and this did not disappoint. Those chapters alone get 100/10
In ch45 and it's so hard to like this. I stopped before at ch20 and came back to skim to the end, but ML's personality is so tiring. Like, I wish the FL would resist at least, but she doesn't have that choice. He just threatens her with death whenever she says she wants to leave. Also, I've seen different levels of naive, but how do you mistake loving someone for treating them like a son???
The leads are both frustrating. Atp I honestly want her to be empress not to see the leads together but because the sfl pisses me off more （￣へ￣）
Ch 73, and even though it's only for a little while and they'll get married soon, I was still happy that she got to quit and go home for a rest It's only a week but still...
It's full of cliches. The whole "the heroine was the villainess" is a trope I hate as well, like the story could have been fine even without including Veronica at all. The kidnapping in the final chapters was also the most ridiculous thing. How could anyone let that happen? For that matter why was a duchess wandering around alone in what seemed like a tunnel? If the leads were going to sit together anyway, shouldn't the ML have walked her to her seat like a dutiful husband instead of leaving her to wander alone??? Or at least left her with an escort!
The art was also very wonky for the first third, but it gets better. All in all, an ok story that I'll never read again. I'd recommend if you're new to the genre, but if you've been reading for a while, you've probably read better.