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The thing about a lot of toxic manhwa's is that there's an expectation that after all the abuse, misunderstandings, (and usually rape), the ML goes through some huge character development and ends up treating the MC like gold. Examples being Painter of the Night, Love History Caused by Willful Ignorance, Paper Flower, Codename Anastasia (from the novel), Jinx (eventually, we all say hopefully), and so on. Like yeah these MLs were horrible abusive ass holes in various ways, but as readers we know that there's going to be character development and a happy ending which is why a lot of people read those stories.
My issue with this manhwa is that there was no real character development, no connection, no eventual understanding or mutual love forming. Ziegril is still a jealous dick, Kay is still an oblivious himbo, neither understands each other (or even attempts to understand the other). So reading about their silly domestic bliss feels flat. I only read to the end because I anticipated them actually being genuine with each other (which hey, it may still happen), but the whole story seemed to have a lot of build up and ended up giving us nothing. Hell we didn't even really get to see Kay's pregnant belly or pregnant sex. Like come on! There may be zero emotional connection but at least show more of the mpreg!
Anyways, story had potential. Execution of the story fell super flat. Could have been amazing, but the plot got fumbled.
Thanks you for coming to my TedTalk. I'm going to go touch grass now and chill. I'm far too worked up over a fictional story, lol.
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