When I read the "When the Villainess Loves" I have to think about "The Young Lady is A Royal Chef". It is about a MC coming from an abusive family possessing an illegimate daughter suffering under severe mental illness + anger issues due being always isolated + discriminated, being separeated as a baby from her slave mother who got later killed, the abuses of the third wife of the shitty father, due to her neglectful and ignorant unforgiving family and commited suicide at the end.
What pissess me off is the fact once the pitiful original host was gone and the stronger smarter talented more open minded MC took her place and brings great results to the clan, the male family members super strict patriach grandfather, the older second born blue haired rough warrior brother and first born very scheming manipulative blond brother starting to get very interested in her. And of course they eventually develop great affections for her after her new personality keeps impressing them with her intelligence; cooking skills AND LOVELY SMILE...
Ok. They didn't abuse the original host but they looked down on her because she didn't function well, throwed tantrums, was always so gloomy, passive agressive, quiet and attempted self-harm + failed suicides... And my thoughts: Goddamn assholes!!!!!!!
So my question is why I shouldn't be very angry about the plot of "When the Villainess Loves"???
I mean basically once the MC replace the misunderstood mistreated villainess and with her bright friendly personality/more attractive outgoing behaviour she unintentionally gets the love of the MLs and sympathy from the other male characters.
Well if the spoilers in NovelUpdate are true:
The Villainess wanted the MC to take her body because they are separated twin sisters. She gets reborn as her sister's daughter and evtll becomes the next grand ruler due to the promise of a very apologetic father/king and psycho half-brother.
I am so thankful that there are stories like "Beware of the Villainess","The Pet of the Villainess"; "I want to be you just for a day" and "Kingdom of the Queen" where you don't have to gain the love and attentions of fickle assholes/scumbags to survive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s how the story works, I mean like I don’t really understand what the question is here lmao, we all have our preferences, if you don’t like it then don’t read or just continue reading without saying a thing? Like I don’t get what answer you want from me bud
Thanks anyway
In my opinion, you cannot compare "The Pet of the Villainess" and "I want to be you just for a day" to any other manga of this genre. They're just simply superior. I don't know about the other two, but they're probably good based on your taste
For me these stories I mentioned and personally like are truly about self-empowering + emancipation!
Yes, you can't compare these two together but at the end of the day they give out similar progressive message: Fuck The Elitist Prince, The Hell with everyone bigoted, The Patriarchy and Conservative Conventions!
At least in My interpretation ;)
Why do so many female authors from China tell trashy hellish telenovela stories about virtuous super pretty wronged (actual priveledged) FLs that still gets abused or mistreated by the superior super rich desirable MLs and almost all other women characters want him to the point that they would never harm him and get super jealous evil towards the MC who is the most fairest + beautiful of them all... And why are the parents of the MC especially the father so dumb and incompetent???
All of the Chinese manhuas i've encountered were all about revenge they must be hiding deep rooted anger and drawing and writing are their outlets.
The Count of Monte Cristo about a successful revenge has a more clear narrative, consistency and a cathartic ending while these manhuas/novels are often losing their actual goal and the plot becomes so convoluted.
Take for example, MC with the help of ML managed to punish or kill evil step-half-sister and ex-fiance after 100-200 chapters but then more jealous bitches and obessive assholes show up and it becomes a dark action conspiracy...
If they really have anger, they wouldn't write trash stories about the rich priveledge powerful in a hellish telenovela/soao opera world (Dynasty). They put the MC/FL always in massive pain and constant danger while the ML is practically a invincible half-god who gets away with everything especially his childish attitude, abuses and rape towards the FL.
I like to recommend: "Peerless Alchemist" and "Kingdom Of The Queen"
In Youtube: Telenovelas are Hell
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She still hasn't found her space gun and she gets saved from the ML when she ran away from the 20 asssassins until she was too exhausted... I am really disappointed...
Why are you disappointed? Is it because of the cliches?
I mean it is a cliche, but even with her training she can’t do much in that body especially if she is going against 20 assassins
I was expecting more from the soul of a clever space soldier.
That she had to be rescued by an already overpowered ML.
I wish that she could have somehow outsmarted those assassins.
Ohhhhh, yeah I understand. ╥﹏╥
Understandable.I think she could’ve if it was half of that amount because her body could only do so much, plus it is just some dumb plot device to get the on more friendlier terms
I mean she managed to win the knight competition with her space bracelet and strategic mind despite having a weak body and a team of men who very much underrestimated her.
But in this chapter she was...
https://mangaswat.com/%d9%85%d9%83%d9%88%d9%83-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9-47/271256/
The powerful ML always knows better beforehand and he can single-handley kill 20 killers but the FL can't do anything at all???
I read the raws too; I enjoyed their dynamics though! Personally I don't mind if the plot gets dragged a bit longer if we get more intimate moments of Myola and Murdoch. Can't wait to see the sister's reaction when it gets discovered that Murdoch is the crown prince
My standards for a strong clever female MC is pretty high since I ve read "Empress of Another World" + "The Monster Duchess and The Contract Princess" + "Kingdom of the Queen".
I may be to really biased towards the MC Hailynn but it does bother me that she is the typical innocent pretty bright eyed helpless damsel in distress who is now literally surrounded by shiny ideal devoted princes and knights. And unsurprisingly it turns out that she has been a (priveledged) lost princess all along the whole time...
The MC from "The Monster Duchess and The Contract Princess" is also a very abused child that almost dies by the hands of her evil corrupted blood relatives but instead of crying and waiting for help she uses her anger to survive, scheme and seek out on her own good allies. What I also like about her is that she is not a sparkling princess and that a god or future ML didn't save her at all. And her adoptive parent is a middleaged badass woman warrior :)
The story premise of "Am I Your Daughter" also reminds me a little bit of EBONY/에보니. Personally I prefer Ebony because the characters are more interesting, mature and empowering. I highly recommend it.
I was expecting the same or similar assertive heroine from the artist who worked on Empress of Another World...
I think its not possible for this one cuz she was abused since the age of 8 and her whole world was within that cabin. I don't even think she knows whats normal and not and how to even handle her emotions. so I assume that her mentality is literally an 8 year old girl who knows nothing but fear and that humans can't be trusted based on their looks? Tho I'd love it if the duke/prince could teach her the word revenge ;D
Yes I know her character is weak but she is mentally scarred and not an adult like ebony. Ebony was exposed to new ideas during her prison sentence and had access to books in her noble home. MC was essentially kidnapped at 7, doesn't have any prior memories and was restricted knowledge. Again in who made me a princess she was abused but she was an adult Korean with a lot more knowledge. Its too early to tell. If its by chapter 40 and there isn't improvement then there's a fault in character writing
But what about Leslie in The Monster Duchess who has been tortured since her birth until she is like 12? She had enough courage, intelligent and self awareness to emancipate herself.
Hm true. But again Leslie had access to books and knowledge and knew herself that she could get better. This MC had an encyclopedia. Leslie trusted the ducal family so quickly because she knew she had something to offer and that they had a "contract". Right now she doesn't even realise they consider her family with or without the contract. The MC here has nothing to offer so she has no reason to believe they won't hurt her, hence why she's meek and untrusting for the time being. Maybe if we knew more about her background then I could judge it better but I cant assume she had the power of leave on her own. Stuck in a cabin in the middle of nowhere is a lot different from being in an attic near the capital. If she ran where tf would she go? The fact she ran the second time around proves that she has some sort of strength. Now I could be wrong and she might end up being a bit weak but I cant judge her right now.
A very convincing argument.
I thought it was over once those stupid main leads dealt and defeated the stereotypical one dimensional step-half sister and her former cheating low life ex-boyfriend-fiance.
And now it has become a convolluted action conspiracy drama with endless revealations?
As the other commentors already have said: Authors like that don't care about consistencies or qualities anymore and just want to quickly create many dramatic outrageous plots to get quick money from female readers who fantasize about being a helpless priveledged very special lady that keeps getting rescued by a cold cruel powerful ML...
Absolutely spot on,well said!
Does almost every Asian Drama/Story needs a psycho stalker as the standard surprise antagonist? I saw that plenty times in China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea entertainment media.
I am starting to think they only exist as dramatic plot device to increase the bond of the two romantic main leads AND to make the ML look more heroic/desirable/sympathetic...
There is really sth wrong about using this trope.
What is your problem ? Not only Asian, okay.. you better check before you want say anything..
Very simple.. don't like it.. find other .. there's plenty.. no need to say asian or whatever..
I did check and I am myself an Asian/Taiwanese who read and watched several Asian dramas, novels and comics. Regardless of the genre there was often the sudden appearance of a psychotic stalker that threatens the main pair...
I enjoy reading Unromantic but I find it annoying that an antagonistic stalker has to be suddenly in that story.
Nothing can top Indian soap opera shows with their rebirth, surprise twins and ghosts.
no, this is just yaoi things. One of the popular troupe of yaoi. I like this troupe of yaoi so... u know. Or this could be the influence of Killing stalking, before there's not that much stalker in yaoi.
I get the the impression that the Indian Soap Operas are more overdramatic and over the top than telenovelas.
No, I am pretty sure that is a common trope in many Thai, Korean, Chinese, Japanese storytelling dramas. You should see how many stalkers appeared in Shoujo and Josei mangas.
It s their culture
Let's not forget about all the amnesia arc's, the awful disguises, the cntinuous repition of the same dialogue using different words, all the villains becoming nice/ going to jail.
Is Melissa the only female transmigrator MC in these Fantasy Romance Korean Novels who doesn't give a fuck about those who looked down on her and did whatever she wanted?! She even dares to insult her own father and brother with profanity^^
The other one that comes in mind is the manhua/novel The Peerless Alchemist! She is a real unapologetic badass who has male waifu and when the shitty emperor demanded her eternal loyality she said to herself: "Fuck It! I am going to build my own country (NovelUpdate Spoiler).
By the way, do you think Melissa and Trash of the Count’s Family are similar to each other?
I am concerned with this issue because I ve read the stories "When the Villainess Loves" and "The Young Lady is A Royal Chef". They basically tell about a MC who replaces the original host who has been unfairly hated and mistreated by many around her. But once "she" display a bright kind sweet open minded virtuous attitude those who were very bias against her starting to become more interested in her to the point she gets her her unwanted affections...
That message pisses me SO VERY MUCH off :(
Same here. It do be pissing me off too
Thank you.
By the way, in "The Pet of the Villainess" the MC Sasha a powerless extra uses her knowledge/soft power to survive but she doesn't kiss the asses any assholes out of virtuous guillable naive kindness. She rather empowers those who are actually decent and can rise up against shitty people.
Omgggg I love Cale and his buddies especially Alberuuuuu beru beru, but sadly the novel is on haitus T.T. Now that you mention that they're similar, Yuri as Choi Han, Melissa as Cale, Nine as Raon or the cat children, but the plot I different though.