I think reading this arc with some awareness of Chinese beauty standards helps (thin : beautiful and alluring, fat: overweight and lazy), especially in ancient times. The concept of 'everyone is beautiful no matter what your body shape' is more prevalent in West, and is completely different in Asia. This is primarily a Chinese manhwa with it's intended audience being Chinese.
Chinese artists would never create an 'overweight' heroine with this. Villains and second female leads, yes, but not the main characters, sadly.
somebody finally said it ╮(￣▽￣)╭
preach
its kinda ironic because back in ancient china (and the west as well) slim/skinny people were considered lower class poverty and were disliked. whereas "fat"/bigger people were considered part of higher class. it also meant u had a lot of money (enough to buy a lot of food, etc.) which is why a lot of people back in the days stuffed themselves.
and now everything is the other way around (in most ways) and people are trying so hard to follow beauty standards.
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I pressed the thumbs down ╥﹏╥
I'm at chapter 4, does it get better? Because right now, the MC just transmigrated into a new body and didn't give a single flying hoot about the fact that she FAILED her lightning tribulation and accepted her transmigration in 2 seconds. Then she became so OP, any face slapping or beat downs were automatically given, and it didn't even flow well. She's venturing into Mary Sue territory, and I didn't get this impression when reading 'All Cheating Men must die'.
Yes it gets a lot better
Gets better
I enjoy it, but then I love overpowered heroines who are reborn/transmigrated/reincarnated. It's my thing. :D
It gets supppeeerrr better that I want more updates fast
Recent chapters has been really great, youll love the mc and her “husband”
Amazing art? Check. Good story structure and flow? Check. Lack of badly drawn chibis? Check. Good humor? Check. For a Chinese manhwa, I'm shocked.
If we MUST have romance, I'd rather he end up with Poison Phoenix. At least she's sexy, doesn't take any shit and kicks ass, her way or the highway. Much better than So Wul, who's somewhat delegated to typical white lotus heroine. You tell us she kicks ass, but I haven't seen anything that could measure up to Poison Phoenix in any way.
but i'd rather he'd end up with so wul instead of a harem. really really hope it won't be a harem!!
tbh I'd rather he stayed friends with the Poison Phoenix since they most likely wouldn't have a very healthy romantic relationship.
I don't want him to end up with So Wul either but if this takes a romantic rout then that's probably the way it's going to go.
Poison Phoenix is really kick ass tho
100% gay for her.
I agree about the Poison Phoenix being by far the more interesting character and wassername clan sister is so far the likely but more boring route.
However, I also love to see female characters who are there because they have strong, influential and interesting characters and NOT because they're the love interest. He's already got a number of male allies who are in the story on the merit of their own strengths, so I'd like her just to be in the story for the same reason.
...So, I guess if we MUST ship him with someone at all, we should ship him with his cute lil mechanical genius bro, hehe.
Korean webtoons must've desensitized me. I thought these smut scenes were too mild to be considered smut lol.
Ikr, the clothes censored everything. I didn’t even realise they were having sex, just thought it was some ‘rubbing’.
Awesome! Did you guys notice that all the powerful bitch slapping women are named Scarlet. (See 'May I ask for one last thing?') I'm going to name my future daughter Scarlet and raise her up to be as face slapping and wall punching!
What an awesome dream ┗( T﹏T )┛
I just watched ep 9 and was crying my eyes out. I have to ask:
Who did you honestly prefer more for Mafuyu?
Thumbs up - Uenoyama
Thumbs down - Yuki
I mean.. your question is just too cruel ╥﹏╥ I simply cant choose
It's honestly a stupid question. Who cares what we prefer? As long as Mafuyu (and Uenoyama) is happy then I'm happy.
No lie, Yuki really did love Mafuyu though but he has Uenoyama to support him now.
No need to be insulting - it’s a question for the readers here to get stats, nothing more, nothing less.
...yuki’s dead anyway
to add to the other comments, I'm also on the team that moves on. will not deny the relationship mafuyu had with yuki but he's dead and dwelling on the past will only cause him heartache and guilt
I don't get the seething rage against the emperor. It's customary practice for an Emperor to have a harem of beauties (to not have one was seen as not normal, actually) and has been a long standing customary obligation that the Emperor needed to fulfill, to produce a male heir to the throne. For such reasons, the harem exists. Automatically fangirling over the second male lead on that basis, while we know nothing at all about second male lead at all, is something I don't understand at all.
However, the queen's power ranks above the consorts, as you could see here. Hence, you get all these palace politics and schemes that the women battle through (some end up in tragic fates, see real life example of concubine 'human swine')
I would also add that, to have the emperor eventually falling in love with her, and abolishing the harem system, though unrealistic but possible, is something I am looking forward to seeing. (There was another work that abolished the harem system, but it was done so horribly, I was not satisfied and left so many questions and it just glossed over the reprecussions just like that.)
May i know the name
Welll..... there are some emperors that dont have harem.. just depends if he want it or not sometimez
Didn't he say at one point he promised her she'd be his only wife? Then he broke that promise.
And quite honestly, they need a rule that if any of the concubines and consorts cause issues with the official queen/empress that piss her off, she can have them executed, cause that sure would cut down on intrigues.
That awkward moment when everyone is having seizures over the bad translations... only to realize you actually UNDERSTAND said translations due to the many bad Chinese translated novels that you suffered through and became immune ;_; (Just a little)
The reason why I will ALWAYS be on edge whenever Sangmin shows up, is that we truly don't know what he's plotting. It stems all the way back in high school, when the MC completely humiliated him, and he swore the MC will pay for what he did.
Fast forward years later, and everyone clearly moved on... except Sangmin, who I never could tell if he truly let go of his grudge, or it became a growing ball of jealousy / envy for the MC that'll drive him insane as a villain in the future. Seems like a ticking time bomb.