Ariest's manga / #Webtoon(102)

The story is messed up, but at the same time really interesting. The author does a good job writing suspense and political intrigue. It's fairly accurate to the mythology, but with some very unexpected and highly dramatic twists that put the legend into a completely different light. And it's nice to see a story that focuses on plot and character development first, instead of romance. A lot of the characters are super interesting, flawed, but also really likeable. Overall one of the best webtoons I've ever read in terms of character design, world building and plot development. I only have two complaints: 1. there's too much rape and it feels fetichized 2. the story sometimes has a tonal issue, where the characters' reactions and tone of the story goes directly from something traumatic to something cute or funny. This is especially the case after rape scenes. And I don't like it, it feels uncomfortable and almost offensive how light the author and characters take something as traumatic as rape.

Dropped at ch. 11. The story is too focused on smut for me. The plot itself is pretty meh to me.

*Sigh* where to begin? (Spoilers btw) I picked this up bc I love a good enemies-to-lovers or lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers story, but this one is just infuriatingly stupid. It starts out well enough, but the lovers-to-enemies arc is kicked off by the uke's own unnecessary and insecure decisions, and the story is just downhill from there. Not only is the whole reason for them turning into enemies ridiculous af, but them being so emotionally hung up over each other after an unnecessarily long time-skip (almost a decade) is also ridiculous. The final drop for me was the uke apparently getting gang raped out of the blue at work. It's genuinely disgusting to read what the author subjects their own characters to, and for no reason. Completely ruined the story beyond return for me. I'm honestly so appalled by this story that I think someone should check on the mental health of the author, cause it sure af is not normal to go into such graphic details with the many acts of physical abuse and rape in this story, while not even bothering to show our main character's first AND CONSENSUAL time together. Dropped

The comedy of this webtoon is really well done. A very fun light read.