You’d be surprised how many agree with you. If people want a fairy tale there are plenty of those stories here. If you want something realistic you’ve got that in this story. All people are flawed. Some worse than others. Regan was a miserable soul filled with self loathing. He was destroying himself through drugs, alcohol and debauchery. Ingrid lived her life suffocating from the pressures of society to a point of becoming emotionless. Her parents were selling her off to a foreign country.
So, Regan didn’t want her in the first place when she forced the marriage on him. She didn’t want him either, but was desperate to have some control over her own life. She used him. Neither one of them are innocent here. Once she married him though, she was determined to be everything a good wife should be. Regan, for the first time since birth, had someone who truly cared for him and no matter how many times he fell she never gave up on him, never ignored him and never judged him.
This is a very realistic struggle of two lost souls trying to save themselves and each other. It’s hard to watch at times, but that’s life. Life isn’t easy. They take one step forward and two steps back. Through all of this they slowly fall in love. Ingrid doesn’t want to play a good wife, she wants to be that person now. Regan begins to feel self worth and wants to be the person that would make Ingrid happy. He fails time after time because he was trying only for Ingrid. He finally understands he has to make himself happy and healthy….build his confidence and self esteem, only then can he share that with someone else. This was his first real step towards healing.
I love them both and have been cheering for them since the beginning. When you look at those around them, they had no real friends they could turn to. It was just them. They should’ve never been together in the first place, but turns out they were the only ones who could save each other.
I read all 81 chapters in one seating, and that says A LOT. There are many flaws in the characters, including the main leads and believe me you'll feel 105% frustrated throughout. However those flaws are intended by the author for them to grow out of. Their character development is very slow burn, and there were times they regressed but that's what it makes it more realistic. Exhibit A: The ML was a womanizer, sexist ass, drug addict, and had a tendency of being violent. Exhibit B: Both leads doesn't seem to know how to communicate, until one character(not gonna say who) acknowledged that. Even then, they didn't suddenly know how to petfectly communicate, but the important thing was they started trying.
This isn't like other manhwas we've often read where a sociopath or a tyrant suddenly changed his ways because of a woman (lol). 81 chapters in, and they're not finished growing. And I'm really in it for the ride to see the best ver. of their selves.
I'm not forcing you to read this. I'm just saying that this webtoon isn't bad as they make it out to be. Sometimes, it's best to judge something in a holistic perspective.
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