Yeah I read chapter 1 and was wondering if this deserved my time and Grey Goo's comment solidified my opinion: This whole thing feels very anticlimactic.
The FL's father selling her off is played for jokes, but that doesn't even fit the tone of the story, it's not some absurd comedy like Ranma 1/2, and it's not even funny. It's even explicitly stated that the father of the ML didn't even ask for anything in exchange for the investments but her father still sold her off unprompted.
And indeed, her husband actively shot her down and gave her the cold shoulder without a care about how the mood of the home would be affected by that, or how she would feel being a housewife with no purpose. He only wanted her to stay because she was as convenient as a sex doll.
I get that arranged marriage plots where the characters end up falling in love can be interesting to read as you see the feelings gradually change, but that's a moral flaw that is not going away.
Everyone in this are snakes, this poor woman is surrounded by snakes. I don't care if the interior designer really likes her, it's clear he would have set her up and gotten in the way of her bag so that's a big no. Unfortunately he has pretty privilege so we are going to end up cheering him on before this ends.
And I was right about him having been hired by the husband, that's how big of a snake that cheating scumbag is. He wanted not only to cheat on her, but also to leave her without a single penny. Though I do get the feeling he likes her not in a true love sense, but he feels accomplished when he sees her get jealous. This fool is about to get jealous from seeing her with the man HE hired himself.
I'm on chapter 10. This is better than I predicted, at least for now.
I didn't know what to expect since the rating is kinda low for Mangago standards and there's so little engagement, but the characters are not stereotypical, even though the premise itself is very cliched already.
I've only read up to chapter 4 and I'm already done with this. Not only is the writing dumb, but the FL was going to rape the male lead (who she thought was in a coma) for the sake of bearing an heir, with his mother's approval and all.
Now looking at the other comments, seems like I'm making the right decision by dropping this. Best not to waste my time reading over 50 chapters of trash.
I just want to know what happened to Yeoul. WHERE IS YEOUL? Does the cute little fox just not appear again? That would be so sad! Give me all the spoilers please!
So I'm rereading everything and Somin appeared since the very first chapter, she's a travel club member. On chapter 10 it's said she's secretly dating another club member, so my guess is her lover broke up with her and that's why she looks so sad on chapter 77.
At first I was like "huh? The sunbae doesn't look like the one on the cover"
Now I'm kinda sad bc I liked the sunbae's design better. Still reading though.
This story is not completely bad, but both main characters are badly written, albeit in different ways.
First we have Dabi, who is very sure of her sexuality instead of being a little lamb. The problem though, is that she makes no concessions in the relationship. She influences Junghyun to change his clothes and hairstyle, but the positions never change. He is always giving, she is always receiving. She misunderstans him and fucks up, he forgives her. It's never the other way around.
Some relationships do work like that, but this is not an interesting read to me, I prefer to see development on both main characters.
Then we have Junghyun. It's nice that he's not a rich CEO archetype for a change, and he's the man most women dream of, but there are still issues with him, or should I say it's a lack of issues? First of all, he is madly in love with Dabi and would endure anything to be with her, but the reader never gets to understand WHY he fell so hard that he waited for her for 10 years.
He supposedly rejected all dates before her, so what was it that made him fall so hard? And he says he fell for her in their first date, but during said date she was just nodding along to his rambling. When Dabi's sister asks him what he likes about her, Dabi interrupts him before he can finish his sentence. But seems like it boils down to love at first sight, which is kinda weak for a love that lasted 10 years.
And we get to see Dabi's family and friends, but all of Junghyun's family is dead and he has basically no friends. That just goes out to show how superficial he is as a character. He is the perfect man, that's as far as it goes, and that gets boring.
I recommend this to whoever wants to enjoy some smut, because most of the story is just that. If you removed the sex scenes, this story would end in 20 chapters. I do like some smut, but at one point I really stopped caring and just started skimming so I could finish this.
Sorry, but it's not just the translation that is bad.
They are going into this super dangerous, supposedly well guarded place with no disguise, and one of them is super famous and should be easily recognized. And there's security on the door, yet nobody is seeing them prancing around in that alley? And the club keeps track of the people puking in the alley, even their full name and address and the stage of their maggots, but doesn't realize that the main characters are going there that often and puking nothing?
And how convenient that they get into the security room and there's no one there! Unless the top is actually with the cult and is just luring the bottom while pretending he is investigating, this is not going to cut it for me.
This story is as flat as the colors in the art.
Sanho is the typical bottom that fell first; ditzy, naive and dense, constantly stumbling in his words. But this portrayal is so extreme that he comes off as plain stupid. The author is forgetting that Sanho is an ADULT MAN that is portrayed as handsome, friendly and smart enough to get into a good university. He is not a little kid, he should not be this clueless. The drawings of him with little dog ears get annoying even.
The only way to redeem his character would be to just come out and straight up say he is autistic or something similar, and I say this as an autistic person. That would be the only explanation for him being so socially inept. And before someone says "well he could actually be autistic and you shouldn't assume he isn't" or whatever... Unless it's stated in universe that Sanho is autistic, this is just bad writing.
But Sanho is still better than Euihyun, who simply has no personality. The authors wanted him to be an asshole to make the unrequited love plot last but couldn't commit, they don't even have the skill to commit in the first place. Not only that, but they still wanted him to be the sweet and gentle hyung that Sanho fell in love with so how can he be an asshole? Other authors make this work with some sad backstory, but this is not being achieved here.
Seems like the explanation they were going for is that Euihyun doesn't like people that only care about his money, but from the start it was obvious Sanho wasn't one of those people. Even if there was an initial misunderstanding, it should be over pretty quickly. But no, he knows Sanho isn't after his money but still acts like an asshole. I mean, what's a good explanation for him to get so mad that Sanho was waiting for him outside?
It's clear to me that his actions are solely defined by what the plot needs, he has no substance.
When the mistress asked how he knows that it wasn't her who saw them, I'm guessing he said it's because he put someone (the ML) to tail her, and we've seen him do that, but seems like he lied about her being at the gallery.
Also, now we know the ML knows her from the past, but the moles of the ML and the dead lover are different places, so my guess is that he's a sibling or some sort of relative.
I'm only starting this after the comments say if he's with her mom or not. I've seen enough cougars in comics this month and I'm not into that.
This is interesting, I don't think it's josei though. Seems like a "seinen" with a female protagonist. Quotation marks on seinen because this is a Korean webtoon so this is not how they classify things.
The designer guy looks like a past lover of hers, was recommended by her husband and reported her steps to him?
How much y'all wanna bet that the husband hired that guy to seduce her and make her out to be a cheater so he can divorce her without giving a single cent? The husband must be doing precisely what the lawyer is talking about on chapter 3.
FL is not keeping a poker face, sadly. The cheater saw someone peeping and the very next day she ditches the table where they were fucking? It's too obvious.
This ending is not open at all guys. You see the blurry dead sheep in the end? That's Dennis in the bottom of that pit.
Also, just because the ending wasn't lovey-dovey it doesn't mean it's bad, this was actually great and got me thinking over here, my jaw is on the floor.
I was hoping the comments about her seeing him and her mom fucking were metaphors or something. Nope, they were fucking indeed and she saw it indeed.
This is my first time seeing this manga. The name is Asagiiro no WHAT? The random Portuguese got me surprised.
For those who don't know, "saudade" is the Portuguese word for the emotion of missing someone or something, something similar to nostalgia but not quite.
In chapter 1, Ren's internal monologue says Matsuri is the person she had been "dying to meet", so I guess that feeling was "saudade"