yaejin is the most realistically written character that i have seen in awhile. she feels truly human and perceptive towards those around her. it's so unreal that she feels so real and u can find urself relating to her at some moments,( at least i related to her or sympathized with her in certain scenes.) i love how the guy w the glasses is slowly finding himself attracted towards yaejin though this might become a problem for her in the future, but he's slowly seeing the beauty in yaejin that she can't see in herself. i actually started crying during certain parts like when she started to burst into tears about how the real reason she photoshops herself is bc it's how she thinks her dead sister would look if she were still alive, like SHIT that was a really good reason for her trauma and hurt and made so much sense for her to cope like that. DUDE AND i love how different yaejin thinks from other people like with the book she received from that blondie, she didnt fake any emotions and truly criticized it in the way she thought it was. she's not swayed by what society says about anyone or anything , she stays true to herself and always keeps opinions she has and doesnt let them be changed if another person says something. she's a very strong individual and she feels like a real person at times and doesn't care if society ostracizes her and that's what i fucking love about her especially. i think this might be one of my favourite manhwas as of right now bc of the message it sends and how real of a plot it is.i hope it gets more attention in the future..
ALSO i forgot to add , yaejin is the most patient and mature mc ive ever seen that feels so realistic and not entirely fake or forced. she feels like she was really a real person that was forced to grow up fast due to how society treated her and how she needed to understand that her life will always be that way. yes she does act irrational on her emotions like how she accidentally 'ruins' her relationship with jinsung but (later makes up for it), but i found that aspect in the story to be so good because it showed she was a human too. she's also driven by semi selfish and emotional motives at times no matter how composed she may be.
god how i hated every single one of the characters. the only one i semi liked was ha yan but it was out of pity. and maybe jiwon but he was a side character/comic relief. this manhwa just put abuse and mental illness in an exaggerated light, almost like a mockery of it. ha yan deserved better than what happened to her mainly bc all the shitty things she did were kind of due to manipulation and her mind not being in the right place. she's literally unhinged and unstable. it's really awful how that fucking piece of shit wooyung or whatever uses that to his advantage to take control of her. i hate men like him who love mentally vulnerable women and use them as toys for their own entertainment. i find it disgusting that this behavior portrayed in this manhwa constantly and in a 'normal' way. ik it's just supposed to be a story but please.. some of this stuff was just so cringe and edgy. and dont get me started on that other black haired girl.. god she was so fucking annoying like who even was she?? like random mf interrupting the whole situation. she was such a tryhard and acted like 'i'm not like other girls.. i'm quirky' type beat.
i like this story a lot n i hate to say this but i'm w the mc. i rly dont want her gettjng caught in this lie but i want her to keep catfishing everyone bc it makes her feel better, even though that's a very flawed way of thinking. honestly , i feel so bad for her and i doubt in real life if we could see her face , she wouldn't even be 'ugly' bc south korea is known for it's extremely high beauty standards.
okok uhm so like this is completely my opinion on dis but this manhwa is so unrealistic n it sort of makes me cringe at times lmfao. LIKE i'm not saying it's bad or anything but genuinely some of the things dat happen r so exaggerated it makes me cringe. it's so edgy and gives such an edgelord vibe to it probs bc my best friend thinks he relates w the ml which makes me laugh BC HE'S DUMB FOR THINKING THAT. the fact that they exaggerate the girl getting almost r**** 3x by different men n not suffering from some sort of trauma just makes this whole manga experience so unrealistic. IK it's j a story n it's a work of fiction, but still, everything is so extreme. IS THIS ONLY ME THINKING THIS?? the story is good imo, but it's just da characters dat r so fake feeling.
Tbh I have different opinions like this is realistic, like I'm talking with experience I nearly got raped once and molested many times but I'm not traumatized, like basically people gets traumatized when raped, not when they almost gets raped. Plus it's well written I think, there are other bully revenge stories which are wayy more unrealistic, like I think it's realistic enough and I like the story
I agree, some plot points are way over the line. No fucking way regular schools in japan have murderers strolling around so casually in a hs, let alone all of them feeling little to no remorse for their victims [both the murder and other shit they've done]. It just screams "I'm 14 and have depression so I use a dark edgy anime pfp on discord and have ominous statuses, showcasing that i'm deep" lmfao
Although the story is fun to read. Unrealistic, but entertaining notheless.
SRY I HAVE TO MAKE ANOTHER COMMENT BUT UH wtf was yaejin an unreliable narrator this whole time omg. I THINK HER MOM IS LYING TBH n making her look crazy or smth