I’m gonna be fr and say yuri bait is one of my most hated tropes in historical manhwa. It’s always so forced and I always hate the kind of friendships where there female friend is obsessed and worships the ground FL walks on. Feels less like a genuine friendship but a show of “who can flatter the other the most.” To make the FL feel better and that the world revolves around her, with everyone around her loving her.
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Doesn’t help the fact that lady Devon never liked the current FL for how she is, but only liked OG Agnes for what Agnes did in the past. So it solidifies my thoughts of this being some substitute friendship that isn’t actually directed towards FL. It may also be why people feel it’s so odd and out of nowhere that lady Devon is so affectionate. Because that affection isn’t intended for FL in the first place. It’s similar in terms of how a love interest would like the og character and not the transmigrated mc.
Lmfao idc I’m a Mitsuhide hater for life. He’s been annoying throughout the entire story and he doesn’t know when to give up. He seriously framed and plotted MC’s murder, and yet nobunaga is always way too soft on him. At most he’s sending him away for war. This seriously won’t end until Mitsubishi is dead, and ngl I’m hoping for that. An eye for an eye. Screw mitsuhide’s unrequited love, idgaf. He’s done so much shit and still won’t give it up and then tried to have MC killed again after the time skip. NOBUNAGA DONT want you HOE. Not even after 11 years when MC wasn’t even around lmaooo. How is he not embarrassed.
Ngl there’s so much for me to cover lol. First impressions: FL is likable as she’s pretty forward with what she wants. She doesn’t shy away from sex and initiating things. She also is the first FL I’ve seen, who actually told off another dude for kissing her without her consent while sleeping.
ML is interesting. He’s a flawed but normal individual. He has worries and insecurities despite his position and looks. His reasons for being scared are reasonable. Being a single parent gives so much things to worry about when it comes to dating. Like if the person you like even wants to be with you due to you having a kid, or if the kid will like the person you date.
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The cons is that there’s so many annoying af side characters and rivals jeez. Just when you think there’s a rival for each, they add TWO new ones without even handling the previous ones.
Like the teacher makes me uncomfy cause she’s clearly crushing on the ML. And it’s odd cause I feel like she’s influencing the ML’s child by acting a certain way. I get kids kissing others at that age isn’t unheard of, but I feel like as a teacher you SHOULD be establishing a boundary that your students (no matter how young they are) shouldn’t be kissing you/anyone besides their family. But she lets it be as a greeting.
And then new coworker chick talking about she’s divorced cause she wasn’t focusing on her kid- NO WONDER SHES DIVORCED. SHES even using her kid as an excuse to try to mingle with ML.
Nah I get yall hate the ML, but you’re crazyy saying his new haircut is ugly. I genuinely think you guys are just trying to find a random new reason to hate him lmao. Cause ik that new haircut is popular and is the most common favorite hairstyle of the most mainstream attractive male characters. Just look at the homepage and 90% of y’all’s faves (both ML and MC) have the same haircut LOL.
Okay so despite the complicated future scenes of gunner and Theo. Theo was basically talking to gunner rather gently despite the SA. But it’s confirmed that this was a gentle way of rejection. He’s basically closing that chapter with gunner in his life. Saying that gunner can do whatever he wants to his body, but never have his heart again. Gunners all upset, crying, shooting Theo in his legs to make him not leave. Surprisingly Theo is let go, and they move onto other scenes? Like Theo back in his office with his legs bandaged up and Dylan rushes to see him cause he saw that theo’s stuff is gone from the house. Then they actually have a sweet moment and you can tell Theo is whippeddddd for Dylan. Looks like Theo says he did that cause he didn’t want their relationship to be contractual anymore and wants it to be official. And of course, Dylan acting all cute and flustered lmao.
Okay as someone who has finished the novel, people seriously need to stop spreading “spoilers” when they haven’t even read the novel and are spreading rumors from someone who relayed incorrect info. In regards to lady devon:
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She is not a man at all like people have been falsely spreading. Those people are followers who found wrong info and are relaying it to others. She is one hundred percent a woman. There is a single scene in the novel, to make it have a comedic and misunderstanding scene. It was explained that she was CURSED to turn into a man ONCE a month, every full moon. She is not originally a man. And the novel doesn’t specify her feelings towards Agnes, as romantic. It feels closer towards admiration, idolization, and gratitude for the original Agnes. Btw that info about the curse on lady devon was mentioned only once in the novel and was not mentioned again and wasn’t elaborated on. They didn’t say why and how it came to be. They threw that info in there and then left it.
Anyways onto my opinion:
Tbh I’m not enjoying this addition. This is another new event that never occurred in the novel. Lady devon never cockblocked Kylo. So it’s pretty annoying that they created an opportunity for Kylo and FL to be alone, and they decided to give that screen time to lady devon instead. Forced girl friendships are one of my least favorite tropes ngl. In the novel, FL was hardly close to lady devon, and literally only interested in ML. So it was like both FL and ML were each other’s most important person and paid each other their full attentions 24/7. Which I found stood out in all the other stories that has the FL being popular and being friends with everyone. This whole lady devon becomes hostile to those that like FL, feels off. I actually find such rival friendships annoying af. It’s like the author saw the trend with yuri bait and wanted to throw more bait in.
And also the fact that the only reason lady Devon admires FL is because of the OG Agnes. So it feels icky to develop a friendship with FL, thinking she’s the OG Agnes. That affection feels like it should only be towards the OG Agnes. It’s what OG Agnes should’ve received. It’s like the maid that loved and cared for the OG villainess in Kill the Villainess. I forgot the exact reason, but something happened between OG Agnes and lady devon in the past, which made lady devon start to admire OG Agnes and hate Raymond.
Could be wrong but I believe the last chapter came out in the raws. Though the title of the chapter doesn’t have “end” on it the ending of the chapter says “complete.” Anyone worried about mc or how ml doesn’t help- their relationship actually became calm near the end ngl. Anyways there’s a “plot twist” kinda where mc doesn’t remember anything, which is true, but does end up regaining his memories but keeps it a secret from ML, wanting to take advantage of ml being soft on him, and continue with the relationship. I guess mc believes that ml would throw him away if he regains his memories, so he continues to pretend to not remember anything. It’s not too sad like it sounds, it’s more like the mc is cunning and is an equal match to ml, in terms of wanting to keep the other stuck to their side.
Guess I was wrong, it was just a rushed af ending. Anyways would’ve been better if the story had the childhood friend as the ML. It’s like the author put the most screen time and work into him throughout the entire story and then gave him a bit of hope with misleading from the FL, then shut him down as he was the happiest. The end. Author was right, story was disappointing.
Ngl this was really good in the beginning but fell flat towards the end. If you’re gonna do a revenge story, it’s should be done to the end (not saying there shouldn’t be a peaceful and sweet period of time at the end). I mean if you start the story brimming with wanting revenge, keep the energy all the way through. I could tell the revenge was not gonna be as satisfying as soon as the FL started defending the homewrecker. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the girl gets let off the easiest despite doing the exact same things as the man- which is cheat and homewreck. The way they gave her a sob story to pity her character to soften up her treatment bruh.
I’ll say it now, manhuas do revenge stories the best lmao. They’re ruthless and always pay back the revenge 10x worse with no mercy or pity.
Conclusion:
I loved the story but I have to admit that towards the end, the revenge plan became watered down as the FL started pitying the chick. The romance was kinda rushed and feels like we should get more after they finished the show, but I liked their moments anyways.
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Oh and btw if anyone wants to know a revenge manhwa that has a more mature and serious tone with drama, I recently read “Innocent Wind.” FL was really hellbent on revenge, putting anything on the line, and was gaslight girlboss lmaoooo.
I guess it all makes sense as to why the story went in that direction.
-Artist having personal issues with health and needing surgery so rushing to finish the story
-Agency and artist choosing to cut down the original amount of episodes from 70-80 to 50
-Original writer changed after Season one and was replaced by a new writer
Honestly wasn’t mad about the ending. I’m glad the artist gave so much info in the note too. I didn’t really have any expectations of where the story would go- I thought it was unpredictable, so I wasn’t disappointed in the least lol.
My only things were of course it felt a bit rushed. It’s a shame cause I loveee vampire stories. So hearing that the artist’s decision in rushing the story also was because they had contracts with future works they wanted to do, was a lil sad- cause I thought this trope is more interesting. Hardly much supernatural/vampire BL manhwa. And that I wish we got way more Dominic and Eugene sweet moments, just peacefully being together (extra chapters).
So I checked the raws and the author is dragging the main couples story. There’s 129 chapters and still ongoing.
The plus side is I think the side couple’s story is cute and entertaining (the 2nd ML’s story). But once it focuses back onto the main couple, it feels like the author just puts more random events. Just when you think the issue with the 2nd ML is resolved, the author decides to throw in yet another new guy to create drama smh. It doesn’t help that the FL is so naive and friendly with every dude that likes her. I saw one chapter where she’s at a club with new guy and people keep bumping into them, making them both hug each other two separate times. Like FL is holding a drink and she gets bumped and somehow she stumbles onto the new dude, her free arm wraps around and hugs his neck. She backs off awkwardly and then the new guy gets bumped and he also stumble hugs her around the waist.
Idk I feel like the FL just has a lot of issues.
The potential this story had in the very beginning was high. With the character designs and premise. But then the actual plot and writing of characters went downhill. It’s like every author that had a nicer romance work with no love triangle, decided to make a new story with a dramatic af toxic love triangle plot. (Author of fools, heesu in class 2, this author, etc). They all wanna follow some drama plot trend and it always turns out so ass. You can’t tell they suck ass at writing such tropes. Like pls leave it to the authors that started out with that trope and know what they’re doing instead of jumping into a trope you don’t even know how to write well.
I still don’t even get the purpose of throwing the creepy professor in there. Like what even is his purpose? To stir the pot?? There doesn’t have to be an entire character that does that to get some conflict into a story. The professor feels so useless and like the author just wanted to copy paste the appearance of their fave ML from the previous work. The professor just feels like some old dude that has nothing better to do with his life than mingle in his student’s business.
The characters are ass in general too. The ML is self explanatory. But the red head is just plain stupid. Like of all people to go to, you go to your professor?? What about your parents?? Do you have any other friends? What went on in his mind for him to think it’s normal to stay at a professors place for comfort.
It’s unbelievable that the sob story works on gullible readers but at the same time it’s not cause there’s always gonna be those types of people that sob stories will always work on.
Anyways spoilers for those that do have hope for gunner, thinking he’s “safe” for being familiar or deserves a second chance for their mid ass “happy memories:
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Future dub-con rape(?) Another one btw in a car. Gunner is waving his gun around and cries as he shoots both of theo’s legs. Then they carry on like nothing happened.
This gotta be one of the most delusional BL fandoms I’ve ever seen. Just came back from multiple TikTok posts of people crying about seunghyun being with yuta and not with jaeil.
My issue is, a TON of people are babying tf outta seunghyun and thinking he’s some perfect angel. As if he isn’t apart of a damn gang doing all the dirty work and dismembering some dude in the first chapter cause he was mad about the wedding.
They’re mad that jaeil and seunghyun aren’t together (mainly cause they’re suckers for one-sided loves and want it to come true even when the other party doesn’t like the person), ignoring the father/son dynamic where jaeil picked him up when seunghyun was a child. But also are disgusted with the twins. So pseudo-incest is great but actual incest is not, for them.
They’re mad cause yuta SA seunghyun but stay ignoring when dooshik SA jooha and the gang rape situation. I swear this fandom picks and chooses based off their faves. Their logic is “if my fave did it, it’s okay, they must have had a good reason for it!! But any other character is bad for doing it!”
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So props to the people that DO acknowledge whenever any character does a bad thing regardless if the character is a simp for the person they like.
I like the story, however there’s one thing that bothers me. It’s how they end each arc. So far I’ve seen 3 arc endings and each one ended in a way where it’s kind of an open ending. They don’t show you even a little bit of what happens after the end. It’s really unsatisfying.
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So the first arc ends where the ML sacrifices himself for MC but says he disappears and is wanted by the system. That’s it. Then they move onto the next world.
Second arc has MC get killed as ML shouts out for him, distraught. Moves onto the next world.
Third arc MC leaves ML and 2nd ML and there’s no confrontation between them before even leaves. Just saying words of what will happen and then MC moves onto the next world.
It’s unfortunate cause other system stories usually give you some info or closure to each arc. But this one makes it so you know nothing after each arc. I wished we got actual scenes showing the two leads faces