messenger's Manga

If you like Hinata from Naruto, you’ll love the FL. That being said, pretty solid premise: the FL grew up in an emotionally and physically abusive household, only then to be married off to a man who then leaves her for battle for three years. However, he returns, takes her back to his land, and they slowly fall in love. As compared to Hinata lol, the FL, Maximilian, is first shy, naive, and has a low, low opinion of herself. The ML, Riftan, is hot tempered and has a cold almost abrasive persona, but he is genuinely in love and gentle around Maximillian. Their relationship is cute - it’s a mutual love, and Riftan definitely showers her in it. There’s no “will they, won’t they” aspect to their relationship, because they do love or at least are very interested in each other from the first chapter. Outside the magic and political intrigue, the main conflict of the story is Maximillian herself: in her words, “there’s no one I hate more than myself.” Other than a romance, the story is about an FL that tries to find her confidence and build herself back up from years of abuse and neglect by a power hungry father; she is at first self deprecating and doubts herself at every angle, but she slowly learns how to be confident in herself and her abilities in order to be the Madame of the household. It’s not an overnight thing, which I like; it’s a slow process, and it’s something that she has to do by herself. However, and this is my personal point of view, the ML can come off as overly shy and naive - it seems as though almost everything puts her in a flustered pile. And while the “explicit” (it’s not really explicit tbh more like implied) scenes are nice, I do start to skip them because they appear so often to the point that any time I see Riftan appear I almost find myself skipping his chapter entirely bc I know how it ends up. But despite that, it’s a good manhwa, at times even refreshing and different from others.
8/10 as of July 2022

This manhwa is just good vibes. There's not that much of conflict, there's no great political tension; it's just about a girl name Hazel (nobility still) wanting to start her own farm, and she so happens to gain land ownership to a plot of land that belongs to the Palace. So what does she do? Make her farm there! And slowly but surely, she turns these stuffy nobles that grew up in grandeur to appreciate the simpler things in life. The protagonist herself is a hardworking ray of sunshine who truly does that farmwork. It's very sweet, soft cottagecore lol. That being said, the core message of the story is that: sometimes the simpler things in life brings you more fulfillment. The manhwa focuses on farming, with a slowburn romance with the prince on the side. Speaking of the prince, he's the typical "cold but a softie underneath," though this time I do actually see the softie there through his friends. As for the prince's friend, has it not been for them, I really would have viewed him as being basic lol. But no, the friendship between him and his close group of friends are sweet, as it's shown he really do love them and want their company, so it hurts him when he sees them ignoring him (as he banned the nobles from associating with Hazel by a law lol) as they get closer to Hazel. Don't worry, this isn't a love triangle (or hexagon?); the friends love Hazel, but it's very obvious it's stemmed from respect and platonic love. The prince goes in disguise to see what this "farming noble" is like, only to slowly gain admiration for her tenacity and passion for her work. As for Hazel, she still doesn't know that the knight she's feeding is the prince that placed a ban on her, but that won't stop her from doing what she loves!
It's a simple story, and I believe that that's part of its charms. As of now, the story is still incomplete, and there may be a change in the pacing of the story where it gets more intense. But, I am perfectly with the pace of the story as is.
9.5/10 as of September 2022