LaNansha's Favorite

So I read this up to chapter 56. I’m going to be honest: I don’t understand what appeal the FL has. I mean she’s nice, straightforward and she’s not typically good looking which is what I liked at first. But as the story went on, I realized that aside for this manwha’s irritating message insisting a man and a woman cannot be friends, I really didn’t actually root for her to be with her best friend. I couldn’t see why he loved her in the first place. In fact, I even started to like the long black haired girl more. Everything about her was pure and driven by love in a way that would’ve made me root for her as an MC. I ended up wishing that she was even more when our actually MC, the FL started being rude to her for no reason outside of her denial of for her own feelings.

Anyway, I wasn’t invested enough to keep reading it since it’s not like we can switch FLs, so I dropped it there. Not to say it’s a bad story, I actually liked it up until I realized that I didnt see the FL’s appeal anymore.

I’ve felt this for a while now, but I feel like carcel’s such a breath of fresh air in the story. All the characters are great, but since a lot of the main characters in this story are very headstrong or pessimistic, carcel’s optimism and easygoing attitude makes him very refreshing in my opinion. He can accept anything without being stubborn, egotistical, or sensitive about it.

For example, a moment that really stuck with me is carcel’s teenager years. Most people would probably focus on the cheating, but I viewed him as admirable. He was an individual who was aware they were forced into an engagement against their will, yet he eventually sucked it up, moved past that and accepted it with no ill will towards ines, even going as far as to court her back. Yes, he eventually realizes he loved her, but at that moment he didn’t know it, but still acted so easygoing which I found impressive.

It’s done very subtlety and not really emphasized on, but if you pay attention to all of their small conversations together, Ines is quite tactless in the way she addresses and talks to him, yet he always just lets it go. It’s not even like he isn’t hurt, you can see he is, but he just decides to focus on the positive. His easygoing personality that is willing to accept every criticism makes him insanely likable in my opinion and feels like a trait that makes him more of a “good” character rather than a gray one because it’s a trait that allows him to easily fix any flaw he has in literally a chapter. He doesn’t need a long character growth arc. Someone telling him he sucks and he should fix himself is enough for him to be like “okay I’ll fix that” and he actually does.