At first I thought this is a common 'the heroine gets over through every obstacles meanwhile everyone hurts her but the end she is victorious and happy' type of story and in some sense it is. But before everything, psychological tag should be added.
Everyone in this story is broken. Penelope is kinda like a psychopath. She doesn't care of anybody but herself, doesn't see anyone as human, she just uses them as she wishes, every thoughts of her are revolved around herself. Even in the latest chapters in the novel, her first thoughts are always on herself and hurts others, including Callisto, without much thought. It's understandable, taken into account of her past life and her current life experiences. What I don't like is that literally everyone has a character development later on but not her. You'll need to wait until the very last extra for her to behave like a normal person.
Derrick situation is the worst. He is the heir, has a big pressure in his shoulders but brought his siblings out without permission and escorts and lost his little sister, who was like an angel and loved dearly by everybody. He killed his own sister and ruined his family. He was just a child and noone helped him to cope with all of these. And when his father brought a look-alike, he was reminded on his sins day and night. Even worse, the lookalike didn't behave like the lost child and turned out to be very different from Yvonne. On top of that he fell in love with her. It's just natural that he is the most vulnerable for Leila's brainwashing because he would do everything to change that day and get her sister back. I thought a miracle happened when he broke the brainwashing.
Eclise became insane when he understood that Penelope is just using him and doesn't give a damn what happens with him. It took a lot of time for Penelope to tell him at least one nice sentence, at the very end of their last conversation. Honestly, I was satisfied when Eclise finally let it go and left her behind with the monsters.
You’re forgetting that this is survival for her, it’s a life or death situation for her all the time, and even at the end you see that despite all her efforts, it’s practically impossible for her to survive. Ofc she doesn’t have the time of day to waste caring about the minor feelings of all the people that would’ve killed her if she didn’t put a hell of an effort in to manipulate their emotions to be less negative towards her.
Well this is not your typical story when the FL change her attitude after she went back time or transmigrates then the other characters reaction to her will also change.
No, I haven't forgotten, I stated that her behaviour is understandable. I don't think she needs to be compassionate at this stage of the novel, my problem lies on what happens after the happy ending, years after the happy ending and how she treats others around her at that time. Even when her child goes missing her first thought is something like ah, I have a hard life and only starts to panic when she sees the nanny crying. A pity the author even in the extras only concentrated on Penelope's self-fulfilment and her resentments but not on her improvement emotionally and psychologically.
Sigh, I thought there is finally an update...I like this story because the awesome clothes she wears, hope there will be regular updates soon ;)
Yes, you must take off his underwear too, unless you want his penis to catch a cold
Honestly, it's a let down how they derived from the novel at the scenes with the Chinese hitmen. The police questioning Yiyeon because of causing a traffic accident was embarrassing. Those were the best scenes when they did a theatre at the police station and it was almost entirely cut out.
please elaborate. i hate it when they change it from the source material.
In the novel, they meet in the restaurant, Jin Kang thinks that Yiyeon followed him there out of jealousy and when he questions him, he sees the hitman with a gun. He tucks Yiyeon, they fall to the ground and rolls to a room, meanwhile the hitmen are shooting continuously on them. Yiyeon confesses during these scenes that he is VX and they conclude that the broker is alive. There is a long scene when they are running away with Yiyeon's blue Ferrari with the hitmen behind them and then they end up in an office building. Police arrives, everyone runs away. Later they go to the police station and make a funny theatre, that they don't know why they became a target, maybe someone couldn't take that Yiyeon rejected them etc. When they are left alone in the room, Jin Kang recognizes that there is a hidden camera and they even start to play lovers. They go with the police to Jin Lang's fake home which was destroyed too but he says that nothing seems to be missing and he has spent these days in Yiyeong hyung's place anyways...Police guy rolls his eyes and let them go home and tells them not to leave Yiyeon's house because it's dangerous.
NOOO WHAT THEY ROBBED US now i want to see Yiyeon hot ass driving ferari in a car chase and they playing lovers would be SO CUTE the og has way more heat and epic aaaah now im pissed. Thanks for telling me.
https://chrysanthemumgarden.com/novel-tl/zda/zda-8-5/ The scene starts here. Maybe they didn't want to picture the police as incapable as they were in the novel
Read it. They had to nerf Yiyeon huh, bro was a badass, know how to shoot and drive in a car chase. Also we were robbed of multiple kisses and make out session smh.
I can conclude the scenes are prob too long (they had to cut it to fit the numbers of chapters agreed by the artist/publisher). Either way it lowkey suck.
I just told a couple of people 2 days ago how much I like this novel and it deserves to be adapted into a manga, and now I see that Saki Aida Sensei passed away on August 30. Such a devastating news.
Really?? I'm so sorry
Do you have any info if it will be to a manga?
Unfortunately not. I don't think there was a plan to adapt it, although it would be great to happen, the story deserves it.
Uploading a placeholder would solve the problem of low quality translations (probably), a lot of translators are using this method on mangago
And then uploaders get shitted on FOR placing placeholders.... there's just no way out（/TДT)/
So at least half a year of hiatus is coming...I wish speedy recovery for the artist, I also have a desk job so I can tell sitting a lot every day ruins your back and lower back
I don't want to be an ass but there are so many translations nowadays that mix up gender pronouns, it irritates me to no end. It's not that difficult to correct it, Noah is a guy, not a she and her, and as far as I remember, he doesn't call himself an auntie in the novel either. It seems to be a small mistake but 9 cases out of 10 this ruins the atmosphere, at least for me.
There’s a novel?! Are there any English translations?
Agreed, the latest translations are bad
https://www.brittanypage43.com/tag/dear-benjamin/
The continuation Love, Benjamin is there too. Enjoy :D
I'm so sad, it seems this is truly the last chapter. I wonder what happened