uotoni's manga / #UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH UPDATE PLS(2)

Modern day story. Female lead eunha goes off to college and bumps into her ex best friend seungmin. They were super close in middle school, but once high school started he became a big bully and she had to distance herself. Everyone at college thinks he's some hot sweet nerd, but only she knows he was a bully. But she also remembers when they were close friends. He ended up in the same major, same classes, same school as her. He tells her that he hasn't changed at all, he's just come back. She seems to dislike him but he shows up everywhere. She gets partnered with him and he even somehow ended up bringing her home when she was blackout drunk with her friends. He even remembered her birthday even though it didn't end up being a passcode for the door. We're only a few chapters in but I can tell I am going to adore this. The art is great. ML is fucking adorably hot. Story is pretty good so far. I don't usually give ratings after only a few chapters but 5/5️ at least so far.

Going on a hiatus until q1 2025. They got together finally just before he left on some mission. FL is isekai'd into her fave novel as a rando named Hestia. As a hard core fan, of course she has a bias, and that is that is Caelus the 2nd male lead. However just as in the original novel, the FL, Diana, married the prince and then publicly criticized our Marquess Cael for killing the terrible duke and duchess who were holding the empire back. The prince, his childhood friend, and Diana, his first love, both abandoned him completely after. Hestia was isekai'd into this novel as a commoner with no family and a shit ton of money, so she bought herself a title so she could spy on her fave characters from beginning to the end of the story like the fan girl she is. But then the story continued after the wedding. Call tried to kill himself that night, but failed, and made several more attempts on his own life. The emperor fell I'll and the relationship between the prince helios and the saintess FL Diana began getting rocky. Hestia, meanwhile, is pissed at all that Cael, her bias, has had to suffer at their hands, and hates the main leads. But she also is realizing she is all alone in this world and has run out of money and moved to a remote cabin. But she runs into Cain hiding in the woods and takes him to her cabin to help. She rushes out of the house to get food to make him and ask him to love together but when she returns home, he's already killed himself inside her house. She turns into a crazy person after that and goes into the temple and offers her life of they'd just bring Cael back to life, andddd then she wakes up again but on the day of the wedding. She rushes to the marquis' mansion, bolts past the servants and guards, and tackles Cael before he can stab himself. She offers him a contract marriage and he's like "sure, whatever" because he feels like there's nothing left to live or be afraid for. So, they sign a contract and she gets to work on getting revenge on his behalf, sorting out the manor, and helping him recover. The prince doesn't like that she went up against the temple to get Cael's land back, and Diana also acts all arrogant even though they are both commoners originally. Hestia, meanwhile, is fangirling over every move Cael makes and everyone at the manor supports her. Eventually she tells Cael she can see visions from the future, because he is sus of her, and then that is also used by her to get the prince to trust her a minor bit too. Anyhow, her plans are all working out well, she just made a soap business to combat sickness so that the people wouldn't need to go to the temple as often to get treatment (to attack them back for starting nasty rumors), Hestia has won over most of the social circles and didn't need much help turning them against Diana who hates nobility wastefulness and shames them publicly for it, the prince is doubting Diana because she's been lying about her powers going away and once he tells her that he trusts Hestia's vision Diana goes a little cuckoo and decides that if he really loved her he would trust her (even though she's a liar and 2 faced), so now Diana wants to jump back into Caels arms like the psycho arrogant little worm she is. Meanwhile Cael knows that Hestia loves him, calls her Hes, refers to her as wife, helps her business venture, invites her for dates, introduced her to the emperor who is like a father to him, and smiles a lot around her. Pretty sure he's trying to be a decent guy and sort out his own feeling for her before making any moves because it's what our queen Hestia deserves. Just like he sacrificed everything for Diana in the past, Hestia is sacrificing everything for him, and he doesn't want to be ungrateful or turn a blind eye to her like what was done to him. But in a recent chapter, he blussshhhhed when they got too close, even though they've been closer before without him feeling a thing. So we know, even if he doesn't. Where I left off was the end of season 1, where Hestia tells Cael that there is going to be another threat of war and asks him to step up and solve it so they'll give him the Duke title he deserves. Not gonna lie, the cover had me avoid this webtoon because the art wasn't the best, but then ya read it and the art is phenomenal. Like Cael is such fucking eye candy. Such great art! The story, is just the right amount of absurd comedy and dark drama and sweetness. I'm honestly obsessed. I want more! 5/5️