apopoi's manga / #shoujo(190)

Our MC is a privileged noble lady. She is the youngest of five daughters of a widow, the precious jewel of her mother and the queen of high society. She has lived in luxury all her life because of her mother strategically using her beautiful four daughters by marrying them to high nobility. She had put the most work into our MC and pampers her the most, she is her favorite daughter clearly as said by her. But she is a proud woman. So our MC runs into her fiancee, the future Duke having ~sexy time~ with his mistress on her birthday party and she confronts him telling him that their engagement is annulled. Obviously her mom won't allow that as that is a trivial thing for her and believes that she is only doing it for her daughter's sake. The MC rebels by starving herself and locking herself in her room, then she goes on "dates" with nobleman who had interest in courting her. Obviously, her mother intercepts them, the funny thing is the guy she spent her time the most with was bribed by a painting from her mother personal gallery. That's so funny.. hahaha Her mom froze her bank accounts and severed her personal connections due to her rebellion. So she had no choice but to go to the ML who was interested in her for a long time. The history between them is a short one. When MC was 18 years old, she and other unmarried young noble ladies were invited to an event with promising knights. They would tie their ribbons on the knight of their choosing's sword and the MC chose the ML. Ofcourse the MC was desired by many, but when she saw the ML standing alone in a corner, he reminded her of herself so she initiated conversation with him holding out her umbrella for him since it was raining and tying her ribbon around that umbrella and offered it to him (which he refused but she pushed it) then ran away. Sometime later, the ML sent her a personal letter requesting for a dance with her..if she would give him the honour of having the first dance. Which her mother read aloud and humiliated him infront of everyone, now this has a deeper meaning as the ML was a commoner essentially..being an illegal child and a mercenary. So it was bitter. A marriage contract was probably signed between them tho it's obvious that ML still fancies her. The MC also blushes a lot so there's that. Oh..btw I read upto Ch10 them skipped to Ch26 to the latest which is Ch32. Btw the translation becomes wacky. Also why is our MC being called 'Tiara' when her name is 'Tatiana'. That nickname is so strange, or maybe it was supposed to be 'Tara' or something? Overall, the story is OK, the art is pretty basic..but one of the better ones I have seen these days. The ML is very handsome, I love that his hair is a bit longer..it is similar to a mullet. The MC's mom is interesting tho she aggravates me. Also the MC's elder sister Regina who has been divorced four times already is also interesting, she wasn't the fondest of her sister..I don't blame her..The MC is very boring. She has no flavour, she is the epitome of a basic white girl. No one else stands out to me..sorry

The title is so misleading..didn't she immediately agree to being adopted? I mean with a condition ofcourse : the servants should be fired in the orphanage, (they neglect their duties and indulge in gambling while the orphans have to fend for themselves). The fl is pretty with blonde hair and green eyes while the ml has black hair and blue eyes. The MC is currently 13 years old in this life with the name 'Ellie' and the ML is two years younger with the age of 11 going by the name 'Damien'. The MC is the daughter of a famous thief who stole jewelleries from the Emperor's treasury and was found in a Count's residence and comitted suicide or was executed (not sure the translation differs on each chapter). So the MC was brought back to the orphanage countless times because her mom was a thief. The empire has two Dukes; one in charge of commerce and the other - war. The former is the father of the ML and the latter the adoptive father of ML. The two Dukes were close friends. They commanded such power that rivaled the power and authority of the Emperor and on top of it all they were friends so they were a threat to the Emperor. So he ordered an assassination on the ML's parents, framed as a carriage accident of some sort but the ML survived. The ML led a hard life, being treated as a slave and an entertainment for some nobles who dabbled in illegal acts. He also had a master who unsurprisingly abused him. The MC is isekaid so she knew of the book's plot and helped the ML. At first she just ignored him and did not take part in bullying him as the og Ellie took part in bullying him and was kicked out of the orphanage and froze to death. Then the look on ML's face reminded her of herself so she helped him. The ML is already whipped for her and the MC is a sweet older sister to him rn and I love that dynamic. It will change in time but I like it. The MC also "accidentally" ran into the duke and subtly told him that there were five boys with black hair when the orphanage only showed him four boys, he figured they were hiding the real child of his friend. Also he decided to adopt the MC as well as his daughter-in-law. The issues in this story is so minor and so stupid. Like a man trying to frame the MC of stealing a jewel by ordering a maid to put it in her pocket. And all this would magically make sense considering her mom was a thief so that inturn makes her a thief. The MC ofcourse put it back in his pocket without him knowing therefore turning the tables on him. Idk if I should call her a girlboss but that didn't even make me blink. Also there seems to be some mystery with the MC's pastlife, it doesn't seem to be the typical modern world's setting. Also the Duke is reminded of a woman (his lover?) everytime he sees the MC so there is something there. Maybe MC has a secret to her birth.

Yup..this is the story for me. To think that the story I dropped a while back after reading the first chapter would fit my taste so much. I like that the ML's obsession is a bit explainable and he himself is aware of it. The way he wanted to shackle her and force her to be by his side using any means, latching onto her weaknesses and exploiting it, but being hurt when she is sad and miserable when she is crying. He feels so much for her..her getting angry at him and calling him a bastard makes him smile, her seeing him off eventhough that's her duty made his day, and he was willing to pay for her ex's meditation and do whatever she wanted as long as she was by his side. Also important to note, when the MC and her ex finally broke out, the MC was in a drunken stupor and in such a situation she agreed to sleep with ML. She even says "If you are a good man, you will not agree in such a situation" to which he replied "Fortunately, I am a bastard". That did not make me hate him, that fits his character so much that it makes me feel for him even more. Him clutching the opportunity that finally came to him was so desperate but so telling of his yearning for the MC. Also, the MC's tenacity makes me so fond of her, she is so loyal but knows when to let go. Her acknowledging how the ML has helped her was nice, she doesn't take it for granted. Her skills as a saleswoman reminded me of some real-life saleswoman in my place. She is so talented. The ML asking her to speak to him like she did to the customers was so hot. It is also noteworthy how naturally the MC and ML's relationship progressed. We know that the ML loves her all the way back but the MC also has feelings for her tho she doesn't tell it to the ML cuz of the situation, the differences between them and their history. It was so seamless. Also the ML's development *chef's kiss*. The MC although hot-tempered is so sincere, how she helped the ML and did not treat him with prejudice and treated him the same way even tho he was technically blackmailing her was nice.

Yeah..this is the most mid manhwa I have ever read. It's so incredibly fast-paced and everything seems to happen in 2x speed. One moment, they feel one emotion and traumatized the next they are seemingly over it and forget it then when the plot needs them to be sad again, they are. The MC is so confusing, she is not strong mentally and physically. Also I never thought that her legs would be such an important deal in this story, don't this kind of things get resolved easily? Also it feels like the author is squeezing the heck out of this story. It's so dry and so unoriginal, also we had to have the crown prince as the second male lead, didn't we? If he couldn't be the ml, might as well be the second ml, huh? Also the MC is so dumb and annoying, a goddamn child. Her being so naive and being convinced that staying silent would make everything alright, her resolving to do something and losing heart and the will to carry on, then wishing for love but consider herself undeserving of such love. Her being so traumatized was unexpected..she was an adult before afterall. The ML is the typical male lead..black hair but not red eyes..he has purple eyes with his pupils resembling that of a lizard. He is deeply insecure about this characteristic. He was trained as an assassin and lived a life of abuse. Until he is saved by the MC. Also his change in demeanor and attitude was too sudden and felt disjointed, how he trusts people so easily and all. The crown prince was born out of love of his parents so the path of an unloved child with trauma of being discarded has been removed. However to compensate for that, we have his deep complex about not having golden eyes. FYI Golden eyes are a symbol of royalty and he is the only member of the royal family in all it's long history to not possess this trait. So he gets angry at the MC for having one. The same thing happened to og fl for having golden eyes. The way Chloe easily accepted the MC as her daughter and is loving her unconditionally is such poor writing. That can happen but it should be gradual. Also what potential does she see in MC? I seen nothing..nada. She dumb, weak and too dependent on other people, she also has no guts.

Maybe one day That day is now..I love it!! It's so low-key and mild compared to some high tension manhwa but that makes it all the more digestible. The story is not hard to follow and has a hint of mystery sprinkled in it. Our MC who has lost the will to live because of her terrible family has now regained hope to live with her new family who she is bound to by a contract. The 5 of them are the peak of their respective fields from master of the 9 magic tower, head of an assassin guild, a knight of the highest level, a mage of some sort, and a powerful merchant. They are all super eccentric and so chaotic and fun. My fav at the moment are Pasi and that chibi mage..she looks like a child with her chubby cheeks and I love how Pasi is so devoted to Al and is a chef. My ideal man..he is more of the pretty type but what does that matter? There is the deal of the ring being passed on from generations to Al's family..and when she broke that ring..she met her new family. So there is that and our MC is talented in languages, she knows the forbidden language as well as divine languages..that is very rare and a skill that is in dire need for the investigation that they are currently undertaking. So I feel that her family purposely hid her talents from her and made her feel worthless only to compliment her step-sister in the same breath who seems completely average with a haughty attitude. There is also the deal with her two childhood friends that her step-sis coveted from her..how the male friend suddenly got engaged with her sister and the female friend suspected her of doing some immoral thing. The two friends are siblings btw. They also seem to be hung up on Al and seemed shaken and happy seeing her again and quickly saw through her "disguise". Also her living as a man is totally believable..I would just regard her as a pretty and polished man if I didn't know any better. Although when she "disguised" herself as a female, she acted rather feminine. She might also be 'The Alchemist of Gold'. All clues point towards that. I mean she is the MC so it is of no surprise that she would take centre stage in the plot but anyway..the two brothers who are destined to serve the 'Alchemist of Gold' because of their mixed blood (their mom is a fairy) are drawn to her. Also the current suspected 'Alchemist of Gold' seems to be just a suspect in the end..cuz the band that they are in that now includes the MC too, her role in that is a guitarist and the MC is a singer. Why is this important? Well, it is told that the singing of that destined person was an instrument essentially that drew people to her and commanded attention..and that very thing happened when Al sang.

Love me some double life It wasn't as cliche as I expected it to be..it knocked my expectations out of the park. Love a simple-minded ml from time to time..what with all the cunning and possessive ml's everywhere who always seem to be one step ahead of the MC. It isn't a surprise that the ML fell for her quickly with his simple and brash way of thinking but our MC has caught feelings too~ That's honestly fine..we can expect a healthy dynamic atleast. The art is so pretty..a bit sparkly but not too overt. I was wondering why the cover has the MC with pink hair but the blonde hair was a disguise, huh? She said that she hadn't shown her real face since she was six, so dedication right there..*claps*

Bitch what the heck is this nonsense? It's a Japanese shoujo manga so ofcourse the MC is useless and gets caught in the most cliche troublesome situations and the ML rescues her gallantly. The thought process of the characters are so..ugh how do I say this? Just pure illogical thinking stemming from misunderstandings after misunderstandings. The MC knows the content of the book that she is in but still follows the plot regardless, she didn't even make an effort to change it. She's like 'It's fate' and she is like so weak to the ML..if he stares at her with puppy eyes or shows her affection, she loses her resolve. That's how she got pregnant eventhough it's clearly stated in the novel that the Duke and the Villainess spent a night together. Or how she started avoiding him but when he stood outside in the rain, she runs to him and gives him a place to stay and is troubled by his condition. When he showed his yandere side, she started shaking and trembling, and is scared but the next day she tries to tell him that she loves him and that it's all a misunderstanding. Then she sees him gazing at the og fl affectionately and kissing her and she runs away thinking 'how could I be so stupid?'..and in ch12 when she sees him again..she thinks that maybe the whole situation was a misunderstanding.

I remember reading this a long time back..My sister and I were just starting to discover this medium and this was one of my first manhwas I read..I remember being so intrigued by the plot and recommended it to my sis and she found it to be annoying. However, I continued reading it but stopped at one point cuz I felt like it wasn't going anywhere..the plot just stayed at one place. The characters are so confusing..for an MC who is such a sis-con and decided to devote her life for her sister whom she wronged in her past life..she sure is taking it easy and dismissing her sister's wishes for the Emperor (male lead). I don't know why the ML acts the way he does but I don't want to find out either. His behaviour is so strange, surely there must be something to it since the God acted kinda strange while talking to MC

Maybe it's because of the success that 'Into the light' brought, that manhwas of the same and eerily similar plot pop up everywhere. Last time, it was 'Ashtarte' and now..this. Anyway, the MC was a princess of an Empire. Although far in line for the succession to the throne, she was greatly favoured by the Emperor as evident in him appointing the most promising knight as her escort and not the crown prince's. She is also often told by her dad "Only if you were a man". The MC who is a gullible and trusting person blindly believed that her and her brother were close despite how sibling dynamics in royalty works. She came across her brother killing their dad in cold blood, and because she was a witness, she was also killed along with him. Now the MC has a question about this, Why? He was the crown prince and therefore his ascension to the throne was undeniable and expected. Yet he killed the Emperor regardless. He also framed her for the murder and used her supposed mental-illness as a probable reason for the crime although there has never been a case that involved her mental state before. He further said that she herself commited suicide. Now this seems fishy no matter which side you look from, but people seem to blindly believe it or they just don't care enough to question it. Now the MC is reincarnated as a divine beast, she was in her egg for ten years and her egg was half the size of a normal egg. There are three taboos that concern divine beasts : not to be involved too heavily in human history, not to reveal that you are a divine beast and not to fall in love with a human. Now we all know where this is going, this is a premonition..an omen that the ML is that escort knight and they will have a relationship in the future. All hints point towards it, maybe there will be a second male lead every reader will fall for further down the line. But he's the only potential love interest we have rn. He puts his name (reputation, since he is the hero of the empire and the best knight) to request the Magic tower to send a mage to investigate the truth behind this incident. Also, the MC's current father is also a divine beast but his human form is the reputed Grand Duke and her brother is the Master of the Magic Tower. Seems on brand with the whole 'everyone love me' trope. Seemingly, the ML has gone mad since her death. My feelings towards this manhwa is not too strong. It is OK. The MC doesn't seem smart and seems like the typical female MC in a historical setting as a princess. The male lead is also in the trope of being the best knight but a commoner who rose to the ranks with nothing but his sword. He was distant to the princess while he was her escort knight but he obviously likes her if he is being this affected by her death and considers it an injustice.

I do love a blushing male lead. It is high time we see an ML being as affected as an FL usually is towards their respective love interest. A blush on an ML is as rare as diamonds. As I was reading through this manhwa, I was wondering where this title came from. It didn't seem to fit the situation that the main characters were in but in hindsight, it fits quite well. The ML's father played a part in the assassination or murder of the MC's parents and her unborn sibling. The ML knew about this fact only recently and avoided the MC for a while but soon was unable to continue so because he loved her too much. But the MC was livid about this, because she heard it from a third party, not from him. Besides the Archduke twisted the story to fit his narrative. She treated him coldly at first then became indifferent to him to straight up telling him to keep his distance. The scene at the MC's parents grave when our ML asked for forgiveness and the MC called him out for his selfishness amd threw away his flowers. That was nice..plot-wise. I do know because this is a romance, that the MC will forgive him for this act and they will get married and yada yada. But I appreciate that the story spent this much time on this problem, with her being angry at him and asking him if he were willing to convict his dad for his crime when he asked for her forgiveness to which he remained silent. That silence was enough for the MC. Personally, I wish they wouldn't end up together, no matter how tragic the situation is, from a character viewpoint, it would be better to end it on a bittersweet note making it memorable for the readers and giving justice to the characters motivations. It is a romance manhwa alright, the whole knight and aura thing happens takes a back burn with the romance and the lovey-dovey atmosphere filling more than half the page. The whole revenge thing seems more like an obstacle that the main couple need to overcome to make their relationship stronger than a serious plotline that needs to be explored. The crown prince being irresponsible is new, what with all the cunning and douchey crown princes polluting this genre. I also hate how the alternate timeline Lia calls Eddie 'Darling'..it is horribly corny and cringey. Also she has both her parents alive and I feel she was so insensitive to our MC though she expresses her condolences. All she does is talk about their married life and the bliss that entails like her husband loving everything she cooks so she doesn't know what he really likes. Also I dislike how she always puts her title as a 'Duchess' at the end of every letter and her husband's family name. She seems so typical. On that note, I love how the ML recognises Lia's efforts and hardwork as well as her position to carry out her family bloodline so he proposes to relinquish his title. We stan an understanding man and a feminist. God knows how rare that is. Also that talk with the prince and the princess on whether he should withhold information from Lia if it could put their relationship in jeopardy. The crown prince's and the princess' response were so interesting, with the crown prince advising him to keep it a secret and the princess disagreeing with him and telling him to tell her everything and that their relationship should not revolve around secrets and would be based on lies.