eishin's manga / #Drama(27)

Olivia was an illegitimate child from a count (?) family where her stepmother and stepsister basically treats her like trash whilst the father always turned a blind eye on whatever the other two does. After having witnessed Dylan (her only ray of sunshine in her miserable life at the time), kissing her stepsister, she decided to go through with her plan of throwing away her noble name and living as a commoner instead. While mourning for her broken heart, she met a fairy who was dying of hunger, she fed the fairy and it gave her a "seed" in return which made it possible for her to grow any plant as long as it is something she has seen before. With that, she lived as a commoner florist in the capital by the name of Wendy Waltz. A good story, it was a breeze to read through. At first I was considering to drop it because her and Rad's development was getting very very cliche (it was kinda getting annoying to see her trip all over the place like really?). However, I'm glad I was patient and read it 'til the end because the ending didn't feel rushed at all. The sweet moments that they had especially towards the end were so cute that I was actually screaming while reading it. I especially love the proposal where it calls back to their first kiss + connects with another thing that Wendy has said before about love. I also like the fact that the Isaac (CP) was like a bestie to the both of them lmao. I didn't like him very much at first but he grew on me by the end, honestly I wish we saw him getting married. It was just refreshing to see a manhwa where the Crown Prince is not a douche/didn't turn out to be a 2nd ML going to a yandere arc even though he's close to the FL. They're just good friends and we love to see it, good for them. Anyways, overall a pretty solid read. Although it isn't the best of this genre, it's still definitely one of the good ones.

A very fast-paced story, plot was predictable and it's that classic childhood friend trope with a sprinkle of memory loss and a little bit of misunderstandings. The good thing is, because of how short it is the story never dragged any of the issues and it gets resolved pretty quickly. It has smut but it's basically just the seme sticking his thing to the uke and then them enjoying it. No foreplay whatsoever, the story is cute though and it's fiction so whatever I guess. Wish we saw more karma for Hyunwoo's fake family and Hansung's dad though *shrug*.

I was so excited for this since it's from the same artist as Trash of the Count's Family, and as expected the art did not disappoint. Can't say the same for the plot though. Honestly, this was quite unpleasant to read with how Sein was taking advantage of Ilwon, while Ilwon himself is super pushy with Sein. I just don't see how this relationship will turn healthy when it's built on lies like this. The way it ended leaves you with this bitter feeling where you just dread the time this relationship goes up to flames.

There's a lot to unpack about this story, but to prevent a huge wall of text let's just say that the second couple (Yoonseol/Jungsoo) was definitely more fleshed out than the first one (Suk-yun/Woo-in). I loved how the author introduced the main couple during the first few chapters, I was hoping it would be a good journey through the narrative of healing and learning to accept yourself instead of conforming to please others, (as a fellow who has problems with being a perfectionist myself) but we kept switching over to address issues of the second couple (which I didn't hate because the storytelling for their story is immaculate) though this caused the issue between the main couple to be place in the back burner. Then we got to the point where the second couple's relationship has a more solid foundation than the main couple, as we got dragged back to the drama of Suk-yun and Woo-in, a lot of questionable (and seemed unnecessary) things happened. It wasn't the type of development that I thought the author would do to help heal the trauma of both the main leads in a healthy way. Instead we went through a rough route which is just borderline toxic, the way we didn't even get a proper talk about addressing the rape and SA was just a no no for me. That's not to say that I didn't like this story tho, honestly I loved it a lot so that's why it's a shame to me that the main couple's story headed in that direction before we got to the cute moments of their relationship.

Interesting premise and could've been a much longer story, I'm not even going to talk about the R and SA because a lot of this plot already doesn't make much sense :') Honestly, the knight feels like the best choice out of the three of them. The red-head is a red flag while the duke (was Elle's husband before he decided to off himself because of the alpha-beta situation that they had) also had some faults during the first "timeline." I get that it's difficult for him to control his alpha instincts during his rut but him touching omegas happened so much to the point that he knocked one up. Couldn't he have done something about his stupid relatives when he isn't in his rut? I don't know, it felt super neglectful regardless of how much he loved Elle as his husband. Anyways, it's decent but could've really have a more explored plot.

It's too short to form any solid opinion about the plot. I'm not sure if this will ever have an update in the future given that it's been years since the first CH was uploaded, but if it does continue I'm quite interested to see where the plot will take us.

I don't know why the creator for this one decided to write the story this way, but we had to go through things in such a roundabout manner that it was a bit painful to read (and not in a good way). At first I thought it was going to shape up as a good angst, but it turns out that both Tensei and Rei are just idiots in love who don't know how to communicate. People kept saying that Rei was stupid for being insecure but then we were showed how they became mates in the first place and Tensei really just went straight for the bite and sex after finding out Rei was an omega without explaining his feelings. Rei isn't a mind-reader and all this time he thought Tensei was doing everything out of sympathy for him, no wonder he was so insecure especially because he's been in love with Tensei even when he was still a beta. My opinion of this story was generally positive around the end of the first part (until Ch.16) because idiots in love is pretty fun. However, we just had to go through with the sudden secondary gender switching BS for the sole purpose of 1) redeeming Tensei's brother (which was a loose thread btw, we don't know what happened to him after he became an omega) and 2) to show how Rei and Tensei's relationship isn't built on just their ABO gender and that they love each other no matter what. I just think that there could have been better ways to write this part of the story without making switching your secondary gender all of a sudden such a norm. We also meet photographer boi (was with their squad but is closer to Rei) and he likes Rei in a non-platonic way but at the same time he does support his relationship with Tensei??? He's confusing honestly, he seems like he does like Rei but also wishes for the two of them to be together for a long time. Wish we'd get more about him and the brother who became an omega. Overall this story wasn't good, but I don't really hate it. The smut was lowkey well drawn and we got to see babies at the end. Would I read it again? Probably not. But at least I don't really have any regrets after reading it

If I could rate this a 2.5 out of 5, I would. It's one of those stories which we can't judge with a view of the world building in just one lense of black and white. On one hand, I get the reasoning for Yukari's behavior and why he decided to continue with the business despite the fact that he's no different from his family in the sense of trafficking beastmen. He's not rich and knows all too well that the world doesn't treat beastmen kindly. In his mind, the best way he could help was to do what he does best, running the business regardless of the morality of it all. It's the same for the beastmen working for him as well, that's the life that they know from a young age (it's so sad that they get sold by the villagers themselves) and having an "owner/boss" like Yukari is the best thing that could ever happen in their mind, for the current circumstances. Basically, Yukari set ground rules to at least make sure that he keeps the ones working for him safe instead of treating them as if they aren't living beings (heavily implied that this is what was happening in previous shops). Then there's the uncomfortable truth that me, and a lot of people can't sit well with. At the end of the day the whole plot centers around human trafficking. While it's nice that at the end they got to go south where I assume the beastmen can experience a mundane lifestyle, the fact that the problem isn't really addressed properly still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I guess it's the way the whole situation felt so normalized, even though we know it's wrong. I just wish we got some kind of closure about the topic, since the ending felt quite rushed after all the fuss Shima made in the beginning about the whole situation. Lastly, the reason why I decided to go with a 3-star instead of a 2-star rating is because the relationship between Shima and Yukari ended up being quite adorable. The art is nice too so the reading experience wasn't unpleasant. What I love the most is how quick Shima is to apologizing and owning up to his mistakes. He's stubborn and acts like a brat, but he's not one to close his mind and heart when he realizes that others might've been hurt from his actions. His character felt iffy at the start but he ended up being quite a likeable one, along with Yuki, in this story. It's great to see both of them happy in the end.