Periodttt's manga / #Manipulative ML(29)

Ch89. (Completed at ch104 + 13 side stories (total ch117)) Honestly I didn’t have high hopes for this story but WOOW it blew me away. When tags says “shoujo” and “romance” but the story is actually really deep and dark damn, love it. Honestly I love all the characters (except the emperor, empress, and crown prince). Everyone has their own struggles their going through ans everyone tries their best to just live their life. It makes them much more relatable then characters who are just op and don’t encounter any struggles. Also I love how Arth and Sasha suit each other so well, from the outside youd think they’re as opposite as can be, wirh Arth being smart and blunt and Sasha being bubbly and cute. But they’re actually both master manipulators, I love it. I just wish Rebecca and the dragon could find happiness as well…I hope Rebecca finds a like minddd person for herself (maybe the female knight). And I hope the crown prince gets what’s coming to him, spoiled brat

Ch44…on other sites it seems to be updating faster and regularly, so I’ll check up on it from time to time. Man our man’s went from tsundere to affectionate soft puppy

AHHH THIS MADE MY HEART SO WARM!! Mann he loves her so much where can I get a Gunho

Ch66, complete. Oof yea the psychological and angst in this is no joke, but ARGHH both male leads are trash, wish our girl could just run away but we al know she can’t, she just had to choose between the worse or the worser …after picking this up after it was complete shit I don’t even remember wtf is going on anymore, plot is so muddled, whatever tho I finished it

Ch 50, complete, it started off really interesting but by the end it was confusing and disconboblaged. Apparntly the novel fleshes out the story much better but the Manhwa kinda watered it down and made it confusing so idk but what I do know is that I… IM MAD THAT THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SMUT IT THIS STORY!! Bro the novel had so many smut scenes, why they gotta water it down like this . Overall if they did have smut scenes I’d put this in complete best but since they didn’t have smut scenes and the plot become weird at the end Imma have to say it was eh. I mean usually I like when main characters are villains too, but tbh her motives and plans near the end were so confusing, and I couldn’t even hate other side villains bc they were basicaly the same as the main characters. Basically all the villains, including the ML and FL, we’re evil villains bc they were obsessed with someone else. Bc they were yanderes they did evil things. Well wheedeedoo, truthfully I wouldn’t liked this kind of concept if this was done well but eh

Ch69 Another rare Chinese manhua gem that’s actually good <3 can’t wait to see more! And oop I see a two faced manipulative boyyy~ he’s gonna be Yandere for our FL I just know it ahah (https://mangamtl.com/series/the-villainess-refuses-to-flirt-with-the-male-lead/) <—- can cont. read on this link but cropping and translation sucks so idek what’s going on

Ch 22, we love strong badass female leads

Ch48 MANNN broo I cant choose I love them all, AND the red haired knight DAYAMMM, and wait maybe even a little …her og love as well. Like I get why he did was he had to do but…ya…still feel a bit bad for him…but ANYWYAS she has a hot harem now. And brooo I knew the puppy dog guy was gonna be two faced I KNEW IT. AHHH my gulity pleasure I love those types. And AHAHAH the tan prince is sooooo cute, he’s actually more of the puppy dog type HAHAHAH SO CUTEE. Mannn I love them all~ but I love the FL more eheheh, what a badass queen, and a real reverse harem at that, she really knows how to balance things, if I was me whewww mannn I don’t know how I’d handle all the jealous scheming men~

Ch 78 complete… so now that this is completed…I mean this was a really realistic depiction of an office romance …I mean the ML wasn’t a simp or entirely a tyrant and the FL had a personality outside of just having a high ranking bf…but I guess bc of how slow and realistic the romance was …this story felt a bit dull to me. Like I didn’t feel any romantic sparks from them and then all of a sudden they’re kissing and making out in ch 55…like it just felt so abrupt…but anywyas good story overall ig but wouldn’t reread. Their kids were cute as hell tho ahah