Jan 14, 2025
This stuff was like crack cocaine, or maybe it was worse than that because at least the drug gives you a moment of unfiltered pleasure, even if it leaves you in a more miserable state afterwards, but that's besides the point. This doesn't even give you that pleasure; it's just addicting and miserable reading this with no sense of gratification at all. I actually remember a much more similar K-drama I watched a long time ago. A series of episodes so shitty, it had me thinking about it for 3 days straight, about how absolutely bad it was. The female protagonist in this manhwa even
...
somewhat resembles the lead in that drama.
The story starts that our female lead is your usual paparazzi who gets entangled with a certain actor more than normal. Turns out that this actor has a keen resemblance to one of the female lead's childhood crush. As the story moves forward, more and more things point towards the actor being that childhood crush. And then there's the start of the journey of their romance and a whole lot of drama.
Now that you saw me previously being so intent on badmouthing this manhwa, you would assume that the story has serious problems, which it does; I mean, only the beginning part and the last chapter were somewhat decent. The majority of it was terribly dull since everything in between was so needlessly drawn out. But the major part of my rantings concerns our female protagonist herself. Downright pathetic. Fucking manchild, who remembers some memories from more than two decades ago, and all in her mind from that point onwards is the male lead. She thinks about the main lead while working, eating, and sleeping, at any given moment. It's like how much more fixated an author can make a character. Paired with emotional instability and poor decision-making, it was so terrible to watch, as if the fucking melodrama switch had been turned all the way. I found the side plots to be more engaging than the main character's love tale. Here the author did a good job tying various plot threads up. About the other characters, some of them have a bland personality, even the male lead. He had the characteristics of a literal robot until the last minute, where he at least grew a pair of balls. Most of the secondary characters have a pretty significant role and are not just there to cheer on for the romantic pair. The characters that I liked the most were the male lead's brother and the secondary lead. The brother had way more personality, the reason I was interested in his part of the story. The secondary lead, my boy Taein, was actually much better than all the remaining cast; the fact that I remember only his name should be a testament to that. Although he isn't particularly the perfect character, but the fact that the female lead exists instantly puts him on a pedestal. He freaking got done dirty by the author. The reason I even liked the ending for the first part is because the female lead did not end up with Taein.
Speaking of other topics, the pacing was extremely slow from the middle to the end, as I have already mentioned. Art was decent, very bright and minimalistic in terms of detailing and use of shadows.
Now that all this is out of the way, final thoughts about this are that it is bad, but it is addicting. Hence a 2 instead of a 1.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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