u/Leather-Assistance95

All she needs right now is to heal. And that's clearly not going to happen with Tae Ha, as now that we see where the story's heading, everything hes gonna do is just going to hurt her more and traumatize her further.

Tae Ha, darling, it is NOT cool to stage a reunion for your lover with her toxic, emotionally abusive, cheating ex husband just so you can attest if she goes back to him or not.

There's not one decent figure in Na Haesoo's life. And technically, she only has/d 2 figures her adult life revolved around, Kang Mincheol and Tae Ha. And both of those men made it a point to have her unhealthily emotionally codependent on them. And she is. She doesn't have anything of her own. If she was at first bound to Micheol, she is now to Taeha. All if this just tells me she needs an emotionally supportive figure in her life that will not fester a toxic codependent relationship.

And that figure should be a friend. Because that's the only way I see Hae soo healing from all this crap.

Please. I need the Multiverse of Mads wreak havoc on my boy Will.

Tei. The man you are.

ENTHUSIASTIC CONSENT IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE HOTTER THAN NON-CON AND THAT IS A HILL I WILL DIE ON NONE OF YOU CAN DRAG ME OUT OF THERE.

But I genuinely love how Tei's body is drawn. He's a warrior and he's well developed, and it's shown. I LOVE BAAT FOR NOT TWINKIFYING MY GLORIOUS MAN.

I never expected them too as it's baat, I've read their works, but the appreciation still stands.

OMFG.

Oh my fucking god.

Let me get this clear. I genuinely DROPPED this fuck ass manhwa after like 30 chapters, because how much this really interesting FMC was just straight up suffering and being abused physically. Every thing she did to subvert that just got her abused more. Every character around her, male or female is just straight up irredeemable trash.And to top it off, I read the spoilers. The male lead candidates are her shitty brother who physically abused her, mentally ruined her. Her shitty husband who basically green lighted her abuse in his household. And hold your horses, the male lead, who quintessentially turned a blind eye to all her abuse from her childhood, and is her >!father.!<

Yup. You read that right. Her >!father.!<

So yeah, I dropped it. Had no regrets. And then, this fine evening I saw it update on my site and thought "Hey, this is like the 92nd Chapter. Even if it's absolutely hernia inducing, there must be SOME I got back at you bitch moment here."

OH I WAS SO, SO fucking wrong. And spoilers ahead if you're actually keeping up with this, and to that I'll say wow you've reached fucking bodhisattva level mental calmness.

The chapter starts with her getting bitchslapped by her mother in law, who also abused her earlier. And she's just fucking taking it. And then her silver rotten cum dried hair husband just sees her get slapped by her mother and then steps in after she's slapped her back once. He thinks about her (FMC) words, how she told him her marriage to him was hell. And he's like

"That's unpleasant to remember"

EW DUDE. EW.

Then we're back at her home. This is where her stepmother tells her to not get divorced and then yells out slurs at her, and shes STILL TAKING IT. OMFG DUDE WE'RE STILL IN THIS PHASE AFTER 90+ FUCKING CHAPTERS.

Then her red haired brother pulls up and that's when I just closed my tab and crashed the fuck out because this has to be pure rage slop there's no other fucking excuse for it. And ykw my biggest irk is with this? It's that the plot was actually fucking amazing. It's also that the FMC was insanely competent.

THIS FUCK ASS STORY UGH.

I'm not going to spoil anything, but good god. Reading the novel was so painful, because every move she made, all her decisions and their consequences, even the choices that she didn't make, every variable of her existence, the people around her, everything just set her up for misery and doom.

And the novel isn't even over.

To start off, I live in a country where alnst merch in UNAVAILABLE. So, the only option is to buy them from overpriced resellers, and I do not have the money. I do have a printer, pinterest and free will though.

So yeah, I suppose😭

The only problem is that now, I have NO WHERE to put my 'merch'. Gotta start working on that🫃

[On The Way To Meet Mom]

I've seen a lot of people calling them 'he', and I was someone who did that too early on, only to actually FOCUS on the dialogue and realise that Ryder's always referred to without gender specific pronouns. Just wanted to put that out there.

New favourite trope added to the list.

Androgynous looking swindler with a sharp tongue and burly hammer wielding man with family trauma, (lovingly) forced to co-parent a child who's looking for her dad 7 years in the past.

The art is whimsical. The characters are very well fleshed out. The world building is solid. It is GL though, so if that's not what you're into then TOO BAD SUCKER YOU MISSED OUT ON PEAK

...yeah it's really cool.

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I'm sorry but Maddie literally fucking threatening her was the end of the line for me. Lexi was undoubtedly in the right. All of the people around her are MAJORLY screwed up in one way or the other, and she's someone who's trying her hardest to make it without selling herself out, and is doing a pretty good job at it.

Her 'friends' do NOT give a shit about her, anyone except Rue, and well she has her head already down the pit trying to survive whatever fucked up shit she's gotten into so. Everyone else is screwing her over or has the potential and the empty moral consciousness TO screw her over. All in all, she very much so has the right to protect her future, espeially seeing how the stunt with her trying help Jules out backfired.

THE PROBLEM however, is that Lexi is as of now unable to exercise that right. Lwk why her character also hits so close to home for me, I was someone who didn't have the best people around me during a period in my life, and I was unable to say 'no'. Got over it, and thats what Lexi needs. I'm sorry, but Maddie's threat is mostly empty. She's not in any way, in a position of power. The only reason she gets Cassie's leash is curtosy Cassie's own character.

My girl Lexi needs to get away from these people smh.

Oooh boy oh boy.

Let me start off here. Kahu. You beautiful man.

And now let me jump right into here. Kahu was a character who when initially introduced, was not to put it frankly, 'all that'. The same generic second male lead, the same unrequited yearning, the same kind soul who unfortunately can't live upto the standards of the yandre ML.

But then, we get to know about his character and past, >!especially in the first Timeline. !< And the whole thing just felt so fresh to me. It was the first time a character that wasn't simply an archetype was introduced to me in an OI. Mind you though, I read this one a few years back. I've found a few more unique characters in other works by now, but the number is very low.

Anyways, yeah. Kahu's POV added a whole new dimension and perspective to the story. And it wasn't just that. His character traits themselves were something that made me admire him. Despite his longing for Charlize, and him >!having to face an ending of being tortured just to find her!< Kahu made it clear that he won't stand for the Tyrannical path Charlize and Dylan were going on.

Huh. A male character who is in live with the FL but has his own rationality and brains with him?

Wow.

Even his entire dilemma with struggling to recognize the new version of Charlize was an interesting read. However, that's where I think the author should have branched out his story instead of trying to box him up into the oh so puppy dog second male lead submissive archetype. Because as a character Kahu deserved as much Sympathy granted to him by the narrative as Charlize was.

And maybe that's why I was very 'off put' >!with the whole Dulan forcing Kahu to remember his painful torture.!< I understand that was maybe in character for Dylan, but I believe that the story should have handled it differently or with more tact. I believe Kahu and Charlize to be parallels in some strange sort of a way. >!Both Destined to the same gruesome fate in the first timeline, albeit Charlize's was much more dragged on.!<

Hence by this point I felt like the story stopped treating Kahu like a separate character and instead treated him like a plot device. And as for the ending, I actually liked it as one for Charlize and Dylan. I do understand that they're the main characters, and so I was cool with it.

But then came the side stories.

Someone tell me why the author thought it'd be a good idea to, now referring to the tittle, CUCK KAHU AND TURN HIM INTO A SIMP IN THEM? Gng. The story is done. GIVE MY MAN SOME CLOSURE. BUT NOOOO💔💔💔💔

so yeah lol.

Before jumping me, really think about it. REALLY hard.

Do we know anything of Na Haesoo other than her past with Kang Mincheol and her present with Tae Ha? Every single element of her personality is a broad adjective, maybe something like 'quiet' 'tired' and you can add on to that. None of it is an actual personality or a character.

We know nothing of her hobbies. Nothing of her quirks, her likes and dislikes, nothing. For a brief period after the episode where Tae Ha got her out of the shady club, I was so excited because we finally got a hint of how her mind really works as she told us she already knew from the start her interactions with Tae Ha were shady and she was okay with it. It showed her vigilance she had to develop as someone in a situation as shitty as hers. Genuinely busted out of my seat to do a small 'Yippee'.

...and you're telling me that same woman buys into the 'lottery phone' 'haunted apartment' and all that? She does not. No.

See, at the start of the story I actually was really into this aspect of her character. A 'withered flower' who's youth had been drained by a deadbeat husband. Of course she'd be mellow, she's lost everything that defined her as a person. So I was really into unraveling Haesoo as a character as the story progressed.

I do not think that's going to happen anymore. Yeah.

100 chapters in and like I said, we still don't see who Na Haesoo is as a person. Nothing. At this point, her story is entirely established by the two male characters in her life. Which, really sucks, because her character was really unique when we started off. A mature woman who wasn't playing into the virginity kink and was not some gullible and naive twirling chick? Hell yeah im into that.

And, when you really think about it, even in the flashbacks we never really see anything concrete about Na Haesoo other than her abuse. Which I was hoping would be something else that the story would touch on as it went on (because it did in the start, with the Mincheol and her father parallel), but seemingly it only exists as a plot point of the past nothing more.

I so wish there was more to her than Mincheol and Tae Ha. Even Ari has more personality than her Which is diabolical to say in the context of the story, but it is what it is. I really want Haesoo to evolve as a character more than a female reader insert fantasy, and yeah those were my two cents.