I really thought this manhwa was going to be the exception. We went from a deeply emotional, melancholic story about a tired warrior finding humanity through cooking and longing for his true love, the Ice Monarch, to watching an independent female character get downgraded into blushing props just to boost the main character (they did her character dirty). And it is so painful. And no, 'the MC ignoring her' doesn't make it better. It just means the studio is sacrificing the story's original soul and wasting panel time on cheap metrics instead of actual plot progression.
I really thought this manhwa was going to be the exception. We went from a deeply emotional, melancholic story about a tired warrior finding humanity through cooking and longing for his true love, the Ice Monarch, to watching an independent female character get downgraded into blushing props just to boost the main character (they did her character dirty). And it is so painful. And no, 'the MC ignoring her' doesn't make it better. It just means the studio is sacrificing the story's original soul and wasting panel time on cheap metrics instead of actual plot progression.