A Wasted Cow's Topics (65)

We get it, he's trash. He's done horrible things. That's a fact.

Repeating this fact like some sort of mantra isn't really getting some of y'all anywhere. People change, some better and some for the worse. Seungho wasn't like this in the beginning and changed for the worse because of his environment. The author clearly showed us the audience his flaws and weaknesses for a reason. Conversely, it's also true that he can change for the better. He's more or less lost his job, isolated and has only his manager looking after him. While he isn't necessarily the best person he can be right now, he's not as hellbent on being obsessive/possessive anymore now that he's faced consequences. He's going to grow and turn a new leaf if the writing permits it. We're already seeing signs when he realizes that what he feels for Doyoon isn't necessarily love but something more akin to infatuation.

We now also need an arc on Doyoon because this man clearly got some internalized issues he needs to resolve.

Both of them are horrible yes, but that doesn't mean they can't have a story.

This was hard to read. The ending was happy and wholesome, but man, everything else was bad. Non-con sex bordering rape if it wasn't already rape. Arguably abusing someone's childhood trauma to take advantage of them sexually.

Yes, the two helped each other overcome their childhood trauma, but oof. There's no denying it that the MC was subjected to classical conditioning through abusive sex. On top of that, there's a lot of projecting going on because of anxieties that weren't healthy.

I love the writing; it was organized well and the drama is logical and healthy. The story the characters were cast with was pretty crappy. There's a lot going on in the story that really wasn't ok. Even though the ending was good, it was more or less a perverse fantasy.

Writing: 5/5
Story: 3/5
Characters: 4/5

10 chapters in and the MC is already enamored with the male lead? Disappointed in the author tbh. It's as if the motivation we saw from the MC in the beginning was trivialized by steering in this direction.

Seeing as the author kept on writing about the MC's drive to study harder, I hope the author didn't force the attraction just to justify having a conflict for convenience purposes. One thing that's neat about this series is that we're only 29 chapters in, and it has more progression than other series with the same amount of chapters.

Feels like this ended way too fast. There was more that the author could have built on, but in a sense it was a viable spot to end.

A pretty simple and wholesome webtoon.

Not sure why some of y'all are dissatisfied with this chapter. That picture is likely going to be used so Mikhail loses authority in the group, meaning they'll force him to step down or even get removed. On the other hand, it might make it seem like he got captured by the police. There's a variety of ways to go about it, but a picture like that is probably sufficient blackmail in the webtoon's mafia community.

The other guy who appeared, the one treating Mikhail like a younger brother, is probably protective of him since Mikhail is more or less like an innocent little baby since he has no blood on his hands. Could be a possibility that he's the key to making Mikhail leave the mafia world.

Although it's not the best development, there's bound to be some progression.

As much as I dislike the villains/antagonists in this story, the writing is starting to just get boring. Yes, we get that the MC needs to escape, yes, we get that these people are abusing her, yes, we get that she's "young," but for someone who's been able to retain memories from a past life, the MC herself has been extremely naïve no matter how pitiful she is. I'm not going to expect much from an 18 year-old that was devoid of education and proper exposure to the world, but it's getting redundant to have her monologue "I need to survive," over and over again. She's ultimately, a poorly written character.

9.3/10 rating is too generous for this webtoon so far. We're 34 chapters in and there's nearly no real development. Just drama on an aristocratic level and even that was more or less meaningless.

That's it? I expected poor writing but I didn't expect a poor ending as well.

This was such a disappointment through and through.

It's like the main couple can't use their brains. Having risky sex in the office when someone else was literally right there is grounds for idiocy. Honestly, with how reckless they were, they more or less should suffer the consequences.

Tired of dumb characters who give antagonists easy information like this.

Inb4 author writes about how the MC gets blackmailed, quits on his own accord to "protect" the ML, breaks up with the ML and leaves which then causes ML to suffer, chase the antagonist, and ultimately find the MC in some random place. Or the other way around. Either way just poor writing for using an overused sequence of events.

Ironic. This just means the author is following the trope of trashy top with naïve and arguably dumb bottom. On top of this, there's so little communication that drama arose from it?

It's like following a cardboard cut-out of "Yaoi 101" instructions with no real creativity. The characters are perfectly capable to be lovable but the writing is getting worse as if it wasn't bad enough already.

This was setup to be filled with drama and based on how the story was flowing, it's extremely bland.

Nothing to really enjoy here unfortunately.