I'm here after reading the first volume of the novel. Having read the first volume and now part of the manga adaptation, I can't help feel like this is a combination of XXXoholic and Jigoku no Shojou (Hell Girl). Random people with issues showing up at a strange home, getting advice, ignoring said advice, an investigation, and then being sent to Hell for not repenting their actions.
I'll read more, but I need the manga artist to look at the novel rendition of the MC because he is way more beautifully depicted in the novel verses the manga.
I kinda like the story, but I have so many issues with the ML (and others) in it.
1. Your wife goes to an interview and disappears. You can't locate her for days and when you do find her and she doesn't remember the date -- you just yell at her and not investigate it??
2. FL returns home with a serious mark on her wrist, husband doesn't notice it, but the maids and doctor should have and none of them decide to inform their master about it??
3. FL is sent to a monastery. Accompanying servants see the condition of the room she is to live in and none of them report back to their master about it?? They just keep quiet?? Allowing the FL to get sick and almost die. Great. -_-
4. ML and FL divorce. But ML despite being drunk doesn't even think over the reason the divorce was brought up?? Not even the next day when he was sober?? He's not concerned at all??
5. Andrei -- who are you really?? You leave your cushy job working at the mansion to work at a start-up company that may or may not succeed?? Plus explain your strength and athleticism which is unheard of for someone who was a bookkeeping steward. Are you a spy??
6. Spying -- why does the ML seem to be keeping tabs on his ex-wife that he shows up at all the places she is at or going to be at?? If he doesn't trust her or believe her why is he still involving himself in her life?? From his own admission he didn't really love her.
7. Trust -- ML doesn't trust or believe her story about her missing memory, but he's witnessed her memory issues multiple times and he STILL doesn't think it's worth investigating what really happened during her royal interview!!
I have a few more gripes, but those are my main ones. This ML is useless. Completely useless and I'm glad that FL divorced him. (Anyhoo, Isaac, you need a wife and I shall volunteer to be it. ^_^ )
1. yup, i found this part annoying too but in his mind she betrayed him and disappeared only to give an excuse "i don't remember," while finding an antidote meant for her brother's eyes. while he should have investigate since he has the power to do so, i wouldn't believe her either if i didn't know the real story (like, try to find a better excuse bish) he might probably investigate in the future when the author decided to mend their relationship
2. idk if maids and servants notice it but didn't they talk about this in the carriage and ml said that he wasn't informed of her wrist? my mind rationalize it that they probably were too scared to tell since, well, she betrayed him and he's in fury searching for her
3. yeah, either they're in cahoot with ml's father or they didn't tell him bc he's the one who sent her to that monastery in the first place
4. he seems to be self-aware of how badly he(and his father) treat her so i wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason he didn't ask. plus, since he knew that she was treated badly in the monastery and his father bought her silence, i thought it was obvious that he thought that was the reason why
5. no comment
6. yeah, it's so weird to understand how his mind works. i legit thought that since her parents are part of the navy, there must be something that the author hadn't revealed yet about his relationship with her
7. probably in the future he will. im just waiting until the author give the cue for him to start the investigation
agree. the ml is useless. i don't get the point of the romance but the plot get me hooked. plus the artstyle. imo hes a great man but not really a great husband, and the way he loves differed greatly from hers. im just waiting for the yearning if there's even any lol
Hmmmm...you skipped #5 -- what do you know?? What have you figured out about Andrei?? (^_^)
Yeah, I [we] gotta play the waiting game with this one, because I feel like eventually FL's ex-husband will start investigating what happened during that interview and why is her memory so awry.
I can't blame the ML for feeling betrayed and thinking all his hard work was ruined by his wife. But this also reveals that ML never knew his wife. FL is so in-love with him that she wouldn't reveal his mother's name if he didn't want it known to people unless she was tortured. And the fact that FL disappeared for days after the interview -- a quick investigation could have revealed her actions after she left the royal interview and at least he would have that to see if she was indeed a liar and had willingly betrayed him. Or just opened up more questions!! LOL!! O_o I just needed him to stop, think, and start making logical moves toward an investigation instead of feeling hurt. Hurt first; investigate later.
so i start finding out spoilers and the yearning kinda lackluster imo. turns out andrei is, either the one who fed her the tea at the start of the story or the one who’s in cahoots with the one who gave her the tea, I can’t remember but it’s either these two. he followed her to keep an eye on her but suddenly started to care for her (not romantically iirc) the one who find out his identity is ml and ml, ashamed that he didn’t trust her, told him to keep staying by her side and keeping quiet that he knew(tf, i want to see you regret but you decide to bury the whole thing???) bc of the side effect of the tea, fl memory keep reverting back thinking they are still married. Despite having the antidote, ml doesn’t give it to her because he loves her and wanna play pretend in that delusion of hers where she think theyre still married. He only gave her the antidote when her memory regress so much to the point she think they’re newlywed (which mean the next time her memory regress it would be before they are married) there are more drama but they still end up together. And honestly, for someone who want to see him chasing back fl, this one kinda a half-assed plot, I don’t understand why author decided to let this avoidant-attachment man be the ml, but it is what it is ig. Some said he’s fully redeem at the end, but as someone who don’t read the novel or his pov, the flow of the story is just ass haha
HA!! I knew Andrei was questionable!! Verified!!
No offense, and thank you for the spoiler, but I'm not a yearning person (most of those stories disgust me), but I'm in it for the drama and plot. I wanna see how it plays out with the ML still blindly believing the FL betrayed him, before he finally gets some sense and starts to investigate what really happened the day of the royal interview.
oh okay, sorry if you didn't want spoiler but i ended up spoiling you. i should have ask first
No worries. Spoilers are fine. I'm still invested in how this will play out and what will be revealed. (▰˘◡˘▰)
LOL!! I'll still give it a chance, but the opening scene felt like a direct rip-off of Catastrophic Necromancer.
Everyone: Summoner of the Undead, I Alone Am a Natural Disaster
FL should do what the sword said and send her nephew out of the Void of Miasma after teaching him all he needs to know and getting him a replacement gift.
And the nephew should leave that place and help clean up his aunt's reputation. Then he should yell at his parents about allowing his aunt's reputation to be dragged through the mud after her noble sacrifice...for both of them!!
Because there's no way I'm gonna accept that the nephew is the ML. He's basically the consolation prize that the author prepared since FL couldn't be with her crush. Her nephew is a carbon copy of his father!! The man she loved and the man that sent her to her potential death!! Why would the author think this relationship is a good idea?! And I haven't gotten to the pseudo-incest part of this bad idea. The FL has recognized him as her nephew, the son of her adopted sister and her former crush -- she shouldn't ever be looking at him as a love interest. Ugghhh!!
I wish Evelina could have stayed in her body and had the joyful ending. But at least she was able to seek revenge on the clergy that abused her and for those who came before her. Although, I was searching for a true saintess who became disillusioned and corrupted that she turned bad, but still maintained her position as the protagonist; this one almost came close to it.
Authors just can't let a bad girl be bad without turning them into a villainess, or if they remain the main character, they have to have switched transmigrated souls with a pure and virginal person. Balance, I guess.
Lina spent 6 years searching for Aslan along with Latan and she didn't get pregnant again?? Funny.
My hunt continues for a true doctrine weary dark Saintess.
Story score: 1-star.
I was totally waiting for a Saintess who went to the dark-side after being betrayed and killed and then regressing. I got none of that!! >_< I even thought the Monsignor would be part of the dark-side to help her achieve her revenge since she didn't remember him from the first time line. Wasted opportunity.
Then I thought Abigail would be a fighter!! Just flat out scream: "I'm not the Saintess!!" and then punch that dude in the face during her first public meeting. Didn't happen. (Perhaps that's just me and how I would do it.)
Anyway, this was a tedious story about a Mother Goddess who could interfere but doesn't due to her trying to teach an, later apologetic, angel a lesson about getting too arrogant.
To be honest, this story was hard to get into for me and I almost dropped it several times. I stuck around because the humor was absolutely funny and kept me turning pages. The plot not so much as I was able to discern much of the reveals before the official story revelations. (Probably by reading so much of this genre.) However by chapters 65 or 70 the story started getting really interesting and finally grabbed my full attention. Usually I drop stories after about 10 or so chapters if they can't interest me or at least make me rage-read it.
BUT...like I said the plot has picked up significantly and I'm down for it!! My guess: Tez17 isn't actually the real 17th Tez due to the Save Point disk. I don't know if he's right before Reed or after Reed, but he's definitely not #17.
Now back to the latest chapter as I join my fellow readers in unison: 'Dat demon girl has looked in her last mirror for messing with Bia. She'll have to lament her regrets as she is bathed in a raging pool of the the hottest Damnation Hellfire...of the Holy kind.
I believe the Tez we have is the Tez after the 100th loop (After Reed), but not exactly the next loop/future of the Reed we see here. Since we were shown that Tez was actually the soul that was being punished in the abyss and the og story having revealed that the outcome of Reed destroying the world was to be forever unable to die, it means when Allie entered the unknown dungeon to retrieve the disk at exactly the moment when Tez's soul was about to die, she prevented the disk from "respawning" Tez's soul (the save point being the abyss) and allowed him to die. His soul then probably took over the Tez of the timeline Allie is in. That's one of my theories or what the plot seems to lead.
However, it seems like our Tez is aware about the fact there is a god in his world even though he should know that the original TM god had abandoned it, because multiple times when the Merchant Lady god attacked him, he was aware there was an anomaly/divine presence preventing him from searching the disk; though, it was probably a misunderstanding from the Merchant Lady since she thought there was a presence trying to hurt Allie. Going back to my point, our Tez unlike Reed seems to be more conscious over the fact the world might be a "system". The sub-plot of the TM gods revealed that there was a soul that probably got bugged. We know that it is Tez.
What I am wondering about is if our Tez is actually a bug that came from a glitch that either got duplicated by accident, where our Tez was a Reed that went through the og storyline without ever meeting Allie in his 100th loop and the present Reed being the 100th loop Tez that the system (TM gods) "designed" for the 17th loop timeline where Allie; or both our Tez and Reed are the same Ted where the Reed we see was the loop our Tez had gone through. If it is the second, it means our Tez, who was our present Reed, had been defeated and punished, and that outcome leading to Allie saving him again to become her Tez.
My head hurts from thinking, but it would be a really nice Paradox. I keep thinking the sin our Tez keeps spouting that he committed might have been having either harmed or killed his Allie, but I know it can't be possible because, first of all, Allie is a transmigrator whose soul cannot be duplicated so we would know if she ever had been harmed or killed.
idk there is still much that I want know like why did the Strict Order and Goodness abandonned the project (lol and him being the chairman's son), and what is the real story of Tez. Maybe he is the og Tez from the novel that had gotten memories of the 17th Tez that met Allie. Just why is this story so good
Hmmm...I like your soul theory. It's got me thinking about when Tez woke up in that cabin unable to speak and he definitely didn't recognize Allie.
Theory Time: Fake #17 Tez is the bug from the original TM universe that didn't have an Allie in it. His world all played out as intended with the infinite loops. Soul Tez got trapped in the abyss dungeon with the Save Point disk and was slowly either withering away or getting corrupted by the endless darkness. Remember Allie said she felt afraid of the presence in the dungeon. And because that Tez never had an Allie in it he was on the offense and aggressive. So, Allie grabs the disk and releases Soul Tez from the dungeon. ST has nowhere to go, so he sticks close to Allie until she meets up with 17T. Once 17T gets wounded ST uses that chance to take over/merge with the body. That's why it took 17T a longer time to heal and speak as those two were merging memories and strengths. Now that ST has fully merged with 17's body and has 17's memories he's starting to question all the oddities surrounding Allie that 17T looked over as Allie being Allie. However with no Allie in the original timeline, ST is trying to see if Allie is indeed a gift sent by the gods or further punishment for his sin. I think Soul Tez's sin is he abandoned his world to die in that abyss dungeon.
That's exactly what I'm thinking! The whole setting for this manhwa is hella interesting. I usually can predict some plot points, but there is so many things that can happen.
It's a mix of all the fun qualities of the isekai genre. It's been awhile since I read something so good. Hopefully, the chap where Bia is saved comes soon, and we can finally get to see Allie beat the Magic Nation's asses for looking down on our hella charistmatic saintess lmao
Great minds at work here!! *high five*
Interesting first couple of chapters, but then nothing but smut the rest of the way. No real plot development. Waste of my time.
You expected a lot in 4 chapters lol.
A lot can happen in just 4 chapters and this one just proves nothing can happen in just 4 chapters, too.
At lot can, yes but by skipping information and timeskip lmao
Here a 3 good examples that I rated from 4 to 3 stars which gets across the plot and smut without being waste of time. Our opinions may differ.
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/how_to_get_rid_of_a_husband/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/do_or_die_quest_to_tame_the_big_bad_wolf_uncut/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/zombie_s_dick_is_a_bibibic/
bc its a porn manhwa like cmon its Yaoi, not BL. also not that serious like sometimes a good book can be a smut book
True. A good book can have smut in it. But this isn't one of them. Trash is trash. I see my accurate description rattled some bones around here. Welp, opinions may vary, but trust me, this story was trash.
not rlly you just came off as the type of person that calls an obvious smut book “no plot” / “trash” only because it doesn’t follow your story expectations. Like obviously the only plot is skin slapping. Its not like a fairytale where a lesson shall be learned at the end. I don’t disagree that the concept was sorta trashy but then again there realy was none to begin with. Just dicks and balls was really all I cared about.
Agree to disagree. As I pointed out to a previous commenter, where I linked 3 different stories, that were 4 chapters or less, that had smut in them, but still maintained a plot with the usage of smut so it could/can be done. It just wasn't done here.
And since we were after different things -- this is obviously your treasure and my trash. Although it is trash.
The summary drew me in, so I started reading it with a few expectations that were quickly debunked. I guess my expectations were too high, because I barely liked anything about this story. The one thing that I truly liked was the rapist wasn't the father in the main story, but that joy was only shortlived as the rapist in the side couple was the father.
While I was happy the prosecutor (rapist 1) wasn't the father, I couldn't help but hope he and the other Alpha would come to an agreement and form an unconventional family unit with the feisty little Omega. Oh, well.
Taesoo/Philip & Alejandro (rapist 2) -- Honestly they didn't interest me and I skimmed many of the chapters where they were the main focus. I will say this: Taesoo was a horrible guard. It would have made much more sense if he had joined the prison as a counselor.
I would have preferred spending much more time on a secondary couple if it was the other former juvie Omega who was also an omega chaser.
Lastly: What idot penal system administrator thought locking up omegas and alphas together was a great idea?? It's no different than having females and males share the same prison. Ridiculous!! And don't come at me with it's for the omegas' heat and the alphas' rut. That's why there's suppressants, analgesics, or anesthetics medications. Or if you want to get vulgar give them some lube a dildo or a flesh tube!! Not access to each other!! I don't care how much money the warden was saving; it's irresponsible of the penal system to allow them to use each other for sexual relief.
Current rating: 2 stars.
It had a very good start, but it started to get lost toward the ending. The author had too many ongoing plot points and couldn't properly tie them together. Which made the final battle anticlimactic. Heck, Jiha could have returned to the garden for the miniature of the labyrinth and squished the fake demon god with one finger.We never saw the demon lords battle in the labyrinth -- after being told they were too powerful they had to be sealed in it.What was the point of appointing warriors to stand as your swords and shields. We only saw Mary fight; readers never saw the glasses guy fight anything -- he was mostly there for bureaucratic work. All the hunters despite being blessed or in contract with a Nature god were still overwhelmed and weak. The fight wasn't thrilling at all.
Also, what happened to the Wild Elves?? Suddenly they disappeared from the story once Ghenna moved to Earth. How did the people of Ghenna adapt to Earth?? The plot of kidnapping of Jiha was super short. The island that the whale dragged over to Jiha?? What did he use it for?? How about the sudden, but gratefully ignored, love interest the Flame guild master held for Jiha that came out of nowhere. Why??
I have more gripes, but my biggest problem is why should the Nature Gods or Terradrones hover around Jiha when he's no longer a god or the World's Tree gardener?? Arc left his post to battle intergalactic invaders now that has been solved shouldn't he regain his sanctuary and minions?? Honestly, the author should have just left Jiha as a god-in-training instead of removing his divinity.
Final score: 3-stars.