pinkliver's Manga

*mild spoilers ahead*
I died fron the fluff. It choked my lungs and suffocated me, but in a good way. This story is almost all fluff. Ml is insanely sweet to fl, and he’s a simp but gentle. Fl is adorable. She is a very pitiful blind girl, but she is very strong willed. She doesn’t let others shatter her self esteem, and she does not kneel down to them or let them make her miserable either. If she feels an emotion like affection she holds to her emotions firmly, even refusing eye treatment to cure her blindness because the doctor made the ml beg. Fl is also smart and perceptive so she finds out a lot of things on her own.

The story is very simple and doesn’t try to add in too many extra or random things. The fl loses her eyesight saving the ml, but he gets amnesia and his parents try to prevent him from remembering because they don’t want his trauma to resurface. However, when ml sees fl again he falls in love at first sight and basically becomes a hardcore simp for her, going out of his way to protect her and making her happy. He basically heals her when she is blind and sacrifices literally everything he possibly can for her to be happy. He lies and assumes a dozen identities so that she can be happy. When he remembers about her saving him he’s very torn about whether or not it was guilt that led him to this or love but it was both.

They don’t kiss until the end of the book, but fl is blind so she does touch him a lot and relies heavily on physical comfort such as being hugged. No sex or smut or anything close to that. Ml has a lot of self control and doesn’t physically push himself on fl but whenever the fl is a little sad or hurt he ends up doing something that he normally wouldn’t want to due to his overflowing affection for her and wanting to make her feel better.

The fl is blind for most of the story until like the last handful of chapters. She doesn’t just get cured in like chapter 3 and the blindness becoming a gimmick. She was also only able to be cured because of the resources and connections the ml and fl’s long lost father had, which they made a very clear point about (without ml they wouldn’t have found a good enough surgeon and without the father they wouldn’t have found a cornea donor).

Either ways the pic of them married at the end was very cute. I’m sure ml will make a good husband and they will be a happy family.

This is like ultra mega strong apex female lead.

The smut was ok but like I skipped straight to the end after the other girl popped up and it was a fucking threesome and I was like oh hell no.

Omg, this ml!!!!! While fl was under aphrodisiac, she threw herself at him, and then woke up thinking she had sex with him and he just didn’t bother to correct her and instead chose to act rapey making her hate his guts, and then at fucking chapter 70 she finally found out he never raped her!!! Bro didn’t even bother explaining that he never raped her. So this ml seems hella rapey and like a pervert and is trying to crawl into bed together and cuddling her but all this time he never actually raped her. Well, she wasn’t willing to like him until after she discovered he didn’t rape her, so at least the fl had some pride. Also, this ml never humiliated her and absolutely butchered her enemies and always saved her. She absolutely doesn’t want any favors from him, so he has to do extra work trying to make her accept his favors. He’s very pushy and controlling, but doesn’t want the fl to feel upset. Like, he spent the whole afternoon boiling soup for her while lying and saying the maids did it, and he treated her well and did nice things for her even when she had no way of knowing it was him (like cheering her up in a bear costume). When the fl realized everything and started taking care of him was super cute too.

The random misunderstanding at chapter 100 that caused the last 20 chapters to be a single mother child rearing story tho, was not welcome.

Btw if you couldn’t tell I read this elsewhere where they had all the chapters.

This ml has done domestic abuse, rape, and made another girl pregnant while she was still married to him, even after the fl did so much for him. I read this because I heard they don’t end up together and it was only 40 chapters so I read it (goes uo to 40 chaoters in another site), and they actually don’t end up together. However, this story should have a tragedy tag because:
*spoilers from here on out
The female lead dies.
Basically the ml was in love with a girl. But the girl died. Fl looks like the girl who died so he married her, but he basically treated her like shit.

What he didn’t know was that the fl got a heart transplant from the girl who died, the one that he loved. They were very good friends, but fl’s friend had low self esteem because the ml was much more richer and handsome than her and treated her well so she felt she did not deserve it. The friend was eventually raped, which made her want to suicide because, due to her low self esteem, she thought she was too dirty to face him. She decided to donate her heart to the fl and kill herself.

After receiving her friend’s heart the friends feelings supposedly transferred over to her and she fell in love with the ml and decided to take care of him in her friends stead, so she endured all those years of suffering. Even if he yelled at her and made out with another girl and choked and humiliated her, she still, for example, took a knife wound for him when he was being assaulted by thugs but was too drunk to fight back, or when she jumped in front of a car for him. The ml didn’t do shit for her fyi, even after all those, and still continued to curse at her and treat her like actual garbage.

The female lead gets pregnant so she knows for sure she will die, because her sickly body can’t handle it. She pretty much goes into end it all mode. She divorces him, pretends the green haired guy, who I will call 2nd ml, is her boyfriend, and basically draws a line between them. She pretends she aborted his baby and gets the divorce and moves out, and is basically an independent divorcee. She does this because she knows she will die so she doesn’t want to cause him pain.

Now, the reason she dies is because the ml attacks the second lead (financially) and bankrupts his fanily and makes his life miserable. So the fl drags herself over to the ml to plead with him to undo what he did to the 2nd ml. He basically yells at her some very offensive things, which causes her blood pressure to spike and is the final nail in the coffin causing her to die shortly afterwards. Before she dies she gives all her assets to the 2nd ml as an apology, and gives her heart back to her dead friend.

The ml is supposed to have a sad ending because now he has a child, so he can’t die, but will live in suffering for the rest of his life because both of the girls he loves are dead.

Idk, I guess moral of the story is that both the girls were self deprecating and so they ended up dying, and ml was an asshole so he ended up plagued by guilt, but the 2nd ml and the mother in law had to suffer too because of the deaths, so instead of being satifying or justified or whatever this just ended up being irritating.

I reread this again recently and honestly, rereading this for the milionth time is literally way more interesting than reading some of those other isekais for the first time. Melissa is a female lead who doesn’t beat around the bush and doesn’t hesitate against other people, and she doesn’t make googoo eyes at some asshole who tries to redeem himself or buddy up to her negligent father. Nine is one of the softest mls ever and also one of the most self sacrificial mls I’ve seen. Usually they want to make the ml super cool, so they don’t ever want to put him in a weak position. Some authors can’t even bear it if the ml isn’t stronger, richer, of higher status, and literally better at everything than everyone else in the continent. On that note, although Mellisa was pretty cool, it didn’t feel like she was a legendary existence that was better than everyone (unlike those dukes that can bribe the whole nation somehow). Like, her swordsmanship teacher is better at fighting than her, and Ian still holds the highest authority as the emperor and although Melissa solos a lot of things other people are actually useful. Also, I feel this is an author who truly likes all the characters in the story. The side characters all had unique personalities and their lives didn’t solely revolve around the main characters. Some of them also had unexpected relationships with each other. There weren’t maids getting threatened to have their necks chopped off by the duke if they didn’t do the paperwork faster, while the author and all the other characters laugh off the verbal abuse in the background. Everyone in the mansion is not out to be a bully and are being sane and rational people doing their jobs. Even that one maid who seems like the typical otome isekai maid turns out to not be. With the exception of Miguel and Peacock, the villains all get redeemed (though not necessarily forgiven). Though peacock was pretty funny when he mailed her spam, and Miguel just seems downright tsundere at the final battle (though I still hate him for what he did to Nine). Also, there’s a massive amount of foreshadowing, plot twists, and strange surprises, but apart from having a good plot, it’s also very funny, but still serious enough not to be crack.

This is completed at chapter 30 fyi. I read it because of the absurd premise, which is that the fl pretends to be the duke’s wife while he’s off to war so that she can get free lodging in his home, and then the duke comes back and sees some random girl in house pretending to be his wife. Ngl, the fl has nerves of steel, she didn’t stop acting even when she thought she was going to die. And ml just let her stay in his house and pretend to be his wife because he fell in love with her at first sight. He seems scary but he’s kind of awkward, and he’s actually very self conscious about his warmonger reputation. Fl is, um… shameless to say the least, but they were cute together. The fl is very willful and fierce, and her talent is being two faced and acting like an angel while ripping people to shreds, but the ml is very gruff in his manners (bro was eating a piece of steak like a hyena) but was actually very sweet to the fl. Once they got together, they screwed like rabbits, and just had a fuss free relationship.

I love stories where the ml is sweet and tries to get the reserved fl to warm up to him. Also bonus that they didn’t have sex and a child before even hooking up (unlike some other harlequins). This is cute, but I guess it’s pretty generic for its trope, but I don’t care because I like this trope.

First of all, ROMEO IS NOT THE MALE LEAD.

The story has made it very clear that he is SCUM and that all he does is terrorize the female lead and those close to her. The female lead is strong and would not even think for a second to be with a guy who abandoned her. She got trust issues from him, and she stuck to those trust issues (unlike some other female leads in the childbirth genre who’s trust issues always act up with the second lead but magically disappear when the ml who abused them appears).
The male lead is 99% likely to be Paris, and that last 1% probability goes to the prince. This type of female lead would never love Romeo in a century. They’ve really driven home that Romeo isn’t a male lead as well because he seems progressively worse as the story goes on.

The female lead is intelligent and observant, but the setting is realistic, so she can’t become some op face slapping fl. She is sharp tongued and clever with her words and actions. She also doesn’t overlook annoying or rude behavior directed towards her. Albeit being in a low position, she always attempts to cross the line and get the most she can demand out of a situation.

Paris nags a lot. He literally nags the fl the first time they meet, but the way he worded it made him sound like an asshole, which is why the fl yelled at him. Eventually he likes the fl very much, even if he has to wait for her.

I have to say, even though the child is supposed to be cute and innocent, he just annoys the shit out of me because of the troubles caused by him. I get that that’s the main point of the story, the struggle of being a single mother in a conservative society, but it still doesn’t make me any less annoyed. The child disappears for long stretches of time, and when it reappears, you can feel trouble is near.

Also, if you read the original Shakespeare (or no fear Shakespeare), don’t expect the characters to be like them. This is like those Greek god stories or fairy tale stories. The have the same names but are not the same characters.

This story is completed. In the beginning, Alexander and the mom seems like the only sus one but by the end everyone is either a murderer or criminal.
I deducted a star because half of each chapter was flashback, which was annoying.
Fl is intelligent and cunning, and would do anything for the sake of her mother, even if it’s not right. However, her guilt eventually catches up to her.
Ml just likes the fl very much is all. Even if he discovers the things fl has done he still likes her. He’s very intelligent and figured things out quickly. This story is a battle of wits between them.
This story is more like a mystery than a romance. Fl is good at keeping secrets. In the end the only one who knows the truth is her and ml.
The story is just as the title said. It’s why Ophelia can’t get away from the duke. There’s no wedding or babies or anything, it just ends after you know why Ophelia can’t leave the duke.