I always wanted to read a story where the mc is the third wheel or the side character in their love interest's relationship so I'm happy to finally find a manhwa with this plot. I have searched far and wide for this sort of storyline but it's rare to find a good manhwa with a similar premise. The ones I've read previously were Japanese mangas with few chapters (4 or 5 chapters) or a straight manhwa with side character female lead. It's delightful to find one with many chapters and lots of depth. I love the pain and sadness I feel when I read these chapters. I feel for the mc
Hi! Do you have any recommended mangas with similar plot like this?
Okay I'll give you recommendations but I can't remember all the manhwa names so I'll give links for those that I know -
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/10_years_where_i_loved_you_the_most/ (This one definately has that feeling where the MC and ML are already in a relationship, but the ML spends more time with someone else so the MC feels like second option. The ML is an asshole so they don't end up together (thankfully). Make you feel sad.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/cosmic_boy/ (Feels like unrequired at the start, later becomes required. Not a love triangle. Makes you feel sad.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/keep_holding_on/ (can't remember the plot, but I think this also has some sort of unrequited love)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/until_i_meet_my_husband/ (Feels unrequired for the two guys MC liked at first but, later becomes required when the ML arrives in mc's life. Make you feel sad and happy.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/protect_your_purity/ (ML and MC like the same guy but, ML and MC starts to fall for each other and thinks that it's unrequired.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/bad_contact/ (MC liked someone that doesn't like MC for many years. ML tells MC that he also likes the one that MC loves. MC is heartbroken; later MC and ML gets together)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/reunion/ (Not a love triangle. It's a really good manhwa so I recommended it. It does feel unrequired at some point because the MC thinks they can't stay together even though they love each other so much. Makes you feel sad and happy.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/green_apple_paradise/ (Can't remember the plot but I loved it. I think this has unrequired love too because I put that tag when I saved it.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/incidentally_living_together/ (MC liked some other guy but that guy doesn't like MC, so It's unrequited in that sense. Then the ML comes in MC's life and MC and ML fall for each other. This one is also a really good manhwa. Makes you feel sad and happy.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/sahan/ (Unrequited for ML. Makes you feel sad.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/scratch_1/ (I think this one is also unrequited love. Makes you feel sad. Also this one is discontinued sadly.)
For straight manhwa-
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/july_found_by_chance/ (MC and ML are both side characters that love each other, but the author keeps separating them so It's unrequired in the sense they love each other but still can't be together. Makes you feel sad.)
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/the_girl_from_class/ (This one was quite good. It's about the feelings of a guy towards a girl. Makes you feel sad)
This is all I can remember at the moment. I did read other Japanese mangas that also have unrequired love like Hinakure chaser and kare to kare no ijiwaru na kyori but I don't think I should recommend them to you because the ML in both of these mangas can make you more mad than feeling moved or sad. They don't even make you feel happiness...
If you read GL then this one also has unrequired love. Makes you feel sad. Not a love triangle tho. https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/only_need_to_love_once/
I'm so happy to see that she's finally standing up for herself. I thought she would end up depressed when she got isolated by everyone, but instead, she went and got her revenge. GO SEI!! BEAT THAT BITCH UP UNTIL HER EYES ARE BLACK AND UNTIL SHE CAN'T EVER MAKE RUMORS ABOUT YOU OR SPEAK ILL OF YOU AGAIN!!!
Yohan ending up all alone and crying would be the best ending for this manhwa (sadly, that's not happening). All these damn comments piss me off so much. People are constantly talking shit about Kang Jun when his only fault is being very selfish and self-centred (which is bad, but he never acted upon his thoughts, unlike Yohan). Yohan always gets talked about regarding how he's horrible but also a victim of Jun because of the dinner scene. Jun apparently deserves to end up with Yohan and also deserves the bullying from Yohan because he's too selfish to care for Yohan and stand up for him in front of Yohan's family during dinner (which, according to them, means Jun put Yohan in a spot and made him feel embarrassed, so he deserves it).
I can't wait for chapter 17 of the novel to be released in the manhwa. It would be interesting to see what the people's reaction will be like after it is revealed how Yohan throws a tantrum and gets mad at Jun just because he wanted attention. When in reality, Yohan lies for the love of the game. He's the first one to tell his family in middle school that his biggest wish is to have a boyfriend for Christmas, his favorite dish is seafood, and he's not religious and yet pretends to be religious. He's so spoiled. His dad bought him a motorcycle and bro crashed it SEVERAL TIMES.
Bro never even regrets or apologizes for bullying and isolating Jun and gets forgiven later because he took the acid hit for him and ended up in the hospital. He's sooo prideful (yet people only see Jun as the only one being prideful). I would've thought his personality would've improved (even though he didn't apologize) after this, but no. Instead, he says shit like—"No matter how much you beg and cry, I won’t forgive you, fuck… I’ll keep pounding you until you’re about to die…” when they're having sex. Bro talks disrespectfully to Jun without apologizing after, or being a bit like "sorry I was horny and lost control"; he always has to objectify him. He's such a trash. Towards the end, we find out he always viewed Jun as a lost, naive lamb that he needed to save, but he also thinks that he has to break Jun so that he can save him, and that way, Jun will only depend on him which makes so much sense looking at the current chapters in the manhwa.
Man this made me wanting to drop this shit, this sounds soo shitty
It's so sad that no chapter will ever be updated from this manhwa ever again. I remember reading it a long time ago, loving it, and giving it 5 stars. I came back here again because I was planning to read the novel (I didn't know the novel had a manhwa, and that it was this one). Anyway, since I forgot 50% of the things that happened in this manhwa, I'm going to read this and read the other half in novel form
Please please please I hope the ending is good and not bad...this manhwa is so good. I don't want the ending to be unrequired or tragic T^T
I wish these types of manhwas had better mls. I thought the ml would go from cold to kind after he started falling in love with the mc, but instead he imprisons the mc, rapes him, and marries his sister. He really treats him as less than human. I loved the mc so much, sadly I have to drop it.
Literally, most Korean manhwas follow the same formula. It’s always the poor, helpless, kind, and innocent mc who is either in debt, or is called a bastard child, or is treated as less than human that catches the ceo/emperor/gangster ml’s eye, and then the mc gets taken advantage of by the heartless ml, who later rapes him, treats him like a whore or toy, and then suddenly becomes nice at the end. By that point, the mc has suffered a lot and lost his inherent kindness.
It’s hard to even find a good redemption arc in these manhwas. The ml always gets forgiven so quickly. I’m so tired of these manhwas. I wish there were manhwas like this where the ml treats the mc kindly from the start.
Like, I would love a manhwa where the ml considers using the mc to achieve his goals but later abandons that idea because he falls for the mc so deeply that he would even give up his life for the mc. But It's hard to find a manhwa like that...
May I ask where you read the novel or raws? I honestly didn’t know all that would happen (esp the part with his sister or how seme would end up becoming) so now i’m rlly curious, yet a lil disappointed, but anyways
b00kt0ki469 . com / novel / 6935807?
(Just delete the spaces, replace the 0 with o and search for it..)
omg genuinely tysm i’ve been looking forever
You just say everything I was feeling ! I’m so tired of the constant banalisation of uke suffering. It feels like we are in a copy of our patriarcal system but for bl representation. This is so awful and it’s so repetitive.
Ahhh this seme is pissing me off. It would be nice to see a chapter where Taebeom avoids Hoyeon and makes him realise what a shitty guy he is, but he'll not do that since he's such a sweet and adorable cutie. I want to punch this seme, he's getting on my nerves way too much. Sadly, I can't enjoy this manhwa because of the seme. Taebeom is so adorable, one of the best uke ever...
heh... i think thats exactly whats gonna happen in the next few chapters... the avoiding seme part
i’m glad a lot of us agree that taebeom is one of the best ukes ever
So annoying. This manhwa is not giving me the same satisfaction it gave me before. While it's true that Mooyoung was definitely wrong for scamming him out of so much money, he also didn't deserved to be raped like that. The one doing the chasing is him, not Jaeyi.
So, I'm pretty sure the rape is going to be brushed off with the direction this manhwa is taking. Jaeyi will probably forgive Mooyoung after some time and get back together with him, but he will most likely never ask Mooyoung for forgiveness for raping him, making him bleed and causing probable emotional trauma because he doesn't consider it as rape the same way Mooyoung doesn't consider it as rape.
It's wild how my rating for this manhwa went from 5/5 to 2/5
I miss them sooo much! I need side stories please... :'(