As a romance, this manhwa was meh. The story and characters for that matter, couldn't be more typical- but I do appreciate how the FL can stand up for herself every now and then. It's such a shame we couldn't get more of that because we need the ML to save her at every panel.
I would've easily rated this story a four because while I enjoy it, I already have had enough K-dramas where the rich and much more accomplished ML helps out the hopeful and sincere but gets the short end of the stick FL (bonus: it is never really explained why such an "extraordinary" ML fell in love with an average FL). What made this story fun for me though is how funny it was, at the most unexpected moments no less. I feel like the author wasn't really taking the story seriously when they were writing it and I like that, I like how they revert to caricatured chibis for dramatic effect. I especially like the deadpan ML chibi, I think it's what made the typical jealous scenes that I normally wouldn't find funny hilarious. I like how the characters' deliver the most unhinged lines from time to time too and then get embarrassed after. The cherry on top for me, a close second to the ML's chibi, is the actions the FL takes- which was honestly so embarrassing at times that it made me drop my phone and scream to my pillow to end my misery. What can I say? It's the comedic element of this story that really made me stick around through the end.
Of course, the more it neared the end- the less we got of it, but for what it's worth- I haven't read a romance with hints of comedy for so long and I am a sucker for rom-coms. While this didn't rom-COM the way I wanted it to, it rom-COMed enough for me to not feel like I've wasted my time bingeing 77 chapters. I also appreciate that the author didn't stretch out the serious moments for too long. Nonetheless, I don't think I've laughed so hard at a manhwa the way I did with this recently. Maybe my humor is shallow or my life is at extremely rock bottom that this is the thing that makes me laugh now, but I believe laughter is a difficult reaction to garner and if the story was able to do that for me on more than two occasions, then it's not a completely bad story.
