If you don't think you can enjoy juvenile jokes about farts and ballsacks then you should give this manhwa a try. It will drag you down to its level, mock you for it, bring out all the pettiness in your bones, and then tell you that it's more fun this way.
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I'm writing this because I want to talk about this manhwa's main character, Lloyd, or rather Kim Suho, an average civil engineering student who finds himself taking over the body of the useless hooligan Lloyd. He's a quick-thinker, immediately able to make use of his past life knowledge to earn a profit, and also an all-around kinda nice guy. He's able to show enough emotional maturity to not give handouts out to people, having them work in exchange for pay, but at the same time he's a dumb shy boy who's too self-conscious to actually believe he can be kind so he goes hard into acting the villain, making ugly faces and laughing at the people he's employed and given generous benefits to. Truly some scary stuff there, Sir Lloyd Frontera!
Because of that dumbassery combined with his already hideous face, he's initially flagged as a shady guy to pretty much everyone else in the series. For some other good reasons too though. He's the type who will bicker with and spite anyone blessed with better looks, talents, or aura than him. He'll set aside any dignity he has left to suck up to rich people. He WILL abandon you in a fight if given the chance. The guy is pretty pathetic but he's clearly not someone who would put his goals above anyone else's well-being. It's not about wanting to be a good person, he truly believes in a world where effort should be rewarded and nobody feels helpless nor worthless- the opposite of what he's come to expect from his original world. It's easy to laugh at Lloyd because despite his flaws and disgusting facial expressions, he's just a guy trying to have fun. He bullies people not into necessarily becoming "good", but just someone who is able to build their own joy in life.
The happy end trying to be achieved here isn't one where Lloyd is a hero, but a world that doesn't need heroes in the first place.
There's other great parts of this series- good god I haven't even said a single thing about Javier or the Frontera estate!! but I've called Lloyd ugly several times in this review, so surely this is honoring the manhwa's spirit better than any other point I can make so I'll end this here.
The Greatest Estate Developer pours its heart and soul out not to seek empathy, introspection, or understanding. Its goal is more about bringing out simple emotions most of us just trying to get by tend to keep in. It's a simple-minded way to put it, but rather than dwelling on the hand you've been dealt, how good of a person you can be, or how much of the you that others see feels like a lie- regardless of how stupid or crude it seems, why not just have some fun?
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