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Yeahhhhh, I'm not a fan of this webtoon.
I see people tagging this webtoon with a "Strong Female Lead" tag...I don't see how she's a strong female lead -- if anything, she's the complete opposite of that. Her plans are dumb and she has no real agency. She doesn't want to get married to a jerk her father picked for her, so she goes to sleep with some random dude in town with the intention of getting pregnant.
How exactly does that make her a strong character? She's just using her body to temporarily avoid her fate. It's not a permanent solution. Pregnancy is only 9 months, she could easily be sold into slavery or something like that during or after that period of time, and it's basically what happens. Not to mention it's pretty hard to get pregnant, ok? Like what is this plan, how do you know you'll get pregnant 100% after just one night? What would have happened if she didn't the first time, would she have gone out again in a couple weeks or months to try again? But anyway, because of ~plot~, she magically does get pregnant.
Even worse, she doesn't even come up with some better, more permanent, plan during the time she's pregnant! I hate it when female characters in fiction do such stupid crap like randomly sleeping with men to get out of something like arranged marriage because that makes them completely lose their dignity and self-respect, in my eyes. Like you couldn't have figured out some other plan for your own bad situation besides sleeping around? That's still basically relying on a man to bail you out, in the end. Not to mention, in the real world, there's also STDs and other stuff you need to worry about. I feel like this kind of contrived trope in fiction is getting out of hand, because it doesn't portray females in a good light, and it's toxic for this sort of idea to be applied in real life. Honestly, you're just confirming to other males out there that you have zero shame and are willing to do anything for the right price. This is far worse than those forced-marriage-turns-into-love webtoons, of which there are tons out there. I hope that this sort of one-night-stands-to-temporarily-escape-from-reality story doesn't take hold in mainstream media, for the sake of girls everywhere.
Furthermore, once she sleeps with a random guy, and after giving birth to the child, her wretched father makes her marry some other dude. But this time, she agrees to it. Why?! Why is it ok for you to marry the second guy, but not the first one, huh? And don't tell me that's because the first guy she was supposed to marry is a pervert, because the second guy is supposedly a murderer, her father said so himself. Unless in this world, murderers are better than perverts. I don't know anymore.
Her child is supposed to be three years old, but honestly, he seems to be 5-7 years old. He talks far too eloquently for a 3 year old, so I'm not buying that crap either. The female lead even tells her kid who her father is immediately after meeting him again, and actually thinks a 3 year old kid can keep a secret. Please. Author needs to work on believability, but then again, that was tossed out the window with the sleeping-around-to-get-pregnant plot in the first chapter. And I thought the child was a girl, but nope, apparently he's a boy. Alright then. I'm not saying boys shouldn't have long hair, but he totally looks like a girl. I sure do hope that oddly particular aspect of his character is actually supposed to be important later on, because otherwise, I don't see why he couldn't have been drawn with shorter hair or been born as a girl instead.
The art is alright, but honestly, I'm so mad about everything else, I can't enjoy the only somewhat redeeming part of this webtoon. The male lead is pretty averagely drawn, and obviously, the female lead had more effort put into her design, since it shows.
Overall Breakdown:
Characters: 0/10
Story: -10/10
Art: 4/10
Lore/Worldbuilding: 0/10
Enjoyment: -10/10
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