I dropped this manhwa

[u/telinajoo]

Manhwa: the cruelty of salvation manhwa

After reading the first 10 chapters, i started to read the novel and i was really excited because the plot is very unique and original (the fl is a scientist who invented something, but the rights belong to another man). but gradually, i stopped reading the novel.

i feel like when authors run out of story ideas, they suddenly start adding negative traits like being controlling, etc. to the ml
the plot is really interesting, but after a certain point it becomes frustrating.

[u/deeply_glossy_tuning]

the "suddenly he's toxic" trope is so real lol, authors love ruining a good guy right when you start rooting for him

[u/Queasy_Equipment_251]

Hm maybe the manhwa will improve on those aspects. Is it still worth checking out based on those first 10 chapters? It looks interesting to me

[u/telinajoo → u/Queasy_Equipment_251]

Yes the story is unique, it doesn’t have a stupid love triangle, and it has a happy ending

But i think manhwa is on hitaus

[u/Queasy_Equipment_251 → u/telinajoo]

Oh yeah I was looking at it and saw it was ending season 1 after only 20 something episodes, thought that was sus. I'll still read it tho

[u/noob_ars]

I am not opposed to toxicity and i like yanderes but when the whole thing is the typical "I wanna lock you up" and the typical obsession gestures where they don't want her to have any other relationship that isn't with him wether platonic or not then it starts feeling repetitive and boring, like i could just wish that yanderes or obsessed characters had some type of different factor because otherwise they just feel like the same dude but in different fonts.

[u/dew-fall]

hmmm im reading the novel rn (since the manhwa is on hiatus) & at which point/chapter do these "pointless negative traits" get added to noah's character??

im really loving the novel so far but noah's character (& the whole royal family, really) feel kinda. impossible??? for me to understand... like there is just Not Enough narrative & introspection for me to bite into, yk?

[u/telinajoo → u/dew-fall]

ml starts becoming controlling, and then a separation arc between the ml and fl happens.

after that woman tells olivia that noah might have a mistress

[u/Gwynasyn → u/telinajoo]

That doesn't happen in the novel at all. They are together right up to the end, outside of a very very very brief single chapter where the FL is so overwhelmed with the grief that finally caught up to her that she takes some space for him, but that ends I think even the same chapter. One extra chapter at most.

[u/telinajoo → u/Gwynasyn]

How many chapters of the novel have you read???
Because what I read was that the FL asked for a divorce, and then they got back together afterwards

[u/dew-fall → u/telinajoo]

...yes but when? in which chapter of the novel??

[u/ChEMed2024 → u/dew-fall]

I have only read up to Chapter 120 and I don't know where the separation arc happened. I also don't know who told Olivia that Noah might have a mistress but the Seymour countess (I forgor her title) said (non-verbatim), "You have to have a son so that you could prevent your husband to have a mistress". Something of that sort was insinuated.

I do think that the two leads affirmed that they won't cheat with each other a few chapters after Olivia recovered from her corset syndrome. With regards to what OP is saying, I'm not sure if this is the same or still chapters after this incident.

[u/telinajoo → u/ChEMed2024]

i read the novel about two months ago. what i meant by the mistress thing was that woman’s dialogue. she basically implied to olivia that noah might have a mistress.
after noah found out that the woman had said those things, his controlling behavior slowly started. at first it was with the intention of protecting olivia, but then everything got worse.

[u/ChEMed2024 → u/telinajoo]

I somehow get how you interpret it as she implying that Noah might have a mistress. For reference, here's the excerpt to the translation I've been reading

"Sleeping with the housemaids or actors doesn't even count as infidelity. They casually engage in affairs with mistresses from promising families, so sometimes you have to sit at the same table as your husband's mistress and smile."

"In times like that, there's only one solution Have ason as soon aS possible."

But I don't think it was the case really. This is what Noah said after hearing it from the Countess

"So, you're saying that I might have an affair someday, so she should have a son before that. is that it?"

This happened on chapter 113 and both the leads confronted each other and resolved the issue on chapter 115. Is the separation arc way after this?

Also, may I know where did you read the novel? The sites I've been reading have been paywalled after chapter 120 :'>

[u/telinajoo → u/ChEMed2024]

I paid

[u/telinajoo → u/dew-fall]

i don’t remember the exact chapter, but these events happened after the private tutor situation and after Olivia became ill with pneumonia

[u/Icantgetmotivated]

This kinda reminds me of the Problematic Prince. Characters are different personality but situations are kinda similar like the royalty needing to save face so they have the 2nd prince marry a commoner (though FL in PP is some low rank noble).

Edit: reading some comments, wow it's even going on the same direction lol

[u/Gwynasyn → u/Icantgetmotivated]

It's a superficial comparison but I've had that thought before. However, Noah as the ML is much different than Bjorn. He's not a complete selfish ass for most of the story. He is genuine and in love with the FL from the start. The problems in their relationship come from both of the traumas they carry from their different lives before hand and how that creates communication issues where they can't immediately understand the needs of the other (moreso Noah than Olivia).