Thanks for these couple few chapters. I saw this on latest updates today, caught up and now I am hooked..
I also think it's the right time for a manga like this. It sort of has a Oshi No Ko:ish feel to it; with it being a child seeking revenge on their parent and with them almost living a double life. But this time it's like we're taking part in it from more of an outsiders perspective.
Also, I don't think there will be any ntr. Since...
It appears that she hasn't dated anyone else since they broke up, and it also becomes apparent that she's still in love with him.
I hate how people "rating-bomb" manga when they gleam the slightest possibilty of there being NTR in it, even though it ultimately may turn out that it doesn't contain any at all. All this does is demotivate translators since it makes it harder for people to find the manga that they're working on. All parties end up suffering needlessly.
Good manga affects our emotions. Good manga about negative things can make you have negative thoughts for the whole day. Thinking about being cheated on is not something many people want to think about in their free time.
In a way, the better the manga the worse it is when it has ntr/horror/tragedy elements and you are really not in the state of mind to read them.
The only good manga that rely on relationship drama as their central hook are the ones that end in one or two chapters.
Any attempt to create a longer series that has nothing to retain the audience but drama will inevitably descend into soap opera schlock. If an author feels the need to throw ntr in just to keep people watching the train wreck, it probably wasn't a good story to begin with.
Will there ever be a netorare tag on mangadex? Who knows....But this manga is really a roller coaster of "emotions" even though I read it raws, I can feel what it says on the picture.
Okay, so I read the first 17 English chapters and skimmed through the Vietnamese raws, and Google picture translated the last 3-4 chapters and the early chapter 30s. Here's what I can roughly picture the storyline.
Oh, and no, there is no NTR. I can see where the supposed "ntr" comes from, but that is just drama added by the author which was misunderstood by the reader as "ntr". Especially if you can't read the text. Assuming you've read up to chapter 17, the following spoiler will clear up the ntr part and roughly piece together the story.
This spoiler was taken from my reply to a person shouting ntr in the last Vietnamese chapter. So, after skimming through all the raws, this spoiler will be more in the form as an end discussion/reply rather than a beginning to end timeline structure (I could rewrite it to be the latter, but that'd be too much work. I mean, look at how long this post already is). Also, this was before I Google translated some of the Vietnamese chapters and then later edited the post after translating some of the chapters.
The following is what I assumed from the story, before I translated and read some of the chapters:
My theory is that she got pregnant with the MC's child through the artificial insemination and then ghosted him until she got a round belly. She had a fake boyfriend to fool her mother about the father (well, fake as in they probably didn't do anything since she kissed him once and was super disgusted by it). {Edit: this kiss happened during the manga chapters after FMC reunited with MC after about 5 months of pregnancy, during which tons of drama was happening. For sure nothing physical happened before, and no flashbacks either. After that, she realizes she can only love MC and no one else. Now, back to my previous speculation}
By the time she meets MC with pregnant belly, cue all that drama between the mother, aunt, and so forth. I think the author put some drama on the fake boyfriend by making it seem that the FMC never told the MC about her pregnancy when she ghosted him again. But I'm pretty sure MC is the father and fake boyfriend being the father is a red herring.
So after all the drama, they have pregnant intercourse (wow, what a rare find in manga: pregnant sex), she gives birth right after, and then she disappears yet again leaving MC with their child. Being as dysfunctional as she is, she probably couldn't handle being a mother and needed time to sort herself into being at least a sane and normal person, but she trusts MC to wait for her, as he did all those years ago.
And no, I don't think she went screwing around with dudes. Especially given her behavior around other men as being repulsed and disgusted by them, all except MC.
I think this was the story the author was going for. Of course, this is all what I could pick up from skimming the Vietnamese chapters and reading the first 16 or so English chapters
Edit: I've just googled picture translated the last 3 or 4 chapters and the chapters in the early 30s (when they separated), and I am 90% sure FMC has MC's baby. FMC and MC had a falling out, and once she got pregnant, she ghosted him. MC wanted to be a father and a husband, but FMC just wanted to use the baby as revenge against her mother and won't let anyone interfere with her or her baby's life.
As for the supposed fake boyfriend, it was an arranged marriage by the mother (mother has clout to get her daughter married), but FMC has not done anything with him nor does she plan to go through with the marriage. She's keeping both men out of her life despite their feelings (both guys like her).
During this middle part, there is tons of family drama and stuff like the revenge plan. But I'm not gonna bother going through that.
Towards the end, after the drama with the family is over, MC and FMC are taking several chapters to sort out their thoughts about what happened, what's going to happen, and the details of filming the movie. One last interpersonal drama before the series ends.
They decided to redo the movie, and both mc and FMC talk and sort out feelings in the old apartment with the hole in the wall. And then they make love (Oh, I take back what I said beforehand; as contradicting as it sounds, this manga is a SSR manga that features virgin pregnant sex!?!? I mean, she got pregnant artificially and never had sex, so the math checks out. Just wow...I've never seen that before; hell, not even in hentai)
As for the end, she gives birth, stays around with the baby for a bit, and then leaves MC and baby since she's dysfunctional. She stabbed her mother and used the baby as revenge against her; not exactly mother material, and she knows it. With both her mother and the baby gone, she is free from any control and obligation (she knows MC will take care of the baby), and so she disappears again. She disappears to start a new life that she can choose freely. Cue the five year skip, and she returns to the old apartment, where MC and child wait for her. MC, knowing how she is and what she's been through, will accept her again, letting the past 5 years be water under the bridge.
MC realizes himself that he can't forget about her. So no matter how many times she breaks his heart, he'll still love her the best he can. And so he waits for her with their child.
As for what she did during those five years, we don't know. But given her past behavior and actions, we can probably assume the following: she tries to fix herself from being dysfunctional, a bit of soul searching and what she wants to do in life, and then realizes she misses MC and her baby and goes back to them to start a family. And no, I don't think she dated (let alone touched) anyone since she truly loves the MC and has like a phobia to all men that approach her (except MC).
Quite the rollercoaster of a story. But all in all, not too bad of a story. And no ntr or f**kery involved, but for sure a lot of mental trauma that'd make any therapist quit their job. So, yeah, that's the story.
Okay, so I read the first 17 English chapters and skimmed through the Vietnamese raws, and Google picture translated the last 3-4 chapters and the early chapter 30s. Here's what I can roughly picture the storyline.
Oh, and no, there is no NTR. I can see where the supposed "ntr" comes from, but that is just drama added by the author which was misunderstood by the reader as "ntr". Especially if you can't read the text. Assuming you've read up to chapter 17, the following spoiler will clear up the ntr part and roughly piece together the story.
This spoiler was taken from my reply to a person shouting ntr in the last Vietnamese chapter. So, after skimming through all the raws, this spoiler will be more in the form as an end discussion/reply rather than a beginning to end timeline structure (I could rewrite it to be the latter, but that'd be too much work. I mean, look at how long this post already is). Also, this was before I Google translated some of the Vietnamese chapters and then later edited the post after translating some of the chapters.
The following is what I assumed from the story, before I translated and read some of the chapters:
My theory is that she got pregnant with the MC's child through the artificial insemination and then ghosted him until she got a round belly. She had a fake boyfriend to fool her mother about the father (well, fake as in they probably didn't do anything since she kissed him once and was super disgusted by it). {Edit: this kiss happened during the manga chapters after FMC reunited with MC after about 5 months of pregnancy, during which tons of drama was happening. For sure nothing physical happened before, and no flashbacks either. After that, she realizes she can only love MC and no one else. Now, back to my previous speculation}
By the time she meets MC with pregnant belly, cue all that drama between the mother, aunt, and so forth. I think the author put some drama on the fake boyfriend by making it seem that the FMC never told the MC about her pregnancy when she ghosted him again. But I'm pretty sure MC is the father and fake boyfriend being the father is a red herring.
So after all the drama, they have pregnant intercourse (wow, what a rare find in manga: pregnant sex), she gives birth right after, and then she disappears yet again leaving MC with their child. Being as dysfunctional as she is, she probably couldn't handle being a mother and needed time to sort herself into being at least a sane and normal person, but she trusts MC to wait for her, as he did all those years ago.
And no, I don't think she went screwing around with dudes. Especially given her behavior around other men as being repulsed and disgusted by them, all except MC.
I think this was the story the author was going for. Of course, this is all what I could pick up from skimming the Vietnamese chapters and reading the first 16 or so English chapters
Edit: I've just googled picture translated the last 3 or 4 chapters and the chapters in the early 30s (when they separated), and I am 90% sure FMC has MC's baby. FMC and MC had a falling out, and once she got pregnant, she ghosted him. MC wanted to be a father and a husband, but FMC just wanted to use the baby as revenge against her mother and won't let anyone interfere with her or her baby's life.
As for the supposed fake boyfriend, it was an arranged marriage by the mother (mother has clout to get her daughter married), but FMC has not done anything with him nor does she plan to go through with the marriage. She's keeping both men out of her life despite their feelings (both guys like her).
During this middle part, there is tons of family drama and stuff like the revenge plan. But I'm not gonna bother going through that.
Towards the end, after the drama with the family is over, MC and FMC are taking several chapters to sort out their thoughts about what happened, what's going to happen, and the details of filming the movie. One last interpersonal drama before the series ends.
They decided to redo the movie, and both mc and FMC talk and sort out feelings in the old apartment with the hole in the wall. And then they make love (Oh, I take back what I said beforehand; as contradicting as it sounds, this manga is a SSR manga that features virgin pregnant sex!?!? I mean, she got pregnant artificially and never had sex, so the math checks out. Just wow...I've never seen that before; hell, not even in hentai)
As for the end, she gives birth, stays around with the baby for a bit, and then leaves MC and baby since she's dysfunctional. She stabbed her mother and used the baby as revenge against her; not exactly mother material, and she knows it. With both her mother and the baby gone, she is free from any control and obligation (she knows MC will take care of the baby), and so she disappears again. She disappears to start a new life that she can choose freely. Cue the five year skip, and she returns to the old apartment, where MC and child wait for her. MC, knowing how she is and what she's been through, will accept her again, letting the past 5 years be water under the bridge.
MC realizes himself that he can't forget about her. So no matter how many times she breaks his heart, he'll still love her the best he can. And so he waits for her with their child.
As for what she did during those five years, we don't know. But given her past behavior and actions, we can probably assume the following: she tries to fix herself from being dysfunctional, a bit of soul searching and what she wants to do in life, and then realizes she misses MC and her baby and goes back to them to start a family. And no, I don't think she dated (let alone touched) anyone since she truly loves the MC and has like a phobia to all men that approach her (except MC).
Quite the rollercoaster of a story. But all in all, not too bad of a story. And no ntr or f**kery involved, but for sure a lot of mental trauma that'd make any therapist quit their job. So, yeah, that's the story.
