Happily Ever Afterwards - Reviews

Beautiful art - especially the colours and texture. It's not an easy love story as it's quite realistic in the way the characters have serious flaws they need to overcome. They're both irritating at first, but at about chapter 16-ish I can see slow, but well-written, development.

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UPDATE AT CHAPTER 39:

The progression is getting better and both FL and ML are getting more endearing. I think the first 8 chapters made them annoying on purpose so we could see how both flawed characters become less flawed as the story progresses. The story seems to be well aware of both characters' flaws (FL's naivete and ML's brusqueness) and is giving them well-paced development. The FL has some self-respect, based on chapter 26, though she's still stupidly reckless--hopefully the story will continue to give her more development. I like that we see a lot of ML's thoughts too, as they're actually reasonable and give perspectives in their relationship.

It's refreshing to see how a story doesn't start off with both characters as likeable characters. The risk is that early readers, like me, will be turned off and quickly judge it as one of those brainless, irritating stories. But the development is well-written, so I'll say the author had the intention of making both characters irritating before making them develop over time.

Also, great comedy as the story goes on--especially them playing board games!

Art is great. Really great. The outlines are simplistic, but the realistic colours and pastel-ish/crayon-ish texture of the colours are really good. The hands are to die for. The anatomy is the best that I have ever seen, really. The perspectives, the shading, etc show that the artist obviously has a flawless grasp of art. Even the seemingly simple faces are drawn in a way that the characters are attractive and so expressive. Especially the lovely eye colours.

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OLD REVIEW:

FL, at chapter 8, is annoying. She thinks of ML as her faaaavourite character. She stans him.

She thinks she can make him happy, proposes marriage and knows that he can't really reject the political marriage because... politics. So she proposes to him, he politely declines, she kinda forces him into the marriage, he does his best to make her life hard in the castle so she can leave willingly, she misunderstands his attempts to drive her out as acts of goodness, and my patience runs thin with this girl and ML every chapter.

First, if he says no, that means no. Respect him and yourself by stop clinging and begging him into the marriage. FL thinks of ML as her most bestest favourite character and she doesn't want to let go. She thinks she knows everything about him, thinks she knows that he'll surely crack when she gives him so many sweets and thinks that he's just a broken man who can be "fixed" by her love. Basically, she sees and treats him as a 2D character. She relentlessly tries to bake for him and tolerate his negligence of her. That's not persistence, that's just delusional naiveness.

Second, ML can hate FL. But the negligence to the point of not giving her firewood in the freezing winter is a bit much. She's very annoying, but it doesn't mean she should freeze to death lol.

I'm still reading because of the art and because although I find them irritating, FL and ML are cute sometimes. And I'm really hoping FL realises he's an actual human and stops fangirling over him as it's off-putting. Please, give her some character development.

Okayyy a suffered ML and just as cheerful FL. Everything looks good right? But it isn't.

I've read about 60 chapters of this story and the whole story goes like this;FL doesn't even do anything wrong but goes to ML and apologizes.ML is cold and rude guy.He even doesnt care about her.FL is different annoying.She acts very lame and always chases after him.Sooo nope for me.

I have read this webtoon upto ch 39 and so far everyone is just very annoying. Story is still about the obsession of ml with the original fl of the novel and our fl following him apologizing 24/7 basically humiliating hersef all the time! I am actually getting really tired of ml's annoying and rude behavior also annoyed by fl's lack of self respect! So I am only giving it a 6 coz art is fine and ml is hot!

The story and characters are great although I didn't like some parts of the story. I didn't like when he gave up on her firmly then returned to her just like that !! I didn't like that the real FL soul was threatening her then it appeared that she was just testing her !! On another hand , I fell in loooove with the characters that I almost finish the comic in 2 days but I still couldn't find the last chapters translated . The love story is worm but I wished if it was hot . The art is .... a piece of art, lol . I think the author is good at finding the twists and obstacles but he doesn't resolve it properly, man !! We need to see some joy after the suffering but problems continue to appear. Generally, I will recommend it , the ML is hot and FL is funny and lovely. 

I really liked the concept of this story in the beginning, but now I find that it's shallow. I hate the way Richard treats Peony and it feels like she is just settling for the bare minimum. She forgives the way he treats her after he does one nice thing. Peony deserves to be treated with the same love that her family showers her with. I would've rather had a story about her bonding with her family. And on that note, I feel bad for them. They were cast aside for this bs. I get that some people have a thing for cold and curt characters (I am some people ;-;), but people can have those characteristics without having the emotional maturity of an egg salad. Sure, Richard has been through a lot, but that doesn't mean it's okay for him to act like a *****. Lol anyways, unless he suddenly recovers from being emotionally stunted, I won't be finishing this manga. Please let me know if he turns 🆙️ I have, however, read up to chapter 87, which is basically nearing the end of this manga so my faith is low.

I hope the readers who actually enjoy this manga aren't surrounded by people like Richard. Open your eyes guys, respect yourselves and find someone who appreciates you.

*EDIT*

It turns out there were only two more chapters left from where I dropped this webtoon lol. As much as I think it's wasteful not to finish it since I was so close to the ending, I still don't think it's worth my time.