On the Emperor's Lap - Reviews

The art is the main selling point of this story. The ending leaves many loose ends and is unsatisfactory. The male lead has almost no good qualities. He is a total narcisist at first but later becomes repentant. The female lead has become twisted through tragedy and abuse and leaves the reader wondering if she actually even loves the male lead. The love story is kind of sadistic. In short, don't waste your time unless you are extremely bored.

This is one of the worst manhwas I've ever read ml is horrible and manipulative and fl is just stupid after all the horrible things he's done to her, she still ends up with him

It was kind of all over the place. The ML was definitely not someone most people would root for. It was just so hard to be invested because of that. The characters were not super remarkable. I finished reading it and it wasn't awful. It just isn't good. I also felt that there could have been more added about the FL's emotions at the end. It doesn't make it very clear if she is happy with her decisions for the ML. Idk... wasn't my favorite read. Also sometimes that art was weird proportion-wise. 

I understand where everyone is comming from. I am one to give characters as much leway as I can, and the ML spent most of the series pressed against it. The final arc with the devil, while understandable, kind of made the build up fall flat. Art is bad at the beginning but does get better. male characters are to problomatic a lot of times. While reading I felt like other stories did it better, and I had a hard time not comparing it to other series in terms of quality of the characters (besides Krim, we must adopt him). YOU have to have a very strong conviction to read this story, as the redemption arc of the ML takes until over halfway through the story. I was surprised it was able to batch it up somewhat, but if you have anything at all you can read, do that before touching this. I would say this is only ok as a very very last resort. Had potential, but wasn't executed right.

Honestly, I couldn't find a decent translation and the flow of the story is like a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. I felt like panels and pieces were missing from each chapter that explains the why's and how's and what's. I felt like the plot it self was more or less supposed to be more like a simple one shot or short story that was suddenly decided to be longer than originally planned and wound up being a choppy mess in both characters and story wise.

It has great potential, however due to a lack of what I interpret as a visual goal and flow of story development stops this from being anything more than a fantasy in the authors head with half baked ideas. Half statements, emotions, conversation all play a part in this review. I tried powering through and thing started getting better explanation wise and translation wise but it wound up being to much for personally. I believe too many ideas were jumbled up for a clear path for readers to understand.

Bottom line the execution of the story could've been better in my opinion. It's not great but it's not trash either once you get to a certain spot things seem get better but the sudden change was too drastic for me to be able to enjoy it. I believe this was more for the author than readers. This is my personal conclusion as both an author and reader.