Aug 22, 2023
This manga might be an annoying read to some, and it isn't without it's flaws, but personally, I found it enjoyable.
The manga follows a woman in a transactional marriage gone wrong. She loves her husband, but is filled with guilt over the conditions of her marriage. On top of that, she is constantly ignored by her husband and berated by everyone in her life. She ends up dying by taking her own life, and wakes up in her husband's body.
Unlike other mangas, time doesn't rewind. This is a refreshing change of pace. Both the FL and ML are written well, in that their characters
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have feelings that make sense within the context of the story. Their personalities fit perfectly with their backgrounds, and their reactions to certain story arcs were understandable.
I also found it enjoyable to see how the FL works through her trauma and gains her confidence back. Its nice that the author pays proper attention to how despite her longing for suicide, she is incapable of actually dying. She is stuck in her despair with no way out besides continuing to live and fight for herself.
However, the misunderstandings are too many to count and often don't make sense at all. Sometimes it's reasonable to react the way they did, other times it's appalling it even lead to a misunderstanding.
For example, the ML believes the FL had been cheating because it's physically impossible for them to conceive, and he had suspicions already when she said she was pregnant (it was his parents setting her up and she wasn't actually pregnant). That's understandable.
But there was also a time when the FL comes up to her husband in hysterics, fingers covered in blood, crying and begging for a moment of his time because there's something important she has to tell him, and he shooes her away, telling her that he's busy and to not waste his time? How do you misunderstand that?
Or how multiple times she tells him to stop spending money on her because it's useless and doesn't make her happy, but he refuses and demands she pick something out, even though she will say clearly she prefers to just be with him. He will even state, "If I buy her more things, surely she'll realize I love her."
Each time they almost get close and rectify their relationship, the ML ruins it all by being an absolute disaster. I wouldn't have questioned it if it was revealed he was diagnosed bipolar.
Again and again, she will try to speak to him, but he shuts her down each time. He doesn't realize it until it's too late, and he spends the rest of the time trying to win her back.
There's even a line about how almost 4 years after their marriage, after she's asked for divorce and lived on her own for a full year, it was the very first time the ML ever gave the FL a compliment...
Ultimately, it's an interesting read, simply for the dynamics and the interesting primace. The main appeal is the realistic portrayal of someone struggling to find the will to live. I often felt like I'd react the same way as the FL if I were in her shoes. And they do eventually clear up the misunderstandings, it just might take 70+ chapters...
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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