Beware of the Villainess! (KR Webtoon)

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Other Titles : 그 악녀를 조심하세요!
Author : Bbongdda Mask
Art : Pureunkanna
Link : https://mangadex.org/title/47286/bew...the-villainess

Spoiler for Synopsis:

A boldly aggressive Korean university student transmigrates into the world of a mediocre fantasy romance novel, specifically as villainous duke's daughter Melissa Podebrat. Disgusted by the 4 shitty male leads of the novel and the story's clichedness, she decides to hell with it all and overthrow the story, rescue the heroine from harem toxicity, and deliver some much-needed verbal and physical smackdowns to the toxic male leads.

Spoiler for Usual questions:

Is MC OP? - Not really, but makes up for it with her rough wrecking-ball personality. Candidly direct, dominant, aggressive and thuggish to all things and people she hates, social order be damned.

Is there harem? - No. MC hates all the male leads.

Spoiler for spoiler:

There is one side character whom she falls for though.

Is there snusnu? -

Spoiler for spoiler:

Not in the main story (but webnovel had a bonus chapter).

Sassy parody/meta-satire type webtoon.
Enjoyment might depend on whether you like reading about a aggressively dominant type of female MC.

[wuhugm]

Oh this
The other characters are so annoying

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Originally Posted by wuhugm

Oh this
The other characters are so annoying

Hence Melissa's desire to f*** them over.

(I assume you are talking about the novel's original male leads.)

[wuhugm]

^Yea, they are beyond saving

I prefer stories where characters are more reasonable

[AnimeFangirl]

In the beginning it was a bit annoying because half the action was taking place inside Melissa's head, but now she just keeps getting awesomer and awesomer. Putting Ian in his place was just, mwah, marveloso.

Also your answers to the usual questions are kind of a spoiler. At this point

Spoiler for end spoilers:

We don't know for sure that Melissa is going to reciprocate Nine's feelings, much less have a snusnu ending with him

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Originally Posted by AnimeFangirl

Also your answers to the usual questions are kind of a spoiler. At this point

Spoiler for end spoilers:

We don't know for sure that Melissa is going to reciprocate Nine's feelings, much less have a snusnu ending with him

I'll amend the usual questions to have spoilers in them.

As for the end spoilers

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I was looking at some of the source webnovel discussions on Novelupdates, which confirmed that Melissa does reciprocate Nine's feelings (plus a sidestory where they have snusnu for the 1st time - only for Melissa to find out Nine is too well-endowed...) Also no kids, since werewolves and humans can't crossbreed.

[AnimeFangirl]

Aww.

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Nine would have made the cutest dad. Maybe they can adopt.

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by AnimeFangirl

In the beginning it was a bit annoying because half the action was taking place inside Melissa's head, but now she just keeps getting awesomer and awesomer. Putting Ian in his place was just, mwah, marveloso.

Also your answers to the usual questions are kind of a spoiler. At this point

Spoiler for end spoilers:

We don't know for sure that Melissa is going to reciprocate Nine's feelings, much less have a snusnu ending with him

I feel completely opposite. Initially, when Melissa were plotting how to get better at prince while bursting into evil laugh out of nowhere, that was best part.

Now she basically moved on and basically became Knight in shining armor it became pretty boring.

[Sixth]

I like this because Melissa is breaking the fourth wall.

Also, it is refreshing that the MC is not evil or two-faced girl and Melissa actually chose to defend her from those degenerate instead of protecting herself from death flag.

[AnimeFangirl]

Originally Posted by Tenzen12

I feel completely opposite. Initially, when Melissa were plotting how to get better at prince while bursting into evil laugh out of nowhere, that was best part.

Now she basically moved on and basically became Knight in shining armor it became pretty boring.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I found that part too frustrating because the prince was such an incorrigible sleazebag. Things got much better once the series moved on from there.

[Sixth]

Originally Posted by AnimeFangirl

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I found that part too frustrating because the prince was such an incorrigible sleazebag. Things got much better once the series moved on from there.

Yeah, I feel that the series gets better after Melissa learned sword fencing because she is no longer afraid of those irrational capture targets.

[Kuroageha]

Originally Posted by Tenzen12

I feel completely opposite. Initially, when Melissa were plotting how to get better at prince while bursting into evil laugh out of nowhere, that was best part.

Now she basically moved on and basically became Knight in shining armor it became pretty boring.

YMMV

Watching Ian do whatever he wanted and throw all the blame at her was far from entertaining and Melissa being 'all bark(inside her mind), no bite' was infuriating.

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Originally Posted by AnimeFangirl

Aww.

Spoiler for end spoilers:

Nine would have made the cutest dad. Maybe they can adopt.

Spoiler for spoiler:

Apparently they do - it's one of Ian's half-relatives' daughters.

Nine was the most disappointed he and Melissa couldn't make babies, since he wanted a child to care for. Melissa didn't want children, since she never saw herself as the mother type to begin with. But she loves Nine enough to want to accommodate his desire.

Originally Posted by Kuroageha

YMMV

Watching Ian do whatever he wanted and throw all the blame at her was far from entertaining and Melissa being 'all bark(inside her mind), no bite' was infuriating.

On the plus side, she's already started properly scolding Ian.

[Kuroageha]

Originally Posted by zztop

On the plus side, she's already started properly scolding Ian.

And that only started when she got hold of a sword.

[AnimeFangirl]

Originally Posted by Kuroageha

YMMV

Watching Ian do whatever he wanted and throw all the blame at her was far from entertaining and Melissa being 'all bark(inside her mind), no bite' was infuriating.

That's right, that's right. She was so helpless and angry, which made me the reader helpless and angry. She's a lot more chill now, but also more effective. It's great.

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I find it interesting how gentle and submissive Nine's personality is as a male (possible romantic) lead. It's a contrast to Melissa's dominant,rough manners.

Usually Korean romance webtoons/novels seem to like the dominant, brooding, angsty, dark type (although some have gotten lighter as of late).

[Kuroageha]

Don't forget Nine is one of the few blue haired males that actually are the main male romantic interest.

Usually korean stories put blue hair character as good characters doomed to lose to the angsty ML.

[AnimeFangirl]

Angsty ML who almost always has black, brown or white/silver hair, very, very occasionally blond. Never seen a green or blue-haired ML win before.

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Checked out some of the story progress so far.

- Nine's villainous twin brother, Migen, kidnaps Yuri to draw out Melissa to him.
Melissa, Nine, Jack and Yona decide to go to werewolf land to rescue her (Melissa promises a salary increase to Yona if she joins; Yona immediately accepts).

- Yuri has (long?) awakened to the knowledge that she's inside a lousy novel story, and admires Melissa for being able to break free of the narrative and pursue her own destiny.
However, the spirit of the novel (or author?) doesnt want deviation, and wants Yuri to give in and submit to her role as the novel's MC.

- It's hinted Yuri's lived/seen through routes where she ended up with the official male leads per the novel, and she's sick of it all.

[The Green One]

The webtoon version of this series has some pretty funny art moments. However you might feel about the story itself it's worth a read just to enjoy it.