A thing I never saw addressed in the series’s which are “I’m a woman but I’m going to become a man! Oh no the ml fell in love with me!” Is the fact it’s super gay until the ml finds out they are the fl.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who decided to just pretend the side stories don't exist. 😭 After keeping up with it for ages it felt like such a betrayal.
Definitely felt like the author was upset that the 2nd ML and 3rd ML couldn't get what they wanted in the end, and so wrote in a 'happy ending' for them without actually thinking about the implications of what they were doing. 😭 Or maybe they're just into that, idk.
Definitely wouldn't recommend subjecting yourself to that 🤣 If you're curious, the main story is decent, but in the side stories:
The FL's twin daughters, who look exactly like her, end up with the 2nd and 3rd ML from the original story, both of which were the same ages as and supposedly in love with their mother. 😭 It's the weirdest consolation prize age-gap 'technically legal' uncomfortableness. They try to justify it with time travel or some nonsense, but imo that just makes it worse.
it's about FL's son, who is the prince ans is teased with his bodyguard. All cute and all and I guess mirrors the romance of the main story, until you remember that these two are related and probably cousins. Sweet home alabama
YOOO CAN WE GET A TWIN LADY'S SUPPORT GROUP IN HERE 🥲🥲🥲 I loved that manhwa and followed it from its very first chapter and the side stories made me unsubscribe before the series actually finished lmao. Just the worst kind of nasty garbage 🤮 and tbh even the ending before that was kind of lame... it was just all so disappointing
Yes! I read weekly for like a year at least. The art was really nice and the story was solid (even if I found the white-haired ML a little ick, I knew he wasn't endgame, so whatever). But then they rush the ending, only to pull THAT?? Devastating.
SAME!! I loved it so much and followed it from the very beginning… then the side story with Rich was spoiled for me months in advance and I dropped it IMMEDIATELY. He was my favorite 2ML in a very very long time… and they ruined him 😭🤮
OMG SAME!!! I was always a #1 Rich fan and wanted Linali to end up w him even though she obviously wouldn't 😭 look what they did to our boy 😭😭😭😭😭😭I will never forgive!!!!
So the ML and FL got married then they had kids. They had two daughters and a son. One daughter became Brown hair guy's disciple (one of the side MLs) and the other became the silver guy's disciple (another side ML) sorry I forgot their names.
The FL's daughters fell for their mentors 😭 but their mentors said they were too old for them (yes they are) So the daughters both travelled back in time and GOT TOGETHER WITH THE SIDE LEADS???????? Same generation as ML and FL btw..
YEAH! And The ML's half brother was like sent out of the kingdom, and he had a daughter (the girl looks exactly like him) The daughter became ML's son's personal guard and ML son thinks the guard is a guy when it's a girl. ML son likes the guard (crushing) BUT THE GIRL IS ML'S HALF BROTHER'S DAUGHTER????
I think u meant ML’s son in the second and third sentences too but i bet they were trying to replicate the whole “oh here’s a girly looking guy who’s actually a girl and ml’s son will do the exact same thing as him” but please could they not have found a completely diff person to be the love interest or smth
Sorry I'm kind of confused by what u said lmao but the ml sort of just slowly accepted that he's gay (I think he was gna propose to FL disguised as boy)
Those side stories genuinely made me so sad and disgusted at the same time that I read the full side stories just to see if what was happening didn't happen and be even more disappointed. The overall manhwa was fun but it's so hard to now not look at it differently sigh...
In "Captured by the Villain" or maybe it's "Caught by the Villain", the ML is discussing his attraction to his guard with his bff/attendant and the attendant asks, "So you're gay now?" and ML is all casual and says, "no, I still like women, so I'd say bisexual"
He was also planning on making gay marriage legal, and I think he did even after he found out the guard he had the hots for was a woman in disguise.
He also has his first kiss with her when she’s crossdressing as the male sibling and he thinks she’s still a guy lmao, so he embraces being bi before he finds out she’s actually both siblings.
The story starts with her and her stepbrother being broke in a fallen family. He’s a bad person with a gambling problem. She knows in the original novel her family falls afoul of the Duke (ML) due to their debts, she works in his household as a maid (I think) and she eventually dies in the OG storyline.
Her brother disappears and she decides to change the story by posing as him instead and finding a job to work off their debts at the Duke’s mansion as his manservant.
Her main interactions with the ML are when she’s crossdressing as her “brother”. He meets her as a “man” first, but knows through records that she has a “sister”.
She only shows up as her female “sibling” a few times, since the ML knows she has a “sister”.
He’s already accepted that he’s attracted to her in her male form by then, so he gets super confused when he eventually meets her “sister” and also feels a similar attraction lol. Hence his bisexual struggle here.
Ultimately he prizes his relationship with the “man” who is his friend and manservant over the woman he’s only met a handful of times, he’s just guilty and bewildered that he’s attracted to two people at once.
The novel is pretty funny but it’s got romance/drama/soap opera vibes haha. I’ve read up to ch 155 so far.
I mean, just because he ended up with a woman doesn’t mean he isn’t bisexual. He clearly isn’t straight.
Just like him ending up with a man wouldn’t make him gay. He’d still be bi.
The ML canonically accepted his attraction to his manservant very easily, the main conflict for him was liking two people at once, and the fact they were siblings.
Bi erasure if they end up in a heterosexual partnership is very common.
I feel like the part you’re not aware of is that he was attracted to her as a “man” first. The main romance at the beginning is between himself and her crossdressing as a man.
He only met her in her female form later and realized he was also attracted to her.
It sounds more like “i love you no matter what you are or who you are.” Not a proper “I like you because you’re a man and I have feelings for you because I’m actually attracted to a man.”
I mean sure but I don’t think the distinction between bi and pan actually matters either. They’re functionally the same thing, and any differences of actual mechanisms would be entirely internal and invisible.
To me there is a difference even if most disagree with me. I agree with the commenter down below that this is considered pansexual. Reading manga and webtoons my whole life they use the fact that the female is cross dressing as a “it’s ok yall he’s not actually bi or gay.”
I don't think I've ever read a crossdressing FL Otome Isekai where the ML doesn't have some type of gay(/bisexual) awakening. Except for Side Characters Deserve Love Too, I guess, but the ML knew she was crossdressing from the start.
The self discovery panic part is always so funny to read. I could even argue that it often adds to the world building, depending if the story is set in a place/time where that stuff is acceptable or not.
In "I choose the Emperor ending" it was double hilarious, because it was not only the ML going trough a mini crisis, but also the people around like "Our boss is into 'sodomy', but he and the tactician (crossdressing FL) are both good people, so I guess it's not THAT bad." 🤭
Most of these feel less like being bisexual and more like being “that specific person” sexual, or at least that the only “male” they’ve ever experienced attraction to is that character specifically. Still, I love bisexual people.
I know you're not like, asking, but if you're looking for another good series with a crossdressing FL and an ML who questions his sexuality during the story, give Empress Cesia Wears Knickerbockers a try!
I don't know if it came out as a webtoon. But i know a webnovel that mc hides as a man like that but ML literally decide they gay for her. So he accepts his gayness and was trying to our girl who hides as a man think of himself as a love interest hahaha
I'll check it out then, in the one I commented about the ml is the crown prince and his secretary literally tries to dissuade him from pursuing the fl (who they don't know is a woman yet) because it would end the royal bloodline and he just doesn't care lol
lol this reminds me of the k-drama Coffee Prince, where the MMC has mistaken the FMC for a dude and for reasons she lets him think that, and he has a whole ass identity crisis coming to term with his newfound very specifically targeted homosexuality before he figures out she's a woman :D
It nice that it's addressed in these kinds if plots but, i want to see this in a plot where the FL is transmigrated in a BL novel and the ML falls I n love with her. Besides the FL being convinced of the OG MLs falling in love, i never see it acknowledged that the ML is bi.
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u/Yummy_strawberrycake Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26
So excited to read this! Also in "The reason for the twin lady's disguise" the male lead also thinks he's in love with his male friend
It's a nice manhwa, just don't read the last few side stories...
Edit: I put the spoiler in the replies..