Title: High Society

Author/Story: Gyeonwoo (original novel)

Artist: Surreuk Comics

Rating: R-15

Genre: Romantic fantasy

Hosted On: Manta Comics

Official Link(s): English

Official Summary:

Sell me! I’ll be the most expensive lady to obtain.

While scheming to get out of an arranged marriage, Cesare runs into Adele, a shoeshine girl from the slums. The two make a 3-month deal to help Cesare elude marriage. However, Adele is so different from the women he’s met before that he can’t help but be drawn to her.

My Thoughts:

High Society is a lot.

It begins with Adele, a shoeshine girl whose identity as a woman has just been revealed by thugs in the back alleys of the city’s slums. In her attempt to escape, she crosses paths with the handsome libertine Cesare Buonaparte. Despite not being related – not a single drop of blood connects them – they look like they could be brother and sister, and that’s exactly what Cesare needs to keep from being swept up into an unwanted and unprofitable match with Lucrezia Della Valle, a young woman who is absolutely obsessed with him.

This is a fake everything series. Cesare hires Adele to pretend to be his sister as they share the same golden eyes and dark hair, promising to make her into a perfect noble woman to be married off to Lucrezia’s older brother instead. Think Pygmalion with an incest angle.

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