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Title: Lies Become You

Author/Story: Seoru (original novel) and Winter (the adapted story)

Artist: C.MU, Danbi, and Soo

Rating: Slightly Mature (some steamy moments, but this is R15)

Genre: romantic fantasy, magic, elementals, betrayal, Egyptian-inspired setting, romance, marriage of convenience, contract relationship, politics, historical

Hosted On: Manta Comics

Official Link(s): English

Official Summary:

Once an enemy, now a husband?

Femme fatale Veronica is sentenced to death for obsessing over the prince. With her life now in danger, she boards a ship to escape, unaware that it belongs to her archnemesis, the alluring Prince Halid. He agrees to help her, but only on the condition that she pretends to be his wife!

My Thoughts:

In the introduction to Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism, he notes that he “looked especially at cultural forms like the novel, which I believe were immensely important in the formation of imperial attitudes, references, and experiences”. He goes on to say that:

“I do not mean that only the novel was important, but that I consider it the aesthetic object whose connection to the expanding societies of Britain and France is particularly interesting to study. The prototypical modern realistic novel is Robinson Crusoe, and certainly not accidentally it is about a European who creates a fiefdom for himself on a distant non European Island.”

I have wanted to cite Edward Said in an analysis of Lies Become You from the second that I saw the first chapter of this Korean webtoon and noped out of it last year.

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