A Business Proposal, Vol. 10

사내 맞선 [Sanae Matseon] #10

by Narak, Perilla (Adapter), Haehwa (Original Creator)

A DONE DEAL

Married and living with the love of her life, Hari has everything she's dreamed of. There's nothing more she could want...or is there? After seeing Yeongsuh and Sunghoon’s baby, she begins to yearn for a child of her own, a child who takes after her beloved husband! In the finale of A Business Proposal, join Hari and Taemu as they start the ultimate enterprise—parenthood!

Genres: Manhwa, Romance, Manga, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Contemporary, Comics

278 pages, Paperback

First published September 29, 2022

Reviews

[Sajede]

امتیاز کل مجموعه رو یکجا می‌دم‌😅
یک مقدار طولانی شد، شخصیت‌ها هم زیاد شد، قربونش برم نویسنده همه رو هم جفت کرد، ولی در کل بد نبود.

[EYLEEN]

¿Es el fin? ¿Ya no más...? Tengo la esperanza de que continue un poquito más... ¡Nunca amé tanto un manhwa con parejas hetero! Este manhwa me ha dejado el pedestal tan alto que ya no creo encontrar otro que me enganche tanto ni me tenga tan enamorada de toda la historia y sus personajes (obvio solo hablo de manhwas hetero, los BL son otro cuento jaja).

También la serie que le hicieron estuvo muuuy bien hecha y lograda (aunque el final no me maravilló como me hubiese gustado). El cast fue una locura espectacular 😍 es ese tipo de serie que definitivamente me vería de nuevo.

[Steph ✨]

4.5 stars

I just love this series. I hope we get more of the TV show too ❤️

[bri]

they are my family i loved them so much i wish the kdrama was exactly like this.

[hema]

God I LOVED this. I forgot how much I love comics, graphic novels, webtoons etc.

I will say, the webtoon was better than the series (naturally), as the drama left some major things out and it was a lot different from it’s source material. However, I really like that they’re two separate things that can be equally enjoyed in different ways. IMO the show is not BASED on the webtoon, it’s just inspired by it.

The romance was top tier I’m not even kidding when I say that. Hari’s struggles felt real and the main couple was so tender and loving towards eachother my ass was literally screaming into my pillow. Ahn, you’re hot, but Mr. CEO is on another level, SORRY!
Webtoon writers/artist really do hit different. Read this if you’re beyond empty inside and just wanna feel something. It is rated “older teen”, but the spice was still solid and pretty hot tbh.

All in all, this revived my love of graphic novels and I’m already making a list of new ones I wanna read.

Let the record show, they DID birth a litter 🫡

[Izzy]

Cuteness overload.

[penta]

Okej, ale co z dziadkiem 😭

[Omnya Ali (Free Palestine)]

افضل مجلد فيهم 💗 كان فراشات 🦋🦋

[Mac]

I really enjoyed this series, one of my favorites.

[Elizabeth *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ]

ROBBED of a grandpa kang romance subplot

[Celine]

episode 114-124

Ahh, die kindjes zijn toch wel heel erg cute <3
En het verhaal van Hamin en zijn love-interest was ook zo schattig omg
Wel echt een leuke manhwa :D

Wel een beetje sneu dat ik er aan het eind pas achterkom dat ik de hele tijd de verkeerde auteur had genoteerd rip

[Brea Lanae]

Major spoilers for the entire volume 🙃




I am happy that the series wasn’t stretched into 40+ volumes unnecessarily, but I do wish it was just a tad bit longer. I absolutely loved this entire series. It’s funny with beautiful art, and I don’t care about the “predictable” nature of it all. I loved the story, characters- main and side, and loved the ending, but the final volume saw Yeongsuh and Sunghoon have their baby plus another, Taemu and Hari have twins, the younger brother announces he’ll be getting married, to Taemu and Hari’s tenth anniversary coming up. It’s just far too much in one volume. I still loved it though, but I wish we had maybe another volume or two to break it up rather than it feeling so rushed in this one.

[Cassandra]

Everyone got a happy ending! The art is beautiful, the story is just so much fluffy lovely romance. Everyone is the GREENEST of flags! We got the finish of the younger brother side story and went back to our main couple who had some babies!

The only part I didn't like was the dads and brother being overly protective of the daughters. One of them kabedon the guy she likes. SHE IS GONNA BE FINE! Just support her!


Love it so good.

[Craig Schorling]

This moves at a blazingly fast pace but it does a great job giving the conclusions to the characters that we wanted. This was a pure guilty pleasure read and one that I am sad to see end but also happy that it did not overstay its welcome.

[Lina]

Fue todo muy rápido.
No quería terminarlo.

Que lindooo weeeee🥹

[Natalie S]

As a final volume, I was a little disappointed. Many times I had to double check I didn't miss a page as it jumped through time without warning.

However, overall I loved the series.

[Anastasia]

Everybody is adorable and deserves all the happiness.
Like I said, love office romance. A very nice title.

[Kelly]

Cute series! Thanks for telling me about it MacKenzie!

[Sarah]

So cute!

[lauren ⋆☽˚]

screaming at hamin thinking yooju was a guy and just accepting the fact that he must be gay 😭😭😭

[Sarah Wang]

Not as good as the K drama, but still super cute and fun. Love that everyone got a cute love story and happy ending.

[Aniela]

Why is everyone so cute 😭

[Literatura sin límites]

Definitivamente, de todos los tomos, este fue el que menos me gustó. Para mí, fue muy empalagoso y con poca comedia... Pero esa es mi opinión personal.

[Sophie]

This last volume is pointless, A business proposal should have stopped a bit before.
But in the whole, excellent webtoon.

[Reibekah]

the final volume! it was cute

[Warda]

⭐4.5 stars⭐

[Yrsa]

Liked the brother’s story most in this one. Otherwise it was a bit more like an epilogue that I didn’t feel like I needed?

[Becky]

Well that was just delightful

[Angela]

Amazing Series!

[Nazish Ahmed (Nazish Reads)]

This volume featured the epilogues.
I loved the first few volumes in this series (especially vol. 3) and had high hopes for this series to be really good, but unfortunately, it went great to silly and boring (although vol. 9 was fun, probably because it was focusing on other characters besides the main 2 couples). I really enjoyed vol. 1-5, 9, and still not sure how I feel about vol. 8. Vol. 6 was boring, vol. 7 was meh and this volume was disappointing. It’s not the people who adapted the novel’s fault considering what they had to work with, in fact, the artist did an amazing job with the characters, they all look so good. I can’t think of a single character that looked bad. I would definitely try other projects that the artist has worked on if it sounds interesting to me.

I’m going to include something from my review of vol. 8 because it applies to the whole series. Explaining one of the biggest reasons why I’m not a fan of the main couples and why I got bored of some of the later volumes.
I like my fictional couples to be more than just cute and lovey dovey, there’s got to be something more to it, otherwise they are boring, they are not memorable, and it’s too sweet and annoying for me. In fact, the two main couples felt cartoonish to me and not in a good way, they had no substance to them by the end.
Some of my favourite fictional couples are: Noah Wynknight x Raeliana McMillan, Edward Elric x Winry Rockbell, Jinshi x Maomao, Hak x Yona, Arnold Hein x Rishe Weitzner, Motoharu Kaburagi x Satoshi Onoe, etc. Some of these characters have become a couple and are still interesting and fun to read about. So you can see why I’m not a big fan of either of the couples in this series. I liked Hari and Taemu in the first 5 volumes but then they got boring, Hari went from being an interesting and fun female lead to “my only character is that I’m obsessed with my boyfriend,” and I need more from characters to like them and their stories. In fact, in this volume, she’s so pathetic that she can’t even live 5 days without him! Girl! Don’t you have any hobbies besides admiring and sleeping with your husband? Or does your whole life and character revolve around him?😑 I hate these kinds of couples. I hope I don’t end up like her when I find the one. I kind of understand why some people love the secondary couple but they’re just not for me. This series is kind of like Horimiya for me. I loved it in the beginning but once they were an official couple, things got boring and annoying. One of the reasons why I like books, manga and manhwa with unhealthy couples is because they always keep things interesting, not saying that you can’t keep characters in healthy relationships interesting (like Ed x Winry, Kaburagi x Onoe, etc), but it’s just not as common. I also like couples who tease each other a lot. These two and Hari's friend in her relationship are so boring and sickly sweet that you could get diabetes from reading these last few volumes. These kinds of relationships are great in real life (though unrealistic), in books and shows, they're boring and unmemorable. I’m not saying that relationships should be miserable, I’m just saying that there should be more to it. I don’t think Taemu and Hari have ever even had a fight before. This is the first story I’ve read where a couple hasn’t had even one fight. I remember reading comments that they wish they had a guy like Taemu. I don’t, because he will do whatever she wants, that’s not a good thing. Too much PDA, I’m someone who believes these things should be kept private, why can’t you wait until you get home? A little peck on the cheek is fine but that’s about it. I find it gross hearing and seeing these things. When I was in high school, a girl who had a locker next to mine always had her boyfriend go there and they kissed after school every day, not caring that someone was right there. I could hear the kissing noises, it was disgusting, after that I can’t tolerate it near me. So these two kissing and stuff in public was annoying to me. Yes, they didn’t more than kissing and yes I have seen way more in erotic graphic novels and tv shows (and love those series) but it’s still not something I want to see and hear in public places. Despite other women being jealous, I was the opposite. It’s funny how the secondary couple started as the more boring and annoying one, but it ended up being the main couple that was worse. I read a comment for the novel, that they liked the drama better because the characters were more well rounded, so I might give that a shot someday.

As for the other couples, I was hoping that Hamin and that girl would be a love-hate relationship or one with lots of teasing but unfortunately that didn’t happen. I still liked that better than the two main couples but they still didn’t have enough going on with their characters. I felt like grandpa finding a woman was not needed. It felt like the author was scared to leave anyone single, like in Horimiya and Love is an Illusion. I agree that Hamin deserved someone after his heartbreak but I don’t think we had to find someone for Taemu’s grandpa.
I’m not sure how I feel about Hari having kids as well. I was hoping that there would be a couple that is married with kids, a couple that is married, a couple that is engaged or thinking about it, and a couple that’s just dating. But like with Love is an Illusion, we didn’t get that. Although, that’s more of a personal thing, so I really can’t fault the author for that. I also think it’s weird that characters in romcoms are so obsessed with their children looking like their partners. Why can’t the kid have a mix or look unique? Maybe I’m thinking too much about that one. It’s still weird how much couples want that and kind of creepy. Although all of the kids are adorable. Still, the only characters I really really liked in this series are Taemu’s grandpa and Hamin.

It is December 26 as I’m writing this review, I finished this volume yesterday (I can’t believe I read something so mediocre on a Christmas night) and thankfully I finished this series before the new year. Funny thing is, I read vol. 1 in January of this year. I don’t usually finish series in the same year but since I only had a few volumes left and wanted to be done with this series, I decided to get it done this year so that I don’t have to worry about it anymore.


After all this, I need to read a non romance book, but I had already decided that I would read certain shojo manga series vol. 1s before the new year as well, so I’m going to watch Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episodes since I’ve read lots of romances lately and I think I’m finally burnt out and need a break from that genre, which I kind of had before vol. 8 but I really need it after this, and I’m pretty sure that watching a bunch of deadly fights and hearing lots of witty banter and fun interactions between characters (many of them my favourites), will be what I need right now and then after a few days or weeks, I can get back into romance and especially 18+ romance again.


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