She's the daughter of the lady and the peasant.

Shitty mom discovers her daughter's relationship with the "dirty commoner girl", sells her out to the cops.
Young cop gets a hold of her, bla bla yadda yadda "you're mine now" type of possessiveness he mistakes as love.
Forced marriage/pregnancy, she dies (maybe in childbirth), guy blames daughter for her death.

This is my prediction too, I don't see the 'commoner' ending up with the noble girl with how the mom is, nor do I think she will willingly get with the cop (but damn what do I know)

Nice job, spreading out the coat. There are certain places you do NOT want hay sticking to...or in...

So bizarre going from weird prison android to almost 1800s farm gentry.

Also, the visual style mismatch between the drawn humans and the photographed straw is pretty hilarious.

Man, I have no idea where this story is going. Other than it doing so very slowly.

Ch. 7 p. 8 has a typo: "Andriod" instead of "Android".

Does everything still being "Act 1" imply they actually plan to resolve the many, many, many plot threads in a meaningful way? There are so many things piled up I'm getting the feeling this was decided by committee/looking at popularity metrics.

Shitty mom discovers her daughter's relationship with the "dirty commoner girl", sells her out to the cops.
Young cop gets a hold of her, bla bla yadda yadda "you're mine now" type of possessiveness he mistakes as love.
Forced marriage/pregnancy, she dies (maybe in childbirth), guy blames daughter for her death.

This is my prediction too, I don't see the 'commoner' ending up with the noble girl with how the mom is, nor do I think she will willingly get with the cop (but damn what do I know)

The MC had a flashback about her mother saying to wait for th crow. So no, she didn't die in childbirth. It looks like she was killed.

And now we know military man is evil in the past too.

I find myself not caring very much about the backstories. I wasn't invested enough in these characters to want to even know parents' backstories or the world's politics. We might get some twists like the anti-android commoner is still alive or is the parent of another character, but that doesn't seem like it would matter very much.

And now we know military man is evil in the past too.

I find myself not caring very much about the backstories. I wasn't invested enough in these characters to want to even know parents' backstories or the world's politics. We might get some twists like the anti-android commoner is still alive or is the parent of another character, but that doesn't seem like it would matter very much.

I feel that way about 90% of Korean and Chinese comics. Most of them have pretty bad writing, very edgy and lack subtlety. From the little I know, comics and especially web comics (which is even a different media/format) are pretty recent for them and lack maturity. At least, that's the way I see things. It makes me think a bit of Yuri manga in Japan, 15 years ago. We gain subtlety of writing and character with time. Not that it was not there at all back in time, or that it doesn't exist at all in China/Korea, but the ratio good writing/bad writing makes me think of Japan, 15 years ago.

I still to read some, especially when waiting for other comics/manga that I like, but it does feel like browsing mindlessly on the internet to me.

My experience is somewhat different. I've found "webcomics" with weekly release schedules to have sprawling stories that are reminiscent of the first draft of a novel. A lot of times the few arcs are good, but then it loses coherency around 100 chapters in. With the better ones, either they had a planned ending (usually close-ish to chapter 100) they stick with or it's like a very good first draft of a novel series where the author carefully planned out the most important setting details and plot points.

I started to give a lot of examples, but I realized people in this comic's discussion thread probably don't care about that. We tend to have fewer English translations of Chinese works, compared to Korean or Japanese, though. There are still low coherency Japanese works coming out, but it's easy not to read them when there's so many options.

With Artificial Temperature, I'm mainly caring about the relationship between the lead / Android, the edgy prison setting, and how they escape it. What we're seeing is like if Piers Anthony with Cyhthon decided to switch part way through the prison arc into detailing why the protagonist was thrown into a pit on a prison colony planet, starting with the parents' upbrining and how that relates to intergalactic politics. A lot of Piers Anthony's works don't hold up well now, but at least he knew how to stick to the parts of storytelling he did well.

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