Painful but Desirable

Description

Doyun Cha decides he isn’t looking for "true love." In fact, he wants a fake marriage. One fateful night, Hayeon, who's known him since their college club days, confesses to Doyun that she wants in on his passionless arrangement. The problem is...she has a long-time crush on him! Can she convince him to fall head over heels for her? Or will he catch wind of her hidden intentions?

Original Webtoon:
R15: KakaoPage, Daum
R19: KakaoPage, Daum

Official Translations:
English, Thai, T.Chinese

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

Painful, but Desirable (Novel) (Alternate Version)

Associated Names

80日の契約結婚

Apado Hago Sipeun

I Want to Do It, Even If It Hurts

Kuingin Meski Menyakitkan

L'amour après le mariage

Painful, but Desirable

ขอรักต่อไปแม้ใจจะเจ็บ

縱然心痛

아파도 하고 싶은

아파도 하고 싶은[19세 완전판]

Groups Scanlating

GOOSE FAM

Solace Translations

Latest Release(s)

c.28-29 by Solace Translations 5 years ago

c.26-27 by Solace Translations 5 years ago

c.23-25 by Solace Translations 5 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

73 Chapters (Complete)

S1: 39 Chapters (1-39)
S2: 29 Chapters (40-68)
Side Stories: 5 Chapters (69-73)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 8 / 10.0 (105 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.62 / 10.0

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Last Updated

August 5th, 2025 9:48am PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Adult Drama Josei Romance Slice of Life
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Daum

Kakaopage

Yeondam

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Kross Komics (Expired)

Radish (Expired)

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #701

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Monthly Pos #1923

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3 Month Pos #3549

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6 Month Pos #4270

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Year Pos #5982

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List Stats

On 189 reading lists

On 108 wish lists

On 236 completed lists

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Not my cup of tea, plus the FL is infantilized to an incredible degree

by StellaStar1
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

Trying to find a quality josei to read, I give this one a chance and... Meh. I dropped it after 15 chapters. I'm not a fan of tsundere MLs, and this one definitely goes down that path... But the worst offense was how the framed FL to be infantilised and so easily flustered. She's not a 16 year old teen, she's a grown woman! Her behaving that way in front of her pretend boyfriend really switched me off almost instantly. I Peeked a bit into other parts of the manhwa, and nope, not for me. Both ML and FL are too bland for me.. While I understand there are people who will find them very enjoyable, but I prefer my chars with a bit more colorful personalities. And the emotional ups and downs (breaking up, getting back together and so on), unless it's done in a top notch way, I find it just to be too cheap of a cliche. But by all means it seems many people liked this, so I guess i'ts mostly IMHO. Enjoy!

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Another couple with communication issues

by Orionthehunter
2 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

When the male lead is at his worst, she never says what was needed to be said which ends up with them divorcing. He is a bit too rude and dismissive of a person. She's fairly okay of a person. The rival annoyed me though.

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All was great

by danycraft98
3 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I really enjoyed the pace of the story. Nothing went too quickly or was dragged. Rather, it was truly calm romance story.

There were few things that I wish was part of the story:

Sung-Joon just vanished around the end of story.

While I get Doyoon's past was briefly mentioned, but his father's appearance was rather short which was also bummer

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Whirlwind of emotions

by chiibit666
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This series had my heart going in a cycle of happiness and immense pain. The heartbreak that I felt was worth it because Doyun and Hayeon was the perfect epitome of a love that fate will bring together in the end. "Communication is the key" with this story and I couldn't ask for more. Definitely one of my favorites with a rating of 10/10.

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Enjoable

by Shimma
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

Its an enjoyable, fast readstory

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keep plucking at my heartstrings

by godfrey
4 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

pick any genre story and if they're playing it straight there aren't too many options for how things can go. this one is in-genre romance drama and where it excels is in pacing. mostly slow, deliberate steps towards resolving plot lines, well written tension, leads can be annoying but they're sympathetic characters with some depth, i'm not sure what more you can ask for. maybe if i were reading it after completion maybe i'd find something to nitpick but i've been reading this one more or less weekly since ep10 or so and it's been wonderful.

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