Just the Male Lead's Friend

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Dahlia Averin would've been just fine living as a pretty, loaded extra... were it not for the fact that she's destined to fall for Rudrik, the male lead, and be used to better his love life! Determined not to go down that path, Dahlia swears to just remain a friend and stay out of his romantic relationships. But upon discovering that Rudruk is not quite like she had imagined, she finds herself caring for him more. Will Dahlia's resolve stay strong, or will they end up as more than just friends?

Original Novel:
KakaoPage, Naver Series

Original Webtoon:
Daum, KakaoPage

Official Translations:
English, S.Chinese, T.Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Thai, German

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

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Associated Names

Als Nebenrolle wiedergeboren

Eu me tornei a amiga do protagonista masculino

I Became the Male Lead's Female Friend

Je deviens la copine du héros

Me convertí en la amiga del protagonista masculino

Я стала подругой главного героя

اصبحت صديقه نامجو

ฉันกลายเป็นเพื่อนสนิทคิดไม่ซื่อของพระเอกไปซะแล้ว

主人公の女友達になりました

变成了男主的女性朋友

只想當個普通朋友

남주의 여자사람친구가 되었다

Groups Scanlating

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Latest Release(s)

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Status in Country of Origin

91 Chapters + Prologue (Ongoing)

S1: 41 Chapters (1-41)
S2: 24 Chapters (42-65)
S3: 26 Chapters (66~91)
SS: August 31, 2025

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User Rating

Average: 7.6 / 10.0 (45 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.07 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 28th, 2025 8:53pm PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Drama Fantasy Romance Shoujo
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Daum

DNC Media

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #656

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Monthly Pos #1137

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3 Month Pos #1745

(-395)

6 Month Pos #2038

(-598)

Year Pos #2641

(+403)

List Stats

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On 158 wish lists

On 12 completed lists

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User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

2nd ml was just better and u can’t unsee it

by Rainbliss_
4 months ago

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I actually really enjoyed this up until early s2 when the fl decides on marrying the 2nd ml and the ml + his knights immediately scheme abt how to get her to change her mind…

I’m not usually a victim of 2nd ml syndrome but in this case it hit me like a truck, he’s genuinely great even despite his flaws and significantly better than the ml. The way the characters disregarding her choice is validated by the author rlly annoyed me especially since she genuinely had feelings for him vs the attraction/crush on the ml that felt incredibly forced.

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Manipulative FL

by TiredandDeadInside
2 years ago

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Wow.

I guess she'll never apologize for lying and manipulating him until they're older, huh. Or maybe not even then. To clarify, this is in response to Chapter 6 of the manhwa; the culmination of events. It was never about the beans.

Unlike many FLs in this genre she not only recognized what she was doing but actually thought of correcting herself...except she didn't. This has to be one of her worst character traits. Sure, a lot of other FLs also do this especially if they have prior knowledge of events and people and so on but I think this is the most blatant instances of this I've yet seen in manhwa/romance novels.

How very calculating of her! (Deliberately?) Sabotaging herself so she might have a semi plausible excuse to give to herself for not following through on the apology. I...uh...also applaud her self preservation instincts being fully functional, and are up and running in real-time because girl, yikes...💀

She also played into the 2nd ML's hands.

I have zero interest in the 2nd ML or why she's simping so damned hard for him. We already know who the ML is so why the author is dragging this nonsense out is annoying as fuck. 15+ chapters? Please.

Then again the ML needed his balls kicked out of his nostrils to finally man the fuck up and say something about his feeling to FL. Too bad the 2nd season was half way through before he could find said balls. Ugh.

This has gotten horrible and boring. Dropped at ch 65.

... Last updated 3 months ago

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