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"I had always dreamed of becoming a designer, a passion that ignited within me when I was just 12 years old. For thirty years, I dedicated myself tirelessly, never missing a day of work. Yet, the reality is that I manage construction sites, building structures for others. If I hadn't made certain choices in the past, could I have become an architectural designer? Miraculously, after all those years, I found myself transported back to my university days of twenty years ago, specifically to the year 2010. Now, at 22 years old and armed with two decades of field experience, I am finally pursuing my dream of becoming an architectural designer and creating world-renowned designs of my own!
Original Webtoon: KakaoPage, Daum
Official Translations: Japanese, S. Chinese"
previous review by FZcolo hit all the main points already. At this point in the regressor plot, the MC is hitting a "my changes in the past is chainging the future" block, but the magical golden print is solving his issues quite literally. At one point, he loses the print and gets actually stuck relying on his own ability but the print comes back after a quick walk outside, Points about why the future is changing, such as one character ending up staying in Korea vs becoming a prodigy in europe, are glossed over.
Another regressor story, the guy's dream couldn't live up to reality in his first life and he has a second chance at it going 20 years to the past, an already known formula that for some reason is always entertaining, at the start at least... most stories just can't keep it engaging or go high-wire with the cheats and ruin it, for me.
This one has this pointless golden print concept to it, I do think it completely unnecessary (clearly) but it doesn't go overboard with it. so it's bearable so far. Story itself is very standard, it doesn't deviate much of what one would expect of this kind of stories.
The MC is ok, thou he's a bit boring (he's working all the freaking time, if there weren't some FL there he would work all the time), has the appeal of being a normal guy, a mature and hard working one, not a genius or some overly omnipotent type (like "Real Man"'s MC for example), at the same time that's why it's a bit lackluster maybe?
Which brings me to the story, I credit the above more to the story being slow paced while at the same time not explicative enough, it's not clear how the MC does what he does, where he gets his money from for example, it's shown he buys and sells real-state and since he knows the future he does well, but we don't know where his initial capital came from for example, it's not explained how he actually benefits from each deal and so on. On that note, I always find it funny that the MC's in this stories never buy Bitcoin, he went back to 2010, he could multiply his money 10.000 times by the start of 2011, $1,000 becomes $10,000,000... no it's not figurative speech, maybe that's why it's too easy and he becomes rich too easy?
Same goes with his business, I don't want to spoil the story, but there is a certain sense of discontinuity in the story, he's at a pretty basic level and 5 chapters later he's in charge of a major project, it's "sort" of explained but "sort" of glossed over too, classic manhwa/ga concessions, so I'm guessing the novel is better done (if there is one).
Overall, it's an interesting read, nothing great but it's entertaining enough, thou I get the feeling it would work better as a novel.