Of Swords and Parasols

Yenni Suh is 15 and obsessed with getting rich. She runs a very successful loan shark business at school, and sells secondhand items as new. Her righthand woman is Yun-Hee Suh, who seems rather devoted to Yenni’s greed. She’s so obsessed with money that her grandmother is determined to teach her a lesson and rewrites her will to scare her into good behavior. Unfortunately, she falls down the stairs and breaks her neck the next morning, making the will that was supposed to be temporary permanent.

According to the terms of the will, Yenni must marry straightlaced Jae-Hee Shin, her grandmother’s former neighbor, and Yenni’s class president, before she turns twenty, or her inheritance will instead go to In-Young Park, her attorney’s grandson. Immediately after this, naturally, In-Young returns from America. Yenni is determined to marry Jae-Hee so she can get her inheritance. In-Young is determined to make sure that doesn’t happen so he can get the inheritance. Jae-Hee seems to harbor a crush on Yenni, but is determined not to get married just for money.

Between the three of them and a sickly neighbor who appears to have a crush on Jae-Hee, a fairly normal kdrama love square seems to be set up. I like that Yenni is so greedy and ruthless in her schemes to get money and get rid of In-Young, and I like In-Young and Jae-Hee just fine, but neither strikes me as a particularly good match for Yenni yet.

Cute, with the potential to be either really fun, or really annoying. Or both. It’s also, I think, only five volumes total.