Never would high school girl An expect to receive such a gift from her family on her 17th birthday, the knowledge that she can curse other people. Not a big believer, she curses her class rep Vy to always speak her deep thoughts aloud. That’s how she found out Vy has a crush on her.
Follow along on An’s journey of cursing people with bad luck while she seek a way to break her dad’s curse on her of not having a lover for 40 years.
| Relationship Context | Gap couple |
| Couple Dynamic | Wounded soul (An) x Wounded soul (Vy) |
| Title | Bad Luck / Số Nhọ |
| Author | Châu Chặt Chém |
| Status | Completed, 2017 |
| Genre | Sci-fi |
| Tags | Chaotic, Curses, Time manipulation, Slow burn, Self-discovery |
Review
| Category | Rating (0-3) |
|---|---|
| Romance | 🌸 Few but intense |
| Intimacy | 🔥 Few but touching |
| Story | 📝📝📝 You are in for a wild ride |
| Pacing | 🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️ Fast and hits you from nowhere |
| Emotional damage | 🥺🥺🥺 Hurts at the end |
| Fluff | ☁️ More laughter than fluff |
Read this if you are looking for:
– Atypical comedy sci-fi story with a huge dose of WTF is going on
– A world of people being cursed with the silliest but realistic problems
– Mostly laughing your ass off until the romance kicks in
– An unexpected revelation that makes so much yet so little sense
Personal Thoughts
This highly popular Vietnamese comic begins strong as a comedy story right from the start, with An finding out that she has the power to curse people and it was apparently passed down within her family. She didn’t take it seriously, until her dad told her he had cursed her to be single until she is 40 years old.
When told she can have her curses lifted by someone who is immune to curses, she sets out on a path to curse as many people she could to find the unknown curse-immune one. After cursing her prim and proper class rep Vy to always say her deepest thoughts out loud, An asked Vy if she has a crush jokingly. Vy’s reply was An so well that joke did not work out.
With a newfound freedom of thoughts-to-speech, Vy joins An in her search. After being chased by others with powers out to disrupt their search somehow, An decided that the path to an uncursed life is too dangerous for Vy to follow along, and had Vy’s memory of her erased so Vy can live a safe life not knowing her. A typical ‘she is better off without me’ scenario.
Of course the story did not end like this. But did I expect Vy’s mother to be involved? No. Did I expect Vy and An to have a very complicated and intertwined past? Kind of but not this extent. Did I expect that the final choice does not lie with An after all? Wait, isn’t An the main lead though?
REVEAL SPOILER HERE
The future feels bleak for Vy and An when it was revealed that Vy’s mother has been going back in time to change the past every time Vy died. The cause was always An who ends up being an overpowered being and destroys the world. Why can’t there be a happy ending where they both live?
When the fourth wall broke down and the actual truth was revealed that the world has just been trapped in a game, Vy realised that An never really existed. To meet An again, she will have to make the biggest sacrifice ever. I am glad to share that this is not a doomed yuri story.
Bad Luck was a recommendation from a friend. It had so many ridiculous moments that made me laughed so hard! Yet I did not expect romance to be the story’s core right up till the very end. I came in thinking it was a gag comic and left with tears in my eyes upon finishing it.
An has a powerful influence on nearly every character, and I enjoyed knowing about the other characters’ perspectives. The author tied most of the loose ends to provide a proper ending so I wasn’t left hanging much. Maybe it’s just me but I like everyone having their own happy ending.
Is this a typical rom-com yuri story? For sure no, but I truly enjoy it and feel it deserves more readers. This feels as if you are a passenger in an auto-driving car bringing you to places but you do not know where nor when does it stops. Will recommend just going in for this ride with an open mind so this is a 10/10 highly recommend!
