My Dearest Nemesis Manhwa: Read All 44 Chapters Online + Yuri Guide

My Dearest Nemesis is a completed yuri manhua by Xian Jun about two coworkers — polar opposites who fight like cats and dogs at the office — who get drunk at the year-end company party and accidentally cross a line they can't uncross. The manhua ran from 2023 to 2024, wrapped at 44 chapters (with a split 42.1/42.2 finale), and is one of the most-recommended GL office romances of the past two years. This guide covers the full story: characters, ending, where to read, and how to tell the yuri manhua apart from the unrelated 2025 K-drama that shares the same English title.

What is My Dearest Nemesis?

My Dearest Nemesis is a yuri (girls' love) manhua written and illustrated by Chinese artist Xian Jun. Both leads are women. The premise is the rivals-to-lovers office comedy: two coworkers who can't be in the same meeting without snapping at each other end up trapped at the year-end company party, drink too much together, and wake up the next morning with a problem neither of them has the language for. From there, the comic alternates between sharp office banter, increasingly tender private moments, and a slow honest reckoning with what they actually feel.

What makes My Dearest Nemesis stand out in a saturated office-yuri shelf is its discipline about the tone. The early chapters are funny — closer to a workplace sitcom than a melodrama — but the comic doesn't stay there. As the leads stop being able to dismiss the night of the party as a one-time accident, the comedy gives ground to genuine vulnerability without ever flipping to angst. It's a series that earns its happy ending by trusting both leads to be smart, complicated adults rather than romance archetypes.

Manhwa vs. K-drama: Which One Are You Looking For?

Quick disambiguation, because the search results conflate them: there are two unrelated works in English called 'My Dearest Nemesis.'

• Xian Jun's yuri manhua (this guide): Chinese GL webcomic, 44 chapters, 2023-2024, completed. Two female coworkers, office rivalry, drunken year-end party, romance ensues. Full-color vertical webcomic format. Both leads are women — the romance is between them.
• 2025 Korean K-drama: Live-action romantic comedy starring Moon Ga Young and Choi Hyun Wook. Based on a different webtoon. Hetero romance with a reincarnation / video-game-character premise. Related to the Xian Jun manhua only by sharing an English-localized title.

If you came here for the yuri — the office rivals-to-lovers GL manhua — you're in the right place. If you came here for the K-drama, this isn't that. The two works are unrelated.

Story Overview (Spoiler-Light)

The setup is small, and the manhua is honest about that. Two women work at the same company. One is composed, sharp-tongued, and respected in a way that seems to come effortlessly. The other is brighter, louder, more reactive — the kind of coworker who picks fights to feel less invisible. They have spent every interaction at this company in some form of low-grade combat, and the office has long since stopped trying to keep them in the same room.

The year-end party should have been an evening to survive. Instead, drinks happen, the lights blur, the wall between them gives, and the morning after is a fact neither of them can argue away. The early arc is about how each of them decides — separately, and badly — to handle that. The middle is about the gap between what they keep telling themselves and what they actually do every time they're alone in the same room. The third act is about both of them finally saying the thing the other has been waiting to hear.

Across 44 chapters, My Dearest Nemesis stays small in scope on purpose. There's no rival, no family veto, no high-melodrama betrayal — just two adults who have to figure out how to stop arguing long enough to admit they've been wrong about each other. The comic uses that small frame to do precise emotional work.

Chapter Guide: All 44 Chapters

My Dearest Nemesis runs 44 chapters across roughly four arcs, with the finale split into 42.1 and 42.2 to give the ending room. Spoiler-light:

• Chapters 1-10: The rivalry. Office establishing arc. The leads are introduced through their disagreements, and the comic builds the comedic chemistry that makes the rest of the series work. The year-end party closes this arc.
• Chapters 11-22: The morning after. Avoidance, denial, and the steadily-eroding pretense that nothing has changed. The middle of this arc is where the comic shifts gears — the comedy stays, but it starts coexisting with real vulnerability.
• Chapters 23-34: The middle. Both leads stop being able to outsmart their own feelings. The relationship becomes a thing they're consciously choosing rather than something happening to them. The strongest emotional beats sit here.
• Chapters 35-42: The reckoning. The final arc deals with what it takes to actually be together — at work, in private, in front of other people. Honest, tender, and unhurried.
• Chapters 42.1 and 42.2: Finale split. The closing two-parter exists specifically so the ending doesn't feel rushed. Treats the relationship as something worth a proper send-off rather than a single closing chapter.

Main Characters

• The composed lead (long dark hair): Refined, professionally accomplished, and emotionally guarded. The kind of person other people assume has it figured out. Her rivalry with the other lead has more underneath it than either of them has admitted, and her arc is about giving herself permission to want things she's spent years pretending not to.
• The chaotic lead (curly blonde): Brighter, louder, and far more willing to make a scene. Often reads as the comedic relief in early chapters, but the comic is careful to give her real interiority once the rivalry stops being a coping mechanism. Her arc is about recognizing what she actually wants from the woman she's been picking fights with for years.
• Office supporting cast: Coworkers, supervisors, and friends who fill in the workplace texture without overcrowding the romance. The supporting cast does background work — the leads are the focus.

Themes & Tone

My Dearest Nemesis is a comedy that becomes a love story without ever stopping being funny. It's not heavy yuri — there's no abusive ex, no terminal diagnosis, no closet drama at home. The conflict is all internal, and the comic trusts that to carry the run. A few of the threads it pulls on:

• Rivalry as displaced attraction: The classic enemies-to-lovers trope, but worked carefully. The comic earns the pivot by making the rivalry feel real first — these characters genuinely irritate each other before they understand why.
• Office romance ethics: The leads work together. The comic takes that seriously — there's a real workplace, with real consequences for being the kind of couple that gets caught making out in the supply closet — and the relationship has to figure out how to survive on Monday after the kiss on Friday.
• Adult comedy: Most of the funniest lines are at the leads' own expense. The humor comes from these two being too smart to be doing this, and doing it anyway.
• Sex as character work: The explicit scenes are not the engine of the series, but when they appear they do narrative work — registering changes in trust and self-knowledge between the leads rather than acting as decoration.

Ending — Spoiler-Light

The 42.1 / 42.2 finale split is one of the most reader-praised aspects of the run. Where a single closing chapter would have rushed the resolution, the two-parter lets the leads land both halves of the ending separately: the final emotional beat between them, and then the look at the relationship past the conclusion of the original arc. Readers who came in for the comedy stay for the ending; readers who came in for the romance get a send-off that actually feels earned.

The series wraps cleanly. There's no unresolved subplot, no implied sequel, no abandoned thread. My Dearest Nemesis is one of those rare yuri manhua that gets to choose its own ending point and uses that freedom well.

About Xian Jun

Xian Jun is a Chinese GL manhua artist whose work is best known to English readers through scanlation distribution. My Dearest Nemesis is her highest-profile completed yuri title in the English-speaking community — the comic that introduced most non-Chinese readers to her work. Stylistically she leans into expressive faces, comedic chibi inserts (the translator side notes preserve some of these), and full-color vertical paneling that reads cleanly on phones.

Read My Dearest Nemesis Online

All 44 chapters of My Dearest Nemesis are on Yurivan in a continuous gallery reader. Chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-series scroll, or jump to any chapter. The reader is mobile-optimized, no per-page clicking, and access is free with the standard Yurivan age gate (18+). No signup needed.

Similar Yuri Recommendations

If My Dearest Nemesis works for you, these are the closest yuri reads on Yurivan:

• What Does the Fox Say? (Team Gaji): The other defining office yuri. Adult Korean GL manhwa about a workplace love rectangle — sharper edges than My Dearest Nemesis, but the same workplace-as-pressure-cooker premise.
• Tamen de Gushi (Tan Jiu): If you came for the comedy, this is the canonical Chinese yuri-comedy long-runner — over 230 chapters of slow-burn high school GL with the same comic timing.
• Pulse (Ratana Satis): Heavier in tone but a similar premise structurally — two professionals who fight their way into a relationship neither of them planned for.
• Sadistic Beauty: Side Story A (Team Gaji): Slower-burn GL spinoff in the Sadistic Beauty universe. Focuses on Gyerin and Juyeon's romance — gentler than the main series, similar emotional pacing to My Dearest Nemesis's middle arc.

Sources

• MangaDex listing: Tag, chapter list, and translation credits for the English release of the Xian Jun manhua. Cross-references the same 42.1/42.2 finale split.
• Comix.to / bato.si listings: Chapter archives that confirm the 2023-2024 publication window and 44-chapter completion.
• Translator credit pages: The English release was scanlated by riverFlower (raws + translation), Kuroya (cleaning), and a small QC team. The translator side notes (signed AYK) appear in the bonus pages and help time-stamp the run.