# WebtoonLib — Side Characters Deserve Love Too #8

## Series
- title: Side Characters Deserve Love Too
- slug: side-characters-deserve-love-too-d020da

## Chapter
- number: 8
- release_date: 2025-03-12

### Summary
The narrative shifts from direct confrontation to Geumja's efforts to establish a new identity within the novel's world. A significant challenge arises as it is revealed she can speak and understand the local language but is unable to read it, lacking the complete "isekai package" that would grant her automatic literacy. Faced with the need to secure a job, a path that readers speculate will build her future fighting skills, Geumja makes the pivotal decision to disguise herself as a boy. This development confirms the story's "cross-dressing" tag for many enthusiastic readers. During this process, she considers and rejects the name "Josephine"—a choice readers found both classic and comically absurd, as her reasoning is that it belonged to a neighbor's dog—ultimately settling on the name "Joseph" for her male persona. While the cross-dressing plot is met with excitement, the debate over Geumja's character persists from the previous chapter, with some readers continuing to criticize her obsessive, "sasaeng"-like worship of Kyle as unrealistic and off-putting.
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- summary_verification: unverified

### Key events
- Geumja cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy named 'Joe' to work in the imperial stables.

## Spoiler
- level: auto

### Safe teaser
The narrative shifts from direct confrontation to Geumja's efforts to establish a new identity within the novel's world.

### Spoiler summary
The narrative shifts from direct confrontation to Geumja's efforts to establish a new identity within the novel's world. A significant challenge arises as it is revealed she can speak and understand the local language but is unable to read it, lacking the complete "isekai package" that would grant her automatic literacy. Faced with the need to secure a job, a path that readers speculate will build her future fighting skills, Geumja makes the pivotal decision to disguise herself as a boy. This development confirms the story's "cross-dressing" tag for many enthusiastic readers. During this process, she considers and rejects the name "Josephine"—a choice readers found both classic and comically absurd, as her reasoning is that it belonged to a neighbor's dog—ultimately settling on the name "Joseph" for her male persona. While the cross-dressing plot is met with excitement, the debate over Geumja's character persists from the previous chapter, with some readers continuing to criticize her obsessive, "sasaeng"-like worship of Kyle as unrealistic and off-putting.

## Status
- data_status: complete
- summary_status: generated
- transcript: Hardsub chapter — image-only

## See also
- [WebtoonLib — Side Characters Deserve Love Too #8](/series/side-characters-deserve-love-too-d020da/chapter-8)
- for_series_detail: /llms-series/side-characters-deserve-love-too-d020da

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