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Love Is an Illusion!

2018-21 South Korean manhwa by Fargo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ121754691 ↗
Source-derived summary

Love Is an Illusion! (Korean: 사랑은 환상!) is a South Korean boys' love manhwa written and illustrated by Fargo. The series has an omegaverse setting and follows Hye-sung, an Omega who thought he was an Alpha until recently, and Dojin, an Alpha who cannot stand Omegas. The series was serialized online via Lezhin Comics between January 2018 and March 2021. On February 12, 2022, a sequel, Love Is an Illusion! — The Queen, began serialization.

Plot

Hye-sung has believed he was an Alpha his whole life and dreams of marrying a rich Omega so he can have an easy life. However, after a meeting Dojin, an Omega-hating Alpha, triggers Hye-sung's heat it is revealed he was actually an Omega. Unable to accept the truth, Hye-sung decides to become an Alpha no matter what.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Fargo, Love Is an Illusion!

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Love Is an Illusion!” as 2018-21 South Korean manhwa by Fargo. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2018. The account is most persuasive where Love, Illusion and 2018-21 can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q121754691. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2021 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Love Is an Illusion!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.