Cynical Orange is a {{manhwa}} by Ji Un Yun about the SoBeautifulItsACurse high school girl Hye-Min Hwang, who is loved by boys and hated by girls. Enter playboy Ma-Ha Jang, who finds Hye-Min irresistible in that he can't win her over. After failing to get rid of Ma-Ha, Hye-Min drags him over to her cousin Shin-Bi Oh's café. Ma-Ha takes up a job there in order to try to woo Hye-Min, but quickly discovers that her world, her cousin and his girlfriend, is a bit more sinister than meets the eye.

Originally published in English in 2002 by [=iceKunion=], until Creator/YenPress took over.
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!! This manhwa provides examples of:
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Bora.]]
* BrokenBird: Hye-Min.
* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Bora is this to Jung-Yun. [[spoiler: He calls off their friendship after she steals Hye-Min's couple's ring in jealousy.]]
* TheCharmer: Ma-Ha.
* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler:Bora.]]
* CoolBigSis: So-Ryu is this to Hye-Min. [[spoiler: She's only doing it because Shin-Bi would be her boyfriend if she did. She hates Hye-Min.]]
* CuteBruiser: So-Ryu.
* DoubleStandard: The girls universally blame Hye-Min for allegedly "stealing" boys from them without placing any blame on the boys who go after her to begin with... and that's just the surface.
* GangstaStyle: Hye-Min and Shin-Bi play first-person shooter games like this.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: So-Ryu.
* [[spoiler: HoistByHisOwnPetard]]: [[spoiler: Shin-Bi. He let Ma-Ha be Hye-Min's boyfriend because he figured that Ma-Ha would fulfill the role of dumping Hye-Min in a way that would force Hye-Min to stay with Shin-Bi forever. He didn't expect for Ma-Ha to get serious first, or for Hye-Min to fall for Ma-Ha.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Hye-Min was this in her childhood, and it bit her in the ass.
* JustFriends: [[spoiler: Hye-Min tells Shin-Bi that they need to be this. He doesn't take it well.]]
* LonelyTogether: Hye-Min and Shin-Bi.
%%* NightmareFetishist: Hye-Min.
* [[spoiler:NotBloodSiblings: In the case of Hye-Min and Shin-Bi, it's more like not blood ''cousins''.]]
* {{Ojou}}: Hye-Min.
* RichBitch: Hye-Min's mother.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Hye-Min
* {{Tsundere}}: So-Ryu, to an extent.