Two years of what felt like marriage. One disappearance. And a woman who refuses to stay a victim. Seoryeong is no longer the blind housewife who waited — she is the one doing the hunting now. Merry Psycho Chapter 71 drops next Tuesday, and OtakuSignal has the release times, spoilers, and official reading links ready.
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Merry Psycho Chapter 70 Recap: The Trap Tightens
Merry Psycho Chapter 70 continued Seoryeong’s escalating infiltration of the world that made her a target. By Chapter 71 she is confirmed to be trapped with the chairman — the title of Chapter 71 being “Trapped with the Chairman” makes clear that the political and intelligence-level threat has closed in. Chapter 70 was the closing of the noose. The mission structure Seoryeong has been operating under is now in direct collision with the people who built the system she survived. The chapter closed with the chairman scenario locked in place — one wrong move in the next chapter and everything she has built collapses.
Merry Psycho Chapter 71 Spoilers: Trapped with the Chairman
The chapter title is confirmed: “Trapped with the Chairman.” Based on the confirmed title and the novel’s established trajectory:
- Seoryeong is alone with the chairman — this is not an accident. Whether she engineered the situation or was maneuvered into it, being alone with a figure at this level of the NIS power structure is a defining moment. Seoryeong’s survival instincts and spy-trained mind are the only things between her and exposure.
- The chairman knows more than he reveals — novel spoilers establish that the web around Seoryeong — the chip implanted in her brain, her mother’s Bird Box operation, the NIS’s orchestration of her blindness and her marriage — goes all the way to the top. The chairman is not a neutral figure.
- Wooshin’s absence is felt precisely when it matters — the irony the story keeps returning to is that the man best equipped to protect Seoryeong from the NIS apparatus is also the man who helped build the cage she was put in. Merry Psycho Chapter 71 is expected to deepen that tension.
- Tuesday cliffhanger — Merry Psycho Chapter 71 is expected to close on Seoryeong either extracting herself from the chairman through a calculated move, or on information surfacing inside that confrontation that recontextualizes everything she thought she knew about her own origins.
Merry Psycho Chapter 71 Global Release Times — April 28, 2026
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| Region | Time Zone | Release Time |
|---|---|---|
| 🇰🇷 Korea (Source) | KST (UTC+9) | 12:00 AM (April 29) |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | JST (UTC+9) | 12:00 AM (April 29) |
| 🇨🇳 China | CST (UTC+8) | 11:00 PM |
| 🇵🇭 Philippines | PHT (UTC+8) | 11:00 PM |
| 🇲🇾 Malaysia | MYT (UTC+8) | 11:00 PM |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | SGT (UTC+8) | 11:00 PM |
| 🇮🇩 Indonesia | WIB (UTC+7) | 10:00 PM |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | ICT (UTC+7) | 10:00 PM |
| 🇻🇳 Vietnam | ICT (UTC+7) | 10:00 PM |
| 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | BST (UTC+6) | 9:00 PM |
| 🇮🇳 India (The Hub!) | IST (UTC+5:30) | 9:30 PM |
| 🇵🇰 Pakistan | PKT (UTC+5) | 9:00 PM |
| 🇦🇪 UAE / Gulf | GST (UTC+4) | 8:00 PM |
| 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | AST (UTC+3) | 7:00 PM |
| 🇹🇷 Turkey | TRT (UTC+3) | 7:00 PM |
| 🇷🇺 Russia (Moscow) | MSK (UTC+3) | 7:00 PM |
| 🇪🇬 Egypt | EET (UTC+2) | 6:00 PM |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | CEST (UTC+2) | 6:00 PM |
| 🇫🇷 France | CEST (UTC+2) | 6:00 PM |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | CEST (UTC+2) | 6:00 PM |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | CEST (UTC+2) | 6:00 PM |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | BST (UTC+1) | 5:00 PM |
| 🇵🇹 Portugal | WEST (UTC+1) | 5:00 PM |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | WAT (UTC+1) | 5:00 PM |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | BRT (UTC-3) | 1:00 PM |
| 🇺🇸 East Coast | ET (UTC-4) | 12:00 PM |
| 🇨🇦 Canada (Toronto) | ET (UTC-4) | 12:00 PM |
| 🇨🇴 Colombia | COT (UTC-5) | 11:00 AM |
| 🇲🇽 Mexico | CST (UTC-5) | 11:00 AM |
| 🇺🇸 Central USA | CT (UTC-5) | 11:00 AM |
| 🇺🇸 Mountain USA | MT (UTC-6) | 10:00 AM |
| 🇺🇸 West Coast | PT (UTC-7) | 9:00 AM |
Where to Read Merry Psycho Chapter 71
Merry Psycho is available officially on:
- Ridibooks — Korean original, earliest release, all chapters here first
- No official English license confirmed as of April 2026 — English readers should wait for a licensed platform announcement
Ridibooks operates on a rental system — chapters are accessible for 3 days per rental. The novel continues significantly further than the manhwa adaptation, currently past Chapter 191.
FAQ — Real Reader Questions
Was Seoryeong actually blind, or was that part of the NIS plan?
It was engineered. Novel spoilers confirm the NIS deliberately blinded Seoryeong and arranged her marriage to Wooshin as a surveillance operation — she was being monitored because of what her father unknowingly implanted in her brain. The blindness was not a natural condition.
Why does Wooshin’s face matter so much to the story?
He is a black ops agent who uses a hundred different faces — his real appearance versus every identity he’s worn is one of the story’s central mysteries. When Seoryeong contacts Channa for information, one of her first thoughts is whether “Hoje from the special security team” — who shares Wooshin’s face — could be him in another cover.
What is the chip implanted in Seoryeong’s brain?
Her father — deputy director of the NIS — was the first person to successfully complete a brainwashing experiment. He unknowingly stored his research data in a chip and implanted it in his own daughter without knowing she was his child. Her mother launched the Bird Box operation specifically to keep Seoryeong away from the people who would use that chip.
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