Sorry, this story just pisses me off. This is my last comment for now.
When he says, "There's no way in hell you're leaving me for another guy" in Chapter 4, it annoyed me so much. Whenever characters say things like that, it immediately makes me root against them. The arrogance, possessiveness, and cockiness are incredibly off-putting.
And then she takes him back in the end? He treated her like crap for three whole years, and somehow that's resolved in less than six months. Absolutely ridiculous. At that point, it doesn't feel like a redemption arc. It feels like the story desperately wants the couple together regardless of whether they've actually earned it.
That's one of my biggest issues with stories like this. Authors use terrible tropes and then bend over backwards trying to justify them instead of letting them be what they are.
The ML is cheating? Well, the wife is cheating too, so apparently that makes it okay. A love triangle gets thrown in purely as a plot device, and suddenly we're expected to sympathize with the homewrecker pick me. The mental gymnastics are honestly hilarious.
And don't even get me started on how some stories handle consent. I genuinely want to know what goes through an author's mind when they excuse a character's behavior because they're the ML, but treat the exact same behavior as unforgivable when it's someone else.
I've seen readers do the same thing. In one manhwa, the MC explicitly tells the ML not to finish inside them, and the ML does it anyway. The amount of people defending it with, "That's just their dynamic," was unreal. What made it even funnier was seeing some of those same people in another comment section condemning a different character for doing essentially the same thing, simply because they didn't like them.
At that point, it's not about principles. It's about whether people find the character attractive. The standards change depending on who's doing it, and the hypocrisy is genuinely out of this world.
Sorry, this story just pisses me off. This is my last comment for now.
When he says, "There's no way in hell you're leaving me for another guy" in Chapter 4, it annoyed me so much. Whenever characters say things like that, it immediately makes me root against them. The arrogance, possessiveness, and cockiness are incredibly off-putting.
And then she takes him back in the end? He treated her like crap for three whole years, and somehow that's resolved in less than six months. Absolutely ridiculous. At that point, it doesn't feel like a redemption arc. It feels like the story desperately wants the couple together regardless of whether they've actually earned it.
That's one of my biggest issues with stories like this. Authors use terrible tropes and then bend over backwards trying to justify them instead of letting them be what they are.
The ML is cheating? Well, the wife is cheating too, so apparently that makes it okay. A love triangle gets thrown in purely as a plot device, and suddenly we're expected to sympathize with the homewrecker pick me. The mental gymnastics are honestly hilarious.
And don't even get me started on how some stories handle consent. I genuinely want to know what goes through an author's mind when they excuse a character's behavior because they're the ML, but treat the exact same behavior as unforgivable when it's someone else.
I've seen readers do the same thing. In one manhwa, the MC explicitly tells the ML not to finish inside them, and the ML does it anyway. The amount of people defending it with, "That's just their dynamic," was unreal. What made it even funnier was seeing some of those same people in another comment section condemning a different character for doing essentially the same thing, simply because they didn't like them.
At that point, it's not about principles. It's about whether people find the character attractive. The standards change depending on who's doing it, and the hypocrisy is genuinely out of this world.