You know, I really wanted to like it, but the more I think about the plot the worse this ick gets. Imagine for a moment the art isn't as pretty, and characters look like average people. She run away from stalking and sexual harassment (let's skip the fact that 'running away' means her hometown, even if she stayed inside news travel with a speed of light in such villages) and we are SUPPOSED to root for... her boss again? Like, the core power imbalance that ruined her life is the setup for our flowery romance? I get it, the narrative of "boss ceo knight in shining armor", normally I love trope of the guy falling first and falling HARD, but the girl is traumatized, her opressor showed up, and you confess your feelings???? While you're her boss??? Literally her only rope to survival?? 'No pressure' - oh wait, if she stalls you just HAVE TO push again. She rejected you? Asking for drinks in your bedroom in the middle of the night and picking them up only in the bathroom apparently isn't sexual harassment if you're the ML (despite you doing that to an EMPLOYEE who CLEARLY REJECTED YOU, who also has a trauma about sexual harassment by her boss at work). But no, MC is secretly super into him, so CEO coming onto her at work is now okay and not creepy at all (I get why they had to make the original stalker almost comicly evil with all this broken glass and evil laughter [and -GASP- TATTOOS!!!], otherwise some people would notice more easily that him and the ML have actually more in common than the average viewer would like. And don't get me started on ML doing all the revange himself, without so much as consulting MC beforehand, u go girl, he's coming, go serve him tea and FACE YOUR FEARS. I had super high hopes, especially for the MC, but she ends up bland, her trauma is magically erased when ML is the one doing things, and she doesn't have to actually do much and decide for herself, as he apparently can do that for her. Gods, when she once has the guts to draw a line and reject him because she isn't ready for a relationship, the ML doesn't last a day before coming onto her even stronger. Big disappointment hidden in pretty art and ML's yearny monologues, which would be hot, if not only EVERYTHING I'VE WRITTEN ABOVE
You know, I really wanted to like it, but the more I think about the plot the worse this ick gets. Imagine for a moment the art isn't as pretty, and characters look like average people. She run away from stalking and sexual harassment (let's skip the fact that 'running away' means her hometown, even if she stayed inside news travel with a speed of light in such villages) and we are SUPPOSED to root for... her boss again? Like, the core power imbalance that ruined her life is the setup for our flowery romance? I get it, the narrative of "boss ceo knight in shining armor", normally I love trope of the guy falling first and falling HARD, but the girl is traumatized, her opressor showed up, and you confess your feelings???? While you're her boss??? Literally her only rope to survival?? 'No pressure' - oh wait, if she stalls you just HAVE TO push again. She rejected you? Asking for drinks in your bedroom in the middle of the night and picking them up only in the bathroom apparently isn't sexual harassment if you're the ML (despite you doing that to an EMPLOYEE who CLEARLY REJECTED YOU, who also has a trauma about sexual harassment by her boss at work). But no, MC is secretly super into him, so CEO coming onto her at work is now okay and not creepy at all (I get why they had to make the original stalker almost comicly evil with all this broken glass and evil laughter [and -GASP- TATTOOS!!!], otherwise some people would notice more easily that him and the ML have actually more in common than the average viewer would like. And don't get me started on ML doing all the revange himself, without so much as consulting MC beforehand, u go girl, he's coming, go serve him tea and FACE YOUR FEARS. I had super high hopes, especially for the MC, but she ends up bland, her trauma is magically erased when ML is the one doing things, and she doesn't have to actually do much and decide for herself, as he apparently can do that for her. Gods, when she once has the guts to draw a line and reject him because she isn't ready for a relationship, the ML doesn't last a day before coming onto her even stronger. Big disappointment hidden in pretty art and ML's yearny monologues, which would be hot, if not only EVERYTHING I'VE WRITTEN ABOVE
Tl;dl - the title didn't lie, ML is a villain.