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See... I've read plenty of manhwas where the ML is genuinely a bad person. The difference is that those stories are self-aware. The author doesn't pretend the ML's actions are okay, they're written as harmful, and the narrative treats them that way
My issue isn't that this story has a flawed or toxic ML. In fact, I enjoy those kinds of stories when they're written well.
My problem is that this story *doesn't seem to realize* how harmful some of the ML's behavior is. The sexual coercion in the earlier chapters is brushed aside, and it feels like the story expects the reader to see it as cute, romantic and wholesome. The MC is the one who ends up apologizing, while the ML never really properly acknowledges that what he did was wrong :[
To me, it feels like the author treats harmful behavior as inherently romantic without giving the MC's feelings the weight they deserve. Instead of properly addressing what happened, the story quickly moves on to comedy and wholesome cute moments as if nothing significant happened It bothers me how the MC is being treated as the jerk and had to be the one to apologize...
And before anyone says, "Well, it's not meant to be toxic!" that's exactly my point. If the author *didn't* intend for it to be toxic, then the coercive scenes become even more jarring because the narrative doesn't seem to recognize them as harmful. That's what put me off the story
i'm trying to find a BL manhwa I've read in the past and forgot the title to TT
i think there were about 4 love interest, but only one male lead that the MC ended up with (part of his kpop group). it's about k-idol group that never get to debut.
in the future, mc who's working as a manager for ML got jailed (?) because he got framed for drunk driving (?) somehow he get back into the past where he's still a trainee and he can see stats of his group members
meteor orbit
that's exactly it tysm!
boutta be the craziest angst