There is, in fact, good dark romance stories with flawed mcs, but this one is about a braindead rapist and a guy who is waaaay too forgiving(and a fucking moron too), and the main villain is, guess what? A fucking rapist too! But he's bad because he’s not an ML.
If you call all rapey fantasies a “dark romance” I believe you should read actual dark romance and not this shit.
Dark romance includes psychological aspects of either the storyline or the characters. Raping someone because you don’t get your own way is not dark romance rapists have an anti social personality disorder so unless the author explained that at some point in the story then its not really dark romance but some rape fetish nonsense.
Most ppl here are not ready to read dark romance or BL with red flags, both did wrong and both apologize, both end up growing. You guys keep point on all the wrong things that two imaginary characters did instead of focus on the good things and how the author decide to write. Im happy for them, hope to see those boys smile next chap