goddamn, you people do not know how to properly follow a plot. Oh no the character is working through her feelings about the guy she dated for more than half a decade! She does not immediately go on the rebound with her admittedly lovely new male friend! She’s so annoying!
Yall need to stop thinking of what you would do in her shoes, you are NOT this fictional cute girl from Japan, you are just the reader!
No one give af what you would do, or how you would want to fall in love irl.
You people are the reason we have no conflicts and no character growth and every ML is expected to fall for the FL by chapter 3 and have his whole life revolve around her, irrespective of his personality or backstory and yes, his FLAWS that he is meant to improve on.
Yes I also don’t want no angst in my real life relationship but then what the fuck are we all reading shoujo for? For them to get together by chapter 5 and the rest of the series to be them going on coffee dates?
Learn how to decenter yourself and engage with fiction properly. Follow the damn plot and if the resolution of the conflict sucks then just stop reading and throw the whole thing away. No one likes a whiner ffs.
Too many people in the comments will read 50 chapters of a toxic love story, knowing the premise, and continue to complain that the story turned out to be, INDEED TOXIC.
I simply don’t get reading a story and hating like 95% of it, especial when neither of these characters are interesting enough to as standalones, outside of this toxic premise.
Guys, it’s ok to read toxic stories and like them without having to constantly justify it to yourself and the rest of the world.
How are people reading a story about two people who potentially fall in love even though their circumstances seem to be hopeless, yet want them to get together in the blink of an eye? Isn’t that the attraction of this story in the first place? Seeing them slowly moving closer to falling in love and unravelling the tragedy in their past, then (in the FL’s case) finding the courage to give everything a second chance? Like, this is an amazing premise that could have a great pay off, but a good pay off requires a good build up. Jesus, we need to open the schools cause this is an epidemic
