I saw some spoilers and one of them gave the reason why this manhwa is popular. I'll just post copy-paste it here.
"The reason why this story is popular is that the author's writing skills are damn good. She knows when to put the emotions and ofc there are lots of time you want to cry or be sad seeing this story. It's a book filled with tragic events because all you do is cry seeing their love story. They are a destined partner but they don't realize. So this novel is an excellent dark and emotional plot Novel. And all you could see is a good review of this."
Yeah, I somewhat understand what it meant there. Personally, I've never hate lead characters in any stories. I might feel irritated or disagree with them and then dropped the manhwa/manga, but never hate them. When I saw the spoilers and knew that this manhwa is popular, I was like "wait what? how come?" I don't know, but just count this as my personal thought.
So when I read the spoilers (before read the reason why is it popular), I already knew what would it be.. like ahh based on the cover who will he the ML.. After read the manhwa till chapter 7, I knew that the FL is illegitimate daughter of the maim villain here. The ML harassed, neglected, or anything that the author want to show us that ML HURTING THE FL REALLY BADLY. After that, the ML will realize something, whether the FL was his savior/friend, someone he was looking for. and then he will regret it. The FL will either forgive him immediately because the power not-hating-him-and-turning-to-love OR she will trying to leave/divorce/whatever to get off from him and then the ML will pursue her no matter what. And then with the power of love or maybe sacrifice or miracle or whatever the plot author-nim want, they will overcome and beat the villain (FL' father). And then they will be happily together OR if the author-nim wants to play twist then one of them will be dead (meaning: sad ending).
Funny enough, the plot is not stray away with my prediction. There are some details that I didn't think of, but still the plot is going towards the same way. So, I just don't know.. Like I consider myself as someone who has too many ideas and scenarios in my head, I love daydreaming anyway. The coolest thing is... there are some manhwas out there that exceeds my scenarios.. and there are also some manhwas that going accordingly my thoughts, but still the best scenario I would thought with a bit of twist.. Those 2 are manhwas that I consider amazing. But I'm not sure with this one. I have the third type, which predictable + the worst scenario of all the scenarios I can think of. funny enough, that worst scenario is the scenario I thought it would. and I was right.
so in conclusion, for me, this manhwa is worst of all the worst manhwa, because it's predictable and boring with only one possible plot which is already worst plot + the ML sucks. It reminded me of my dad actually, because it just damn stupid to do those shit. Well I cannot really explain what "shit" means, because it would be a lot.
There Were Times When I Wished You Were Dead