Lauvil's manga / #Clichéd(50)

I think I lost braincells reading this. The plot was clichéd, unoriginal and utterly uninteresting. The trope of a poor, innocent girl meeting an excessively rich, handsome, famous and popular man is so overused and annoying. I get that it's some women's dream to marry a rich guy and not having to work, but such an unbalanced relationship is just off-putting to me. Especially when the ML is like in this story. He's arrogant and forceful. He lacks respect for the FL and shows controlling behaviour towards her. Just in the first two chapters, he attempts to force himself on the FL 3 times. One would think that her reaction during the first attempt would've made him understand not to do it again, but no. Without any further romantic development between them, he tries again. And again. Yikes. Dropped.

I'm seriously fed up with the trope of a naive FL who can't say no. But even more, I'm tired of the trope of a ML who's selfish, arrogant, emotionally unavailable, doesn't respect the FL and forces himself upon her. The whole arrangement was really icky. Like girl, have some more self respect. And dude, grow a conscience. When she feels like she has no choice but to sleep with you, you're basically raping her. I honestly really wanted her to just stay in the shared apartment. Mitsuki would've made a much better ML. Their chemistry was much better. They had fun together, had common values, and connected really well. Mio seemed a lot more confident and relaxed around him and there was no inferior/superior dynamic between them. It was all healthy and balanced. He was also kind, thoughtful and caring, didn't try to force her into anything, didn't take advantage of her and respected her. Basically the complete opposite of Kouichi.

Love between a working woman and her stalker. Lol. But he was handsome and rich, so who cares apparently... It was meh.

Omg, this is too stupid to read. Clichéd, overly dramatic, completely unrealistic and rape/attempted rape used over and over as a plot device. I think I might've lost braincells from this shit.