I read this several years ago. Commented on a bunch of the forums, praising it a lot of the time. So my mom’s driving me, I got time to kill, I’m looking at my manga list for stuff to read, then I see this gem in my list. I originally rated it an 7. A few years later I developed a policy where, if someone sexually assaults their love interest, I deduct a point. So it went down to 6. Then today, I’m thinking about it and I’m like, “Hold on a minute. I read other stories by this author when I was on a binge once, and now that I think of it, they all have completely different plots but at the same time are EXACTLY THE SAME.” Abused FL, mean bully, unnecessary drama, ML that’s a dick a lot of the time. So that already brings down the plot but then hooooooly shit. Oh damn.
**Spoiler and rape warning for the comment below**
This randomass teenage girl fell in love with a dude who saved her from being raped. She’s been chasing him forever, but he doesn’t love her. Not only that, he’s in love with the FL. But nope, despite that, this chick goes onto his unconscious body and RAPES HIM. And what? How do you want me to react to this, author? You want me to go “Awwww” or something? Then years later, FL’s mourning this dude’s death. Finds the randomass teenager girl, who now has a CHILD. Yes, the child of the dude she raped. She feeds this kid lies like she had some sort of romantic relationship with his dad. FL is mourning, she thinks she loved him. Teen girl’s like, “No you don’t. I know coz he was my husband.”
GIRL, NO HE WASN’T. YOU RAPED HIM.
So yeah, despite my policy to drop the rating only one, considering how absolutely fucked up this situation is (not to mention he looks exactly like the dude when he grows up which I’m apparently supposed to find touching or something that his child conceived by rape looks like him; kid ends up falling for FL and ML’s kid so yeah gag) and the fact that the author recycles tropes, I’m dropping this to a three. Seriously, I read “At the End of the Road” which had a plot driven by gang rape and was one of the most f’d up things I ever read. I’ve read stuff with rape, necrophilia, pedophilia, etc. The authors’ know it’s fucked up. But it’s this story where I’m supposed to go “d’aaaaaw” or something that is probably the most fucked up of anything I have ever read in my life.
