... was a truly psychopath! A walking red flag 🚩! Ok, ok... he had a horrible childhood, but still I had my share of yanderism (obssessive love) in novels, but this male lead was too much.

It is true that there's various studies that suggest that many CEOs have psychopathic tendencies (lack of empathy and remorse, dominance and hunger for power, very strategic, charismatic and sadist) but this guy in the novel was a mix of psychopath and tug 😅 (the type of *imitating the male lead's voice * "I'm not going to send you to jail for committing this crime against me, instead I'm going to beat you up with a golf club until crippling you, " and also "I'm going to scheme against my lover's older brother by making him overdose so that way my lover can becomes vulnerable and deepened her dependency on me" - that really happened in the novel). He not only like a psychopath stalked, gaslighted, dominated and forced himself on female lead (for me, it was r*pe), but also went after female lead's ex-boyfriend and started distributing punches left and right like a gangster and destroying the ex-boyfriend's life, just because he was jealous. It surprised me that no one commented in the reviews the horrible scene where the male lead...

Alas, meanwhile the female lead...
... was totally blah 😑 not different of the various female leads that readers can see in typical asian novels, sold to male leads (through contract marriages) to benefit female lead's family, unable to defend themselves against the powerful male leads (the typical imbalance of power dynamics) and annoyingly naive and virg*nal pretty women that behaves like a doormat and forgives the pathologic behaviors of their abusive male leads.

When she broke up with her bf to get engaged to the ML bec. He can save her family business and she was okay with it. The ML also had someone he was sleeping with before and she even barged in on them while they were having dinner, but the FL didn't react because he kicked her out.

Meanwhile, he tracked down her ex bf. After investigating her, stalked him, beat him up, then went and had S with her even though she didn't really want to, but just went along with it.

He keeps telling her he will get her prego even though she says she doesn't want to.

The bf contacted her about what happened and told her he was monitoring her every move.

The FL went to break off the engagement, only to be told that she had to return the booking fees for the engagement ring she didn't ask for and that she had to sleep with him and he will let her go. She agrees for some reason because she has become brainless at this stage, only to be caught off guard that her ex. Bf has been tied and forced to watch them from behind a screen. Then she throws the engagement ring and the ML puts it back and slaps her a**, tells her to not take it off again and that's that. The engagement is still ongoing.

he wanted to make her pregnant so that he will have a excuse to bind her to his side forever from the starting but when she got pregnanthe kinda was not satisfied and happy with it like thinking will her weak body be okay carrying his baby at such young age I was like boy what were thinking when you made her pregnant in the first place 🤣🤣

He had s*x with her in front of her ex boyfriend. Yes, in a full view. It's a bit surprising though because I thought with his possessive tendency, he wouldn't bear to let her nak*d body viewed by other man but I guess his jealousy burned his rationality.