- #1
I’m fine with tr*shy novels, so this isn’t coming from a place of exceedingly high standards. I also find yandere male leads entertaining so that isn’t the problem either. This man literally likes her because he thinks she’s a child. Every time he comments on his adoration of her, it is followed with a comment about how confused, innocent and mischievous she is, or how foolish and empty-headed and how that’s so endearing to him. He likes doing everything for her in a weird infantilizing way, obsessively puts her in frilly white night gowns and incessantly compares her and her behavior to that of a baby animal. Sometimes he straight up uses the adjective “childlike” to describe why he thinks she’s so attractive. Literally made me vomit in my mouth. This isn’t dark or edgy, it’s just gross. Don’t read it.