The Cannon Fodder is Prepared to Divorce Chapter 40 Discussion

The male lead does in fact cry. Often. He's a pathetic crybaby who runs rather than face his decisions, ignorance, or feelings. He practices EXTREME avoidance (ie not answering his phone, literally running away, basically raping the MC to stop any chance of verbal communication) rather than have any sort of honesty or real communication at all in their relationship.

Now, I'm not saying the MC isn't faultless at all in this defunct relationship. He had many opportunities to share his grievances and open a discussion but he concludes "it's pointless" at baseline so he doesn't bother. The ML contributed to this through his continual neglect (which really qualifies as ab*se tbh) but the mc's lack of backbone was irritating. However, I'm trying not to victim blame here because he was caught in a vicious cycle just like his sister. That's right, the MC is a VICTIM of the ML yet we're supposed to support this? LOL

Quite frankly, I kept thinking "why am I still reading this" while going through. I only stopped now because after ML runs away crying for the nth time it gets old. Yes, men are allowed to cry and show all the emotions available to any human but just crying all the time instead of being "cold" is not emotional development ok. He's more a leaky faucet than a reliable partner. Even babies may not cry as much but are more emotionally developed than this guy as they at least communicate their needs the best they know-how. They also don't knowingly violate your bodily autonomy to satisfy their ego or fantasies.

I just rambled a lot I supposed to say this isn't worth it. It's not cute, it's the opposite of fluffy, and 1/2 ish way in I'm more stressed than excited for them to develop. He's more of a stalker than a suitor k. Just because he's rich and 'helps' NOW doesn't make his past (or present) behavior any less abhorrent. His apologies don't mean sh*t to me, so I'm disappointed he gets 'forgiven' in the end. Quite frankly, this barely earns a 2 due to them actually divorcing at one point and then attempt to have some world-building via a conspiracy. Framing Lin as the villain though feels like a misprint, the true villain is the ab*ser who gets to fly under the radar using his tears and selfish apologies.