I would assume most everyone would expect the mature romantic male lead, not to rape his love interest, a teenage girl, under any circumstances. I was wrong. The aftermath? A forced cuddle session for a tearful teenager, with her unrepentant rapist, the male lead. That's criminal enough; I hope she wasn't underage too.

Sometimes, there is no nuance, you can put forward that will soften sexual assault. No debate, that will convince, that tears on a pillow are invisible because the main couple had feelings. As if rape was inevitable. The female lead's life misfortune negating her humanity, her feelings something that needed to be forced. How foolish of any woman to expect romance, and, heaven forbid, a wish to keep her body choices intact. Awe, but, the choice was not hers, but the writer's. Sometimes you can't differentiate, from forced, or coerced. I lean toward the victim's reaction, and in this case dialogue supported it. Rape to romance, is an out dated scenario, that is easily replaced by a loving moment. Rape is not romance, and does not belong in the romance genre. Avoid.

(source; read; My Custom List "Rated One" https://mydramalist.com/list/389deQR4)