Private Prince

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How this manga is so highly rated is a mystery to me.
The ML is off the rip a douchebag, and the FL is your typical wet blanket damsel in distress. The ML acts shitty, traps her in a gross power-dynamic, and manages to MULTIPLE TIMES manipulate sex out of her and OF COURSE she's resistant but "secretly likes it". This manga left a sour taste in my mouth every. single. chapter.
The art is no doubt pretty, but that wont cover up how horribly written every male character is. No matter how sad of a backstory you give the ML, I wont magically manage to ... forget how abusive he is to the FL.
I love shitty romance manga just as much as the next person, but this is just. gross.

It's exactly as the first (and only) "Not recommended" reviewer said, this manga is absolute garbage, and I'm actually very disappointed that this was ever recommended to me. I was looking for a proper romance story about a brooding and cold ML who starts off very aloof and harsh, but overtime he slowly opens up when he meets the timid and gentle FL, but that doesn't happen at all.

What I get instead is in the first few chapters, the ML (Will) attempts to sexual assault the FL (Miyako), and the rest of the story is basically just that! Hell, the moment he first laid ... eyes on her, he only noticed her breasts, commenting to his butler (or whatever tf he's supposed to be) that they looked like 'melons.'

I finally had enough after ch. 4 or 5, when Miyako was stressing herself out because she had assumed Will was homesick since his usual demeanor had changed. One thing led to another, and the prick, once again, forces himself onto Miyako, this time with the two of them sleeping together, not because Miyako herself is in love with that prick, but because she felt bad and wanted to comfort him. Turns out, there was nothing wrong with him AT ALL, and he successfully slept with Miyako, laughing it off by telling her she "secretly enjoyed it.", despite Miyako being visibly upset over basically being raped. The story actually gaslights the reader into believing that what Will did was okay by treating the scene like some wholesome and funny moment. The guy literally tells Miyako that, despite Miyako's protest, it was fine because she "secretly enjoyed it." And the worst part is, he was technically right. Eventually, she begins to fall in love with the prick simply because he had a tragic past or some shit (I hardly know because I didn't care to read any further).

After that, I reluctantly continue to read to see if Miyako at least attempts to confront Will for basically forcing himself on her, and while it seemed that she called him out on it, the story turns the blame on Miyako because she's "Just being stubborn and doesn't want to fall in love with Will because her heart was broken before", not because Will is a manipulative piece of shit. Are you joshing me...? She actually enjoys being tricked and harassed by some arrogant douche who only cares about her big chest and body, what a degenerate. What a pathetic waste of a shoujo manga.

Do not waste your time with this disgusting excuse for a shoujo romance. The power imbalance between the ML and FL is frustrating and gross to read through. I'm all for the Arrogant Guy x Bashful Girl dynamic if it's done right, and this story is definitely not it. The FL never grows a backbone to stand up and reject the ML simply because he has information that she needs for her stupid college thesis paper, and the ML is such an insufferable asshole that I don't even have the energy to list everything I loathe about him.

I'm giving it, at most, a 2/10 because at least the art is rather pretty to look at, but don't bother with this disaster of a story, it definitely ruined my day, lol.