There wasn’t really even redemption for him, he just saw her as a human (so romantic （￣へ￣）) because she was RIGHTFULLY afraid of him and she fell for him just cause of it. Sis had two perfectly good MLs to pick from and chose the shitty 3rd.
Sadly it’s so reoccurring in manhwa and just any story where the ML is just rapey af and the message for guys is just ‘harass the lady until she loves you back, even if she hates ur guts, harassment is key!’. It’s shitty cause as a reader, you shouldn’t fear for the MC’s safety from the ML ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
God this!!!!! This story was so bland and poorly written when you look at how poorly developed the MAIN leads are in their characters and interactions. The side characters were more interesting. It’s so disgusting to me when these type of stories end with the girl going back to the toxic shitty guy because they “had a change of heart” after interacting for like 5 minutes, and somehow weren’t traumatized from their past life events.
The Message of this is literally "live your life to be this man's wife, get betrayed, raped, used and abused, lose your father and your mind because of him and when you have a chance to escape all of that, try giving him another shot because he's a changed man and surely he won't do the same things again" -- I cannot stress this enough but this is the classic and most basic abuse victim mentality that leads to IRL deaths! This may be a fantasy story but this is not something that should be put into anyone's mind! It's f*cking TOXIC and honestly disgusting.
It's honestly funny how I have read other works where the characters were written to be the most vile and disgusting ones possible, even the main ones, and yet this is one of the few who has garnered such hate from me and most definitely the one who garnered it in the shortest amount of time. Author needs to stop fantasizing about abuse and how "everyone can change" and understand that while that is true and people can change, that doesn't mean they shouldn't suffer some consequences for it (justice is different from karma). Trash prince might be an alternate TL version of the one who did those horrendous actions, but the fact that Idiot Lead barely even seems to care about it after living through, dying and then having God intervene on her behalf to give her a second chance is the gravest problem of all.
Looking at the bigger picture: this means that everything the Idiot Lead went through was ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY in order for her to go back and put into effect the chain of events that would "redeem" the asshole.
That's not redemption for the Male Lead; it's just damnation for the work itself.
My final rating:
2/10 for pretty art -- I at least respect the artist who had to endure this shit and put this garbage into form and color.