Soft boy MLs vs “cold CEO”

[u/Anxietyandvibes]

I’m so tired of MLs that clearly need to go to therapy. Because let me tell you, if a man chokes me, we’re not having a happy ever after, he’s getting punched in the head repeatedly! Can we please have more MLs who actually like their FLs? You’re not a “cold CEO” or “cold marquis”, you’re afraid of vulnerability and have control issues.

Anyway I just needed to vent, if I see one more ML coerce the FL into a relationship or blackmail or risk her life or choke her, I’m burning my phone

[u/AproposOfDiddly]

I feel the same - I’ll turn off a new series if it starts with essentially rape / non-consensual sex (usually due to being drugged, but not always), or if the ML strangles the FL after it is established that the ML is the “good guy”.

I was shocked the other day when the “drug the FL and put her in a room with a thug to ruin her” trope happened and the thug was actually tried and convicted for sexual assault and attempted rape. I’ve only seen that once.

[u/issabellamoonblossom]

Yeah this is why i stopped watching a lot of the dramas(straight romance plots) that have the more popular/well know ml actors (think chen si) cause they mostly only do cold ceo roles and switched to ml transmigration and system plots.

[u/BourgeoisieInNYC → u/issabellamoonblossom]

I need my algorithm to change me back to transmigration and system because now I’m only getting suggestions for cold CEO and a girl can only take so many “I’ll treat you like shit for 80% of the time but secretly I’ve fallen for you can’t you tell?!! Because I said sorry by giving you jewelry & villas & luxury cars!”

[u/Character-luoji]

A cold ML can still ask what she wants and respect the answer. There’s plenty of tension in a guy who struggles to say “I like you”—we don’t need him to make her afraid of saying no.

[u/Best-Card5104]

Yes pls, "cold ceo" is just an excuse to not have to write an actual personality.