There are some costume cdramas that have the theme:
If you wanna see some bat shit crazy Male Lead abusing/harming Female Lead, there is literally a tag with "Abusive Male Lead". You can also go and watch almost any Thai Lakorn where the tag "Nice Male Lead" is missing.
If you are up for it, I can make you a more detailed list like Aisha Gresee did (but with Lakorn).
I could also include how reluctand FL was to forgive the ass, some FLs in Lakorn world develop straight up Stockholm Syndrome and fall for the guy or forgive him without an apology, that shit is not enjoyable to watch, at all. x.x RIP
Jen:
If you wanna see some bat shit crazy Male Lead abusing/harming Female Lead, there is literally a tag with "Abusive Male Lead". You can also go and watch almost any Thai Lakorn where the tag "Nice Male Lead" is missing.
If you are up for it, I can make you a more detailed list like Aisha Gresee did (but with Lakorn).
I could also include how reluctand FL was to forgive the ass, some FLs in Lakorn world develop straight up Stockholm Syndrome and fall for the guy or forgive him without an apology, that shit is not enjoyable to watch, at all. x.x RIP
I dont want an abusive male nor do I want the female lead to forgive home quit the opposite I want her to give him a hard time for his mistakes plus I dont like abusive male lead I just things like breaking up with her ,divorce, hurting her bec a misunderstanding not abusiveness (these kind of male leads should burn in hell ) I like seeing couples go through ups and downs and actually admit their mistake and apologise properly ( I absolutely love it when he does his best to make it up to her in action not just words )aisha gresee a lot of them didnt fit bec they where either too extreme and the ml didnt apologise things I liked are
New Tales of Gisaeng (one of my favourite)
Secret
My love enlighten me
Eternal love (he did go a bit extreme with taking out her eyes but it was to protect her and he kept making it up to her and apologising)
Empress ki
Bloody romance
Uncontrollably fond
If you know any drama like these I would appreciate it
@alatte Thank you for the reply, that actually helps me a lot. I am thinking of making a list of such dramas/lakorn and I will include how far they take it and how redeemable ML is. Now I am wondering, have you watched "Love Lost in Times"? Bc there, it is hard to tell who is worse to the other. They are pretty much equal. ML hurt FL and FL hurt ML
FL holds all the card in her hands and keeps ML throughout many EPs of the drama at an arms distance. Even thought she does not harm him physically and only has his very best interest at heart, she lies to him and keeps the truth hidden from him, making him doubt everything about her and her motivations. She breaks his heart telling him she is not interested in him and instead is into his brother (yo!) For a long time in this drama, he is confused on what side she is, Ally or Foe. While she is always fighting for his cause, he is less considerate about her in some arcs of the drama. For instance, he binds her to a pillar where she almost gets crushed by a boulder, treatens her with a knife, he mistrusts her tons and does not listen to her warnings, endangering not only himself and everyone around him but also her, he does forcefully kiss her once but FL is having none of that.
Overall, this couple is going through tons together, hand in hand, but also have some arcs where they are on opposite sides, it's a great watch! And the two do deserve each other, they both have to forgive each other for some stuff so ML does not have to fight hard to have her forgive him bc FL did some stuff, too. But ML is having a hard time to finally be with her. :3
@Jen, I agreed about Love Lost In Times were both leads hurting each other, but if you made a count, you wouldsee the scenes of ml hurting fl were more than fl hurting ml. This drama will also be added in my second list though in both ml hurting fl and fl hurting ml.
About the scene when ml tied her on a pillar and threatening her with a knife, it was because he still did not know her (losing his memory). It was still accepted though to my view, and gentle compared to Miss Truth, where ml did exploitation to fl.
Tbh, the hurtful part for the fl was when she should agree the ml taking other female as princess consort instead of her to save that other female life. The scene was hurtful and teary.
The ml apologized a lot since he finally knew how much fl had sacrificed her life for him. Although again when he had to choose between his mom and fl, no matter how sinful his mom was, the scenes were also teary.
Above all, Love Lost in Times were much telling about the fl's sacrifice throughout her life for everyone she loved especially to the ml.
True, true. I did not find that ML was too rough with FL throughout that arc, especially considering circumstances (I just didn't want my entry to get even longer, so I kept it at that).
I do need to rewatch the series however to properly count the score (of whom hurt whom more), I might have remembered it too bias. :3 For example, I do not even remember the whole part about the princess constort. Just totally blocked that out! O.O Just the same as with his mom omg I must have a bad case of amnesia or sth. Forgetting all the bad parts just like that haha
I love about the series that it is FL centered and not ML. ML is here the 2nd Lead hehe. Even though FL is the supporting character (as in supporting ML to get to his goal), it is all from FLs perspective, highlighting her journey, struggle and sacrafices. Love it so much!
Game Sanaeha (genders reversed, fl wrongs the ml, and he makes her beg forgiveness)
Finding Yourself (genders reversed, fl wrongs ml)
Jen:
If you wanna see some bat shit crazy Male Lead abusing/harming Female Lead, there is literally a tag with "Abusive Male Lead". You can also go and watch almost any Thai Lakorn where the tag "Nice Male Lead" is missing.
If you are up for it, I can make you a more detailed list like Aisha Gresee did (but with Lakorn).
I could also include how reluctand FL was to forgive the ass, some FLs in Lakorn world develop straight up Stockholm Syndrome and fall for the guy or forgive him without an apology, that shit is not enjoyable to watch, at all. x.x RIP
@Jen can you please make a list like that with lakorns? I also HATE female leads that give in too quickly lol. I want the man to grovel and beg
My Forever Sunshine
Lost Romance
Behind Your Smile
My Husband In Law
Secret
Ashes of Love
Go Back Couple
A Love So Beautiful
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
I Have a Lover
The Master’s Sun
Begin Again
Crush
Mr. Honesty
and the story of the second leads in Can we get married : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=brGug9HRDqg
I also don’t like it when the FL forgives all that easily! =P
Jen:
Aw a gender reversed one? How nice! Can you maybe go a little further into detail about how she wronged him? I remember watching it but I think I dropped out around the middle somewhere. (Don't forget to mark it as spoilers :3)
Hi I'm not the person who talked about Finding Yourself but if you haven't watched it yet, she wrongs him by breaking up with him and not revealing their relationship, because she is scared it would affect her life and their life in society, while he is always ready to go lengths to protect their relationship as it is a "noona" romance, but yeah that is basically what happens. She kind of redeems herself in the end. Try it out lol