The intertwined tragedy and saving-grace of human beings is that they end up becoming the person who could have saved them at a time when no one did.
The MC is now at a crossroads between his irrational base-desires and a little girl who has never had anyone in their life fight for them. Two possible bad endings await for him. One from succumbing to the rom-com he thinks his in, or one where he shreds apart the rom-com to confront the horror story with saccharine sprinkles. His in over his head either way, but only in the filth of the later can hope sprout.