Rental Trash Girlfriend - Ch. 14

[Ignore]

Based on how we recall and interpret events, our opinions will differ greatly here.

I saw the whole thing with her parents as where her mother placates and encourages the FMC to allow herself to be controlled and abused, while the dad is both mentally and physically abusive. The mother takes the father's side, which just adds to the whole toxic situation. So of course the daughter moves far away from them. It doesn't matter if the child was a brat or not. Abuse through anger and gaslighting is not discipline not guidance. I've just seen this kind of scenario and variations of it play out negatively like this for others and myself in multiple times in my life. I've also seen it usually play out positively whenever the ones with authority and maturity act with empathy rather than anger and unfairness.

She doesn't make a lot of money because she is just drifting through life. She doesn't have any goals nor ambition as she has no self-esteem, so she does just the minimum for what she needs or wants, which isn't a lot with her mindset. I might be remembering incorrectly, but I remember the manga stating she doesn't have more dates because she keeps denying them and chooses to only go with the guy after she catches feelings for him; the agency still shoves people her way, but she is just refusing all of them except for the guy.

Yes, part of her defense mechanism is to upset others, but the separation with the guy at the end was different. She specifically desired to have him (as one of the late chapters says) unlike all her other relationships that were more just tolerated because they were thrust onto her and required no effort on her part to keep the relationship alive (the girlfriends and aunt). She is normally selfish, but with him she decided to let him go for his own sake rather than keeping him to make her feel better. The other people didn't make her feel better. He did. Normally with her cruise controlling through her current life, she'd just let it be. Whatever is easiest to deal with. On paper, her actions at the end appear similar to previous interactions with people, but the motives and how she left them is different. For example, she pushes her "friend" to help the guy, essentially hoping to pair the lady up with the guy the lady has always admired and having the guy with someone that would make happy. She didn't just burn everything to the ground and leave like she normally does. She actually took the effort to resolve things for the better. Old her would have made sure to hurt that lady at the end rather than helping the lady and the guy.

I am convinced by your argument about the origin of her problems and her parents, and thank you for giving me a different perspective. Although I always shared your opinion that her motives were far better than any she had before, her methodology being the same as always make it unclear whether she can change how she interacts with other people and views herself. She's always doubted her own feelings, so it would be easy for her to convince herself the actions were ultimately egosyntonic. So, I still view the chance of her being able to change as negligible. Since I have never seen an actual person genuinely change I give the author a lot of credit for being willing to give their story a bleak and off-putting but surprisingly realistic ending.

 

[animan095]

Thanks for finishing this series, I hope our two protagonists find their happiness someday.

 

[Hacete]

I think that was the perfect ending for it. It has a better impact than a forced good ending in just one last chapter.

 

[FiddlePop]

I can't believe this was actually better than Rent-a-girlfriend

That's a really low bar to clear
Isn't like 99% of the stuff better than it?

 

[FiddlePop]

I would like a happy ending but given the circumstances of their "relationship", it made sense to end it this way. They would've fallen apart & not happy after the honeymoon phase. Sucks for them but I do hope they end up better after all of this. I will mention how the art really degraded after the 1st 5 chapters but funny that the author transitioned to hentai. Thanks for translating this to completion & kudos to @HeatManga for starting this story.

The usual pipeline is bad story writting and good art = H manga
This guy is doing it the opposite way

 

[huntercheco]

This is the ending RaG deserves, but not the one we will get