I agree about the premise of the romance being very suspect, there’s an extreme imbalance in power between the two. Just makes it feel more predatory, like she’s buying his love
I mean, she is. In the beginning, he was in debt and unhoused. She singlehandedly settled both but with strings; they HAD to live together and he couldn't consent cause he had no other options. He was kinda freaked out and didn't even come around and confess his own feelings until much later.
I do agree with
@sc0pin on the feeling of dropping now. The last arc was she had been confessing, he finally go there then she felt like it was too good to be true and any lack of communication sent her into a spiral cause deep down, she probably knows his feelings might not be real given the situation. Once that got resolved, and granted it wasn't that emotional at all imho, it was like ok here is a kid sister to be a thing to talk about for a bit.
They don't have a real relationship and their "growth" amounts to headpats and occasionally being lovey dovey but having the EXACT SAME conversation of, you love me right? Now she is still super insecure and is like a rabid dog if anyone so much as looks his way, why so insecure, is manipulation a bad foundation for a relationship and it feels unstable?
Honestly, if author had even touched on that while still doing the rom, com, ecchi content I think it would be more interesting but the intro for this arc had me like.....yeah. I'd rather go back and re-read something else cause that chapter was unsatisfying.
thanks for the tl