Meanwhile there are jackasses that think : "Oh because this character wasnt in a OFFICIAL relationship with the girl, that means if she is gone with someone else, its NOT netorare" (hence no NTR tag)
Cliche "Childhood friend promise to marry MC, she is saint, go to hero party while MC stay, she returns and marry hero and not MC"
ps : ironically they involuntarily act like nerds by caring so much about the literal meanings of the words
Meanwhile with my jp-like-brain, i care more about feelings. The vibes. The invisible mood like the famous "the night is beautiful" logic.
At same time, lets say your parents betrothed you to someone unknown, and it was just a promise done by grandpa or something that the grandchildren marry,
but "wife ran away before marriage".
By their logic, that means they werent stolen. As the marriage wasnt done yet (and betrothal was just a promise and not officially done). That means millions of chineses in china use falsely the word "stolen" by their logic.
To NTR or not NTR, what the hell is even that question.
Yes it is NTR (I guess, I think it is more of cheating actually. But then what is cheating other than having a partner yet still seeks the warmth of another) for the saint to dip the hero even after her (very empty apparently) promise to MC.
As to the chinese side, due to the proposal isn't made between two officially and instead by proxy, it is seen aa NTR or shameful for either party to dip without official announcement.
Then again, this is like a face/ reputation thing and cultures differ.
Think of it like you ordering big mac with money but then the shop say no after taking your money. (Bad analogy, but closest I can come up now)
Yeah. I guess they are westerners for thinking its not NTR.
One of their reasons they said is : nah its cheating not NTR.
Also the WN's stolen childhood friend part was so hated (or maybe editor's recommendation) that in the LN they removed this part
and made the childhood friend not being stolen but still loving MC and it was a misunderstanding.
(hero on balcony going to kiss her, but the girl slap away HERO)
To be honest, all "old" series sure had great luck.
There was so much lack of content (WN) or games, that most (EN) readers probably knew them all or head hearsay or seen a glimpse of synopsis on NU.