Who's The Worst "Male Lead" From A Female MC Novel That You Read?

Need_More_Sleep

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For me, it has to be the Male Lead from "Black Bellied Prince’s Stunning Abandoned Consort". This Male Lead have no redeeming qualities and is more trouble than he's worth. The Female Lead have saved him a number of times in the first life and he's so ungrateful.

The Female lead is granted in marriage to the Male Lead as an attempt by the Emperor to mock him with his leftovers, she's said to be ugly. The Male Lead feels disgraced by her, so he mistreats her. After she saves him, they interact more and he’s given the opportunity to disappoint her time and time again, while she for some reason falls for him...leading to her death.

The Male Lead could have reduced her suffering without any effect, but he does not bother. A lot of her suffering is largely caused by his actions, such as taking on a Concubine who attempted to murder the Female MC a number of times. He's also emotionally slow, trying to figure out if he loves her or not when she died in the first life. He never seeks justice for her when she died in the first life, even though he knows the culprit and could have done something to them. Even a side character has done more for her than him, the side character is a Bandit gives her dead body a proper burial.

In her second life, she is reborn into a good family with a beautiful appearance and has to interact with people from her past life as well as new people. The Male Lead still hasn't changed that much in their second life and he makes the same mistakes in the second life though he hesitated more, but they still end up together in the end. It kind of hurts because the Female Lead in this novel is actually pretty good since she acts regal no matter what and is actually a scheming type of girl who hides her talent.
 

Eldoria

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I won't name the characters specifically, as I encounter them frequently.

I dislike male leads who view women as 'objects.' I dislike female leads who lack personal agency, who are submissive, dictated to, and dependent on others.

However, it's purely my personal opinion as a reader. Other readers may have different opinions.
 

AstreiaNyx

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Too many. I can’t name them because I’ve purged most of them from my memory. But off the top of my head, all of Solche’s novels’ male leads. I generally drop her novels after a few chapters though. Didn’t stay long enough to see whether they get better or worse.
 
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