Incoming rant:
There is this fairly popular story going around (over 500k reads) that has some problematic and toxic themes. I won’t name the story, but I will explain why it’s toxic. In the story the main love interest has threatened the MC multiple times and even once assaulted the MC. He treats the MC like trash and the MC even cried over it and was afraid of him. Even if the love interest has a tragic past, this is still not okay at all. It also doesn’t help that this is a mafia story with a cliche bad boy as your love interest. I was actually surprised to see he was the love interest.
Here’s another helpful topic explaining the toxicity of the mafia and poorly portrayed bad boys: