Verbal abuse sugarcoated as love

For the first time watching a cdrama, I really hoped the ML and FL would not end up together. The ML was purely abusive, we can't sugar coat it. There is no amount of character growth that can wipe out how he treated the FL like trash, verbally abused her and crushed her self esteem like that . ML was just a horrible person. The writer made me hate the ML so much that when he started liking the FL I was not moved at all. Honestly not gonna say much more but dropped this at ep 23 as I just could not picture them together. There's nothing romantic about this.