Of Swords and Parasols

So, in my second super-editted telenovela, Amor Real, the heroine doesn't simply fall in love with her rapist.

She falls in love with the guy who bought her, beat her on her wedding day when she tried to leave with the guy she was in love with (but her family sent to prison), raped her, imprisoned her on his estate and told her she could never leave until she gave him a son, then kicked her out while she was pregnant and paraded his mistress around, plus accidentally caused her father to have a heart attack and was all "Oh, I went to have a screaming match-onsesided, but hey-with your dad about how you're such an evil conniving whore who deserves to die pregnant on the streets or whatever, and forgot about the whole 'weak heart' thing. Whoops."

Oh, and he likes to call her "whore" and "slut" and scream various forms of verbal abuse at her a lot.

He's considerably less abusive in the second half (where they're separated quite a bit), but that doesn't stop it from feeling like a very bad 80s romance novel.

It was apparently very popular.

(Unlike Corazon Salvaje, it's also terribly editted in US release and hard to follow the plot. To be fair, though, even though it's a more recent series, I think Amor Real had a US release before Corazon Salvaje.)