office romances are almost always boring and cliche

why are office romances so cliche and generic? i’m so tired of seeing the same stories in different fonts. they’re always started in the same 2 ways.

1) FL gets cheated on, and the extremely rich, attractive, young ceo who secretly had feelings for her the whole time but didn’t tell her at all

2) ML is a complete man-child and an asshole to everybody, then falls in love with the FL and continues to treat everyone BUT the FL like shit.

also the power dynamics are flat out weird, the ML almost always has more power than the FL does. it’s not something that should be romanticized, because it’s not ethical.

>! office romances are basically the same as those highschool romance series where the ml is rude to everyone but the fl, except office romances are catered to an older/more mature audience!<