I feel like it would've been fine if he'd be cool about her refusal from the get-go. Like "oh, hey, that's too bad but we can still be friends" and "I'll miss you so I made you this neat thing." The way he blew off her wishes, though, and continued to pursue, then made her say she loved him in order to get the gift to work was...not great.

Could be I was missing something cultural and there was some sort of coding that showed she actually was interested but couldn't Because Reasons. But if a dude tried something like that on me, I'd skin him alive.