Is this grooming?? I'm trying to read this cause I like mc when I saw a clip of older him...

i don’t think so because even when the younger guy came onto him he said “i won’t do it with a minor”. but i could be wrong.

So I read a bit ahead and in that scene he literally sleeps with him right after just cause it was midnight and so technically his birthday.

Him not sleeping with minors at that point is just a technicality.

For starters, we don't know at what hour he was born. So even just biologically speaking unless he was born at midnight he's very much still just 17. And even if he *was* born at midnight, nothing has really changed since just three hours ago when the prosecutor wouldn't touch him "cause he was a minor".

That tells me he just doesn't want to get into hot water.


Idk Korean law, but in quite a few jurisdictions you aren't fully counted as an adult till a whole day has passed. That has to count for something. It's because those governments recognize that having a birthday doesn't automatically just make you smarter and more mature, not to mention legal repercussions of being tried as an adult in one country when due to time zones you'd still be prosecuted as a minor in another.


I'm getting off tract lol. The legality isn't the issue. The issue is that he's housing a kid who clearly had a rough life who has literally no one else in his life and the big powerful prosecuter is being touchy with him when he isn't in a position to say no.

Sure, he then turns around and wants it as well, but imo that's a different and separate issue than an adult making advances on a minor.




Sorry for the rant lol. I don't have a problem with age gaps, and there are plenty of stories I love that have them, but the way it developed in this one just seemed suspect.

No this isn't grooming. It started out as Woojung's way of paying it forward by giving Jiho a place to stay. Jiho reminded him of his younger self. I recommend reading the novel. This leaves So Much out about their daily interactions and such.