Woojung acknowledged the age of Jiho. If I remember it correctly, it was during Jiho attempted to kill his father then Woojung said he would not be disappointed for him trying to kill someone when he himself dated someone who just turned 18.
Girl don't act slow. He aknowlage it one time in the last 15 chapters of a 90+ chapter series... bsffr
Well you said "no one has ever" when it fact Woojung did. It's as if you're saying "never" even when there is actually, and that's when Woojung said it.
Also, the friends sees their relationship as guardian with his kid so why would they even question it. They are not aware that Jiho and Woojung are in that sort of relationship.
Let me start off by apologising for assuming that you were acting slow. Clearly you're just flat out stupid or a literal child, so let me say it again for you: the issue is with the lack of acknowledgement in the overall story
1) "...the topic didn't need to be ignored apart from 1 throw away line at the end that's never brought up again." Maybe if you'd rubbed your last two braincells harder and took the 3 mins to read through my entire review you would have caught the fact that I already acknowledged this.
Yes it was briefly "acknowledged" but like I said before; one throw away line that is never brought up again, in the last 15 chapters of a 90+ character story isn't enough given W is pretty much a groomer and the story is weird about it
2) Idkw you're playing devil's advocate so hard for this clearly problematic relationship but sure whatever. J's coworker is obviously oblivious and W's team probably thinks he's doing this out of a sense of justice.
But W's friends from the wedding know. You can argue that they didn't know at first (that's probably my own confirmation bias at play), but in the epilogue when W's drinking with his friends, they don't talk about W&J's relationship like a guardian and their ward, but like a couple. And later when they are discussing marriage, the woman even asks about J moving out in case W finds a spouse and W interrupts her and shuts down the convo saying he'll take care of 'his boy'. You can play dumb to that all you want but they both understood what he meant
The actual story was fine, a bit slow in some areas but it does get more active towards the end. It's an okay read and the characters/their back-stories and personalities are quite well written.
The only point off is honestly for the weird groomer relationship between W and J considering they are 25+ and 17 when they met. This alone wouldn't be enough to knock down the story as this is just fiction, but the fact that no one(the two main characters or their friends) ever brings up/questions their age gap, living/romantic(getting together the day he turns 18...) situation but act like this is perfectly fine; really rubs me the wrong way.
Especially during the police questioning where they have J lie about his age to seem older. I just wish this was aknowlage in the story a bit more as J is 17 going on 18 and the topic didn't need to be ignored apart from 1 throw away line at the end thats never brought up again.