actually, this takes kinda smart
This might be a hot take but if people can’t handle regressors falling in love (there are MANY exceptions though, don’t twist my words) at a certain age or whatever, maybe they shouldn’t be reading regress stories or at least those that clearly will have romance at some point. It was pretty obvious MC was going to end up with that girl at some point, and they handled it better than expected.
Ikr... like, are they really expecting youngguk to live and die alone... forever, if we're following the usual logic of time regressor have twice their age? Its either that or do you want youngguk to be with someone much older to his current body age which would be seen as "weird" as well right.
And ur right they're handling this romance quite well since they're a childhood friends with some history and I can tell where the affection comes from.
I like the take but also half disagree!! I think it's true you wont be able to know the age until you get there, but some of the life experiences do come with exposure so I don't think you can disregard the double dipping fully.
But!! In real life, nobody has equal life experiences, not even twins. You Will have people who are the same age who have lived diff lives. So if youre an adult and consensual, and they match you, what's gross about that? They're older now. Not like he was interested in her at all when they were kids.
So I don't get all the hate either!
Honestly, I don’t think you can measure someone’s mental age just by how long they’ve lived alone. It’s more about the kind of life they’re living and the stuff they’ve been through.
For any time regressor, they basically come back and live life AGAIN — childhood, teen years, young adulthood, the whole package. So mentally, they’re not actually aging past where they left off in their first life. They’ve never felt what it’s like to be in their 40s, 50s, and so on.
That’s why I think Youngguk’s still stuck in his mid-30s mentally, and he won’t really “be” in his 40s until he actually reaches that age again. It’s like his mental clock just… stopped ticking when he regressed.
So he will be "growing up" together with that girl until both of them reaches his previous age. This is why I never really had a complaint on a regressor's love story. Since if you ignore that youngguk has regressed, they're actually from the same age generation, right? You guys got what I mean?