
This is what I call grooming: https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/his_perfect_guide/

There's hundreds of manhwa that include grooming, you only include this one as the example because the bottom is the one being groomed. A common trope is where the top is the young one and everyone just calls it age gap instead of grooming.
A much older bottom raises a much younger top and conditions them to be sexually obsessed with them and then has sex with them when they are finally legal and people think it's hot, lol.

And is this the case for this story particularly? He is not grooming him or even he thinks that he is sexy when he was a child. Never did he think he want to fck the little kid. Where even that coming from? Lmao he just met the kid for a sec, trying to protect him by giving him a bracelet. He didn't do anything weird or perverted as soon as he met him, he just says he grew up well as in he is in healthy condition and didn't die lmao he appears because the bracelet is broken and checking him if he injured somewhere that can't be seen. You called that grooming?

THEN WHY DID THEY MEET WHEN THE MC WAS A CHILD?
Why did the author make them meet when one was a child and one was an adult? This is porn.
Imagine if you were watching one of those weird live action porns with a story into on pornhub and the story starts with a grown man and a little girl meeting and the grown man gives her a bracelet. Then there's a cut and a time skip, now the little girl is 18, exactly 18, and meets the same grown man who tells her "you've grown well" and then they fuck. THAT'S WHAT THIS IS!

you’re taking it out of context bc right now there is ZERO romance or sensuality so far. did the tiger ever said “you’ve grown well im gonna suck your dick”? did they fuck? how about you think a bit harder, since we don’t have the full plot yet. maybe he can only consume mc’s energy when he turns 20? there was NO sexual or romantic intention in that phrase when the tiger said it (unless it is revealed later on).
and like a lot of people already said, it’s not uncommon for older people to say that phrase to others that they knew since they were a child in asia. like a grandmother can tell her grandson that she hasnt seen since he was 5 “you’ve grown well” without the intention to fuck her grandson.
unless you’re telling me that the tiger was very romantic forward since they met and he said that phrase then yet that’s fucking disgusting but so far? nothing.
i know that they’re bound to get together but your point is STILL invalid because the tiger DID NOT groom mc. so far there’s NO evidence of the tiger coercing or manipulating the mc when he was a child. stop using words if you don’t know the meaning of it.

If you're going to be disingenuous why even bother responding? You didn't address any of the points I made or answer any of my questions.
You say over and over and over again that they haven't had sex and aren't going to have sex.
This is porn. They're going to fuck. Knowing this is porn, knowing they are absolutely 1000% going to fuck, and knowing they're going to end up in a romantic relationship together... WHY DID THEY MEET WHEN THE MC WAS A CHILD?!

girl just bc they met when mc was a child doesnt make it grooming… do you have any comprehension skills?
and the only reason why i kept saying they didnt fuck is because of your porn-embedded brain.
yes they’re gonna fuck because this is a yaoi manhwa. and? stop using the word grooming if you don’t know what it means

and may i remind you of who was the one who pulled this information out of their ass.
“So he met a child and was like "oh yeah so sexy, I'm gonna fuck this little kid!"
And you think it's not grooming? Lol”
that literally DID NOT happen idk why you’re hallucinating.
literally you’re the one who brought up the topic of fucking but when i continue that topic you’re saying i didnt address what you said?
i think when majority of people downvoted your comment, you should reflect on it. try to think a little harder, you’ll get there eventually if you try.

Guess there's no way to explain to you, to make you understand what grooming is.
Thrust relationship is built between a child or young person and an abuser in order to exploit and manipulate them for future abuse, is what is called "grooming". Whether physical or through online communication.
This story however, the ML has no communication whatsoever between him and the child, while the child grows up. Thus there's no "grooming" him to his preferences. MC doesn't even know him, nor recognised him when he was a child. Indicating that they never contacted each other ever since. So there's no emotional connection between them at all!
ML only contacted him, after MC, already an adult, was in danger. Because the bracelet that should have protected him broke off.

You know what, I think you are to young to read any 18+ contents at all, as the only thing in your mind is porn. The rest you can't even understand. Just because ML meet him as a child, your mind instantly think of grooming?! Don't you know that "grooming" have no age barrier? It can even be a closest friend or family member. Even own sibling near in age can do it.
I really think you need a break reading any smutty books right now and reset your mind 1st ( ̄∇ ̄")

You have refused to address anything that I have asked or any of the points I have made. All you were doing is attacking me.
This is porn. Why is one of the characters a child and one of the characters and adults in a porn? Why include that at all in porn?
If this was on pornhub the outrage would be real and valid. The adult 100% met the child and deliberately made a choice to fuck the child. That's the actual plot. I don't understand why you're pretending like it's not.
Just because they wait until the child is barely legal doesn't change that. The grown adult met a child and decided to fuck the child. The grown adult even gave the child a gift. Giving children a gift in order to win their favor so you can fuck them later is grooming. Isolating a child from their parents and friends so you can fuck them later is grooming.
What did the adult do? The adult gave the child a bracelet as a gift which isolated them from their parents and friends so they can fuck them later. What is that if not grooming?
Grooming is still grooming even if you wait until the child is technically legal.
I'm going to write all this up and you're not going to read any of it and you're just going to continue to lie and make ad hominem attacks because you aren't an honest person and you have no idea how to debate.
What does it mean he's grown well? What does he mean?
What sort of grooming nonsense is this? When you meet your lover your reaction shouldn't be "oh you've grown up well"... Because that implies you knew them as a child and you're comparing them...
Oh just please please don't let them know each other from when the bottom was a child and the top was the full grown man.