He just found him pretty? And never thought about it again until when he saw xinlu again lol
The tone even in the novel when he was like I just wanted to pluck that flower right then and there...like what?
Also the fact that he says that he has never found anything as beautiful as child xinglu in his life again like bro... He said xinglu is his first crush even before they met. It's just not a good look. No one would be comfortable if xinglu was a girl.
I know I'm gonna sound biased but isn't the novel from like the early 00s? Yaoi was pretty sketchy back then (it still kinda is but it was much worse)
Bro gable is literally me but I am not a pedophile. No but like seriously why do they have to show that he wanted to "pluck" an 8 year flower. Wtf does that even mean???? Like can't we do this when he was grown up? Like what would change? It's always the best characters butchered like this.