Yeah, that was kinda weird for me. However the little prince grew up separately for 10 years no contact. Also from the start he was fighting for the throne at such a young age so I am assuming he would be smart enough to mature without grooming. However I do find the black haired guy pervert. I can only justify different time different morals. I think I will be reading while shutting some part of my brain(⊙…⊙ )
Nowadays if one of the love interest was very young when they met and they get together later it’s being considered grooming, I keep reading this. Also it happens for younger people to fall in love with older people, even when they are minors. Grooming is when the adults purposely manipulate the minors to satisfy their desires and have sexual desires towards them. It seems like we are at the age where we try to fit everything in a definition and we have an inability to perceive nuance, it’s either black or white (grooming or not grooming, for the it’s not not grooming because one was minor). Logical fallacies. Another point is that people seem unable to separate fiction from reality.
Yall understand that even when he grow up they are still like 20year old apart lol if black hair guy was a sain person sure he will protect the child and all he's just a patriarchy victim after all but when he grow up now and come back the black hair guy must cast him away and say he was like little brother or son to him and not proceed with the yarning and romance bs.
This is a bl manhwa they will eventually fuck and have feelings for each other that's disgusting and concerning that yall are ok with a grown ass man meeting a guy when he was a child and proceed to have feelings for him when he growup instead of backing tf up and teaching the teenager that that's not right, if that's not Grooming that what is it just because it's written by your fav author doesn't mean it's morally acceptable but yall seem to even accept rap as long as the characters are hot soo I'm not surprised
Even in real life smtimes children tend to hold romantic feelings toward a grown-up they look up too and if the grown-up doesn't stop that and cast them away and explain that it's not right but instead proceed to never correct them (the black hair guy never once told the child to stop calling him beloved or correct his behavior) and eventually fuck him when he grow a bit older if that's not Grooming then what is it
Even in real life smtimes children tend to hold romantic feelings toward a grown-up they look up too and if the grown-up doesn't stop that and cast them away and explain that it's not right but instead proceed to never correct them (the black hair guy never once told the child to stop calling him beloved or correct his behavior) and eventually fuck him when he grow a bit older if that's not Grooming then what is it
Your logic is literally like the dudes who try to make children marriage is ok as long as the child want it and is "mentally mature" enough for it lol
Just because the old guy didn't have or commit any sexual acts towards the child doesn't make what he did correct or acceptable in the end the child is a victim of the royal patriarchy and had to accept the marriage, in that case a Normal grown up will assure to protect the child and that the marriage act is not necessary and he would correct him and tell him to drop the beloved act but just treat him like a guard or older brother and not make him get used to the beloved act for 3 years and yarn for him for 10 years
Also you talk about reality and fiction as if the Normalization of pedophilia ans Grooming in fiction and anime ... is one of the biggest reasons that make these acts happen in real life and make men fetishise more of pure and cute relationships with children etc... stop Normalizing this type of media pls
They got married under certain circumstances, so the boy decided to show him a bit of affection, I think its pretty understandable. The man in his turn didn't even think that the boy would come to love him, he thought that they're going to be separated and the boy will find himself a new bride. And children more often admire grown ups or have small crushes, rather than having romantic feelings, but no ones acting on it, cuz everyone understand that its a wrong thing. How often do you see adults straight up casting children away at first thought of them holding some kind of affection towards grown ups irl? That's just stupid, it's a phase of maturing, everyone understands that

The age gap is so weird I'm sorry that's basically grooming if you think it's cute you must be either a pedo or a 12yo teenager who know nothing about life