
The age difference isn't even the worst thing about it, I've read college student × high school student before, it CAN be done well...but.
I just don't fw the "a child's undying love" trope. I just hate the way some child will fall in love in a single moment like some shounen protag's love interest and then basically just decide to be in love forever with the idea of a person they created in their head. And I'm supposed to find that super romantic and cute, instead of persistent and off-putting