Idt he can read minds all the time. There's plenty Adrian thinks that he's not clued into. Maybe it's a hyper-empathy thing with the condition of recalling something very painful/sad. It stands to reason that Harper can only respond with actions/words regarding extremely strong memories eg. The melancholia+love+guilt of loss with patroculus and the ocean, him knowing the woman next to the cafe was going to be evicted, the memory of patroculus burning.
In any case this is very cute and funny.
If y'all want a manga with healthy sexy rivals to lovers co-workers plot read gachiiki chouhatsu night (can skip the extras midway through, they're not relevant): https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/gachiiki_chouhatsu_night/
while you're at it ikuyasu sensei's momichupa duology is great and sexy too... if y'all need a cleanse I'll highly recommend
was that I hadn't even had this marked on my reading list I just checked chapter 8 after this appeared on recent updates list (previously had only read uptil chapter 5).
Queue dawning horror as I realized not only was Usaka groomed by his brother's school time s/o whilst he was having sex with Uzaka's older brother but he never worked through recognising that as assault and instead fantasized all these years about having sex with the groomer BF and was now going to do exactly that WHILE HIS SIGNIFICANT OTHER WAS BUYING THEM RINGS.
Felt horrified so I thought maybe I should go back a chapter and chapter 7 made it WORSE by showing that not only did the brother 'let' the grooming happen, he set it off in motion by indulging in exhibitionism IN FRONT OF HIS KID BROTHER TO GET OFF again and again without thinking about the mental damage it might cause and it was normalised to the point that neither of them still think it's wrong? And the brother and his then BF are the reason why Usaka is so kinky??? His kinkiness is rooted in a sexualized depiction and internalization of CSA?? HOLY SHIT
And now he's going to cheat and have sex with his groomer bc he wants it so bad and wants to prove he's a better sex partner than his brother?? THE HELL?? Also I can literally not read the word 'nii chan' without wanting to puke now.
This was a good smut manga before the fucked up incest, grooming and cheating began holy shit. Imagine cheating on your 'worlds best ikemen' s/o just because some ugly ass disgusting mf groomer 'first love' guy showed up. It's made worse by knowing Nekoya will be guilt tripped/blinded by love into forgiving his cheater of a bf. Legit making me feel the rage of every person in r/infidelity subreddit rn.
the fact that he's willing to cheat on his hot competent successful loving and devoted boyfriend with an ugly ass groomer of a 'first love' I KNOW he was a csa victim but this is way too fucking messed up.
WHY did the author have to center his kinky nature on sexualizing childhood assault? Holy Shit. Nekoya was literally buying rings when all Usaka could think of was wanting to ride his abuser. fuck.









The way they've been infatuated for so long and after getting together (and speed tracking to marriage lmao) they've been so loving and accomodating to each other's preferences and desires. Just fucking cute man, love is great.