
saw the drama on here so i had to join in.
first of all, yeah this one's really iffy. author could have easily aged up the male lead, maybe made him eighteen when they met *or* make the mc closer to him in age. they still chose to go down the weirder route, and criticizing that is valid.
i don't think it's grooming though. HEAR ME OUT FIRST. we're literally given insight into the main character's thoughts, and at no point does he ever harbour any such feelings for the mc when he's a child. it would be weird if he thought of him sexually, but he doesn't. since we're given access to his thoughts, we also know he had no intention of grooming the kid or anything like that. hence, it's *not* grooming. (imo)
it's still weird as fuck though, idk why authors choose to write stuff like this, plot could've been decent without this one aspect, but calling it grooming would be wrong. just call it disgusting, weird, fucked up, whatever else that's totally fine

I feel like ml being a child and the age gap was pretty integral to the story. it was the reason bonding and intimacy was off the table, it gave mc the space to drop his guard and change from a disillusioned person who felt useless to a leader protecting others; meanwhile being a powerless kid is the only justification I accept for the king to not go back to his throne...

ALSO @ anal sex connoisseurs, what was that barrier bro broke through??

If you look at the large intestine anatomy it doesn't have that. I fear that is just added for the sake of horny. Because it looks very closely to what you would see a cervix to look like, and the scene it self gives hentai catering to a breeding fetish (the way a/b/o does). I had to go back to the story description bc I thought I missed some A/B/O dynamic or something lol when I saw that clip. It has folds(transverse folds) but it doesn't really have any walls to breach. I could be wrong but I've taken an anatomy class, and double checked a large intestine diagram bc i thought i was trippin' and didn't find anything. From personal experience of someone who has done analysis a few times i can't say I've experience that either. The feeling of fullness and pressure on your stomach 100% is a thing but not the faux cervix lol.
lowk yuri bait </3