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Honestly, if you looked at other chinese wuxia BL, the master x disciple trope is rampant. You can go searching for them.
People usually hope their ship sails /begin to develop after the disciple matures. Not when the disciple is still immature.
I don't mind the familial relationship between them, it's extremely wholesome. (=・ω・=) and non-romance for such a genre is better since more focus is put on the main plot. (I personally love how bl relationships develop but not when it takes up 30 chapters in some dog blood romance drama with the interesting background plot being forgotten).
Dammit my mind- The master x disciple pairing or the wholesome family type relationship- I want bothhhh but yeah ;-; It’s not classified as shounen ai or yaoi ;-; but hey :DD THEY DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR SEXUALITY SO LET MY IMAGINATION FLY~