10+ years age gap is my limit, above that they dont click with me anymore, and this is just my opinion.
Another one is because the timeline that mc got back at to was is in his childhood, and mc instantly meet ml when he was just a child, if the ml is sane, he will not date the mc adult or not. That will be called grooming if he date the mc, unless the mc stop meeting the ml and just will meet him in 10 years where he is an adult.
now i really feel bad for the author atp lmaooo TT the story is so well written. but the issues that should've been focused on more were overlooked because of 'age gap' and supposed 'grooming' XD like when did that happen? ml fell in love with 11 year old kid version of mc? yah must be reading with your eyes closed.
Thats why i said "if", reading comprehension. And i think you're the one reading eyes closed, the mc said that he will make the ml safe in ten years and he will stay at his side and by that means he has an intention to make the ml fall in love with him and the thing i dont like is if ml fall in love with mc throughout that 10 years and then date him when he is adult, thats actually called grooming.
Plus even if mc is 22 years old mentally, in ml's eyes he is just a 11 years old so it will be super super weird if he fall in love with mc knowing the age gap of them and mc being a literal child. Like i get it, in 10years from now they are now finally consulting adults but that doesnt change that ml watched or even guided the mc throughout the 10 years.
it's missing "the bad intentions".
and are we forgetting who's clingy to whom? plus there's no sign that the ml is trying to manipulate or harm the mc. yes he cares for the mc, but it's not a romantic thing.
can you please not misunderstand things and have incorrect assumptions and just have faith with the ml lol. The ML doesn't seem to be doing anything wrong.
Im not saying that ml will do wrong things to the mc lol.
Plus read my staments properlly will you? I just properly stated that "mc said that he will make the ml safe in ten years and he will stay at his side" in that means im implying that the mc is the one who is clinging to the ml, my problem here is the ml should'nt fall in love with the mc but since this is a bl, its guaranteed that they will be the endgame and its really weird considering the ml watched the mc grow up. Even if ml has a bad intentions or not, its giving grooming .
And btw i picked up the word "grooming" in the stories of mc transmigrating in another world as a child and retain their memory but they fell in love with a child and people call it grooming and i dont see anything wrong using it in this sutuation.
grooming does not apply in this situation at all. the ml has never had any inappropriate intentions towards the younger mc, not now and not in the future. even if he does eventually fall in love with the adult mc in the future, it's not grooming because the ml didn't do anything to foster a romantic relationship with the mc when he is currently this young kid.
Why is this so complicated , im in ch.5 yet and i feels like this will be complicated. Like the mc is a literal kid and he keeps clinging to the ml, and the ml thinks that he is just a kid, and even if the ml don't the mc as a kid, that will just make more even complicated cause how the hell he fell in love with a kid??
I thought that this is one of those tropes where they got both reincarnated as different people since there are supernatural.
Plus 17 years age gap is also too wild for me.