the best description of what is happening
Wow I did not catch that metaphor
can't blame you, ML is being so friggin adorable in overthinking & reaching so hard just to get a reaction out of MC lmao
MC: main dish = actual content ; side dish = advertisement promoting the content
ML: (light yagami face) i get it... it's all so clear to me now... this is all a deep symbolism that reflects his perverse taboo preferences... how he likes cheating on his 'main' wife with several 'side' affairs... how he gets to do (sex)work in a variety of 'fields' which is slang for the numerous people he has hooked up with... and i, too am like all these unnecessary 'garnishes'. knowing we are side dishes makes us desperate (for him) simply because we're just a short dalliance... which is exactly how he likes us... it's all coming together
LMAO your characterization is on point~
the steering wheel clench, the innuendos, the heated stares, the absolute balls to the wall horniness of the ML where all that's missing is him breathing down the MC's neck... dear gods
plus the way baby boy is describing himself as garnish (because the Legal Wife is the main dish, obviously. i can't. i'm laughing way too fuckin hard at his dramatic metaphors) like he's accepted being a side ho & subtly exposing his worries that MC might be let down by him when they finally do it/get bored of him sweetie pleaseeeee aaahhhh
AND THE MC JUST GOING THROUGH HIS WORK DAY LIKE NORMAL, LOWKEY WEIRDED OUT. NOT REALIZING THE BLUEBALLING HE'S DOING LMAOOO