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For eastern media, yes, it is normal. There's a cultural background there about the denial in sexual relationships, and while it can be sometimes uncomfortable to western values, that's what I'm signing up for when I decide to read shit from other cultures.
Of course there are discussions about consent in this culture, and tbf most stories are downright violent rape rather than just the cultural denial.
My point is that this one doesn't seem to exceed the line of the cultural "no" and SA.
This is a short story, only 7 chapters.
It's one of those stories that had the potential to develop in more chapters to address a few things, but the author kept it simple and wrapped it up quickly.
Now if you want spoilers:
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The ML used to be the MC's bff in school, and loved his singing voice. It's implied he was already in love with MC.
But the ML was kind of a book nerd with a weird vocabulary, and one day MC heard him use a word to describe his singing that caused a misunderstanding (The ML said smt along the lines of his voice being terribly good, and MC though he was saying his voice was terrible).
This caused MC to freeze up and fuck up an audition for smt big. After that, MC ran away, ML couldn't find him again until that night we saw him.
The misunderstanding is cleared up when MC runs into an old classmate who ends up mentioning it in a convo, MC then runs to ML and they live happily ever after.
And for those wondering: No, he doesn't SA MC. MC gets horny when ML is wiping his sweat up and brushes his nipples, and ML takes advantage of that. There's some resistance from MC, as it's usual in BL's, but he very easily gives in to pleasure.
I wish the scan uncensors this one tho, the lightsabers on this one were kinda intrusive.