This is surprisingly a good story. kinda underrated imo. The humor is there, conversations between characters kinda light and a bit realistic even though this is clearly a drama. I don't get why people who are not comfortable reading about age gaps (when it is already clearly plastered all over the tags and summary) still read this and complain about their age difference. I also don't get why people in the comments loosely say that sensei groomed Aoi. Do they even know what grooming is? Just bec Aoi is a minor and sensei is a full-grown adult who fell in love with each other that already means he groomed Aoi. Whether minor or adult grooming, predators will initiate a very emotional connection with their prey so that they can easily manipulate them and make them vulnerable. Then when that happens, they can easily have access to abusing them (emotionally and sxually). This never happened here. Although it is kinda obvious he favours Aoi a bit coz they have secret meetings and and private tutors, Sensei has his guards and walls up and have mostly kept it professional when it comes to interacting with Aoi. He also turned him down several times.
Anyways, the only time i think he KINDA returned Aoi's confession is after when he was convinced that Aoi's feelings for him was true. I think they both kinda knew that bec Aoi found out he has been hurting himself to keep his sanity in check, which is a sign that have to part ways and maybe he just had to say how he really really feel.
Finally, the fact that Sensei NEVER replied to Aoi's letters not even once in 2 years proves that he's still giving Aoi a choice. He will wait, and Aoi knows he's waiting, but he will never influence his decision by continuously communicating with him. This is not the best out there, but it's actually refreshing not seeing a jerking off when in heat "to help" scene, which is usually a trope in BLs. Aoi was in heat, he laid him in the infirmary and got the hell out of there. I mean finally!
This is surprisingly a good story. kinda underrated imo. The humor is there, conversations between characters kinda light and a bit realistic even though this is clearly a drama. I don't get why people who are not comfortable reading about age gaps (when it is already clearly plastered all over the tags and summary) still read this and complain about their age difference. I also don't get why people in the comments loosely say that sensei groomed Aoi. Do they even know what grooming is? Just bec Aoi is a minor and sensei is a full-grown adult who fell in love with each other that already means he groomed Aoi. Whether minor or adult grooming, predators will initiate a very emotional connection with their prey so that they can easily manipulate them and make them vulnerable. Then when that happens, they can easily have access to abusing them (emotionally and sxually). This never happened here. Although it is kinda obvious he favours Aoi a bit coz they have secret meetings and and private tutors, Sensei has his guards and walls up and have mostly kept it professional when it comes to interacting with Aoi. He also turned him down several times.
Anyways, the only time i think he KINDA returned Aoi's confession is after when he was convinced that Aoi's feelings for him was true. I think they both kinda knew that bec Aoi found out he has been hurting himself to keep his sanity in check, which is a sign that have to part ways and maybe he just had to say how he really really feel.
Finally, the fact that Sensei NEVER replied to Aoi's letters not even once in 2 years proves that he's still giving Aoi a choice. He will wait, and Aoi knows he's waiting, but he will never influence his decision by continuously communicating with him. This is not the best out there, but it's actually refreshing not seeing a jerking off when in heat "to help" scene, which is usually a trope in BLs. Aoi was in heat, he laid him in the infirmary and got the hell out of there. I mean finally!