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Ok I gotta stop you there. This manhwa isn’t grooming. Grooming means that the adult deliberately wants to take advantage of the child sexually and how they do that is that they slowly make them comfortable with and not question doing sexual things with them and isolating them from others. Is this weird? Yes. But people throw around grooming so freely that nobody actually knows how to watch out for grooming. If an adult gets sexually harassed by a crusty ass teen would you call that grooming by the adult?
Readers who are uncomfortable with MC raising the ML should not be reading this instead of complaining. Personally, I dont mind this kind of trope as long as the younger one is the dominant one, theyre both adults and the MC didnt have any romantic interest with ML esp when hes a minor. Also Director-nim is not a parental figure but more on like a brother figure (the ML literally calls him hyung). But I see him more on like a benefactor and I believe ML sees him like that too and obviously more than that.
anywy gonna marinate this one and the art style slaps