I will always be uncomfortable when a story has the premise of a character going against their morals (he clearly said that he wanted to be able to face his family and this goes against his beliefs) to get money and save their loved ones....However, it makes it a little better when seme didn't do uke dirty behind the scenes and force his hand (like make him unable to get another job). So, I hope that at least this remains the case. If we find out that the job MC was supposed to get and didn't was influenced by ML, that'd be really shitty. There is just something about ML's eyes that I deeply mistrust and I've seen too many manipulative semes in similar stories.
Also, going from 0 experience whatsoever to bdsm is one hell of a jump. It's not necessarily the worst thing ever, it's just very abrupt because people usually explore vanilla sex and stay there for the rest of their lives or want to explore more
I was thinking about something the other day and how I generally tend to dislike stories where there are too many characters to follow and I always chucked it off to me wanting to focus on the adventure of one main character but at the same time, I mostly dislike the "chosen one" narrative so, it just puzzled me that I couldn't put into words my own taste in shonen....
Anyway, reading this story and loving every character design and the detailed backgroud stories as well as the development of so many characters, I've come to realise that there is a way to do this that I love. I just don't like it when stories marginalize MC and take entire arcs focusing on other people while MC is nowhere to be seen, I like to see the bits and pieces of everyone's stories developing at the same time and this story perfectly fits that. Of course, the main focus will always be Iruma but everyone else have their moments in which they shine
I've seen this plot so many times but I still love it and always look forward to the big reveal. I think that in my 20 years of reading manga, there has been maybe 2 stories max that actually surprised me by revealing that the servant is indeed the servant and not the master disguised as the servant.
I don't even remember which stories did this but in one of them the "servant" was hiding his identity but not as the master, just the master's relative (I think nephew?) and the actual master did not get angry because MC fell for ML and not his initial husband. I wish I could remember which story this was.










The story isn't bad at all....just not very memorable. I've read shonen ai and yaoi 15 years ago and still remember their plot line. I think that I will completely forget this one in a year. That's not necessarily bad. 95% of stories I read fall in the same category.