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It’s a yaoi/shonen ai manga set in ancient china, mc is not the king but some type of official and they were reincarnated or transported to this world. ML is a hostage from an enemy country, and is the future leader of that country. The story starts when they are kids and spends a lot of time on this period of their like, with MC trying to survive and befriend the ML who falls in love with him. ML also has some type of magic powers and a lot of poisonous pets.
This just gives me bad vibes. Like I get that right now there is supposed to be no romantic attraction, but the ML will feel romantically attracted to her when she’s older and he is knowingly initiating a relationship with her while she is still a child, so it just feels like grooming. And the fact that the author is writing the story purposefully this way, when they could have met when she older. But rn this reminds me of those isekai stories based around the father daughter relationship, except we’re going into this expecting the father and daughter to get together, because at the moment he is a father figure to mc. I really like the art, and the story will probably be very cute/healing, I just don’t think I’ll be able to get over the underlying themes of grooming.