MC is a gay swimming instructor with a complex about how he smells from helping out at his mother's fishery. Because of his complex towards his own body odor, he suspects he's bad at satisfying his partners in bed and so keeps getting dumped. ML is a manwhore who sleeps with a different person pretty much every night. One night at the gay bar they both frequent ml tries to come onto MC, but receives the shock of his life when his perfect and handsome self is totally rebuffed. What's this? Someone who wont just fall to his feet?! Inconceivable! Better take swimming lessons and annoy this man until he he falls for him so he can then dump him as revenge for this terrible humiliation!
Ml is an asshat, and that makes it even better as he rather obliviously gets more and more fixated with getting MC to fall in love with him. Totally just so he can have his revenge obviously! No other reason at all, he doesn't do relationships after all!
The relationship so far is developing very organically. I love MC (who has totally seen through ML's attempts at revenge) doing his damndest to not fall for ml, despite them actually being pretty good with each other. They're supposedly both tops, but MC seems alright with butt stuff, and if he's gonna be bottom it would be nice if they fleshed out him realising perhaps bottoming isn't so bad and perhaps becoming a switch? I doubt this is the type of story where ML will ever bottom, which really is a shame. The switching could be fun, and as he falls more for MC it could have been a way for them to develop their sexual relationship more. Them developing feelings for each other is plenty cute though, and the chemistry between them is real good! Like the art style, and the translation is pretty good too so far. Really am looking forward to good plot progression. So far at least (ch 20) there's been absolutely no sexual assault of any kind or rape*. (*Actually there is RAPE in this in later chapters. See edit below.)
EDIT: Uh- yeah never mind? It's not made into a big deal, which sucks, but the first time they do anal, ml just does it even though mc told him to stop and that he didn't want to. And then the next time they have sex it's like that too. Left a really bad taste in my mouth. What in the fuck is this normalization of RAPE?! And MC being just fine after that?! This is OG yaoi shit from the early 2000s! I thought we were past those dark days! Also ml knows he's leaving the country, has heard mc's painful backstory and SOMEHOW is STILL on his revenge bullshit and doesn't even notice what a colossal pile of garbage he is! ML doesn't deserve MC aaaat aaalllll!! DX Sucks so much! MC's the one that's going to be hurt in the end. Arguably he's been hurt many times already as is, as he's aware of himself being strung along by ml on some level, even if he's not aware of the aforementioned revenge bullshit. Ml's such an asshat. God dammit another good story ruined by BL rape tropes. Fucking hell I'm so sad and frustrated. I no longer recommend this story. The bar is in hell, yet this story still couldn't clear it. What a massive fucking letdown.
Swim in the Scent