Ok so i know the story is not perfect and there are issues here and there but i love it, idk they just love each other so much and they’re both so different in the way they express themselves but they still make it work and are happily together, moreover, the top wasnt arrogant but very insecure about different subjects (marriage, lineage, heritage,pretty boys) and its normal seeing how simple he is compared to the extravagant uke. Because in their relationship, the uke has the freedom to do what he wants bcs he’s all alone and theres no one above him dictating his way of life, however the gardener is just a normal employee abiding by societal rules and with a family he has to worry about.
And that explains why he’s so perplexed when uke follows to his family home, because thats an invasion of privacy in real life, and who would do that? Its scary, stalk-ish and invasive. But uke lives by his own rules in his bubble thats why he just does as he wishes, and i realized that even us as reader came to pamper him. But that was probably scary for the top who’s not even out to his family, and in that moment he couldnt let the uke do as he wishes as usual because he was in his territory, his reality and not their closed off manor where nothing mattered. So in that moment they weren’t in their little bubble anymore but in the real world where ppl would judge them, hence the slap in a fit of anger. Which was not okay. But he apologized and they talked it out in the end, because gardener-san, just like the readers and the staff, is too enamored with the uke and spoils him too much, but its cute so its okay haha
Also, Ppl are talking abt the shingo scene where he asks abt who’s better at sex between the two and from my perspective the gardener was trying his best to end the conversation politely i feel like the “no way” was taken out of context and is prbbly a mistranslation, but looking at the mood of the conversation, gardener was trying his best to not go into that territory and it looked like he was uncomfortable with that subject Also it shows how different is the england couple from the japanese one, they’re more open, more western, they’re extroverts, they’re comfortable with sex and the sex talk, they just have a very different dynamic in general and i feel like it should be taken into account, they honestly look like those couple that would have a threesome with some stranger idk, they also have a b&b where ppl would come and go, so they’re very much out there compared to the other two that are much more reserved in their relationship, and that’s probably why uke was so insecure bcs this is a way of life his lover used to have and he’s afraid that now that they’re there he would miss it and would want to revert back
The thing with this story is that we dont know what the uke thinks most of the time, and we have to wonder alongside the gardener, but then we have to think extra hard an its nice, because we immerse ourselves in the story and we kind of live their adventures with them
Ok so i know the story is not perfect and there are issues here and there but i love it, idk they just love each other so much and they’re both so different in the way they express themselves but they still make it work and are happily together, moreover, the top wasnt arrogant but very insecure about different subjects (marriage, lineage, heritage,pretty boys) and its normal seeing how simple he is compared to the extravagant uke. Because in their relationship, the uke has the freedom to do what he wants bcs he’s all alone and theres no one above him dictating his way of life, however the gardener is just a normal employee abiding by societal rules and with a family he has to worry about.
And that explains why he’s so perplexed when uke follows to his family home, because thats an invasion of privacy in real life, and who would do that? Its scary, stalk-ish and invasive. But uke lives by his own rules in his bubble thats why he just does as he wishes, and i realized that even us as reader came to pamper him. But that was probably scary for the top who’s not even out to his family, and in that moment he couldnt let the uke do as he wishes as usual because he was in his territory, his reality and not their closed off manor where nothing mattered. So in that moment they weren’t in their little bubble anymore but in the real world where ppl would judge them, hence the slap in a fit of anger. Which was not okay. But he apologized and they talked it out in the end, because gardener-san, just like the readers and the staff, is too enamored with the uke and spoils him too much, but its cute so its okay haha
Also, Ppl are talking abt the shingo scene where he asks abt who’s better at sex between the two and from my perspective the gardener was trying his best to end the conversation politely i feel like the “no way” was taken out of context and is prbbly a mistranslation, but looking at the mood of the conversation, gardener was trying his best to not go into that territory and it looked like he was uncomfortable with that subject
Also it shows how different is the england couple from the japanese one, they’re more open, more western, they’re extroverts, they’re comfortable with sex and the sex talk, they just have a very different dynamic in general and i feel like it should be taken into account, they honestly look like those couple that would have a threesome with some stranger idk, they also have a b&b where ppl would come and go, so they’re very much out there compared to the other two that are much more reserved in their relationship, and that’s probably why uke was so insecure bcs this is a way of life his lover used to have and he’s afraid that now that they’re there he would miss it and would want to revert back
The thing with this story is that we dont know what the uke thinks most of the time, and we have to wonder alongside the gardener, but then we have to think extra hard an its nice, because we immerse ourselves in the story and we kind of live their adventures with them