I keep asking myself why does the ML need to be such a red flag. He just needs to be a little nice and convince MC to give him hugs here n there. Hire MC and keep him around but he has to go n do that. He can’t go the romance root cause he’ll want to marry n have kids n so MC will break it off. So this I buy your body route is pretty logical but MC don’t wanna sell. Sigh.
I keep asking myself why does the ML need to be such a red flag. He just needs to be a little nice and convince MC to give him hugs here n there. Hire MC and keep him around but he has to go n do that. He can’t go the romance root cause he’ll want to marry n have kids n so MC will break it off. So this I buy your body route is pretty logical but MC don’t wanna sell. Sigh.