I mean, when you're merely a servant and the other two of the love triangle are part of the elite rich and one of them happens to be your employer, regardless of being an adult here the hierarchy between is skewed and he *obviously* can't do as he likes if he wants to keep his job?
Has that not been emphasized this whole time in the manga?
Ok, then move aside.
He was so cold to her "because of his job" but the second he saw another kid interested he had to start flirting and not caring about losing his job?
Just proves the friend was right.
I feel like you just don't get the underlying implications of the dynamic between the average working class person, who is attracted to his employer, a conglomerate heiress. In the first place that's a very skewed hierarchy between them.
He's literally a servant, he gets told that be "should know his place" and that it's useless to pursue a relationship with someone who's basically an employer.
So he struggles with his feelings while he also has to mind about his position as being merely a servant. Is that not what the dilemma is in this manga jfc
"Not care about losing his job" did we even read the same story? Omg
I know this is a story marketed for teens but i wasn't expecting this low of a level of understanding here.
Hes an adult seen a child pursue him and he's perfectly fine rejecting her over an over but the second he starts to feel she's losing interest and starting to move on he gives her juuust enough to give her hope.
You keep talking about hierarchy as if shes the one with the power in the relationship when she's a CHILD been string along by a GROWN MAN.
I fucking know that he's the grown man im the relationship you dimwit XD there's a 4 year difference between them and he literally mentions he can't openly pursue her because she's a highschooler.
"As if she's the one with the power"
Girl she's literally her employer, one word from her or her father or any of the head employees in that fucking house and he's out of a job.
There's a hierarchy between them when it comes to their ages AND their relationship as employer and employee. There's a power imbalance both ways.
Have you NEVER had a job before or something?
This is why i say that you don't get it because how can you not understand something that simple?
Like i'm fucking aware of their age gap thank you very much. I know how iffy of a trope that is and nowhere did i deny that power imbalance between them.
I'm just trying to explain the other side of the power imbalance in this relationship and why he can't fucking openly pursue her as her servant.
Is it not the usual trope in manga where if a servant falls for their employer/master, they go "oh i can't admit to them that i love them, i need to know my place. Our social statuses are just too different."
Put this two characters in the same age and it'll still be the same fucking dilemma. I can't believe i have to explain something as simple as this.
She's not his employer HER DAD IS, The power imbalance is between him and HER DAD she's not the one in control in EITHER OF THE RELATIONSHIPS. NOT BY AGE AND NOT BY POWER.
But of course you would pretend she is since you want to make it ok for a fucking adult to
pursue her and at the same time reject her everytime is conveninet to him.
"Is it not the usual trope in manga where if a servant falls for their employer/master, they go "oh i can't admit to them that i love them, i need to know my place. Our social statuses are just too different."" .... Im so sorry you think these story is so original and not like the rest but it is. It adressses the same topics any age gap+ power dynamic story does and i would even it does it worst than most.
Demostrated by you trying to act as if the age gap is just a minor plot point and nothig would change even if he was a minor. Dont mak me laught.
"Im so sorry you think these story is so original and not like the rest but it is."
Girl where did i say that i think this story is original and not like the rest?????? Fucking read my comment again.
Using "Isn't it" or "Is it not" in a sentence either means it's a rhetorical question, or an indirect way of asking for agreement, etc.
I WAS BEING FUCKING RHETORICAL
Example:
It's a nice day, isn't it?
Ben, isn't it time for you to help your mother to cook dinner?
Go read a textbook before you even read manga bcs wtf is this stupidity?
And i NEVER said that it was okay for a fucking adult to pursue a minor. I am just explaining to you why THE MALE LEAD DOESN'T ACTIVELY PURSUE HER BECAUSE OF THEIR DIFFERENCE IN SOCIAL STATUS AND AGE!
Oh my god this is why i say that you barely understand anything . You're so dumb it's hilarious.
Go get some reading comprehension skills
And he literally serves the female lead and their household. It fucking means she's her employer by extension you dumbass.
Doesn't even know what a rhetorical question is omg
He actively pursues her If he didnt we wouldn't have a story, but only when it's convenient to him. When he sees she's losing interest because he doesnt want that.
Serving in her house and to her is not the same, we had entire episodes where she cant even choose her own fiance, yet here you are still acting as if she has some kind of power because you cant accept the power imbalance.
He is older than her HE HAS THE POWER.
He is also poorer but the power is not on her IS IN HER DAD. If they were to get together and the dad doesnt approve he could kick her and leave her with nothing. BECAUSE SHE DOESNT OWN THE MONEY. DO YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND?
Your keep acting as if you're teaching me something, you're not. I have read boss/employee, age gaps, buttler/lady and every single cliché in these manga before. I have seen it done well thats why i can say these is subpart.
ML is a coward and is useless. All your explanations fell flat because i can compare them with other characters IN THE SAME SITUATION AS HIM and they did better. More engaging dynamics, more interesting moral dilemmas. CONSISTENT CHARACTERIZATION.
If these is enough for you, good. Everything you have said to me reinforces your taste and my taste doesnt aling so honestly i dont care about your opinion I never did.
And since my english bother you so much, feel free to respond to me in spanish. if not, please find something else to do, i dropped these shit the same day i left my comment and i have better thing to do to keep going back to a manga i dislike just to read your redundant yapping.
"Better things to do"
And yet you keep on replying to me anyway XD
It's no use trying to explain something to you when the concept i'm trying to explain is greater than your capacity to understand shit.
Stupid as hell
Girl english isn't even my first or second language XD i commented on your english because this story is TRANSLATED in english, so i heavily doubting if you actually understand anything you read.
Go read a textbook of you can't even identify something as basic as a rhetorical question.
How are you the only adult in a love triangle and still the most useless?! The friend is right, he is a coward.