since some people seem confused? i'm summarizing the plot to the best of my memory, somewhat in the order it was revealed: - our MC (ikeda) has light hair and light eyes and is the manager of a cafe - love interest (rio) is a host with black hair and eyes who visits the cafe - ikeda doesn't trust rio bc rio is a host and reminds him of *someone* from his past, but also he is clearly starting to get swayed by rio. especially how rio looks out for his friends and visits every morning despite clearly not being a morning person - whenever ikeda drinks, he desperately looks for *someone* from his past - this *someone* turns out to be sasaki, his high school friend and first love who humiliated ikeda publicly for confessing his feelings - despite his trauma from the past, ikeda realizes rio is absolutely nothing like sasaki. ikeda falls for rio and confesses - after dating, rio still has walls up. he helps others but never depends on others. now, we get his backstory: his parents were absent, so it was just him and his brother. his brother didn't cope with the stress well. he started drinking, smoking, and even sexually abused him. but bc he's the only family rio has left, rio can't let go of him.
hope that helped! it was some dark content that was very briefly visited or hinted at, so i'm glad that the author didn't draw it in explicit detail. but that might have made it a bit more confusing.
since some people seem confused? i'm summarizing the plot to the best of my memory, somewhat in the order it was revealed:
- our MC (ikeda) has light hair and light eyes and is the manager of a cafe
- love interest (rio) is a host with black hair and eyes who visits the cafe
- ikeda doesn't trust rio bc rio is a host and reminds him of *someone* from his past, but also he is clearly starting to get swayed by rio. especially how rio looks out for his friends and visits every morning despite clearly not being a morning person
- whenever ikeda drinks, he desperately looks for *someone* from his past
- this *someone* turns out to be sasaki, his high school friend and first love who humiliated ikeda publicly for confessing his feelings
- despite his trauma from the past, ikeda realizes rio is absolutely nothing like sasaki. ikeda falls for rio and confesses
- after dating, rio still has walls up. he helps others but never depends on others. now, we get his backstory: his parents were absent, so it was just him and his brother. his brother didn't cope with the stress well. he started drinking, smoking, and even sexually abused him. but bc he's the only family rio has left, rio can't let go of him.
hope that helped! it was some dark content that was very briefly visited or hinted at, so i'm glad that the author didn't draw it in explicit detail. but that might have made it a bit more confusing.