FUCKING PERCH!
Mic drop!
This. As someone who looks younger compare to my real age because of my height (4’9) and prefer a man who’s a bit few years older than me. It’s a struggle not only to me but for the people I’m seeing as well this is why I developed an anxiety of me being outside with someone whether if we’re dating or not, we always see people looking at us strangely and got asked a lot if my parents knows about it. (I’m already 21 ffs) and while i do appreciate a bit the concerned however sometimes over concerning yourself to people’s business because it doesn’t align with your ‘beliefs, mindset or your expectations’ can lead more to hurting the people involved instead of ‘helping them’.
So this was really common in the time frame the setting of the story is in....it could be a lot worse. Girls were typically 12 and had two or three kids by 20....
and hey underage marriage is still ongoing in third world countries and some religions actually allows it (hence the followers who blindly follows it). condemned by public ofc since it's the 21st century. but agreed with op that age shouldn't be an issue in this manhwa because of facts stated and because it's fiction and an imaginary world + it's only for entertainment. go read non fiction if u wanna apply real world here.
To the complainers of age and the future relationship of Nina and the King. y'all are:
1) small minded for projecting your concept of what an 'adult' and 'teen' looks like as if there's a cookie cutter mold for physical appearance that everyone neatly fits into in order to be classified as one or the other, 2) even more small minded for getting caught up in age (the numbers) as a tool for measuring "appropriateness" when in reality, the weight of age and age gap dramatically shifts into a heavy gray area after compulsory education is completed, and 3) ridiculous for using the King's future romantic interest in Nina (future as in a time when they will BOTH BE OLDER) as way to bash on him and the direction of the story, when at present, the guy HASN'T INDICATED HE'S CONSCIOUSLY INTERESTED IN HER IN THAT WAY OR FUCKING DONE ANYTHING TO HER TO WARRANT SUCH A GOD DAMN SHIT FEST ON HIM.
On point 1): It's like some of y'all have never seen/met people who look older or younger for their age, and instead you're projecting your expectations of what an 'adult' and a 'grown up' look like to find something problematic to whine about. Just. No. Find something better to do.
2): For the love of heck, the age difference isn't that bad between Nina and the King. They're what, about 4 years apart? By US standards (because I *know* the ones bitching are mostly Westerners) their ages in this current point of the story make Nina a junior in high school and the King a junior in college.
That's NOTHING compared to the REAL LIFE age differences between Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively (11 years) or Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra ( also 11), or the King and Queen of Bhutan (10 years and they have a cute as fuck story of how they got together. Apparently she confessed to him when she was 7 that she wanted to marry him, and he made her this promise that if they met again in the future and were both single and in love with each other, they'd get married. How fucking cute is that)
And 3): You're all acting like some raunchy shit's going to happen RIGHT NOW when the King just finds her interesting and has no romantic motives towards her at this time.
Literally NO ONE is forcing you to read this, so just stop, drop, and roll away.