Gosh people are so annoying. If you're not ok, just drop it. There're plenty of wholesome manhua without ambiguous relationship out there. Done. Because don't forget that how much you rant here won't do any changes. This is this author's style. This is what happens when a BL artist wants to write a wholesome story. Even if it's not intentional, the art itself has already given off the bl vibes. Remember, you can't change the author but you can always change the manhua you're reading.
And tbh, as much as I love BL, I'd rather them to be just father-son. And I know it looks ambiguous but try to look at another pov. A son sending cute pictures to his parent(s) isn't strange at all. Same with buying your parents Valentine's Day gift. I did all that same as Potato does. There's nothing wrong or non-familial about that.
Of course I didn't drop the theory that the author ships them, I just don't care since it won't be included in the story anyway. You've been reading this for 100+ chapters so you should know that their relationship doesn't progress in that way at all (but the most possibility is Potato crushing on Papa, but you can see that it's clearly one-sided. Them being a couple is impossible, at least in the story we're reading).
And don't forget that the artist is Chinese, the more reason not to include such content (shounen ai is already being risky so incest-like relationship is even more risky).
In conclusion, if you hope it won't turn into BL, you can rest assured because it won't. If you're ok to take away the BL filter (like I do), it's still a good family manhua. But if you hate even a tiny bit of ambiguous stuff in it, I recommend you to drop it or at least skip the grown up Potato parts
I know there's gonna be a controversy. Here's my opinion.
According to my observation and analysis, I did have doubts that it's hinted that Potato has a crush on his dad (but it wasn't that obvious until now). But at the same time, if you look at papa/mama wolf, you can see that he never sees or treats Potato in any inappropriate way. He genuinely thinks of Potato as his step son (same as mama wolf in the ch.110.5). He's never once swayed by Potato's sweet actions (only pissed) so it's obvious that Papa wolf does not like Potato in that way. Therefore, it's just a one-sided crush of Potato (ex.in ch.43 where Potato is 27 years old or ch.78 on Father's Day), the way they act around each other is nothing like lovers at all. So even in his adulthood, they're still remain father-son so that's why I think they won't end up as a couple nevertheless.
So here are my suggestions:
- you see it coming what the author's up to so you may consider dropping this series.
- Or if you want to stay but you're uncomfy about this homo undertones, you can just read the baby version because baby version is completely wholesome with no weird undertones. And just skip the adult version.
- Or you think that hey, I'm gonna read it and complain however I want. That's fine but please bear in mind what kind of contents the author love to do. There's gonna be more of this in the future.
These are just my suggestions. My explanations (expectations) above are just to prove to you guys that they won't end up together, only one-sided crush at least. But if you want to drop it anyway, I respect your choice. There's nothing wrong about it.
P.S. personally, I don't care about this ship. I only care about my Blue x Yellow ship. PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN!
I did strongly feel that potato has a crush on his dad, but I try to ignore it because it may look like I ship them that's why I read it. But this confirms it, author actually ships them and even if she does I'll still read it not because of the ship, but because of how cute their relationship is. Not romantic but just pure wholesome. I'd also like to see the ending for the blue and yellow. But it probably won't happen since the genre isn't shounen ai, plus it may get hate for suddenly turning into something else. If author shows romance signs for blue and yellow, then papa wolf and potato is thus confirmed a ship.