Guys please don’t jump me but.. isnt having a crush on a fourteen year old as a twenty five kinda weird? Sorry maybe i didn’t understand quite very well the situation
Seriously, when Yuri said that, “first love” wasn’t the kind of first love we usually think of. It was something much purer. There wasn’t even the slightest hint of lust when Yuri said it, unlike that predator. Please don’t compare Yuri’s character to how people would think in the real world. He genuinely only exists within the story, and a character like him simply isn’t written that way. In real life, someone Yuri’s age would obviously have very different boundaries and concerns, but Yuri isn’t written like that. He’s genuinely one of the most beautiful characters Yuuji-nim has ever written.
If you had a cat who you loved very much and saw them in the sunlight and thought oh so beautiful that’s the prettiest cat and I love the way the sun shines off them and you just appreciate how pretty your cat is no one is going to accuse you of loving the cat romantically or sexually. All Yuri is doing is appreciating how beautiful he is and admiring it the way anyone would admire a beautiful flower or painting
The love that Yuri sees isn’t romantic nor is it necessary platonic either. It’s like falling in love with a piece of art, it’s so beautiful that it moves you. The way people nowadays describe love and attraction is so muddy, that’s why you think this way. Love is an extremely abstract concept that doesn’t have the same meaning for everyone, and this is the author’s interpretation through Yuri’s character. Besides, even after meeting Xinlu again, Yuri wasn’t even considering him as a romantic partner AT ALL, that is until adult Xinlu presented himself as a candidate.









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