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I like the way they are building the relationship. It’s truly brick by brick, but I dislike the angles. I’m always finding myself having to pay too much attention to understand what part of their body they’re trying to draw when they’re having sex.
You better pedophilic tendencies, piss me off to no end. I’m sorry, but you being a 25 year-old falling in love with a 12/13 year-old is absolutely disgusting. I can never like that thing. Yuri is hideous
in the novel its specified that yuri didn't feel romantic attraction towards xinlu, but xinlu was the first person to captivate him completely. It's less of "first person I fell in love with" more "first time I saw something I couldn't look away from"
Since modern romance often ties "love" to physical desire, people tend to forget that in literature (considering this manhwa is an adaptation of a novel with the same title), first love can also be about pure admiration, appreciating someone's beauty, or even a meaningful moment that leaves a deep impression without any sexual desire at all. And that's exactly what we see here. It's still valid to call it first love. You just need to understand that love can take many different forms, so don't apply your own understanding of love to what Yuri meant when he called it his "first love," because that's obviously going to make you feel icky. If you still find it creepy because Yuri was 25 while Xinlu was 12, that's exactly why POV matters. We get to see how Yuri himself describes those feelings, and based on what's actually shown in the story, they don't fit the medical criteria or legal definition of pedophilia either.
You know right yuri and xinlu meet yuri when they two still considered a child. Yuri always just describe xinlu a beautiful.
Couldn't agree more, if yuri is a hideous bitch, we'll have a riot over here. It's also alarming that there's a lot of thumb downs, they're clearly children who doesn't understand the ramifications of pedophilia, rape, lies, all the black flags if this story is irl....
Yuri is too good to be real. Children just don't understand that yet. But Yuri never looked at Xinlu the way a predator would, or in any of the other disgusting ways you're imagining. The story makes it pretty clear that Yuri saw Xinlu as a flower. You can disagree all you want, but the fact remains that this doesn't constitute pedophilia, either legally or medically.
Thanks for letting me disagree all I want ヾ(☆▽☆)
In case I'm not obvious enough, I'm talking about the real-world implications of these red flags. Your argument that this doesn't constitute pedophilia legally or medically is completely missing the point. Even if a specific clinical or legal definition doesn't apply, that doesn't automatically make the dynamic healthy, safe, or innocent. The power imbalance, psychological control, manipulation, lies, and other disturbing aspects of their relationship (ESPECIALLY in any age-gap relationship) don't magically disappear just because Yuri supposedly sees Xinlu as a 'flower.' Calling someone a flower doesn't erase the implications of their actions.
If you want to stan Yuri and ignore the manipulation just because of how the story frames him, go ahead, but don't try to force your "fact" onto everyone else. We clearly have different moral standards and media literacy levels. SO don't be so pressed (▰˘◡˘▰)
You're so fucking weird. YOU were the one who brought up pedophilia in the first place, and I simply explained that Yuri isn't that kind of person. That doesn't mean I'm defending everything he does. "Your fact" LMAOOO. I literally looked it up myself and gave you the information in case you were too lazy to do it.
And who the hell are you calling manipulative? Yuri? Are you stupid? XINLU is the one who's manipulative.
I'm not defending anything that's wrong, including Yuri's job before he got together with Xinlu. Even Yuri himself admits that it was morally wrong, and I'm not going to justify it. But YOU brought up pedophilia, so I explained that part, dumbass. That's all.
Thanks again for letting me disagree all i want.
You’re the one who’s weird. You can’t stop defending a fictional character hahahahha there’s really no point in talking to a wall.
Yuck. Disgusting. ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
I don’t care how poetic y’all try to make this shit sound. It is weird. “ I was fascinated because I never seen such Beauty before” it is weird. “ In a way He was my first love” It is weird!!! Xinlu Was a child, Yuri was 25. I can live with all the other black flags that are adults, role-playing demons within a control environment, but I will never accept any form of glazing pedophilia, That shit is not poetic in any World. Him being so fascinated by that drowning child’s beauty is not poetic in any world