[Atobe Keigo x Umino Subaru (original bottom)] [Age Gap / Class Allegory / Realistic]
At twenty, Umino Subaru is a former elite from Minato Ward and the third son of a financial dynasty. Wearing CHANEL COCO CRUSH, he escapes his gilded cage and becomes the "middle-aged manager" at Hyotei. A convenience store at dawn, a hot spring in Karuizawa, the velvet sofas of the Imperial Hotel: he shares warmth with the seventeen-year-old emperor, as well as the divide forged by capital.
"I'll teach you to play tennis, and you teach me how to live with nothing but my bare hands."
But some stains cannot be washed away, and some chasms are impossible to cross. When love becomes the most precise performance, he leaves a note:
"I love you so please let me go"
[Adult Romance / Japanese Drama Feel / Bittersweet, Lingering Ache / Open Ending / Read with Caution]
Theme: Class allegory
