BACK TO SCHOOL: ALL GROWN UP

Clearly I'm missing something and didn't realize it until I finished the whole thing. This is the epilogue that takes place 5 years after Back To School (which I'm now reading but dreading a little bit because there might be abuse.)

I love BL manga but mostly light, slice of life, cute BL manga. If it has to be heavy, I'd like for it to have a smooth happy ending with hope. What I don't like, which tends to be a theme in most BL, is where one of the MC is totally into the other MC but that MC seems to not want love, affection, sex, or the other MC. Yet, they are in a committed relationship, living their lives like any other couple but with this unease always there. I don't like it. This one had a lot of that. It just sucks to be in a relationship where you are constantly being rejected and nothing is reciprocated. NO means NO but if you say NO and really mean yes and are saying no just to have the other person beg all the time... that gets tiring, is abusive and manipulative. The relationship then begins to feel toxic.

I'm reading the origin story simply out of curiosity. We shall see how it goes.