A Seductive Relationship

My porn actor fuckboys can't be this cute!! What a wholesome story, honestly was expecting some darker situations mirroring real life but it was much more lighthearted than I could imagine. Takumi is a star at the top of his game for his company, when he starts to receive orders from his director that they're branching to gay market to entice women's tastes. He meets Kai, a detached and sarcastic hooligan who really plays with Takumi's serious side. There's something of a history between the two, as Takumi's first queer experience was 7 years before the story begins. Takumi's gotta work through his feelings aboutqueerness, Kai's got a hidden secret he doesn't want to share but Kai convinces Takumi to play pretend boyfriend for his protection. What ensues is a cute (if one can even have cute and wholesome elements in a story about the porn industry) tale where two prime porn actors discover what real sex is like. I would have loved to know more characters around the main pair, as each of them has a little bit of flare going on but they only show up at the beginning and end, but it's a short story, very quick read and the ending is on the happier side of things. Even the antagonist has some genuine transformation within. Of course, what the antagonist did to one of our protagonists IS evil and terrifying, it's kind of played out in the plot as less serious and as a kind of growing opportunity for the main characters. It's nothing amazingly special but a refreshing take on a romanticized industry after I've been sifting through a lot of edge-lord things.