This is just...sad. Like, not sad in a way that it's making my cry, but depressing in the fact that even if they did love each other in their past lives it's just...different now that their age gap is so big. Usually I'm not one to mind reasonable age gaps in couples (given my personal background) but I find 22 yrs a bit too much? Obv ppl r gonna think she's a cougar trying to go for younger boys or whatever, and while I don't know the legal age in Japan there will certainly be the societal and cultural aspect of things.
It's a good premise but I wished the age gap wasn't so big. Like maybe make the guy 22 and the girl 39 or smthng at least they'd both be adults by then... or like a 17 yr old boy w a 23-25 yr old lady (which I find to be a more common trope in age gap romance mangas, i.e. dengeki daisy)
Nonetheless I'll continue reading to see what happens, and ofc I 100% know this is pure fiction so it's not something to be super heated about, but I can't help but think that this is just sad in a way.