Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. As a European I can't avoid viewing Guardian through a filter of western sensibilities, but I do think their love would be plain in any culture and any language. I'm quite happy with a system that allows us to read into that as much or little as we like: friendship, bromance, romance, sexual partnership. I think I prefer nuance and metaphor to the no-holds-barred sex scenes of a show like Game of Thrones.