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This is a title of a newly serialized manga. I have difficulty understanding
the title due to the usage of both 後 and ている.

After I read half of the first chapter, I arrived at a conclusion that the
title seem to mean

> 七年後 **まで** 待っている
>
> _I am waiting (for you) **until** seven years have passed_

で and まで is interchangeable in this context. Am I wrong? Also, what is the
reading of 後: ご or あと?
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Understanding「七年後で待ってる」
The 「で」 here is a locative marker, 「七年後」 being a noun referring to the point
in time which is 7 years into the future from the time of utterance.

It's the same 「で」 as in「駅で待ってます」('I am/will be waiting at the station.') where
it indicates the location the speaker is/will be waiting.

You would normally use a 「に」 with time expressions in connection with 「待つ」,
like 「一時間後にここで待ってます」('I'll be waiting here one hour from now.'), but with the
line in question, the speaker uses a 「で」 because they are using the "time-as-
space" metaphor. It's something a time-traveler, who has good reason to think
of time as space, might aptly say (the term "time-traveler" itself is a
specimen of such metaphor) though I'm not sure this person is one.

On the reading of the 「後」. Although I read it as「ご」, and I think more people
read it that way than 「あと」, 「あと」 is not incorrect. I can imagine myself
hearing people saying it that way and not being surprised or peeved by it at
all.

See the 使い分け section on [後／後／先
の解説](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/thsrs/15265/meaning/m0u/) (小学館 類語例解辞典)

>
> １「後(あと)」は、「事件の三日あと」のように、ある事態が起こった時点を基準とする場合のほか、「あとで電話します」のように、現在を基準にする場合にも用いられる。

and the entry for
「[後(あと)](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%BE%8C_%28%E3%81%82%E3%81%A8%29/#jn-5108)」
on デジタル大辞泉.

> ３ ある時点より前。以前。  
>  「四五日―、おれが処へ来て何といった」

That said, I have a sneaking suspicion that the preference and/or (the
perception of) correctness for each reading might vary depending on the
particle (and which use of it) and verb phrase that comes after it...
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