The characters have potential in the beginning and it's clear the author can write emotional scenes and is able to make some of the characters feel like, you know, not wooden spoons. But that quickly gets thrown out of the window.

All the characters end up acting OOC. A bunch of sh*t happens for no tangible reason. Characters are just therd, feel like nothing, just to push the plot forward.

Everything the author does feels like a mokery of their previous ability to write a close and realistic bond between thr brothers, showing the exhaustion and pain of having your only relative on borrowed time in the hospital. It tugs at your heartstrings because it's realistic and sad. Everything about that has a why, a reason, some push behind their every action. It's palpable, to me, that the author has the capacity to deliver something decent.

But I guess it's too much to keep that going, because after a certain death, everything is superficial and in bad taste imho. I will not bother go into details or why the story and flow and characters suck so much and how everything is way below lackluster, but I do want to mention that I found it incredibly dumb how ML is so close to the little sister, it's clear to some capacity he cares about her, enough to show up and see her several times, but when she dies he is 0% impacted and it's like the person that died had nothing to do with him.

The characters falling in and out of love is poorly written. And the dogblood, faceslapping and chasing is extremely unsatisfacatory.

The MC is beholden to the ML due to monetary circumstances caused by a life that's depending on him but also has traces of affection he held for the ML when they were younger. He (mc) was your typical soft but bright young flame but then came the debt collectors and parents su*cides. You can imagine the burdens and self esteem issues that followed. ML runs into him few yrs later and becomes the help covered with thorns. Physical and mental torment follow accepting the help. And I mean the kind of awful that means mental problems and the flame is slowly extinguished. After twists and turns and almost ending his life he manages to free himself but the ML with his insanity follows like a demon. The issue I have with the story is the ML's pursuit was centered around possessiveness, someone who had treated the other like he did still had the audacity to continue stalking and inconveniencing cz he didn't want to lose. No matter how it turned out all his actions were ultimately for his own benefit regardless of the repeated wishes of the MC. Who would really treat one they cherish in that way..? He just happened finally wear down someone who was still recovering from his ab*se. Not forgetting the MC's weak will. Otherwise who would put their hand back into the furnace after getting burnt.. With the amount of cruelty displayed by the ML all those years enough to cause PTSD, the ending was a little..