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Mixed feelings.The relationship is written very well, it heavily focuses on the emotional beats and a gradual deepening of love and mutual affection.Problem is I don’t actually like either of the main characters. Both brothers are focused on in the story and we have POV from both so hard to say who’s MC and who’s ML. But anyway, the younger one who turns out to be ‘fake’ has the most emotional journey and growth. But do I like him as a character? Nope. Do I like the older brother? Not really.The majority of the story is younger bro wondering why big bro loves him and after 40 chaps, I didn’t know either ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯For a story that delves so deeply in making a romance work, the characters felt shallow to me. My heart broke for the MC and his emotional struggle when the paternity test came out but somehow after the romance started, I started caring less and less because both MCs did nothing but sleep with each other, young bro tried to emotionally manipulate his Ge, older bro just takes the hits, more s*x, the only emotional introspection that existed was whether young bro romantically loves his Ge or not and if his Ge only loves him or not. The younger bro’s actual family made guest appearances. The start up business had a lot of focus but also felt flat. The whole novel starts feeling flat around chapter 50s.
