- #1
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..
[collapse]That's why I say that the redemption one hopes for at the end is.. Quite meh.