
Novel spoilers:
Ok so basically the bl world of the novel was originally going to be straight (in the manhwa universe) but the writer was chronically ill so lost the ability to write. The writers sister took over the book and changed it into a bl by her own volition without caring about og writers wishes. And rather than boys love it's more like obsession and forcefulness. The little brother never consents he's just seen as an object and lusted after by the MLS. Sa'd tormented and everything so it's not technically a bl.

Ik this reply is pretty late but I just wanna say
I'd never call the og novel BL. It's kinda like killing stalking. The characters never have romantic attraction to one another, just purely obsessive and abusive.
Like Astair was into ritaus bc he was the only one that was his age, who knew he was a guy.
I think that itself already showed that he'd be interested in anyone his age as long as they knew his secret and gave him attention
And he became obsessed with Franz bc Ritaus was interested in Franz. Which led him to feeling possession over Ritaus's attention and affection. Then that developed to trapping Franz so that he'd have Ritaus to himself.
So there was never romance there. I'd say it was called BL cus it was a relationship between boys centric story
If anyone who like this story, can someone convince me to like and read this before I paint the author being homophobic and used BL as her stepping stone to create their story (basically me being a hater)
Yes I read BL but I also read straight romances but it feels so wrong to use BL as your base then make them straight at the end, its like men are better with women and women are better with men or saying liking men is weird