My problem with this, especially this trope, is that others especially ppl who have a relationship with ML will this use as excuse not a reason to tell the MC to not give up on ML and continue to put up with bad treatment by him just because he has supposed feelings for him. The reason I say supposed is because there has been nothing that the MC has experienced directly from ML that would indicate that he loves him, instead all the MC is hearing is testimonials on how he is loved by him. So then it creates a guiltrip situation where MC feels bad for not wanting to continuously give love to someone who doesn't reciprocate just in the hope that he will show him love back. It's not enough to just say you love someone, it should also be known to the other person through your actions, which neither has been done by ML. I'm not saying this to disregard his horrible childhood and the trauma it left him with but I'm saying this because I hate how the MC will have self hatred for himself for giving up on someone who treated him badly just because he has trauma.
This book really said fuck proper plot progression and character development. Like I saw this from the beginning where instead of having scenes that showed us the progression of her powers in any detailed way or meaningful scenes that showed the development of familial belonging between the protagonist and her dad and the people in the manor or even how her plans properly came together, we instead got multiple strips of the most basic internal dialogues/narrations about how things changed in so and so ways. Like What???!!!!! And especially in those last chapters, it got to such a comical point. Like the chapters of your book shouldn't feel like the type of summary I get from watching a book review on YouTube, especially when it involves the climax and finale of the series.