Night_owl

I understand the brother too. Even when they weren't in a relationship, the brother wanted the mc to keep a distance with the company. And after realizing the proximity has become even closer, the brother was obviously concerned for the mc's life.

Exactly my point brother was doing some serious things involving some dangerous people and mc was getting caught in it and it's

And it's obvious that if any of those people knows that mc is his brother than they will try to harm or use mc to get to brother just like ml so yeah brother is just trying to protect the mc.

after all that, it'll be interesting to see how Jiwon and Zeo would interact once the whole mess gets blown over and Rawon and Zeo potentially choose to be with each other

Sorry, but this is definitely the wrong way to look at it. First of all, he's NOT trying to protect his brother, he's the direct cause of his brother being in danger in the first place. Zeo would've not taken interest in Rawon if he weren't tailing Jiwon, that is true, but he's not the direct cause of Rawon being in danger. He's in danger because he's in the crossfire of two giant corporations who are after Jiwon. Zeo is only behind the scenes trying to overthrow his own company; by virtue of just being Jiwon's brother Rawon is in danger, not because of his relationship with Zeo which no one else other than Ms Cha knows about. The only reason Jiwon is doing this is because he hates rich people and he's a selfish manipulative self-centered ahole of a brother who can't see behind what he himself thinks is right or righteous.

PREACH!!!!!!!

I love you for this…

Yeah the brother is such a manipulative jerk but at least he push forward the plot makes "chasing arc" which I definitely look forward to...well the Mc is such a pushover to the ML without the brother we got another toxic ML who takes the MC for granted

Uh....Zeo is pretty far from toxic, he's just not a sweet, innocent, puppydog prince.
Like, aside from the harassment remarks in the early chapters, cuz no one can excuse his potty mouth, he and Rawon just treat each other normally, like adults. He's neither a bad boss nor a possessive lover, and they're just casually together. He doesn't beat, cheat, lie to, or even belittle Rawon (he thinks Rawon is very capable), and their interactions (esp in the novel) are pretty sweet. They STILL like each other and aren't even fighting. Literally Jiwon is the /only/ reason they're apart rn. Even without Jiwon, Zeo would've resolved his company issues and then responded to Rawon's feelings. They don't have a problem with each other, they have a Jiwon problem.

Well the bar got really low now...just by the ML is not cheating or abusive it become less RED now...the ML tried to manipulate MC when he found out about his brother. He also hide stuff...a lot of it. And just used MC love for him for granted. He only even realize it when the MC is gone..There's also the fake engagement and everything...even if it's not high level toxicity in relationship...is still toxic at its core...

Zeo only simply told Rawon about what Jiwon was doing, including the blackmail, but Rawon made the decision to bail Zeo out. That's not manipulation, that was his unfiltered choice, but I can see why you would see it as such, since in the end he still inadvertedly used someone he liked.
As for whether he kept secrets, none of those secrets had to do with Rawon and they're not even dating. If anything, given Rawon's personality, he probably doesn't even want to know about it because they aren't in an official relationship, and knowledge is danger. Rawon is the one who wants to keep things a casual fling. He doesn't ask questions on purpose and he only lightly makes assumptions without much serious thought. He's always making casual assumptions without pursuing the truth. That's the way Rawon is. Like... you understand toxicity has to be receptive to be effective. Rawon is completely unaffected by what Zeo does because it bears little consequences for him. Compared to Zeo, Jiwon is 1000% more toxic.
I'm just saying you're all hating on Zeo for not being the best boytoy. Meanwhile the brother is actively out to sabotage. Zeo is an ass, that's true, but he's by far not the worst person in this series.

Didn’t Rawon tell his younger bro that he loves ML but younger bro didn’t believe his bro and basically gave Rawon an ultimatum? Or am I confusing this with another story (could be)? I don’t like the younger bro, but don’t hate him either. His personality in general kinda annoys me regardless of what is going on with Rawon/Zeo. But yeah, don’t think he deserves hate. But everyone feels what they feel ╮(￣▽￣)╭