shoujo_sakura's manga / #replacement(2)

Summary of Whole Story: Spoiler of course.... Lai is a commoner who works a lot of dirty jobs to live by and also to earn money. One day he was hired by Edwin, a son of a Marquis, the cousin of the prince, to pretend as Ellen, Edwin's adopted second brother, who had gone missing. Lai agrees to the job. Ellen is a knight under the prince's. The two met and it seemed that Ellen and the prince had a sexual and romantic relationship since The princes, Hector, had started to act lovers with Lai. Lai starts to fall for Hector as well. Ahh too long to explain but to make it shorter. Backstory, the emperor who had no successor, attempted to assassinate his sister to get her child which failed but the process ended with Edwin's mother dying(sister of his sister). This incident was witnessed by Lai. This was also an incident planned by the Emperor with the help of Edwin's father who also caused a mass murder later on by creating a drug that Lai ended up consuming. Back to the past, since kid Lai saw the whole thing - Ellen was taken by the Marquis to stay with him which he didn't know that they're twins and that he got the wrong twin. Another reason why Ellen was taken was because Lai hid a precious jewelry and buried it with Hector. Anyways, later on, Lai gets involved with the drug and was forced to assassinate people. The side effects were that he loses his memory and it also works as an aphrodisiac. Here he meets Hector who falls for him & pursue him. But Lai was taken from his later on by Marqui's second hand man. Edwin, Hector, and Ellen all hate the Marquis (also the Emperor) their common goal was to destroy the two, the reason of the two semes was they want to take revenge for their moms while Ellen wanted to take revenge for his brother. Ellen falls for Edwin and they had a thing going on but they stopped which causes a strain in their relationship, Hector realizes that Ellen is not Lai whom he's looking for & the two form an alliance. Ellen hid to stay missing so Edwin could use his connection to find Lai which Hector wants. And he did find Lai. Then the story continues on with Lai finding more about the three's plan. In the end, they succeed to overthrow the emperor and destroy the marquiz, the twins catch up and end up with their individual partners. Review: I think the story is interesting and you won't see this a lot in other bl. Not only is it historical but it's also involves royalty. It's actually not that bad for a story. It is pretty interesting and the art is gorgeous but it does feel a bit shallow and that there's not much in depth about this story. The plot twist was there but it does not come down like shocking waves so it seems anticlimactic. The characters are not bad as well, I find black hair seme more interesting than the main guy. I love twins so they're okay in terms of how they are written. There are a lot of unanswered questions in the story, that felt like it was just swept under the rug and also the ending felt abrupt and lacking but okay. All in all, it kinda felt boring to read but it's not bad. I felt like the author just wanted to write a mystery historical bl that involved twins and hot scenes.