Don't Be Too Emotional

Manipluative male lead in both,
possessive male leads
morally grey male leads
both mc somehow get romantically involved with their male leads without necessarily wanting to be.
i'm just getting the same vibes 3 eps in.

Like the intertwined strands of a double helix, some lives, once connected, are inseparable by fate.

Spanning across a decade, Cheng Yi Chen and Lu Feng’s story starts in high school, where two seeming opposites are drawn together by an undeniable pull. What starts as rivalry and friendship slowly deepens into something far more fragile, forbidden, and profound. Navigating the blurred lines, the two best friends enter into a budding romance while at University, only to be torn apart abruptly by family expectations and societal judgement.

Separated without warning, Lu Feng is trapped by his family in the United States, while Yi Chen is forced to transfer schools and rebuild a life around the absence of the one person he cannot forget. Oceans apart and with no promise of tomorrow, their love becomes a memory neither can escape.

Years later, the couple reunites in a twist of events when Yi Chen realises his new boss is Lu Feng. Overcoming old wounds, buried truths and misunderstandings, they find their way back to each other, only to be pulled apart once more by family and duties. Caught between the life expected of them and the love that has defined them, Yi Chen and Lu Feng must decide how much they are willing to lose for the chance to finally belong to each other.

Dark BL romance with manipulative (perhaps toxic) and incredibly possessive male lead with a good-guy second lead.

In both of these boys love dramas both of the seme characters have an authority / power control over the other and the uke characters despite knowing the lack of morals still love the other main character and the story revolves around their highly toxic and intense relationship.