Can a Straight-Laced Office Drone Have a Springtime Romance?

One-sentence summary: How to tame a rabid dog. (The rabid dog is the top.)

Yu Zhiwen is forced to take a job as an assistant at the company owned by his former boss's son. Every day, he puts up with the young boss's many unreasonable antics.

The young boss calls in the morning: "Buy me hot milk tea from the east suburbs. Don't let it get cold."

Yu Zhiwen, two hours' drive from the east suburbs: "...All right."

The young boss calls at noon: "Postpone my meeting at the last minute. I overslept."

Yu Zhiwen, who has been waiting all morning: "..."

Yu Zhiwen decides to quit.

But the night before he hands in his resignation, the young boss suddenly confesses to him.

Yu Zhiwen, who was planning how to find a girlfriend earlier that day: !!?

Yan Kang is a moody rich kid who looks down on the assistant his father assigned him.

He knows the assistant is as straight as a ruler and hates gay people to the core.

So he comes up with a great plan: turn the assistant gay, make him fall in love, then dump him and make him throw a fit, begging to get back together.

He succeeds three and a half steps into the plan.

The one throwing a fit turns out to be him.

A gorgeous, psychologically twisted top with serious issues x a working-class bottom who's barely alive on the inside

Important:

1. Both leads are sexually and romantically inexperienced. The top seems promiscuous, but has always been saving himself.

2. Purely romantic push and pull, a shallow, cliched melodrama with all the tropes. There is a groveling arc, a faked death, the bottom has contact with women early on (not physical), wall scenes, the top cross-dresses, the top's morals are questionable, the two really get into a fistfight, and there is a sort of mutual redemption that doesn't quite redeem either of them. Oh, there seem to be quite a few potential deal-breakers, so please read the warnings before starting.

3. The characters' behavior and beliefs are required by the story and don't represent the author's own views. Please don't conflate the two.

4. The author loves revising, so it's recommended to read this after it's complete.

Theme: With enough effort and dedication, anything can happen