ML is an orphan and was bullied as a child, so he probably finds it hard to trust anyone as well. I reckon he fell in love with MC because MC is so earnest in the way he acts. ML probably appreciates someone who is very open and very bad at hiding things.

MC isn't a saint nor naive by any means, in fact, he spends a lot of time trying to trick ML but either ML catches on every time because MC is so bad at lying or MC feels bad for ML and doesn't want to hurt him after all. MC is a questionable person but he undoubtedly has a heart, as evidenced when he felt bad for ML when he admitted being an orphan wasn't a joke.

- ML basically stalks MC to meet him irl but standard trope for any catfishinf story.

- They both think of themselves as straight but ML quickly realizes he likes MC as a guy anyways

- MC starts liking ML back while he keeps denying that he himself aa straight. Because of this denial, we don't get MC's confession until chapter 98/99 sob

- there is a small segment where we get ML's POV on getting catfished and his feelings towards MC

- basically my feelings about the story are more mixed because the start was very fun but when they meet irl, ML's actions become more intepretable as harassment rather than romantic and things instantly became better when they started officially dating again. But you would be surprised to find out that the harassment starts before chapter 30 and then they don't get together until chapter 99 like mmmmmmmmm yep that is quite a wait.