"B—Brother Long, I didn't know that you have an interest in me…" A beautiful woman in her early-twenty said while she sat at the opposite of the table, sitting face to face with the current most handsome movie emperor and the most popular one, Long Shen.

Long Shen stared at the girl coldly and asked, "Your name is Fang Lijuan, right?"

"A—Ah, yes! My name is Fang Lijuan!" the young woman said. She blushed when Long Shen stared at her.

Of course, she was charmed with the movie emperor sitting with his arm crossed in front of her. Long Shen was already 28 years old, and he exuded a mature handsome man aura. His handsomeness was just mindblowing in this world.

But for Yunyu, who was sitting not far from them, Long Shen was the ugliest man he ever saw, period.

Long Shen told Tian Dong to sit on another seat not far from him and his date and order whatever he wanted. All Tian Dong needed to do was determine whether he was in love or not with this girl or guy. And this was Long Shen's fifth attempt of his month.

Yunyu munched the red velvet cake with anger. He glared at Long Shen and the young woman full of jealousy. But he couldn't do anything because Long Shen wouldn't spare him a glance.

[Pupa, why are you giving me this face anyway? Tian Dong is okay looking but compared to James Grind or Long Shen, he is like a blobfish!]

[Pupa: Don't blame me. This is Tian Dong's real body, the true lover of Long Shen in this world. If you reread the background of this world, you will know that Long Shen falls in love with Tian Dong hard. He is basically a love slave for Tian Dong.]

[… How could that happen, though? He doesn't even spare me a glance.]

[Pupa: Well, in the background, he falls in love with Tian Dong because of his kind-hearted nature, that's it.]

[… your information doesn't help at all.]

Fang Lijuan glanced at an average looking guy who kept on staring at them with hateful eyes. She felt a bit uncomfortable, "Long-Ge, do you think that guy is staring at us? I feel like he is staring at us full of hatred. It makes me uncomfortable."

Long Shen glanced nonchalantly at Tian Dong and then pinched Fang Lijuan's chin gently. He locked their eyes together and said, "I am your date today. You cannot see another man while I'm here."

Fang Lijuan's cheek reddened when Long Shen's deep eyes took away all her strength. She felt like she could melt if she got stared at for too long. "Long-Ge, don't stare at me too much. You are making me blush."

Long Shen chuckled. He released Fang Lijuan chin. Instead, he gently put his hand over Lijuan's hand and caressed it gently, "I've set my eyes on you for a while. Your performance in that web drama is excellent. It actually captures my attention for every frame you are in."

Fang Lijuan was head over heels when Long Shen complimented her. She didn't know the hottest male god actually watched her web drama. She already thought that Long Shen had fallen in love at first sight for her.

They continued eating in silence until they finished their dishes. Long Shen drank champagne, but Fang Lijuan refused because she was a light drinker.

After a while, Long Shen had enough and got up from his chair, "Miss Fang, I am delighted that you can accompany me today, expect our next date. I will call one of my drivers to drive you back."

Long Shen gently held Fang Lijuan's hand and gave it a small peck, "Good night, Fang Lijuan."

"Y—Yes, Long-Ge! T—Thank you…" Fang Lijuan was disoriented, drunk with love. She returned back to her home with a sweet dream.

***

Long Shen and Tian Dong returned to Long Shen's apartment not far from the restaurant they were in before. Long Shen went to the bathroom and brushed his teeth immediately. He retched few times and cursed, "Disgusting! I kissed her hand, fucking disgusting!"

[You don't seem to be disgusted bedding 79 people, though.]

[Pupa: You are still not over your pettiness?]

[Never! Look at him. He is a crazy mess! He invited 3 men and 2 women, kissed their hands, and then retched like this because he was too disgusted. This is absolute madness!]

Long Shen went out of the bathroom after a while. He took out a wine bottle from his wine cellar and opened it. He drank straight from the bottle and asked Tian Dong, "How is it? Is that acceptable for Jamie? Or should I find another one?"

Tian Dong stared at Long Shen, who was basically a high-functioning madman.

"Brother Long, you are destroying yourself," Tian Dong said.

"Don't mention that. How about Jamie? Is that girl the correct one? Or should I find another one?"

"Nothing good will come out of this, Brother Long. I think you need to take a breather. You are very disoriented. Should I—"

"SHUT UP!" Long Shen threw the wine towards Tian Dong, which was just barely over Tian Dong's head, and the wine bottle hit the wall behind Tian Dong.

Tian Dong was too shocked to react.

"YOUR JOB IS JUST TO SAY YES OR NO!" Long Shen yelled. He took another wine from his wine cellar and drank straight from the bottle again. He sat on the sofa and drank without care. "She is not the one, right?"

"B—Brother Long, this is not about—"

"ANSWER ME!"

"… no…" Tian Dong replied weakly.

Long Shen paused for a moment, then drank the wine again. He chuckled, laughing at his own punishment. Maybe this was how James Grind wanted to punish him. By making him a mess, making him taste every men and woman and get disgusted over them.

Because now, Long Shen couldn't touch anyone without feeling the retch, the disgust.

Tian Dong watched how Long Shen continued drinking more and more wine until he was really drunk. Unable to watch anymore, he snatched the fourth wine bottle from Long Shen.

"Brother Long, it's enough."

"Huh…" Long Shen was disoriented. He was so drunk that he couldn't think straight.

He blinked few times, but everything was spinning and blurry.

He saw a man standing in front of him, snatching his wine bottle. He knew it was Tian Dong, but when he blinked few times, Tian Dong magically turned into his beloved James Grind.

"Brother Long, you need to sleep now—Ah!"

Tian Dong froze when Long Shen suddenly circled his arm around his waist and pulled him to his embrace. Long Shen hugged him tight and sucked a deep breath on Tian Dong's neck, wanting to feel the presence of his James Grind once again.

"Jamie, I miss you… I miss you so much."

"I miss you that I am already crazy right now. I don't know myself. I don't know my purpose except to meet you again."

"But why do you keep playing my heart like this?"

"Is this torture enough for me? Or should I continue until you are satisfied?"

"Jamie… will you... come back to me?"

Tian Dong looked up to check on Long Shen's condition. He thought Long Shen would continue his nonsense again. But when he looked up, he saw the madman was so broken, he started crying. The overbearing mafia overlord, the cold movie emperor, was crying uglily. He sobbed, screamed, whimpered, and then cried loudly again. He was a mess indeed, but it showed how much he was broken because he lost his loved one.

"Jamie, what should I do to get you back?"

"I will do anything, anything as long as you can forgive me, Jamie…"

"Jamie… Jamie, I'm broken. I'm so broken right now. Can you do something so I can feel better? Jamie, please—"

"—Shush." Tian Dong snipped and gently wiped Long Shen's tears with his thumb. Long Shen enjoyed this warm palm and rubbed his cheek on this palm that he missed a lot. It was the palm of his loved one.

Long Shen cried in silence and fell asleep soon after. But he didn't let Tian Dong go. He tightened his hug on Tian Dong and was in a deep sleep.

[Pupa: Ding! Ragemeter decreases to 90%.]

Pupa materialized in front of sleeping Long Shen and asked, "Do you feel guilty now?"

"… a bit," Yunyu replied. "I don't know how someone can love until he can be this broken. How can someone spend so much energy to love…"

Yunyu leaned his head on Long Shen's chest and closed his eyes to feel his heartbeat, "Did Master Han Ye love me this much also? Or it's just his soul fragments who love me?"

"Is Han Ye in my world also part of his soul fragment? But why does he hate me so much?"

"Pupa… my heart is hurting, but I don't know why…"

"I don't know…"