Chapter 369: OG 1.10

"Yunyu, where is my new top? Don't you see that I'm sweating like crazy here?! Useless!" Long Shen yelled loudly, expecting Yunyu to hurry with a new top or at least bringing him a towel like usual.

But there was no answer. 

There was nothing because Yunyu said he quit today. What was left was just Zhou Yulin, who reasoned that her leg was still hurting, so she couldn't work, and all she did was just lying on the bed in Long Shen's room like a lazy bum. 

Long Shen sighed and looked at other actors and actresses having their manager and personal assistants helping them. His manager, Aunty Yuanjun, was busy mentoring a new actor from their agency, and Yunyu left him.

Long Shen went to the costume room, picked the new top for himself, and returned to the set. Mr. Guo frowned when he saw this. He asked Long Shen, "Long Shen, where is Yunyu? I saw him this morning. Did he faint again? Aiyah, Long Shen, don't overwork him ah. He works so hard every day without rest. What if he left you?"

"He comes very early yesterday, a day after he got discharged from the hospital. It might affect his health."

Long Shen frowned. He remembered Yulin said that Yunyu came late yesterday morning to the set. 

"Didn't Yunyu come so late yesterday?"

"Huh? What are you thinking, you dummy! Bai Yunyu has been here at seven sharp! And today, he also came at seven! And he told me once that it'd take him a while to get in here. Aiya, Long Shen, give him a bit of pity! He has worked for you for one year without asking a rise or anything, yet you still mistreated him like dirt! Just because he's ugly doesn't mean that he's not worth anything!" Mr. Guo scolded.

Long Shen got struck by Mr. Guo's scolding. He might have realized something terrible, something that was definitely his mistake for letting himself got enchanted by a beauty so easily.

Long Shen went to his reserved room to confront Yulin. When he opened the door, he saw that Yulin was sauntering as if she never sprained her ankle. She was eating the donut and the frozen food that Yunyu bought for him. 

"M—Mr. Long Shen!?" Yulin froze on the spot. She just realized that she had been caught red-handed now.

Long Shen's gaze darkened. He stared at Yulin, who seemed to be fine. He asked, "You said that Yunyu came late yesterday, right?"

"Y—Yes, Sir, he came late! Very late!" Yulin said. "I have to work so hard yesterday because he said he's lazy! It's a good thing that he quit!"

"I see," Long Shen gave Yulin a smile that didn't reach his eyes. "Zhou Yulin, you don't seem to hurt your leg or sprained your ankle. Was it fake? Or do you have a magic wand or superpower that heals your wound instantly?"

…

Zhou Yulin dared not to answer, knowing that she had been caught red-handed. Long Shen nodded and said, "Pack your bag. You're dismissed."

"S—Sir, but this is still quite early. Why do you dismiss me so early—"

"I dismiss you because you're fired. Leave my room now, you trash woman."

[Pupa: Ding! Long Shen's Fatemeter to Zhou Yulin decreases to 0%.]

[Pupa: Ding! Long Shen's Fatemeter to Bai Yunyu increases to 40%.]

Yunyu was playing a game on his phone when the notification from Pupa rang. He didn't expect that the coin would flip so quickly when he was doing nothing. Pupa waited until Yunyu finished his game because he said it was a ranked match to raise his rank to platinum, and after Yunyu completed the game with a victory, Pupa commented;

"You don't need to take care of Yulin now. It seems that Long Shen found out about it and kicked her out."

"Hehe, I was already thinking about scalding her face for real," Yunyu said. "But oh well, at least, the bitch has been kicked out since it's 0%. There is no way for her to come back, right?"

"Yes, there is no chance for her to come back," Pupa answered. "Will you return and forgive Long Shen now?"

"Hm… honestly, he has been so kind to me when I was hospitalized. But the thing is… if I forgive him right now and acted as if nothing happened, especially after he called me ugly face with an ugly heart. I think he will return back to his old habit of cursing me and treating me like dirt," Yunyu had expected that Long Shen would feel guilty once he found out. He just didn't expect it'd be this fast.

"That's why I'm planning to Guilt Tripping no Jutsu him to 100% also to teach him how to appreciate someone not because of his looks," Yunyu said. "Though, I think… I already guessed what kind of thing I did to him in the original Ragemeter world until it made him such an asshole who only cared about beauty, just like how he treated James Grind versus how he treated the ugly Tian Dong."

"How do you know?" Pupa asked.

"It's just... based on the pattern from the last world with Jay, I think I get how I made them fall in love with me and then destroyed them. It's a toxic pattern that will surely ruin everyone.

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Long Shen was restless the whole night. He tussled left and right on his bed after he finished today's shooting. He had no energy after discovering that he had been tricked by a beautiful witch and kicked someone as valuable as Yunyu. 

And Long Shen felt really, really guilty because he still remembered vividly how he cursed at Yunyu, telling him that he had an ugly face and ugly heart. It must be a hard hit for Yunyu, so hard that it made him cry. 

"Long Shen… you fucking idiot…." Long Shen cursed himself, he wasn't a saint, but he didn't want to be the asshole who kicked someone who worked so hard every day to please him just because Long Shen got charmed by a woman.

"I have to apologize to Yunyu. He has been wronged and slandered by that witch Yulin and me."

"But why didn't he defend himself when he got slandered?" Long Shen thought for a second. Then he found out that he was the reason why Yunyu didn't defend himself. He actually believed that witch more and ignored all Yunyu's words.

"Long Shen, you really have to apologize to Yunyu when he returns tomorrow morning…"

…

"He will return, right? He has nowhere else to go except to me. Nobody will accept him except me. Of course, he will return. He needs money after all…"

Long Shen felt a sense of crisis in his heart because deep down, he sensed that Yunyu was dead serious when he said he quit. 

"No, no way he will leave me. He has worked with me for one year. He's the only one who can bear with me. Maybe if I apologize to him and double his salary for this month, everything will be alright… yes, it should be."

"Bai Yunyu won't leave me."

**Author Note**