[The probability of Ruan Wanhe and the protagonist falling in love has dropped to 0%. The seventh soul flag has been pulled out. Congratulations to the host. May the host persist in his efforts.]

Ye Zhizhou paused in the middle of putting on his clothes and turned to look at his lover.

"What's the matter?" Sha Yang helped him tie his hair, looked up and down, and nodded with satisfaction. "Xiao Zhou looks good in anything."

His female disguise actually looked good... The corners of his mouth twitched, and he lowered his head and played with his belt. "Ruan Wanhe's flag has been pilled out."

"Not bad. That's faster than I expected." Sha Yang stretched his arm out to pull him into his embrace, swayed gently, and laughingly coaxed him, "What's wrong? Not happy? Don't worry. Regarding Yu Shaung's situation, I've already made arrangements. The reply letter for Xia Yanyun will arrive within the next two days, and Mu Yan's flag will be pulled out soon too."

"Not happy." Ye Zhizhou hugged him back and sighed in his heart. Then he buried his face in Sha Yang's arms, vigorously rubbing against them. "It's just that I feel very useless. It's clearly my mission, yet you're doing all the work."

"Why differentiate between you and I?" Sha Yang was very fond of Ye Zhizhou's appearance of clinging onto him. After tightening his arms, he asked, "What do you want to do after this mission is complete? Do you want to stay in this world, go to the next one, or perhaps go back to your own world?"

Ye Zhizhou had never really thought about this. Previously, he had always just lived with his lover until he died of old age after finishing the mission... Ye Zhizhou tightly gripped his clothes and hesitantly opened his mouth after a pause, saying, "Dongfang..."

"Yes?"

"You..." As the words came to him, he thought of when his lover's abnormal brain acted up and his 'no one can stop me' appearance, and silently swallowed. He shook his head. "Forget it. Let's finish the mission first. We can discuss whether to stay or leave after we finish."

The smile on Sha Yang's face faded. He slowly released him and lowered his head to look at him face to face. "Xiao Zhou, you have something in your mind."

Ye Zhizhou couldn't help but turn his head to avoid the other's gaze. After avoiding his eyes, he immediately realized that his action would make his perceptive lover notice something was wrong. His body stiffened for a moment, then his shoulder slumped dejectedly. He really did have something on his mind... And now it would become a big matter.

"Xiao Zhou."

It was that indifferent tone again. Ye Zhizhou bowed his head and pulled at his clothes.

When Sha Yang saw this, the smile on his face finally disappeared completely. He raised his hand to pinch his chin and lifted up his face. He narrowed his eyes and asked, "Are you tired of staying with me every day?"

"No." Ye Zhizhou quickly shook his head and thought about it with a bitter face. Then he looked up at him pitifully and asked in a quiet voice, "Do you remember what you said when you confessed to me in the first world?"

Sha Yang was stunned by his question. After thinking about it, he nodded, and the expression on his face became slightly better. "I remember I said I would take good care of you, so Xiao Zhou, I..."

Ye Zhizhou quickly interrupted his words. His expression became more and more pitiful as he continued to ask, "Then do you remember what you said when we first met in the Mutian building in the second world?"

Sha Yang's heart softened as Ye Zhizhou looked at him. He quickly thought about it and frowned slightly, "I said a lot of things. Xiao Zhou, you..."

"You said that as long as I was obedient, you could give me whatever I want." Ye Zhizhou interrupted him again and turned his head with his eyes hooded. He decided to continue to act pitiful until the end. "You really forgot... I knew it. One life after another, in every life you don't remember me, so how could this life be... Your memory hasn't recovered completely, has it? You still won't tell me who you really are... Every time I come to a new world, I wonder if you had followed me... I hoped you did follow, because I want to be with you. Yet I'm afraid that you did follow me, because I'm worried the process of reincarnation will tear your soul apart..."

"Xiao Zhou--"

"Don't speak yet!" Ye Zhizhou pushed off his hand, stepped back, and lowered his head. Gradually, he started to feel genuinely wronged. "In every life, you have an issue with headaches. Before I find you, I worry if you're living well. After finding you, I begin to worry of there's time to raise your spiritual power enough before I die... In the third world, you became a child who spat out blood with any movement. I didn't dislike you. In the fourth world, when your brain became broken and you actually injected yourself with the zombie virus, I still didn't dislike you. In the fifth world, you became normal, but in the sixth, you actually became a dog..."

"I wasn't a dog, I was a demon king."

"If I say you were a dog, then you were a dog!" Ye Zhizhou raised his eyes and glared at him with red-rimmed eyes, then said viciously, "You still dare to talk back!"

Sha Yang closed his mouth. He raised his hand, wanting to comfortingly pat him, but his hand was slapped aside again. He wanted to put on a cold expression, but facing the other's red-rimmed eyes, he admitted defeat. In the end, he could only send out his spiritual strength to get close to him. "Xiao Zhou, I'm sorry..."

"If saying sorry is all that's needed, then what's the use of the police?" Ye Zhizhou had gone into a 'completely unreasonable' mode and quickly hid his spiritual power before he angrily cried, "When we first met in this world, didn't you refuse to meet my spiritual power?! Oh, now you know how to flatter me, Am I a dog that you can call and send away as you wish? Don't touch me! Take back you spiritual power, otherwise, I'll go to Tongtian immediately to eat a pill that erases my memory and forget you, this kind of overbearing and unreasonable guy!"

"I won't allow it!" Sha Yang's expression darkened.

Ye Zhizhou glared at him in disbelief. "You actually still dare to be fierce with me?"

"Xiao Zhou..." Sha Yang somewhat helplessly relaxed his expression, taking a step forward and coaxing him with a warm voice, "Xiao Zhou, I wasn't being fierce with you, I just..."

"Dongfang." Ye Zhizhou ruthlessly interrupted him again and rubbed his red-rimmed eyes. His tone became even more dejected, "It's been then worlds, and if you add it all up, it's more than a thousand years. I've always been with you all this time, yet you actually don't believe in my feelings for you..."

"I didn't--"

"You have." He continued to interrupt Sha Yang mercilessly. Instead of pretending to be pitiful, he raised his head and looked at the other seriously. "The wine that I drank that day of the flower boat, Ming Yue Palace coincidentally holding all those sacrificial ceremonies, the occasional banquets in the palace, the several male leads who were all sent far away from the capital city, and the mission that was completely taken over by you... Dongfang, what are you worried about? And why are you using any means to try and separate me from the outside world?"

Sha Yang's gaze slowly darkened, before he turned his head away and said, "Xiao Zhou, you're tired."

"I'm not tired." Ye Zhizhou stepped forward and grabbed his face, forcing Sha Yang to look at him. "Because you don't believe in my feelings, because you're afraid, afraid that I'll leave you. It is because I did something wrong? Why are you so insecure?"

Sha Yang looked at him with a tense expression and did not speak.

"I see." Ye Zhizhou released his hand, raised his own hand, and rubbed his eyes. He turned his head so that Sha Yang wouldn't see his eyes shining with tears. He said in a quiet voice, "Actually, I'm afraid that one day you'll get tired of me, forget me completely, and will no longer follow me to the next world. Every mission world is so big, so if you don't follow me, where will I go find you? Will I even be able to find you? I wouldn't even be able to confirm if it was because you didn't want to follow me anymore, or if it was because you followed me and your soul was toen to pieces and ceased to exist... I don't know your real identity or where you're from. In every life, you have no memory of you previous one. If your persistence for me disappears, what should I do with these memories that I've treasured?"

Sha Yang looked at his red-rimmed eyes, listened to his words full of uncertainty, and suddenly felt pain in his heart. He seemed to have been thinking only about what he wanted to have and posses, then selfishly ignored Ye Zhizhou's feelings. Now, looking back carefully, from the confession in his first world, his feelings toward Zhizhou were very strong and couldn't be rejected. If this person had not been so forgiving of him, then this relationship which had been maintained for ten worlds would've been destroyed under his own tyranny and selfishness.

"I'm sorry."Sha Yang lifted a hand to wipe the corner of Ye Zhizhou's eyes. His gaze was filled with guilt and pain. He wanted to get closer, yet didn't dare to. He could only lean near Ye Zhizhou slightly and look at him. He softly coaxed him, "You're the best. It was me who was wrong. I'm sorry."

The effects of these eye drops were too good. Just blinking his eyes would result in 'tears' pouring out wildly and uncontrollably. Ye Zhizhou turned around, pulled at his sleeves miserably, and wiped his face before saying doubtfully, "You just don't believe me... You actually want to keep and raise me like a canary. I'm a man too. You can't treat me like that."

"I was wrong." Sha Yang tentatively hugged him from behind. Seeing that he was not pushed away, he couldn't help but pull Ye Zhizhou closer to him. He closed his eyes and sighed. "I really was afraid. The ones you liked before were broken pieces of me. Now that I've recovered my memory, I was afraid you wouldn't like the real me... And you're so wonderful that I couldn't help but want to hide you away."

"I'm not as good as you think..." Ye Zhizhou's jumping heart gradually calmed down. He turned around to embrace Sha Yang, then fondly rubbed against his shoulder. "It doesn't matter if you soul was complete or not. You are you, and the one I like is you. Although I sometimes fear that you'll suddenly stop loving me one day, I never wanted to hide you away. I would only love you more and then make you love me more so that you wouldn't leave me."

Sha Yang tightened his arms and held him without speaking.

"In the future, if you have something on you mind, then just say it directly. Relationships need communication. If you just hold it all back, you'll easily overthink things." Ye Zhizhou raised his hand to stroke his hair and smoothed it. "We're going to be together for a long time. We need to trust each other. Don't do this in the future, ok?"

"Xiao Zhou."

Ye Zhizhou's tone became even more gentle. "What's the matter?"

"Why do you smell like eye drops."

"Er..."

Sha Yang loosened his hold on him. His lips curved into a cold smile. "You were fake crying just now?"

"No, no..." Ye Zhizhiu looked at him carefully and moved back. "I- it was just half-real and half-fake... You should remember that you love me the most! You can't get violent!"

"You're right. I do love you the most." Sha Yang raised his hand to tear off his belt, and his expression became blank again. "But I really want to see your real crying appearance."

Ye Zhizhou's scalp became numb, and he turned to run.

Sha Yang's long arm firmly grabbed his collar, and he carried him to the bed. Sha Yang then quickly peeled off Ye Zhizhou's clothes and pressed him down. Smiling insincerely, he said, "Cry as much as you like. I like seeing your crying face."

Ye Zhizhou struggled, shouting, "No, I- I just got up... Ah!"

Sha Yang flipped him over, quickly found his sensitive spots, and bent down to kiss his back. This person's appearance of sadly crying was really too ugly, so he couldn't wait to see this person's appearance when crying out of happiness.

"Xiao Zhou, I love you."

"Wu... don't... I don't love you, you beast!"

[The probability of Mu Yan and the protagonist falling in love has dropped to 0%. The eight soul flag has been pulled out. Congratulations to the host. May the host persist in his efforts.]

"Bas- bastard, slow down. Mu Yan's flag had just been pulled. You... mhmn... you bastar..."

[Detected changes in the plot. Host, please receive the new plot.]

[Detecting soul flag fluctuation... The sixth, seventh, and eight soul flags have been restored. Transferred to Leng Ya, Leng Xue, and Leng Yan's souls. Asking the host to please pay attention! Asking the host to please pay attention!]

Ye Zhizhou was shocked, and his body stiffened unconsciously.

Sha Yang let out a groan, lowered his head, and kissed him gently. "Xiao Zhou, I like you enthusiasm today..."

"Enthusiasm my head!" Ye Zhizhou pulled himself together and tightly clenched the sheets as he fell apart. "Why did the protagonist's soul flags transfer to all of the royal daughters? And why is my name one of them?"

Sha Yang's movements stopped. His enthusiasm quickly cooled down and withered away.

Was the last one to finish a test... The teacher even said, "C'mon, it can't be that hard." ;-;

I apologize for any misspelled words. Stay safe :)