126 The Traitor 10 (1/2)

Lee Mu suddenly sat up in bed, gasping for air. The rustle of the bed woke up Zao Ming who was sleeping beside him.

The bedroom was dimly lit and from the darkness outside the window, it should be quite late at night.

”Lee Mu, what's wrong? Is it another one of your nightmares?” Zao Ming's bleary voice asked from beside him.

Lee Mu took the time to catch his breath before he nodded his head silently. Zao Ming caught the motion in the dark and his drowsiness dispersed immediately. He also climbed up in bed to give Lee Mu's bare shoulders a squeeze.

Ever since they received that thing in the mail several weeks ago, Lee Mu had been suffering from nightmares. Zao Ming knew it was due to the heavy pressure that weighed down on his guilt and conscience.

Despite his many roles who placed him in the boots of the bad boys, Lee Mu had a heart of gold. That combined with his large physical size, Zao Ming often lovingly referred to him as his cuddly teddy bear.

At the same time, it meant that feeling of guilt could easily bring the man down. He did not have the heart to do anything malicious and coercing him into committing the betrayal must have taken the toll on the man's psyche.

Zao Ming thought it was all for the man's benefits but now, lying in the bed with the obviously troubled man, he started to have second thoughts. Zao Ming assumed the nightmares would go away after Lee Mu did what he was told but the night terrors had only gotten more frequent and intense. It had been a mere week since the grand ”expose” on Joann and of those 7 days, Lee Mu had suffered from 7 nightmares.

Suddenly, the man beside him grumbled in the dark, ”Zao Ming, why does this happen to us? Is it because… we are a mistake?”

Zao Ming gritted his teeth. They had been through a lot to reach the stage that they were in that day. When Zao Ming was first assigned Lee Mu as the artist that he was supposed to manage, he was overjoyed.

Zao Ming was not ashamed to admit he had a crush on the guy but he kept it wrapped up in a box locked up in his heart. At the time, Zao Ming believed Lee Mu was straight and so he did not breathe a word about his feelings because he did not want that to muddle their professional relationship.

However, Lee Mu made it very difficult for Zao Ming because the man had not met a celebrity that was so kind and thoughtful to his agent before. As his agent, Zao Ming was supposed to do works like carrying the man's bags, get him coffee, basically wait on his every desire.