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Lin Feng let out a breath that didn’t quite hide a tremor. “It’s not the lens I’m worried about.”

For the next ninety minutes, the cameras rolled. They didn’t capture a superstar. They captured the collapse of one.

“What stopped you?” she asked.

“I remember this,” Lin Feng whispered, watching the clip on a monitor. “I hadn’t eaten in two days. I’d slept in a bus station. My mom had just… she’d just told me she was cutting me off. Said I was chasing a ghost.”

The red light on the camera went out.

“They think they know me,” he said finally. “They’ve consumed me. Like a product. Open the box, take a bite, throw away the wrapper.”

The next hour was a confession. Lin Feng spoke about the 100-hour work weeks, the diet of black coffee and sleeping pills, the way his publicist curated his grocery store trips for paparazzi photos. He spoke about the fan who found his private phone number and left voicemails of herself crying for three years. He spoke about the night he stood on his 40th-floor balcony and calculated the drop time. GirlsDoPorn.E372.19.Years.Old.XXX.720p.WEB.x264...

Director Mira Chen stepped back from the lens, her eyes fixed on the figure slouched in the single leather chair under the harsh key light. Lin Feng, twenty-six, three-time Golden Orchid Award winner, and the most streamed actor on the planet, looked like a man waiting for a root canal.