Shen Yuan shakes his head. "I think everyone likes people who are brooding, brooding's sexy.¹ But this is less brooding and more, like, caustic. There's this one meme—um, joke—where he puts two pieces of bread on either side of someone's cheeks, like so—" he squishes his own face to demonstrate—"and he goes what are you?! and the guy's like, an idiot sandwich!!" He cracks up.

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