Female Partner Became Popular in a Love Show - Chapter 135

Qi Yingying frowned. “What kind of person is this? Call the police, sue them!”

She took a breath and continued reading, “Madam taught me to read and write, and I was grateful to her, but I couldn’t help her… She cried every day, until she cried herself blind, and then Master didn’t care about her anymore. On the night of the Qixi Festival, Madam suddenly stopped crying. She said she was going to find her lover.”

“That’s it,” Qi Yingying said to Ye Xingyu. “Who’s this ‘Madam’ in the diary?”

“I don’t know,” Ye Xingyu replied, shaking his head. “But the clues we’ve found so far all seem to relate to her.”

Qi Yingying mumbled, “If only Ruan Qiu were here, she’d definitely know the answer.”

Ye Xingyu nodded in agreement.

[Stop thinking about Ruan Qiu! Turn around and look under the bed!!]

[Run! If you don’t run now, it’ll be too late!]

[I can’t watch this anymore, I’m so scared.]

Qi Yingying and Ye Xingyu couldn’t hear the urgent warnings in the chat. Qi Yingying was still trying to analyze the situation. “The diary doesn’t have any dates, and the only number mentioned is the Qixi Festival. Could the password be 0707?”

Ye Xingyu raised an eyebrow. “That seems likely. You’re really sharp.”

As they stood in front of the dummy, exchanging compliments, they completely missed the pair of hands slowly emerging from under the bed. The long fingernails grazed Qi Yingying’s ankle.

The viewers were numb at this point.

They watched without hope as the “ghost” touched their legs, waiting for them to jump in terror, heard them scream loud enough to shake the roof, and saw their livestream go dark as they were eliminated from the amusement park.

The viewers: … Well, no surprise there.

In the control room, the director nearly wept with relief. “This is the normal reaction!” Qi Yingying and Ye Xingyu’s terrified screams were exactly what he had anticipated. Were Ruan Qiu and Xue Wu really normal?

What the director didn’t expect was that Ruan Qiu and Xue Wu were anything but normal. One had been surviving in the Infinite World for nearly ten years and had seen every kind of ghost imaginable. The other had been locked in a basement for almost a decade and had developed extraordinary night vision. Their fear of the dark was practically nonexistent.

Some mischievous viewers had already captured Qi Yingying and Ye Xingyu’s reaction and turned it into memes. The image of them jumping in terror, with their faces twisted in fear, quickly went viral on Weibo, drawing waves of mockery.

Meanwhile, Jiang Yan and Bai Jinyao, who had already been eliminated and had gotten their phones back, saw the memes. They couldn’t help but feel relieved that they had been eliminated earlier. Otherwise, they too would have been scared and turned into viral memes.

Qi Yingying and Ye Xingyu’s blood-curdling screams were so loud that Ruan Qiu heard them from afar. She exchanged a glance with Xue Wu, both realizing the two had been eliminated, just as the rules they had heard before entering the haunted house suggested.

After a brief moment of silence, Ruan Qiu and Xue Wu wasted no time and together lifted the wedding gown in front of them.

Unexpectedly, there was nothing terrifying hidden beneath the wedding dress. Ruan Qiu gave it a shake, and a pile of letters fell out. She unfolded the yellowed paper, and Xue Wu, sensing the need, held the flashlight to illuminate the writing.

“Ting Zhi, it is a time of war. It’s dangerous for you to join the army, but I know you already made up your mind, and I won’t stop you. I’ll wait for you to return. I swear, I won’t marry anyone else until you come back. Xiang Lan swears.”

Ruan Qiu switched to another letter, and the handwriting on this one was noticeably more chaotic, revealing the writer’s inner turmoil. “Ting Zhi, I’m getting married. I’m sorry. He… he’s a bandit. The world is too chaotic, and he has soldiers under his command, bullying people and locking them in dark rooms, where they scream in agony.”

“Ting Zhi, I don’t know if you’ll receive my letter. He broke my legs, and now I can no longer walk. He says I’ll stay here forever.” Ruan Qiu frowned. “This courtyard is so small, my heart is so cold. Why won’t you come back?”

The next lines were no longer just hasty; they were a jumble of scrawled words. Ruan Qiu had to carefully decipher the mess before understanding what it said. “Ting Zhi, I’ve sent you another letter… they say you never received a single one, that you died long ago. I don’t believe it. I’m going to find you myself.”

The letters were finished, and Ruan Qiu furrowed her brows deeply.

[The clues from Qi Yingying and their side match this. The letter writer was the Madam, forced to marry the Master. She eventually fled, seeking her already-deceased lover.]

[The director even chose a love theme for a haunted house (smiling).]

[Am I the only one who finds this tragic love story really sad?]

As the comments on the screen heated up, the audience suddenly heard Ruan Qiu’s puzzled voice, “Didn’t she have her legs broken? How did she escape?”

[Good point, how did she escape??]

[Maybe she didn’t succeed. Could the ghost under the bed be her?]

[This feels like the ultimate haunted house and escape room combo—The Ghost Bride.’]

Ruan Qiu turned to Xue Wu and continued, “The scratches on the bed were likely made by her fingernails as she lay there after her legs were broken, trying to move around. Escaping would have been much more difficult.”

“Do you remember the clues we got from the experience activity?” Ruan Qiu said, “‘Her husband was a bandit,’ and ‘someone broke her legs’—both align with the letters. From these, it’s clear she was forced into marriage. So the clue that ‘she didn’t like red clothes’ is likely because of the wedding dress.”

“And if the clue that ‘she wasn’t unfaithful’ is true, it means she didn’t find her lover. As for ‘her eyes went blind’, and ‘she can’t leave this place’, there are too few clues to confirm those.”

Xue Wu smiled and praised her without hesitation, “Ms. Ruan, you’re amazing for coming up with all this so quickly.”

“Ms. Ruan, earlier I made eye contact with the person under the bed. She had blood tears, and no pupils, only whites. That fits the clue about her eyes being blind,” Xue Wu said thoughtfully. “If she’s become a ghost, then the clue that ‘she can’t leave’ fits too. This means her last escape attempt failed, and she was captured and died here, turning into a ghost with unresolved resentment. What do you think?”

Ruan Qiu nodded. “That’s very possible.”