Female Partner Became Popular in a Love Show - Chapter 136

[To those who said Ruan Qiu trading clues was useless—how do you feel now? Without the clue exchange, they’d be blind at this point.]

[Wait, only Ruan Qiu and Xue Wu are left in the game, so doesn’t that mean Ruan Qiu wouldn’t know the clues from Qi Yingying? They’re doomed now, right?]

[Trust Ruan Qiu. It’ll be fine.]

[Exactly. They’ve already discovered a lot of clues. There’s no way they can’t win!]

On screen, Ruan Qiu continued feeling around the wedding dress, and Xue Wu held the flashlight for her. Soon, Ruan Qiu found a key sewn into the lining of the dress.

She held the key, exchanging a confused look with Xue Wu. Was it really this easy?

The bullet screen echoed their thoughts.

[Is it that easy? Is this a trap?]

The director in the control room watched as Ruan Qiu and Xue Wu approached the locked door, key in hand, preparing to leave. 

He thought to himself: Yes, it’s that easy.

The camera cut to what was behind the door. The audience saw that the door led to another room, and beyond that was yet another room, a seemingly endless sequence of rooms.

Finding the key was only the beginning. The director had prepared an elaborate series of traps. There was no way Ruan Qiu and Xue Wu could escape this haunted house… Hm?

On screen, Ruan Qiu suddenly paused. She blinked, slowly pocketed the key, and turned to Xue Wu, saying, “Something’s off.”

Xue Wu looked at her. “Please explain, Ms. Ruan.”

“The handwriting under the table doesn’t match the writing in the letters,” Ruan Qiu said. “Even if Xiang Lan—the so-called Madam—did go blind later, the way a person applies pressure and the habits in their pen strokes wouldn’t change. That word ‘run’ wasn’t written by her.”

Ruan Qiu’s gaze shifted to the bed not far away. “I think someone is deliberately trying to make us believe that the ghost in this room is dangerous, wanting to harm us, so we would hurry up and leave. But from the contents of the letters, what reason does Xiang Lan, the ghost, have to harm us?”

[But she’s a ghost! Ghosts don’t need reasons to harm people!]

[I don’t like that mindset! There are plenty of good ghosts.]

[Don’t stereotype! The Madam was clearly a victim in this whole situation.]

[But the ghost just eliminated Qi Yingying and Ye Xingyu! How could she not be evil?]

It was as if Ruan Qiu heard the bullet screen’s doubts. While walking toward the wooden bed, she said, “The most important thing is, do you remember our elimination rules? No screaming, no being alone, no losing the light. But it never said anything about what would happen if we encountered a ghost.”

“The ghost doesn’t eliminate us. It’s our own reactions that determine whether we break the rules. If we don’t scream, don’t go alone, and don’t lose or turn off the flashlight, we won’t be eliminated. The ghost has nothing to do with it.”

Xue Wu followed Ruan Qiu back to the bed, crouching beside her to look at the empty space beneath.

“And also, the rules don’t exist in vain. Sometimes, they are meant to protect us.”

Ruan Qiu’s expression turned serious. “Remember the letters we read earlier? They said the bandit liked locking people in dark rooms, listening to their screams. That matches the rules about no screaming and no loss of light.”

“I suspect that the one truly trying to harm people isn’t Xiang Lan, but the bandit who still lingers here,” Ruan Qiu said. “As for not being alone… someone like this bandit, who enjoys torturing others, is probably a bully at heart. The more people that resist, the more likely he backs down.”

“Lastly, the mark on the door only says it requires a key to open, but it doesn’t say we have to leave through the door.” Ruan Qiu turned to Xue Wu and gently asked, “Is leaving through the door really the correct way to win?”

“If we go out, will we encounter the bandit still lurking here? Or enter yet another room?”

[I’m stunned.]

[Same. My brain feels like it’s been eaten by zombies.]

[The elimination rules are actually survival strategies, the ghost isn’t trying to harm them, and what seems like the escape door is actually a trap… the director’s script is brilliant as always, and Ruan Qiu is absolutely killing it!]

[Exactly! Remember the diary Qi Yingying found? It also said the Master liked locking people up to hear them scream. That bandit was evil while alive, and still evil now!]

[The way Ruan Qiu asked those final questions gave me chills… Why is she so cool?!]

Back in the control room, the director sighed.

He was used to it by now. Ruan Qiu always disrupted the script and jumped straight to the end.

At that moment, Qi Yingying and Ye Xingyu had also made it to the control room. Along with Bai Jinyao and Jiang Yan, they watched the live stream. Qi Yingying couldn’t help but send excited comments, whispering, “Ruan Ruan is so cool!”

Ye Xingyu, on the other hand, looked at the screen regretfully, thinking to himself how he failed to cling tightly enough to Ruan Qiu.

Bai Jinyao and Jiang Yan, their eyes shining, quietly sent comments praising Ruan Qiu, lost in the sea of fans cheering for her.

On-screen, Ruan Qiu seemed a little embarrassed by Xue Wu’s intense gaze. Just as she was about to say that these were all just her guesses and might not be right, Xue Wu interjected, “Ms. Ruan, you’re incredible.”

“If I hadn’t been with you this time, I definitely would’ve been eliminated already,” Xue Wu said with a smile as he leaned in slightly. His eyelashes fluttered, and his voice was gentle. “Thank you for saving me, Ms. Ruan.”

The four people watching the live stream backstage stared at Xue Wu’s subtle tactics, then at the flood of pink comments from CP fans. They nearly crushed their phones.

… Xue Wu, you shameless man!

Before Ruan Qiu could modestly deny his praise, Xue Wu asked, “Ms. Ruan, what should we do now?”

Ruan Qiu quickly refocused. “There’s still one clue we haven’t used. The one I got from the balloon stand—it said, ‘She has an unfulfilled wish’. I don’t know what that wish is, so I want to ask her.”

“I think the reason she appeared earlier might be because she wants us to help her,” Ruan Qiu thought aloud.