jdhmnovel Isn't Chapter 47 obvious enough?
Isn't Chapter 47 obvious enough?
When fantasy becomes reality, no one expected it to be hell.
“…I watched her die in front of me, and I couldn’t save her,” Ding Xuehui said fearfully.
The maid killed Ruan Qing, who was hiding in the box, with an iron axe? Jiang Lin gently wiped away the tears that slid down the girl's pale cheeks: "Xue Hui, don't you believe me?"
Ding Xuehui nodded: "Of course I believe you!"
"Then why don't you tell the truth?" Jiang Lin gently brushed the strands of hair damp with the girl's tears behind her ear.
Ding Xuehui's breath hitched, her eyes flickering. Had Jiang Lin discovered that she was doing it on purpose?
"Impossible!" Ding Xuehui recalled how she seized the opportunity to jump into Jiang Lin's arms from the stairs, never thinking that her performance would be exposed.
Jiang Lin: "Xuehui, I've said it before, you can be your true self in front of me."
Ding Xuehui's pupils dilated in shock. Her heart, which had been pounding in her chest, relaxed. She looked at Jiang Lin with a slightly complicated expression; she hadn't expected him to be so gentle. But she still didn't intend to be honest. After thinking for a moment, she deliberately put on a wronged expression:
“I… I didn’t want her to die… I saw how good you were to her, so I wanted to teach her a lesson. I just wanted her to stay quietly in the box for a little while. I didn’t expect to be discovered, and I didn’t expect her to die…”
Jiang Lin narrowed his eyes slightly: "Really? You just want to teach her a lesson?"
The young man's gaze was so calm it seemed to see right through people's hearts. Just as Ding Xuehui was feeling guilty and about to tremble, she heard the young man's gentle voice again.
Jiang Lin: "The weak cannot survive in this world, it's not your fault."
Hearing Jiang Lin's gentle response, Ding Xuehui's tense nerves gradually relaxed, and she nestled into the young man's arms, whispering, "Jiang Lin, there's something else I want to tell you."
"I didn't actually date Ji Xingyi. I was lying to you before."
With tears welling up in her eyes, Ding Xuehui deliberately showed Jiang Lin her most vulnerable and poignant side: "I admit that I initially approached him because I wanted to marry into the Ji family. I wanted to transcend social classes and marry into a wealthy family. But I found that I didn't like him."
Jiang Lin: "You don't like Xingyi?"
“Yes,” Ding Xuehui wiped away her tears, threw herself into the young man’s arms, pressed her soft breasts against his body, and recited the lines she had prepared:
“I like you. Ji Xingyi threatened me, he told me not to get close to you or he would kill me.”
"But I still like you!"
Jiang Lin, I like you!
Seeing that the young man didn't answer for a long time, Ding Xuehui was sweating nervously, her heart suddenly leaping into her throat. She pretended to be sad and said, "Why won't you speak, Jiang Lin? Don't you like me?"
Jiang Lin's gaze lingered as he leaned close to the girl's ear and said, "Isn't it obvious enough who I like?"
Ding Xuehui's eyes lit up instantly, and a triumphant smile appeared where no one could see.
Indeed, a beautiful woman who is vulnerable and helpless is most likely to evoke a man's pity.
It was worth all the time she spent preparing!
Once Jiang Lin is defeated, her survival rate in the dungeon will increase significantly!
Ji Xingyi leaned against the stairs in the hall, quietly gazing at the huge oil painting of Princess Theresa, surrounded by smoke. Just as the cigarette between his fingers was about to burn out, footsteps came from the top of the stairs.
Jiang Lin slowly walked up to Ji Xingyi, her eyebrows twitching slightly as she looked at the cigarette butt between the man's fingers.
Ji Xingyi threw the cigarette butt on the ground without any regard for the situation, then took out another cigarette and lit it in front of Jiang Lin: "One hour. What do you need to say for an hour?"
Jiang Lin knew that Ji Xingyi wasn't addicted to smoking; he only smoked when he couldn't control his emotions. The fact that Ji Xingyi was smoking in front of him meant that his childhood friend's mood had reached its peak of frustration.
However, Jiang Lin actually enjoyed seeing men lose control. She casually stepped forward, took the cigarette from Ji Xing's mouth, and then took a drag herself in front of the man.
Ji Xing's gaze faltered for a moment, then he suppressed his anger, pulled the cigarette back, threw it at his feet, and stomped it out: "When did you start smoking?"
"Heh..." Jiang Lin chuckled, "My young master Ji, you're quite domineering."
Seeing Jiang Lin's behavior, Ji Xingyi felt a surge of helplessness. He wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say. His feet felt like they were in a quagmire, his anger had nowhere to go, creating a vicious cycle, and his face grew even more gloomy.
The variety show filming was suspended because the castle belongs to Earl Greenshire's private property. Except for some restricted areas, the crew searched everywhere they could. Several hours passed, but they still couldn't find any trace of Xu Enxi. Wu Huzhen was getting anxious.
This variety show was already plagued with misfortunes, and it was only with great difficulty that it was able to continue, but then this incident happened. Wu Hu was so angry that he was furious. Finally, at 8 p.m., he found Xu Enxi.
The man was carried back by the Bernard butler, who said he had been unconscious in the woods outside the castle. With that, the farce finally came to an end.
Yang Hua found an opportunity to gather the remaining players again. Through information from the NPCs, they confirmed that Zheng Zhaonan and Ruan Qing were dead, leaving 7 surviving players.
“Xu Enxi is very clean, her shoes are not muddy, she has not left the castle, Bernard is lying.” This is what Yang Hua found when he examined Xu Enxi’s body.
Wang Liang: "I knew something was off about that old man and those maids!"
Chen Jiangqiao: "On the third floor of the west side of the castle, there is an area that is the master bedroom of Earl Greenshire. There is only one staircase leading up to it, and there are maids guarding the door, so entry is not allowed. There is a locked studio on the top floor of the tower, which is also off-limits."
Zheng Lu, disheartened by Zheng Zhaonan's death, shook his head in frustration: "I have no leads."
Wang Liang did make a discovery: although Ruan Qing was dead, the footage recorded in the video was still there.
"This shows that the power of the castle only altered the memories of the NPCs, but did not completely erase the existence of the dead," Chen Jiangqiao concluded. As for Qiao Xiaomai, she was simply unlucky and wasn't caught in the filming.
Wang Liang: "Should we show this video to the NPCs?"
“No, these things will definitely provoke the NPCs. Whether they can remember or not is one thing, but can you guarantee that they won’t bring us danger?” Yang Hua calmly rejected the suggestion. By nature, she was a conservative.
"That's true. So what do we do tonight?" Wang Liang scratched his head anxiously. He didn't want to end up like Yu Xiang, dying without anyone knowing.
Chen Jiangqiao glanced at Jiang Lin: "We don't know what rules we'll break to enter the alternate dimension. Just to be on the safe side, let's do the same thing as last night and not do anything unnecessary."
Everyone looked at Ding Xuehui. Except for Jiang Lin, everyone wanted to know what had happened between Ding Xuehui and Ruan Qing. Ding Xuehui recounted what had happened at the library in detail, but concealed the truth that was detrimental to her.
Jiang Lin: "Xue Hui's information confirmed my guess. There is an alternate dimension inside the castle. Let's assume that our current world is the surface world and the alternate dimension is the inner world."
"You will be attacked once you enter the inner world. If you die, your body will remain in the inner world."
“Xu Enxi was in the Otherworld during the time she was missing. She was attacked, so we saw the door that was broken by a sharp weapon and found the pearl on her body at the bottom of the stairs, but Mo Xizheng did not see her.”
“Bernat lied, which means everyone in the castle knows about the existence of the Otherworld,” Ji Xingyi added.
Chen Jiangqiao: "The key question is, which rule needs to be triggered to enter the inner world?"