Every choice people made was aimed at survival.
Now, it was Ji Li's turn to choose.
After seeing the Rose Hotel's secret with his own eyes, he had essentially reconstructed an incomparably terrifying truth and an astonishing story.
The entire story revolved around Ruru's Mother and another Mysterious Person. Ruru's Mother was merely the surface; the Mysterious Person was the core.
Hou Guisheng's choice back then had been to tear away this false veil and never coexist with ghosts. He had tried to use the Ghost Messenger's power and identity to seek an opportunity to strike at the root.
That desire had caused him to return here time and again, leaving behind one Fake Person after another.
Fang Shenyan's choice at the time had been to bury his head in the sand. He must have received a different clue from Hou Guisheng here, perhaps that loophole, so he decided to return to the Rose Hotel, pretend nothing had happened, and continue lying low.
That line of thinking had caused him to become part of the Rose Hotel. Because he possessed the loophole, he was watched by the ghosts and threatened by Hou Guisheng.
The choices made by these two sides were actually very simple.
Before Ji Li stood the Hou Guishengs, Gao Bos, and Xiao Qian Duyues left behind after repeated failures. Perhaps their path truly was as wrong as Fang Shenyan's.
As long as he chose to remain and continued guarding the secret location after the shift change ended at midnight, he would await another variable.
That variable should unravel the mystery of Hou Guisheng and the Ghost Messenger.
Conversely, if he chose to return the way he had come now, he would follow Fang Shenyan's old path and become a guest who kept the Rose Hotel's secret—a person