October 27, 2014, the Year of the Horse, month of Jiaxu, day of Xinwei, the fourth day of the leap ninth lunar month.
Auspicious: sacrifices, coming-of-age ceremonies, moving, visiting friends and relatives, receiving wealth. Inauspicious: marriage, opening a business, digging ponds, breaking ground.
On this day, six special "figures" appeared at the five Special Locations of Tiannan Academy of Drama.
Li Cheng, Long-haired Senior Sister, Black Figure, Red-clothed Ghost, an unknown figure in the Staff Office Building...
The sixth was named Pei Lian, also known as "A Lian," Yu Guo's fiancée.
Aside from A Lian, the other five all shared the same goal—to understand the true nature of the Supernatural Academy and attempt to escape.
With that goal in mind, the five of them opened Special Paths through the five Special Locations.
Of the five, Li Cheng, Long-haired Senior Sister, and Red-clothed Ghost all succeeded.
They successfully found routes to the Haunted Academy side and opened the paths.
Whether the unknown figure in the Staff Office Building succeeded remained unknown.
But Black Figure had failed completely.
The cafeteria was an exceptionally special place.
It fell under Tiannan Academy of Drama's jurisdiction, yet it was a system unto itself. It was managed, but it possessed autonomy.
Yet it had still tried to open a path by conventional means, leading to its utter defeat.
The cafeteria had no rules.
To many, rules were weapons for killing people, but they also restrained ghosts.
Going from Ghost-Free Academy to Haunted Academy was an escape route, but it came with enormous risks and dangers.
And because of the cafeteria's special nature, it was not under Tiannan Academy of Drama's supervision and thus was naturally not bound by the rules.
Humans were not bound by them, and neither were ghosts.
Therefore, when Black Figure opened the