Two Male Models

"I'm not going back to ancient times. I'll just grab something to eat at noon. I've got another dinner gathering this afternoon."

Just as he was thinking that, his phone began buzzing nonstop with messages.

Su Mengmeng: Is everyone free? Let's go play Murder Mystery this afternoon! @everyone Tong Muxuan: No problem for me!

Luo Yun: I can too ^o^ Lu Zheng had been planning to start practicing the Freezing Cold Curse that afternoon, so he was just about to casually decline.

Lin Wan: Xiu Min and I are free. Lu Zheng, come too? We can leave together after we're done @Lu Zheng On the other side, Huang Xiumin, who shared an apartment with Lin Wan, pinched Lin Wan's bowl. It had a little spring to it. "If you want to go find some cute guys, go by yourself. Why drag me along? I still want to binge dramas at home."

"Binge them when we get back tonight. The weather's perfect—of course we should go out and have fun. I'll bring you along to dinner tonight. Team Leader Li is a diamond bachelor; try harder and win him over!"

"Tch. I'm not interested in a straight-as-a-rock guy."

Turning his attention back, Lu Zheng saw that all five of them were going. He did not want to spoil the mood, and he had plenty of time anyway, so he did not care about losing one afternoon.

Lu Zheng: Sure. Where are we meeting?

Su Mengmeng: Still at Fulong Plaza. Meet at eleven thirty, and let's have lunch together? Everyone replied okay, and that settled it.

He set the suitcase filled with "handicrafts" against the wall. Seeing that there was still time, Lu Zheng casually skimmed through the Freezing Cold Curse to get a preliminary understanding of it.

Eleven thirty in the morning.

Unlike last time, when Lu Zheng arrived, he saw Tong Muxuan and Su Mengmeng sitting at an outdoor café table, sharing a cup of coffee.

One sip for you, one sip for me! Lu Zheng's mouth twitched, and he said in unison with another girl beside him, "Shameless couple!"

Lu Zheng turned around. It was Luo Yun.

"You two didn't arrange to come together?"

"No." Luo Yun sighed. "Mengmeng has even learned to stay out all night now."

Lu Zheng rubbed his nose. It was a little itchy.

"You're all here already? Everyone's pretty punctual."

A taxi stopped by the roadside, and Lin Wan and Huang Xiumin got out together.

Tong Muxuan spotted the four of them as well, so he pulled Su Mengmeng to her feet and walked over with her.

"What are we having for lunch?"

"Whichever place has fewer people."

"Makes sense!"

So they found a Jiangsu-Zhejiang restaurant with relatively few customers and made quick work of their meal.

"Has the afternoon session been booked?"

"It has, it has!" Su Mengmeng nodded repeatedly. Since she had organized the gathering, she handled the arrangements. "We switched to another place this time. There's a horror session this afternoon—a new script!"

"How many players?"

Six to eight. Besides us, there are two people we don't know."

"What shameless profiteers. They can even manage to fill the slots like this!"

"It's a new script, so lots of people want to try it."

"Hello, are you the ones who booked Ghost Lovers?"

"Yes."

"Please wait a few minutes. The other two guests haven't arrived yet, so we'll give them a reminder."

"No need to hurry us. We're here!"

As the words fell, two men pushed open the door and walked in.

Lu Zheng only felt two flashes of light streak past his eyes. Good lord, were they male models? Each one was more handsome than the last! Both were tall, over six feet, with fair skin, upright builds, faces carved as if by a blade, and eyes sharp as lightning.

Moreover, Lu Zheng noticed that both men were dressed exquisitely, and the logos on their watches were especially eye-catching.

Damn! People like this were the most annoying! "Great, everyone's here. Let's begin."

The host appeared at just the right moment. "Ghost Lovers requires four men and four women, playing four couples. You can pair up first. If you can't decide, you may draw lots."

Tong Muxuan and Su Mengmeng were holding hands, so that pair was obviously settled.

Seeing the two handsome male models, Luo Yun's eyes immediately lit up. However, she maintained her reserve and said nothing.

"Hello, I'm Luo Liang. How about we pair up?" one of the male models took the initiative to ask Luo Yun.

"Sure. What a coincidence—I'm also surnamed Luo. My name is Luo Yun."

"Haha, what a coincidence. Five hundred years ago, we were one family. From your accent, are you from Sea City?"

"Yes."

"So am I."

"Hello, I'm Dong Jun. Can I play a couple with you?" The other male model launched his offensive on Lin Wan.

Lin Wan shook her head and turned to Lu Zheng. "How about we pair up?"

Seeing Lin Wan's beautiful eyes turn toward him, Lu Zheng's heart skipped a beat. He nodded. "Sure!"

Huang Xiumin gritted her teeth and whispered to Lin Wan, "Two spa sessions!"

"Deal!"

Thus, the final pair was Dong Jun and Huang Xiumin.

"Alright, since everyone has paired up, you can now choose your characters and read your scripts. Follow me first." The host led them into the story setting.

Ghost Lovers was about a couple who moved in together after confirming their relationship. In the end, the man fell for someone else, driving the woman insane, before he and the third party murdered her together.

The key was that the deceased woman had always kept the man's identity secret, while all four men had once shared an ambiguous relationship with her.

So, in order to find the murderer, the four men brought their girlfriends to the apartment where the crime had occurred, intending to uncover the killer.

"Tsk, tsk, this script is pretty well written. The author seems really suited to writing Murder Mystery."

"I heard he used to write web novels, but he kept flopping."

"Hehe, writing web novels really is a dead-end road."

To Lu Zheng's surprise, those two guys who looked like male models were actually quite good at acting, logic, and speaking. They were not people who lived purely off their faces and figures.

As the plot developed, all kinds of hidden clues rose to the surface.

This time, Lin Wan and Huang Xiumin did not figure out the evidence in advance either. They followed the host's pace and played through to the end.

"That was satisfying!"

"I never expected it to be because of that."

"Once someone got hold of a fatal weakness, murder to silence them made sense."

"Tsk, tsk, every single one of them was evil!"

Four hours later, the game ended.

"Do you have any plans tonight? Want to grab dinner together?" Luo Liang was asking everyone, but his gaze was fixed on Luo Yun.

"We have another dinner gathering tonight. My superior is treating Lu Zheng to dinner." Lin Wan declined.

"Your superior?" Tong Muxuan froze. Wasn't Lin Wan a police officer? "Yes, there's a case. Lu Zheng helped us out a little." Lin Wan explained.

"A case? Then you're..." Dong Jun had seen during the game that Lin Wan and Lu Zheng were not especially intimate, so he was still unwilling to give up.

"Police."

Dong Jun could not help swallowing. He stopped talking. They were not people he could afford to provoke.

"Alright, then you go ahead."

Lin Wan and Lu Zheng had business to attend to, so naturally no one could stop them.

Thus, Lu Zheng and the two women said goodbye to everyone and left. The remaining people were clearly planning to have dinner together.

"Still, those two were pretty handsome."

In the taxi, Huang Xiumin said with great interest, "Looks like Luo Yun is about to fall head over heels."

"They looked like playboys." Lin Wan said blandly.

Then both women looked at Lu Zheng.

Six feet tall, fair-skinned, handsome and refined, looking every inch the part.

Tsk, tsk, right. So was he!

Lu Zheng: ⊙ω⊙