Extra One: Phantom in the Palace Walls III

The night wind toyed with their hair, then wound around their arms and calves. As it swept past the rockeries, a faint sobbing sound rose up, mournful and aggrieved, sending goosebumps over their skin.

Of the five players, four seemed to have drawn lots shrouded in sorrow. Needless to say, they had to be connected to the main quest.

"After Mount Li's words, half the clear night..." Li Wenchuan carefully considered the phrase. It referred to a tragic love story within an imperial family, and Tang Jingran's role happened to be the emperor's. "Jingran, I think you should be careful."

Tang Jingran turned around. He had never been particularly well educated; ever since childhood, his Chinese grades had hovered around the passing line. The phrase merely sounded familiar to him, and he truly had not considered that it might be related to anything.

Li Wenchuan explained it to Tang Jingran. "I think this ghost is coming for you."

The whole faithless man and devoted lover routine—turn it over in one's head for a moment, and it was obvious what the production team was planning.

Jiang Hansheng nodded. "You're right. Mine has a problem too."

Seeing everyone else's baffled expressions, Li Wenchuan once again took on the role of cultural educator. "Jiang Hansheng's lot comes from a song in a novel. The most famous line isn't this one, but the opening: 'Too clever by half, one schemes oneself into ruining a beloved's life.'"

"And Chuchu's has a second half too: 'A virtuous family is bound to suffer lingering calamity.' Fortune and misfortune depend on each other, so I don't know which side it refers to." Li Wenchuan said as much. Such words always followed the principle that heaven's secrets could not be fully revealed, saying half and concealing half. He had