Rule Disruption!

As she spoke, the bride's father swiftly pointed at the groom as well.

The groom's younger sister followed suit, raising her hand to point at the groom.

"Y-You..." The groom's lips trembled, but he still pointed at the bride's mother. "She's the murderer! Women are nothing but trouble, nothing but trouble!"

"I'm the Son of Heaven, not a murderer! Not a murderer!"

Under such circumstances, any defense seemed especially feeble.

The bride standing in the center continued urging them on, her voice growing louder each time.

It was as though she would go berserk if they failed to identify the murderer.

Under that pressure, the best man and the child both raised their hands and pointed at the groom.

Yin Ge slowly raised her hand and pointed at the groom as well.

There was no helping it. Yin Ge still had doubts in her heart, but her choice no longer seemed to matter.

Most of them had identified the groom. The outcome was already decided.

And after the last person—Yin Ge—pointed out the murderer, the bride's voice abruptly stopped.

The groom, meanwhile, flew into a rage. "Idiots! You bunch of idiots! How dare you accuse me? I'm the Son of Heaven! I'm the Son of Heaven!"

"You've all been fooled! That bitch fooled every one of you! Damn it, what a pack of brain-dead morons! Damn you! Damn you!"

The groom's stream of abuse went on without end.

The bride's mother stared at the groom, excitement in her voice. "Even now, you still refuse to admit it? You're obviously the murderer!"

Hearing that, the groom glared fiercely at the bride's mother. He was just about to curse her out when the bloodstained bride suddenly moved.

The moment the bride moved, everyone fell silent and instinctively held their breath.

The bride moved directly toward the groom!

The bride's body was walking, yet it made no sound at all, like an image projected from a projector. Yet the blood on her body and the patterns on her clothes made her seem undeniably real.

No one dared even breathe loudly as they stared fixedly at the bride's movements.

No one was more desperate than the groom. He watched helplessly as the bride drew near. He wanted to flee, wanted to collapse, but his body seemed trapped by some law, like an insect struggling in amber.

"Get away! Don't come closer! Don't come closer!"

As the bride approached, the fear in the groom's voice became increasingly obvious.

At last, the bride stood before the groom.

The overwhelming visual shock broke the groom completely. He no longer had the strength to curse or scream. Only his helpless sobbing remained in the living room.

"It wasn't me. It really wasn't me. I'm the Son of Heaven."

"I don't want to die. I don't want to die. Please, spare me..."

Yet the bride made no visible move. She merely stepped forward and merged directly into the groom's body.

The next moment, as if erased by an eraser, the groom slowly vanished together with the bloodstained bride.

Everyone could clearly see the groom's terror and his arms flailing wildly, yet not a single sound came through.

That horrifying scene was like a giant hand suddenly gripping everyone's hearts.

No one said a word, but their pupils had contracted sharply, and they had nearly forgotten how to breathe.

Yin Ge bit her lip hard and could not help closing her eyes. But the next second, she opened them again. After taking a deep breath, her gaze settled into calmness.

The bride vanished, as though nothing had happened.

Yin Ge withdrew her gaze from the corpse and swept her eyes across the crowd, taking in everyone's expressions.

Fear, confusion, lingering dread...

If the bride had brought bloodshed, slaughter, and death, it might have provoked anger and resistance from a few people.

But this strange, unknown silence made fear rise in everyone's hearts.

Wait... Yin Ge's gaze suddenly paused when it met someone's eyes, then quickly shifted away.

The bride's mother noticed Yin Ge's glance and hurriedly spoke. "The m-murderer is dead. The game is over now, right?"

Her voice still trembled, carrying a faint trace of hope that was almost impossible to detect.

But upon listening closely, that faint hope had clearly turned into despair amid the trembling.

"Hmph!" The bride's father forced out a snort. "I-It must be over. The groom actually laid hands on his own wife. He deserved to die!"

"R-Right, you're right. He deserved to die, he deserved to die." The groom's younger sister stared blankly ahead, constantly echoing everyone else's words, as though that could lessen some of her guilt.

The child had only just broken free from his fear when tears immediately fell. "D-Dead people... Mom, I want Mom!"

But no one paid him any attention.

What was unsettling, however, was that neither the best man nor Yin Ge spoke for a long while.

Yin Ge sighed. "The game... continues?"

The best man looked up at Yin Ge. There was no joy in his eyes, only doubt and confusion.

The groom was dead.

Yin Ge's heart sank to rock bottom, but she forcibly pulled it back with reason and calmness.

Then, amid darkness and emptiness, an indescribable sensation suddenly appeared in her mind, as though guiding her to focus her attention.

Godhead?

Yin Ge froze, then concentrated. Information about her Godhead immediately appeared in her mind.

Only, this information seemed somewhat different from before.

Or perhaps it could not be called information.

It was an imagination, a space, an image.

The sensation was indescribable—like a dream, like a stream of binary digits in a computer, and like the emptiness after general anesthesia...

As all those things converged, Yin Ge sensed a patch of nothingness.

Not darkness, but nothingness.

Within that void floated tiny specks of white light, one of which had already been dyed red.

Personas!

Or rather, these were the other people who had been drawn into this incident alongside Yin Ge!

"This feeling..."

Yin Ge stared at the reddened speck of light.

She did not spend much time considering how she had "sensed" these things.

Instead, she considered the information she had gained after sensing those points of light.

That reddened point of light was the best man!

The murderer had acted. The best man had died. It was that simple.

After identifying the groom, we fell asleep, and then it became the time for those with Godheads to act—and also the murderer's time to act... Yin Ge frowned in thought.

She needed to summarize the rules and gather information. Only then could she make a judgment.

And now, combined with certain details she had noticed, she could almost certainly confirm that the best man possessed a Godhead, while the murderer was someone else.

And that murderer surely understood the best man's importance as well.

Of all of them, the best man knew the most about the Son of Heaven Game. His death meant much crucial information would be lost.

"The best man is dead... Should I... Hm, he can't die."

Yin Ge focused her consciousness on the reddened white point of light. After thinking it over repeatedly, she reached a conclusion.

She had to save him!

But how?

With merely a thought from Yin Ge, a powerful rule descended from the void and washed over that reddened point of light.

White and red clashed violently, like two massive stars colliding—soundless yet magnificent.

But in an instant, the law Yin Ge had invoked crushed straight through it, while the law on the other side fell silent.

The red on the point of light rapidly faded. Moments later, it shone as brightly as before, no different from the other points of light.

Yin Ge, meanwhile, felt that she had lost some kind of law.

But knowing the effects of the Godhead [Court Minister], she did not care.

This was Rule Disruption!