The Trap

The best man saw Yin Ge's choice and suddenly calmed down. He took a deep breath, then closed his eyes.

The Bride moved in front of the best man with lightning speed and lightly squeezed into his body.

Seeing this, the child beside Yin Ge quietly let out a sigh of relief.

The Bride's mother and the groom's younger sister stared at the best man expectantly.

In just a few seconds, the best man vanished from where he stood, just like the groom had.

Then the Bride vanished as well.

"We're about to return to normal!" The Bride's mother was overjoyed.

The child agreed, "Yeah, yeah! That's great! It feels so good to be alive!"

The groom's younger sister sighed as well. "I really hope this is all just a dream."

"It was fate that brought us together. I'll treat everyone to a meal tomorrow!"

"I'll pay! It's on me!"

"We went through life and death together. That's called friendship forged through hardship..."

Everyone believed that once they closed their eyes, once the time when they could use Laws arrived, everything would return to normal.

After all, the killer was already dead.

"See you in a bit!"

"See you in a bit!"

They exchanged farewells, brimming with excitement.

Only Yin Ge remained calm. She did not respond to them, merely closing her eyes and waiting for that moment to arrive.

Then, in a voice only she could hear, she softly said, "See you in a bit..."

The next second, every sound came to an abrupt halt, and drowsiness spread through the tiny space.

Amid the darkness and void, only white points of light floating in midair shone brilliantly.

There were exactly four of them, corresponding to the people still alive.

This strange and silent place brought Yin Ge a sense of peace, yet also filled her with fear.

She did not know why a place so clearly filled with the cosmos, emptiness, and information was called the Son of Heaven Game.

Nor did she know why the godhead powers that controlled life were named things like Son of Heaven, Feudal Lord, and Court Minister.

Son of Heaven and Feudal Lord... weren't those ancient titles?

And why had the Son of Heaven Game been triggered? Why had it dragged her into it?

There were simply too many questions.

Fortunately, there were also things she could now be certain of.

"The killer..."

Yin Ge looked at one of the points of light and sighed softly.

It was now the killer's time, and Yin Ge's time as well.

Yin Ge focused her attention on that point of light. With only a thought—

In an instant, an unknown stream of information emerged from the void and descended, washing over the child's point of light and swallowing it whole.

Watching the child's point of light dim and vanish, Yin Ge felt no ripples in her heart.

This had all been part of her plan.

She had not used [Rule Disruption] the previous night, and had lied that she had used the [Rule Disruption] Law on the Bride's father.

Her purpose had been to make the killer lower his guard.

Was the killer the best man or the child?

Was it the groom, the Bride's parents, or perhaps the younger sister?

None of that mattered.

This was a trap.

From the very beginning, after Yin Ge had figured out the rules, she had tried to make everyone follow her line of thought.

It was true that she possessed a godhead, but the godhead was only an aid.

The killer had hidden himself deeply, so she needed to use every possible means to find him.

Therefore, she needed the process of elimination.

She eliminated them one by one. Even on the night when the process narrowed down to the best man, Yin Ge had not truly believed he was innocent.

Just as Yin Ge had thought, perhaps the killer could not harm himself.

But perhaps he could!

However, if the best man died, the situation would become irreparable.

But if she eliminated him through accusation, Yin Ge would still have a chance to turn things around in the end.

The key to turning things around was [Rule Disruption]!

With the power of [Rule Disruption], she could deal with the killer!

And that killer was either the best man or the child!

At that thought, Yin Ge could not help recalling everything that had happened over the past few days.

Ever since the child had claimed that he possessed the [Son of Heaven] godhead, Yin Ge had never let down her guard around him.

But the daytime events were even more important.

During those events, almost everyone had clashed with the Bride to varying degrees, giving them motives and suspicions for murdering her.

Except for the child. He and the Bride had always been warm and harmonious.

But being too perfect was itself a flaw.

Yin Ge had constantly been thinking over everything that had happened, and after gaining that inexplicable Peeping ability, she had kept watch over everyone.

On the surface, the child seemed detached from every incident. But if one analyzed everything with the Bride as the center, one would discover that every event was connected to the child in one way or another.

The groom, the groom's younger sister, and the best man had clashed with the Bride. The trigger had been the flirtatious message the best man sent her, while it was the child who had handed the phone to the groom.

The bridesmaid had clashed with the Bride because of the flirtatious message she had sent the groom.

And Yin Ge remembered that after the bridesmaid had finished washing up, she encountered the child coming from the direction of the rooms.

At that time, the child had been holding the Bride's phone, making people instinctively assume that he had come from the Bride's room.

But in truth, he had had enough time to enter the bridesmaid's room and use her phone to send the message.

The Bride's parents had clashed with the Bride over who would receive the betrothal gift.

But the Bride's parents had demanded the betrothal gift because they wanted to buy a house for the child.

Every single one of these matters was tied to the child.

One core principle of case analysis was that when every important person in a case was connected to someone, that person became a major suspect!

That was why the child had always been Yin Ge's primary target of observation.

Yin Ge's second target had been the best man.

The best man had not been closely connected to the Bride in those events either, and there had been almost no apparent conflict between them.

What made Yin Ge suspect him was mainly the matter of godheads.

Through analysis, the godheads of the groom's younger sister and the Bride's mother could basically be determined. The only uncertain ones were the best man's and the child's.

Thus, when Yin Ge saw that the Bride's father had died yesterday, she had already devised a foolproof response—

Hide the Law, eliminate one of the two suspects through accusation, then use [Rule Disruption] to eliminate the other.

The events had indeed unfolded as she expected.

Of course, the most important part was that she had borrowed the power of Peeping and seen every single person.

Thus, she had also seen the child's actions at certain moments that defied common sense.

However... why had the child wanted to kill the Bride?

What was his motive?

Just as she was confused and thinking, a sharp pain suddenly struck her mind. The same twisting agony from before the bridesmaid's eyeballs burst descended upon her again.

This was the pain that came to her mind whenever she used Peeping!

No, the game should already be over. Right now should be the moment when the Bride fell from the building, so what would I see...? Even through the pain, Yin Ge did not stop thinking.

Using that ability brought her pain.

But it also brought her an opportunity.

Only, according to the Son of Heaven Game, time should now have reached the moment of the Bride's fall. What else could she possibly see?

Before she had time to think further, an image appeared in her mind.

A pretty-faced Bride, tears streaming down her cheeks, climbed onto the window.

"Why? Why has everyone betrayed me? Why is everyone forcing me?"

"No one... no one loves me!"

"Little brother, you have to live well..."

The Bride sat by the window, her face covered in tears and despair.

"Big sister, don't leave me..." The child lunged forward in panic, trying to grab the Bride, but accidentally pushed her instead.

The Bride fell from the building. Her eyes were filled with shock as she looked at the child. Then the shock became confusion, then longing, and finally transformed directly into intense resentment.

In the end, the Bride became the bloody, mangled Bride Yin Ge had seen before.

As the Bride fell, her younger brother also came to the window and helplessly watched her plummet.

"Big sister, why? Why did you still have to leave me?"

"No one around me truly cares about me... Mom and Dad want your betrothal gift, big brother groom and big sister bridesmaid are always hugging each other, and big brother best man wants to hug you too..."

"They... they all want you dead..."

"But... but you're my big sister. I didn't want you to die. I just... I just wanted to force them away..."

"Big sister, big sister..."

The boy wept, then stood by the window as he cried. Wiping away his tears, he leaped forward.

Bang!!!