The Setup

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

The bride moved before the best man with lightning speed and lightly squeezed into his body.

Seeing this, the child beside Yin Ge let out a faint 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.

Immediately afterward, the bride disappeared as well.

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

The child chimed in, "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 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 came when the rules could be used, 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 closed her eyes, and waited 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. 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 who were still alive.

This strange, tranquil place gave 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 these godhead powers that controlled life were named after Son of Heaven, feudal lords, high ministers, and the like.

Son of Heaven, feudal lords, and so on—weren't those ancient forms of address?

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

In short, there were too many questions.

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

"The killer..."

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

This was the killer's time, and also Yin Ge's time.

Yin Ge focused her attention on that point of light, and with nothing more than a thought—

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

Yin Ge watched the child's point of light dim and disappear with her own eyes, yet her heart remained utterly unmoved.

All of this had been part of her plan.

She had not used [Rule Disruption] the previous night, and had lied that she had used the [Rule Disruption] rule 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?

It did not matter.

This had been a setup.

From the very beginning, after Yin Ge had figured out the rules, she had tried to lead everyone down the path she wanted.

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

The killer had hidden deeply, so she had needed to use every possible method to uncover him.

Therefore, she needed the process of elimination.

She had eliminated them one by one. Even when it came to the night of the best man's elimination, Yin Ge had not truly believed the best man was innocent.

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

But perhaps he could harm her!

However, if the best man died, there would be no way to recover the situation.

But if he was "eliminated" 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 [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.

From the moment the child claimed that he possessed the Son of Heaven godhead, Yin Ge had never let down her guard around him.

But the daytime events had been the most important.

During those events, nearly everyone had clashed with the bride to some degree, giving them motives and suspicions for killing 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 considered everything that had happened, and ever since gaining that inexplicable ability to peer into things, she had been monitoring everyone.

On the surface, the child seemed detached from all the incidents. But when the bride was used as the center of analysis, it became apparent that every incident was connected to the child in one way or another.

The groom, his younger sister, and the best man had clashed with the bride. The fuse had been the flirtatious messages the best man sent to the bride, and it had been the child who handed the phone to the groom.

The bridesmaid had clashed with the bride. The fuse had been the flirtatious messages she sent to the groom.

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

At the time, the child had been holding the bride's phone, making people instinctively assume that he had come out of 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 messages.

The bride's parents had clashed with the bride. The fuse had been the issue of who the bride price belonged to.

But the bride's parents demanded the bride price because they wanted to buy a house for the child.

Every single one of these matters was inseparable from the child.

One of the core principles of criminal case analysis was that when every important person in a case was connected to someone, that person was highly suspicious!

Therefore, the child had always been Yin Ge's primary target of observation.

Yin Ge's second target of observation was the best man.

The best man's connection to the bride had not been significant either. On the surface, there had been almost no conflict between them.

The main reason he had made Yin Ge suspicious was the issue of his godhead.

Through analysis, the godheads of the groom's younger sister and the bride's mother could basically be confirmed. The only ones that could not be confirmed were those of the best man and the child.

So, when Yin Ge saw that the dead person yesterday was the bride's father, she had already devised a foolproof response—

Hide the rule, use the two suspects to accuse and eliminate one, then use [Rule Disruption] to eliminate the other.

The events had indeed unfolded within her expectations.

Of course, the most important factor was that she had used that peering power to watch every single person.

And 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 pondering, a sharp pain suddenly struck her mind. The twisting agony from before the bridesmaid's eyeballs burst descended upon her once more.

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

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

Using this ability brought her pain.

But it also brought her an opportunity.

Yet according to the Son of Heaven Game, time should now have reached the moment when the bride fell from the building. What else would she 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 windowsill.

"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 on the windowsill, 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 turned into confusion, then longing, and finally transformed into deep resentment.

In the end, the bride became the bride Yin Ge had seen earlier, her flesh mangled and bloody.

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

"Big sister, why? Why do you still want to leave me?"

"No one around us truly cares about me... Mom and Dad want your bride price, Brother Groom and Sister Bridesmaid often hug each other, and Brother Best Man wants to hug you too..."

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

"But... but you're my big sister. I don't want you to die. I wanted... I wanted to drive them away..."

"Big sister, Big sister..."

The boy wept. Then, still crying, he stepped onto the windowsill and wiped away his tears as he leaped forward.

"Bang!!!"