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In an instant, the atoms and fundamental particles throughout the entire space seemed to break apart into countless fragments. Space began to twist and tear.
At the moment before space completely collapsed, Yin Ge was once again overcome by drowsiness and closed her eyes.
"Click!"
A young woman opened her door and cautiously stepped into the corridor.
Only when both feet landed firmly on the ground did she finally burst into tears.
"Is the game over, or was it all just a dream?"
"It was too terrifying. Too terrifying."
Immediately afterward, a second door opened.
Another slender young woman poked her head out of her room and jumped excitedly. "I knew it! I knew women couldn't be defeated! We finally escaped the game!"
"This is wonderful! I'm finally back to the way I was!"
Yes, this was not a dream!
The game had really happened!
Soon, a third and fourth door opened.
A middle-aged man and a handsome man walked out of their rooms one after another.
The middle-aged man shrieked, "W-What is going on? Wasn't I already dead?"
The handsome man examined his hands thoughtfully. "It seems someone found the killer, so everyone else with a Godhead came back to life."
As soon as he finished speaking, another door opened.
A burly man strode out excitedly. "I'm actually alive!"
When he saw the others in the corridor, his expression darkened as he charged at the two women. "Which one of you is the bride's mother? Step forward!"
"You dared to accuse me, you bitch? I'll make you pay!"
The slender woman shuddered in fear.
The handsome man stepped forward and shielded the two women. "None of what happened in the game was within our control. Since we all made it out alive, it must be fate. Don't start killing each other again!"
"I-I'm sorry. I didn't want to accuse you either!" the young woman choked out.
Her sobs grew louder and louder until they filled the entire corridor, as though she were pouring out all her fear and tension.
Amid such grief-stricken tears, everyone fell silent.
Relief and lingering fear spread among them.
But soon, the middle-aged man's puzzled voice broke the gloomy atmosphere. "But who was the killer?"
"Was it that child?"
The middle-aged man pursed his lips. "I've lived here for more than thirty years. Other than the bride's younger brother, there are no other children here."
"Creak..."
As he spoke, another door opened.
Everyone looked toward the door swaying gently in the breeze, but no one emerged for a long while.
Driven by curiosity, they stepped forward one after another. Yet when they saw what was inside, all their eyes widened.
It was a corpse—an adult male corpse with a caved-in face and mangled flesh.
His death was exactly the same as the bride's! His identity was obvious!
Faced with the corpse, no one fell into extreme terror, because they had experienced things far more frightening than the body before them!
"The killer... he was the killer," the slender woman murmured.
The handsome man frowned slightly and looked around before speaking. "Other than the killer and the five of us, isn't there still one more person?"
At his reminder, everyone's gaze shifted to the tightly shut door at the end of the corridor.
Yin Ge lay on the bed, her consciousness hazy, as if she had fallen into some nightmare.
"Yesterday was the ninth, today is the tenth. I still have to go to school!"
"What kind of hell is this place? I want to go home! I want to go home! This is illegal detention!"
"I used Discernment on Big Brother. He doesn't have a Godhead!"
As the child's words rang out, one crimson bubble after another appeared in Yin Ge's mind, each containing a scene from the game.
At this moment, her left eye throbbed faintly, but her thoughts were exceptionally clear, as though she were reviewing everything from a god's-eye view.
A child?
No. What child? That was an adult wearing a child's skin!
From the moment he entered the game, the child had begun disguising himself.
Children were not that sensitive to dates. Compared to specific years and months, they were more accustomed to describing time by the day of the week.
And what ordinary child would know what illegal detention was?
Everyone had been fooled by the child.
-December 6- 9:00–18:00: Everyone experienced scenes from the bride's memories. 18:00–20:00: Everyone discussed and established their objective. The best man told everyone information related to the Son of Heaven Game. The groom had a verbal conflict with the bride's mother, planting the fuse for their mutual accusations the next day. 20:00–24:00: Everyone learned their own Godhead or Beasthood and could use the corresponding Laws. Their identities were as follows: The groom was the Son of Heaven. The best man was a Feudal Lord. The bridesmaid was a Court Minister. The bride's father was a scholar. The groom's younger sister was a Grand Physician. The bride's mother was a commoner. The bride's younger brother possessed Beasthood. The Feudal Lord best man used the Partition Law to partition himself. Because the best man knew too much, the bride's younger brother with Beasthood used the Assassin Law in an attempt to erase him. However, because the Feudal Lord had partitioned himself, he could not be erased. Because the best man knew too much, the Son of Heaven groom used Discernment on him and confirmed that he possessed a Godhead. Yin Ge, the Court Minister bridesmaid, did not use her Law because no one had been erased and the situation was unclear. No one else used their Laws. -December 7- 9:00–18:00: Everyone gathered at the bride's home. While rooms were being assigned, the groom's younger sister proposed switching rooms with Yin Ge, the bridesmaid, because the room next to the bride's room—Yin Ge's room—had a strong signal. The bridesmaid agreed, but the bride had always been spying on the bridesmaid through the window's reflection in the neighboring room because she suspected the groom of cheating with her. Therefore, she refused to let them switch. Because the bride's younger brother was attached to the bride and wanted to sabotage her relationship with the groom so she would remain home to keep him company, he used the best man's phone to send messages to the bride, framing her for cheating. Under his manipulation, the groom and bride came into conflict. 18:00–20:00: Everyone revealed the Godhead information they had obtained the previous night. The bride's younger brother with Beasthood lied and claimed to be the Son of Heaven. The Feudal Lord best man said he had partitioned himself the previous night. Yin Ge, the Court Minister bridesmaid, said she had not used her Law, but she already doubted the three people who claimed to possess the Son of Heaven Godhead. She had also always been suspicious of the best man, who knew the most information. Because he had had a verbal conflict with the bride's mother the day before, the groom claimed to be the Son of Heaven and said he had used Discernment on the bride's mother, claiming that she had no Godhead. Due to their quarrel, along with the fact that she did not think much, the commoner bride's mother instinctively lied that she was also the Son of Heaven. She said she had used Discernment on the groom and claimed he had no Godhead. The two accused each other. The killer, the bride's younger brother, impersonated the Son of Heaven. Seeing that Yin Ge was calm and composed, he wanted to win her trust, so he stated that he had used Discernment on Yin Ge, the bridesmaid, and found that she had a Godhead. Because the three-Son-of-Heaven situation was too complicated and she hated the groom, the commoner bride's mother changed her claim again, saying her Godhead was that of a commoner. Since she believed the bride's younger brother was too young to lie, she acknowledged him as the Son of Heaven. No one else revealed their identities. The groom was accused of being the killer and erased. 20:00–24:00: Believing the bride's younger brother to be the true Son of Heaven, the Feudal Lord best man used the Partition Law on him. Because he feared the best man possessed too much information, the bride's younger brother used the Assassin Law to erase him. The Disorder Law of Yin Ge, the Court Minister bridesmaid, could save one person or erase one person. Fearing that losing a best man who might have a Godhead would increase the killer's chances of victory, Yin Ge saved the best man. Moreover, she feared accidentally erasing an innocent person, so she did not use the erasure aspect of the Disorder Law. No one else used their Godhead Laws. -December 8- 9:00–18:00: To sabotage the groom and bride's relationship, the child used Yin Ge's phone to send flirtatious messages to the groom, causing the bride to misunderstand that the groom was cheating with the bridesmaid. Wanting to help the groom keep watch on the bride, whom she suspected of cheating, the groom's younger sister once again proposed switching rooms with Yin Ge, the bridesmaid. After discovering that the bride was spying on her through the window's reflection, the bridesmaid agreed to switch rooms. But because she wanted to continue spying on the bridesmaid, the bride prevented them from switching. The groom's younger sister believed the bride would not let her switch rooms because she felt guilty about cheating, so she accused the bride of having an affair. In retaliation, the bride revealed that the groom had cheated with the bridesmaid. 18:00–20:00: Everyone gathered and revealed the Godhead information they had obtained the previous night. The bride's younger brother, who was impersonating the Son of Heaven, said that because the bride's father was indifferent toward the bride, he suspected him of being the killer and had used Discernment on him, discovering that he possessed a Godhead. The Feudal Lord best man said he had used the Partition Law on the bride's younger brother. Yin Ge, the Court Minister bridesmaid, said she had used the Disorder Law to save the best man. No one had been erased. When it came time to accuse someone, most people believed Yin Ge, the bridesmaid, was the most suspicious due to what had happened between her and the bride during the day, and they wanted to accuse her. However, Yin Ge stated that no one had been erased the previous night, so whether she had saved the best man or the best man had partitioned the Son of Heaven, either possibility could prove that she possessed a Godhead. Everyone was convinced and wanted to accuse the groom's younger sister, who had quarreled with the bride. Not wanting to be erased, the groom's younger sister confessed that her Godhead was Grand Physician and that she could use the Death Immunity Law to survive death once. The bride's mother began verbally attacking the bride's father, the only person who had not revealed his Godhead, and the two came into conflict. To maintain a balance in numbers and lower the killer's chances of victory, the best man proposed accusing the groom's younger sister and having her use the Death Immunity Law to prove her identity. He also said he would use the Partition Law to protect her. Everyone accused the groom's younger sister. She used the Death Immunity Law and was not erased. Yin Ge suspected that the killer was either the best man or the bride's younger brother. She pretended to ask the bride's younger brother to use Discernment on the best man, and he agreed. But by then, Yin Ge had already decided on the final outcome... she would get both the bride's younger brother and the best man, the two most suspicious people, out. Thus, she began planning and setting the stage. 20:00–24:00: The Feudal Lord best man used the Partition Law on Yin Ge, the bridesmaid. Believing the best man would partition the groom's younger sister, the killer bride's younger brother decided to erase Yin Ge, who posed the greatest threat to him. He used the Assassin Law on Yin Ge, but because the best man had partitioned her, she was not erased. Because the bride's father, whose Godhead was scholar, had come into conflict with the bride's mother the previous night, he used the Admonition Law on her. However, the admonition failed, and the bride's father was erased. -December 9- 9:00–18:00: Yin Ge obtained the Observation Persona and the Control Persona. Using the Observation Persona, she discovered that the bride's father and mother had forced the bride to hand over her betrothal gifts so they could buy a home for the bride's younger brother. 18:00–20:00: The Feudal Lord best man claimed he had used the Partition Law on Yin Ge. Wanting to mislead the killer and retain the Disorder Law in case of emergency, Yin Ge, the Court Minister, claimed that she had already used the Disorder Law on the bride's father. Everyone believed Yin Ge no longer had the Disorder Law, including the bride's younger brother. The bride's younger brother, impersonating the Son of Heaven, claimed that he had used Discernment on the best man and found that the best man had no Godhead. Yin Ge still could not determine whether the killer was the best man or the bride's younger brother, so she joined the others in accusing the best man. The best man was erased. Yin Ge successfully carried out her plan to remove both the best man and the bride's younger brother. 20:00–24:00: Yin Ge, the Court Minister, used the Disorder Law to erase the bride's younger brother. Both suspects were dead. Yin Ge was guaranteed victory. -Game Over-
Yin Ge abruptly opened her eyes and saw the familiar layout of her room.
I'm back... Yin Ge sat upright, but it felt as though countless ants were biting and crawling through her left eye.
"Hiss..." She hurriedly emptied her mind and stopped thinking about what had happened in the game.
Only after the pain in her left eye gradually subsided did she cautiously touch it.
Smooth, clean, without a trace of blood. It was perfectly intact.
Though it was not as horrifying as the bridesmaid's exploded eye, Yin Ge knew very well that something extra had appeared inside it.
Enduring the pain, she got out of bed, stood before the mirror, and slowly raised her head...
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