In an instant, the atoms and elementary particles throughout the entire space seemed to break apart into countless fragments. Space began to twist and tear.
Just before space completely collapsed, drowsiness assaulted Yin Ge once more, and she closed her eyes.
Crack!
A young woman opened her door and cautiously took a step into the corridor.
Only when both feet were firmly on the ground did she finally burst into tears.
"Is the game over, or was it all just a dream?"
"It was terrifying. Absolutely 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 can't be defeated! We finally escaped the game!"
"Wonderful! I've finally returned to how I used to be!"
Yes, this was not a dream!
The game had truly happened!
Soon, a third and fourth door opened.
A middle-aged man and a handsome man stepped out of their rooms one after another.
The middle-aged man screamed, "Wh-what is going on? Wasn't I already dead?"
The handsome man examined his hands and said thoughtfully, "It seems someone found the Killer, so everyone else with Godhead has come 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 turned hostile. He charged toward the two women. "Which one of you is the Bride's mother? Step forward!"
"You dared to accuse me, you bitches? I'll make you pay!"
The slender woman shuddered in fear.
The handsome man stepped forward and stood in front of the two women. "None of us could control what happened in the game. Since we all made it out alive, that's fate in itself. 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 crying grew louder and louder until it filled the entire corridor, as though she were pouring out all her fear and tension.
Amid those sorrowful 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 over 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, yet no one emerged from it.
Driven by curiosity, they stepped forward one after another. But when they saw what was inside, their eyes widened.
It was a corpse—an adult male corpse with a caved-in face and mangled flesh.
His death looked exactly like the Bride's! His identity was obvious!
No one fell into extreme terror at the sight of the corpse, because they had experienced things far more horrifying than this.
"The Killer... he was the Killer," the slender woman muttered.
The handsome man frowned slightly and looked around before speaking. "Other than the Killer and the five of us, wasn't there one more person?"
At his reminder, everyone turned to the tightly shut door at the end of the corridor.
Yin Ge lay on the bed, her consciousness hazy, as though she had fallen into some nightmare.
"Yesterday was the ninth, today is the tenth. I still have to go to school!"
"What kind of damned place is this? I want to go home! I want to go home! This is illegal detention!"
"I discerned Big Brother. He doesn't have Godhead!"
As the child's words echoed, one scarlet bubble after another appeared in Yin Ge's mind, each containing a scene from the game.
At that moment, her left eye throbbed faintly, but her mind was exceptionally clear, as though she were reviewing every event from a god's-eye view.
A child?
No. What child? That was an adult wearing the skin of a child!
The child had begun pretending from the very moment they entered the game.
Children were not that sensitive about dates. Compared to specific years and months, they were more accustomed to describing time by the day of the week.
And how would an ordinary child know what illegal detention was?
Everyone had been fooled by the child.
—December 6—
From 9:00 to 18:00, everyone experienced the scenes from the Bride's memories.
From 18:00 to 20:00, everyone discussed and established their objective. The Best Man told them information related to the Son of Heaven Game.
The Groom and the Bride's mother had a verbal conflict, planting the fuse for their mutual accusations the next day.
From 20:00 to 24:00, everyone learned their own Godhead or Beasthood and could use their 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 to try to erase him. But because the Feudal Lord had partitioned himself, he could not be erased.
Because the Best Man knew too much, the Son of Heaven Groom discerned him and confirmed that he possessed Godhead.
Because no one had been erased and the situation was unclear, Yin Ge, the Court Minister Bridesmaid, did not use her Law.
No one else used their Laws.
—December 7—
From 9:00 to 18:00, everyone gathered in 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 had a stronger signal.
The Bridesmaid agreed, but the Bride had been peeping at the Bride through the window's reflection from the neighboring room, suspecting that the Groom was cheating on her with the Bridesmaid. She refused to let them switch rooms.
Wanting to destroy the relationship between the Bride and Groom so that the Bride would stay home and keep him company, the Bride's younger brother used the Best Man's phone to send messages to the Bride, framing her for cheating. Under his manipulation, the Groom and Bride clashed.
From 18:00 to 20:00, everyone revealed the Godhead information they had received the night before. 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. However, she had already grown suspicious of the three people claiming to possess the Son of Heaven Godhead, and she had also remained wary of the Best Man, who knew the most.
Because he had quarreled with the Bride's mother the day before, the Groom claimed to be the Son of Heaven and said he had discerned the Bride's mother, declaring that she had no Godhead.
Because of their argument, and because she had not thought things through, the Commoner Bride's mother instinctively lied that she was also the Son of Heaven. She claimed to have discerned the Groom and said he had no Godhead. The two accused each other.
The Killer, the Bride's younger brother, impersonated the Son of Heaven. Seeing how calm and composed Yin Ge was, he wanted to gain her trust, so he stated that he had discerned Yin Ge, the Bridesmaid, and confirmed that she possessed Godhead.
Because the three-Son-of-Heaven situation was too complicated, and because she hated the Groom, the Commoner Bride's mother changed her claim again and said her Godhead was Commoner. Thinking the Bride's younger brother was too young to lie, she accepted him as the Son of Heaven.
No one else revealed their identities.
The Groom was accused of being the Killer and erased.
From 20:00 to 24:00, the Feudal Lord Best Man believed the Bride's younger brother was the true Son of Heaven and partitioned him.
Because he feared that 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.
Afraid that losing the Best Man, who might possess Godhead, would increase the Killer's chances of victory, Yin Ge brought the Best Man back.
She also 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—
From 9:00 to 18:00, the child used Yin Ge's phone to send ambiguous messages to the Groom in order to destroy the relationship between the Groom and Bride, causing the Bride to misunderstand that the Groom was cheating on her with the Bridesmaid.
Wanting to help the Groom watch the Bride, whom she suspected of cheating, the Groom's younger sister once again proposed switching rooms with Yin Ge.
After discovering that the Bride was peeping at her through the window's reflection, Yin Ge agreed to switch rooms.
But because she wanted to continue peeping at the Bridesmaid, the Bride stopped them from switching rooms.
The Groom's younger sister believed the Bride was too guilty over cheating to let her switch rooms, so she accused the Bride of cheating.
To retaliate, the Bride revealed that the Groom was cheating on her with the Bridesmaid.
From 18:00 to 20:00, everyone gathered and revealed the Godhead information they had received the previous night.
The Bride's younger brother, 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 discerned that he possessed 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.
During the accusations, most people believed Yin Ge, the Bridesmaid, was the most suspicious because of what had happened between the Bridesmaid and Bride during the day, and they wanted to accuse Yin Ge.
But 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 proved that she possessed 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 admitted that her Godhead was Grand Physician and that she could use the Death Immunity Law to avoid death once.
To maintain the balance in their numbers and lower the Killer's chance of victory, the Best Man suggested accusing the Groom's younger sister, allowing her to use the Death Immunity Law to prove her identity. He also stated that 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. Pretending otherwise, she asked the Bride's younger brother to discern the Best Man, and he agreed.
In truth, Yin Ge had already decided on the final outcome... she would get rid of both the Bride's younger brother and the Best Man, the two people under greatest suspicion.
So, she began laying out her plan.
From 20:00 to 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, Yin Ge was not erased.
Because he had clashed with the Bride's mother the night before, the Bride's father, whose Godhead was Scholar, used the Admonition Law on the Bride's mother. But the Remonstrance failed, and the Bride's father was erased.
—December 9—
From 9:00 to 18:00, Yin Ge obtained the Observation Persona and 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 house for the Bride's younger brother.
From 18:00 to 20:00, the Feudal Lord Best Man claimed to have used the Partition Law on Yin Ge. To mislead the Killer and retain the Disorder Law as a safeguard, 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 to have discerned the Best Man and said 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, and Yin Ge's plan to remove both the Best Man and the Bride's younger brother was successfully carried out.
From 20:00 to 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 up, 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 carefully touch it.
Smooth, clean, without a trace of blood. It was completely intact.
Though it was not as horrifying as the Bridesmaid's bursting eye, Yin Ge knew very well that something had been added inside it.
Enduring the pain, she got out of bed, stood before the mirror, and slowly raised her head...
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