My husband was too savage

"Look, why don't we try the most straightforward approach first? We just need to get out, right?"

Qian Lai's voice sounded low beside his ear. Yu Qing walked along with him, his lashes lifting slightly. "You mean... find the director and trick him into giving us a Keycard?"

"Yeah. You have the name badge anyway. That's how he recognizes people."

"But the clothes are dirty," Yu Qing murmured. "The white coat is covered in Zhang Yi's blood. I can't wear it anymore."

As they spoke, the three passed the reception desk. Qian Lai greeted the young nurse with easy familiarity, raising his arm. The golden bells on his wrist jingled, echoing the nurse's bells.

Only after greeting her did he continue nonchalantly, "How about this? After lunch, I'll ask the nurse if there are any other clothes. You keep an eye on the director's movements."

"Okay." Yu Qing nodded, then noticed that once Qian Lai finished speaking, he discreetly withdrew his hand from Yu Qing's shoulder again, quietly putting some distance between them.

This time, though, before he could ask, Qian Lai volunteered an explanation. "Um... don't get the wrong idea. I'm not avoiding you. I just think your husband is too savage. He might've torn 'Xu Han' apart last night. Tsk, scary stuff."

Yu Qing glanced at him without confirming or denying it.

At this stage, the boss wouldn't show up to explain anything. Let him get angry. Yu Qing was enjoying himself!

"Hey, what does he look like? Is he handsome? Does he have tentacles like in novels?"

"..."

Qian Lai paused, then asked, "Can you handle him? What's your limit?"

Yu Qing: "..."

Those few exchanges left Xue Ziyi, who was walking behind them, completely bewildered. What... were these two talking about?

Who was Yu Qing's... husband?

The three continued onward. Before they climbed to the third-floor mezzanine, Yu Qing kept pondering one question-

If Granny Ghost was in charge of cooking, and he had killed her, who was cooking in the cafeteria now?

As he wondered, an aged voice came from the serving window. It was still Granny Ghost's voice!

"Come along, come along, pretty little girl. Granny will serve you some food."

"Come along, come along..."

The familiar voice reached his ears, and goosebumps instantly rose over Yu Qing's skin. Had Granny Ghost... not died?

Then who had he killed when he first entered the instance?

A profound chill pierced his heart and bones. Suppressing the numbness in his fingertips, Yu Qing picked up a tray and approached the window. What he saw sent a wave of revulsion through him, and he nearly dropped his tray!

Behind the serving window floated... a red dress topped with long black hair?

A thick mass of black hair sat atop a bloodstained red dress, its loose strands hanging in a tangled mess all the way to the waist. At night, the sight could have scared someone to death.

But... that thing was using Granny Ghost's voice, curling its sleeve around the ladle in front of it and reaching out to serve him food?

This was insane...

Yu Qing took several careful looks and confirmed that it really was just a wig and a dress put together. The clothes were completely empty. There was no person inside-not even... half a ghost!

Whoosh-

Food landed on his tray. It was all vegetables.

Yu Qing examined the tray carefully. It had been replaced, too. It was brand-new, smooth and warm to the touch, and had even undergone thorough high-temperature sterilization.

Strange.

Hadn't those "sacrifices" said in their diaries that the cafeteria served human flesh?

Setting down his tray, Yu Qing continued looking around. In a corner by the window, he found the pale-faced old director sitting and eating intently.

So... was he getting a normal meal thanks to the director?

As though preparing for an inspection, the cafeteria was bright with sunshine, its flowers and plants vibrant.

Yu Qing cherished the normal food that had been so hard to come by. He carefully chewed a mouthful of greens, his gaze discreetly tracking the direction in which the director left.

That afternoon, Qian Lai tricked someone into giving him a new white coat. Under the pretext of delivering documents, Yu Qing went alone to the Director’s Office on the seventh floor.

There were very few strange occurrences in the Sanatorium during the day, making it much easier to move around.

Knock, knock, knock-

He knocked three times, but there was no response from inside. Yu Qing simply pushed the door. Whoosh-

The door opened, revealing the director pinning the young receptionist nurse beneath him as they had sex, right there on the desk...

The abrupt sound of the door opening interrupted the flushed old man. He slowly raised his head, deep creases gathering beneath his eyes. Without hesitation, he turned a sinister smile on Yu Qing in the doorway...

[Oh my, oh my, oh my! What did I just see? What did I just see?!]

The livestream chat erupted again.

[Aaaah! The streamers who attempted this instance last time all died during the sacrificial ritual. The story has never progressed this far before! Isn't this nurse Xu Han's wife? How could this happen? How could this happen?]

[The streamer's identity makes this so awkward right now. He's wearing 'Xu Han's' name badge and caught them cheating red-handed. What a thrill!]

The instant the director fixed his gaze on him, Yu Qing subtly let his eyes go unfocused. His gaze drifted naturally upward, and soon his hands began fumbling around. "Um... Director? Are you there, Director? Director?"

The director's expression changed noticeably. At last, he slowly straightened up at the desk, fastened his clothes, and walked toward the doorway. "What is it?"

As the old man spoke, his cold, sinister gaze bored straight into Yu Qing's eyes, making even the livestream viewers shudder. Yet Yu Qing's expression did not change in the slightest.

The young man lowered his eyes and slipped seamlessly into a flustered act. "I... I've suddenly gone blind. I'm the only doctor here, so I need to take some time off to get my eyes treated. Um... could you give me the Keycard?"

As he spoke, he even politely held out his hand to the director.

[Holy shit! Hahahahaha! The streamer's ability to improvise is incredible!]

[Fuck! I'm in awe!]

[The director's frowning?... He didn't actually believe that, did he?]

Before him, suspicion flickered in the director's small eyes. A moment later, he actually took a Keycard from the desk and approached Yu Qing again with an eerie air.

This time, however, when he stopped in front of Yu Qing, he did not hand over the card. Instead, he abruptly raised his hand and jabbed its corner straight at the young man's eyeball!

At that critical instant-bang!

Yu Qing struck without hesitation, knocking the man unconscious with a punch. He pocketed the Keycard from the director's hand, then searched the room for a while.

He actually... found an entire box of Keycards???

There was no way to tell which one was real!

Yu Qing simply gathered them up and took them all. After packing them away, he made sure to hit the director with several more vicious punches to keep him unconscious longer, then turned back to the nurse behind the desk.

Just as he had expected, the nurse had already fastened her clothes. But they had been torn, and even fastened, they hung in tatters, exposing overlapping old and fresh wounds on her collarbones and shoulders.

Yu Qing instinctively glanced toward the desk beside her. The leather whip the director had left there was thickly coated in blood. Did blood... have anything to do with sex?

Yu Qing had never experienced it and did not understand, but he personally felt the two had nothing to do with each other. Sex meant pleasure, not abuse.

He slowly lowered his head, but the nurse before him grew even more wary.

She seemed terrified from being beaten. Hastily raising her hands to shield her face, she apologized over and over. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! It's all my fault. I didn't satisfy the director. Please don't hit me, don't hit me! I'll try harder next time. I'll cooperate properly next time, I promise..."

Her despairing sobs scraped at the heart like a cat's claws, leaving an awful ache.

But Yu Qing quickly realized that the nurse was not afraid of him. She was afraid of... the fake Xu Han.

The previous fake Xu Han had frequently beaten her and even handed her over to the director to be abused.

Yu Qing's eyes flickered. He removed the name badge, then tossed the new white coat to the nurse and said gently, "It's me."

The nurse timidly raised her eyes. Seeing the young man who had brought her medicine, her expression shifted, and bloody tears spilled uncontrollably down her face, eerie and pitiful.

She reached out to take the white coat. Her slow movements set the bells on her hand jingling. "I... my husband Xu Han and I, we... we're both orphans. When he proposed, he didn't have any money, so he gave me bells. These are...!!!"

Yu Qing was listening intently when, suddenly, [beep-]

The nurse's voice cut off abruptly. Her movements stopped, and her expression froze, as though a pause button had locked her in place!