Master Wang was being haunted by a ghost?
The ghost was in the mansion right now?
The four novice players trapped in the Nightmare Game exchanged looks. Here in the Nightmare World, the existence of ghosts hardly surprised them. Even Steward Zhao, standing before them, probably no longer counted as human. Still... the news that a ghost was haunting Master Wang was something new.
At this point in the surrounding illusion's timeline, the three brides had yet to reveal their ghost bride forms. Where exactly had Steward Zhao seen a ghost?
Could Master Wang's first wife really have become a ghost?
Was there another "ghost" in this mansion?
"That ghost is right here in the mansion, disguised as the bride in the East Courtyard!" Steward Zhao held nothing back, pointing straight toward the East Courtyard. "If that bride and I hadn't come from the same village, if I hadn't remembered that girl's build, that ghost would have fooled me too! What a tragedy! The one in the East Courtyard isn't the girl I know at all. She's the Ghost Madam who's been haunting Master Wang!"
"Grandpa Steward, are you saying the bride in the East Courtyard is a ghost? And that she's the first wife Master Wang might have murdered for her money?"
"She must be!" Steward Zhao said through gritted teeth. "That old monk really was useless. Even after we moved somewhere this remote, the ghost still followed us!"
All four pictured the bride in the East Courtyard sitting upright beside her bed. Of the three brides, she had seemed the most reassuring, the most real. Yet now Steward Zhao was claiming she was a ghost?
Could they really trust what Steward Zhao said?
Steward Zhao seemed to notice the four players' hesitation, and his expression soured. "If you