Sure enough, Qin Manjiang had been selected again.
Quite a few people were watching him. Once or twice was still acceptable, but having him turn up every single time was definitely not something coincidence could explain.
Qin Manjiang had to be hiding a secret connected to the entire Ghost Story Game for him to receive such "special" treatment.
At that moment, however, Qin Manjiang himself had noticed something else entirely.
The one codenamed Player?
Shen Hai?
If I remember correctly, he's been selected three times in a row too!
My Aging Self, Yellow Springs Opera, and now Candy Game.
Just what you'd expect from someone whose very name was so unlucky.
There was more to the name Shen Hai than simply the character Hai meaning "skeletal remains." His name itself was a word.
The characters chen and shen had originally been the same character. Shen Hai could also be written as Chen Hai, which meant "to drown oneself" in classical Chinese.
Using Hai alone as a given name was extremely rare to begin with, almost certainly a deliberate choice, so the name really was inherently unlucky.
Still, even the water in Yellow Springs Opera hadn't drowned him. Shen Hai was pretty hard to kill.
So Qin Manjiang thought.
With someone just as unlucky as he was to keep him company, Qin Manjiang suddenly felt that being selected over and over wasn't quite so hard to accept.
By then, all three rounds of games had been announced. Only the selected players could see the screens that followed.
Everyone stared intently at their phones.
The Opening Lines... had arrived.
``` [Ghost story: Candy Game.]
[Opening Lines: Daddy said only good children got candy.]
[But Daddy always prepared one piece too few.]
[The first time, Mommy didn't get any.]
[The second time, Big