Qin Manjiang had indeed been selected again.
Quite a few people were watching him. Once or twice was understandable, but his being there every single time was definitely not something coincidence could explain.
Qin Manjiang had to be harboring some secret connected to the entire Ghost Story Game for him to receive such "special" treatment.
Yet at that moment, Qin Manjiang himself had noticed something else entirely.
The player with the code name?
Was it Shen Hai?
If he remembered correctly, that guy had also been selected three times in a row!
[My Aging Self], [Yellow Springs Opera], and now [Candy Game].
That guy certainly lived up to his name-even that was unlucky.
There was more to the name Shen Hai than simply the character "hai," meaning skeletal remains. His name was itself a word.
"Chen" and "Shen" had originally been the same character. Shen Hai could also be written as Chen Hai, which in ancient usage meant "to drown oneself."
Using "hai" alone as a given name was extremely rare to begin with, so it was almost certainly deliberate. The name really was inherently unlucky.
Still, even the waters of Yellow Springs Opera hadn't drowned him. Shen Hai was pretty hard to kill.
That was what Qin Manjiang thought.
With someone just as unlucky as him to share his misery, Qin Manjiang suddenly felt that being selected repeatedly didn't seem 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, my