The ghost doll

The guests shone their flashlights over and discovered that some of the dolls' eyes had turned red! Some were even moving!

Not only that, the rocking horse in the corner started rocking all by itself for no reason, and a doll half a person's height beside them suddenly turned its head to look at them!

"Ah..." Song You and Cheng Sirong cried out in fright among the group.

"That little master should be coming out soon. Let's run first," Su Li shouted to them.

[Holy crap, this is way too scary!!]

[I'm throwing out every doll in my house right now. I'm scared to death.]

[What kind of toys from hell are these!!]

[Hasn't the production team gone too far?!]

Everyone ran toward the other side of the room. Suddenly, the body of a headless doll dropped down!

They looked up at the ceiling and found that many hanging dolls had appeared!

The distance was less than ten meters, but the guests felt as though they had been running for ages.

Either dolls appeared out of nowhere to block their path, or heads suddenly fell off. Some even flew at them! Su Li batted all of those away, though.

The guests had no idea how any of this worked. This episode was just too terrifying. Even knowing they were props, they were badly frightened by these eerie dolls.

In the control room, Wang Xiang and the other production staff were dumbfounded. Wang Xiang asked the others, "This... isn't part of the plot we planned, is it?" He believed the Manor might really be haunted.

"N-no, it isn't." The staff member's voice trembled. He thought it really was haunted.

"Director, why don't we stop the livestream first and get them out..."

"No." Wang Xiang immediately refused after seeing the livestream's popularity.

These numbers had already broken the record. They absolutely had to keep streaming. Besides, if it really was a ghost, wouldn't that make for an even better show? He wasn't the one inside the room, anyway.

Although Wang Xiang was afraid, the enormous profits before him had already blinded him. If this episode maintained this level of popularity, he would become a legendary variety show director!

[This is a fucking escape for their lives.]

[This is way too intense.]

[Wait, am I seeing things? How did that doll appear?]

[Why can some of them fly?]

[Holy shit, I'm scared. Please don't let there really be ghosts.]

[Are they controlled with threads? Doesn't look like it, though.]

The chat was in an uproar. What had just happened was far too bizarre.

Su Li led them to a red sofa. "Stop. This is the place. Song You, give me the notes!"

"Oh, okay." Song You hurriedly handed the notes to Su Li. Luckily, she hadn't thrown them away even in her extreme fear.

"Su Li, why did you lead us running all over the place to come here?" Liu Jinjian snapped, panting. That scene just now had really terrified him.

Su Li ignored him, staring at a spot in front of him.

"Heeheehee..." They heard that eerie laughter again.

Then a ghost doll, shorter than a person's knee, floated out from who knew where.

She seemed to be a girl, dressed in a filthy pink dress. Her face was bluish-black, exuding an air of death, her hair was disheveled, and her eyes were completely black.

Her terrifying appearance made the guests take a step back. Looking like that... was she really played by a person?

The guests panicked. There was no way an actual child could look like this, but her nimble movements were nothing like a prop's. Could she really be a ghost?

Chen Zhuo couldn't help asking Su Li, "Su Li, is this... really an NPC?"

Su Li looked at the ghost doll, his eyes lighting up.

The ghost doll spoke, her voice filled with venomous resentment. "You... broke my Little Pink!! You have to play a game with me, or all of you will stay here!!"

[Oh my god, what is that!!]

[Mommy, I'm scared!!]

[Fuck this, my wardrobe moved. I'm not watching anymore.]

[That doesn't look like a prop or a real person.]

[The more I think about it, the scarier it gets. Holy shit.]

Liu Jinjian immediately pointed at Su Li, his voice trembling. "It was him! He's the one who broke it! If you want someone to stay and play games, go to him!!" After what had just happened, he thought she might really be a ghost.

He was terrified, yet he could hardly wait to see Su Li killed by the ghost!

Everyone else immediately looked at Liu Jinjian in anger.

The ghost doll looked at Su Li.

[What's Liu Jinjian doing, selling out his teammate?]

[What kind of character is that?!]

[I'm so furious. Someone like him gets to be a writer?]

[Su Li was the one who broke it. Was Master Liu wrong?]

[This scumbag actually has fans? I can't watch this anymore. Anyone want to go after him with me?]

The chat dissolved into arguments.

Su Li, meanwhile, smiled at the ghost doll and crouched down.

"Kid, how old are you? Proper kids don't keep diaries, you know. Now I know all your little secrets." He waved the diary in his hand.

The ghost doll froze, then felt that she had been provoked. Resentful energy poured out around her, and she raised an arm to kill Su Li.

But an inexplicable force pressed against her head.

Su Li held one finger in front of her head, smiling gently, yet the words that left his mouth were, "Naughty children get their heads twisted off, you know~"

The ghost doll froze again. This power... she didn't seem able to beat him...

An Hui, Cheng Sirong, and Chen Zhuo were utterly shocked. This was the first time they had heard Su Li say something like that. And wasn't he afraid?

When the viewers heard this, they flooded the chat with question marks.

[??????]

[Did I mishear? Can someone tell me what Su Li just said?]

[He's seriously brave!!]

[Even the ghost doll froze.]

[Ghost doll: where are your manners?]

[Is this an iconic moment now?]

Restrained by that force, the ghost doll couldn't help shouting at Su Li in a shrill voice, "Who exactly are you?"

Su Li rubbed his ears and said to the ghost doll, "Don't you want to play a game? Go find that man and play truth or dare with him. Then I'll tell you who I am."

Su Li raised his hand and pointed at Liu Jinjian.

Liu Jinjian's face filled with panic. "Su Li!! What exactly are you trying to do?"

"Nothing. Just letting this little cutie play a game with you?" Su Li smiled at him.

[You call that a little cutie??]

[Nicely done.]

[Look how scared Liu Jinjian is.]

[Liu Jinjian wanted to hurt Su Li, but he's screwed himself over instead.]

[Truth or dare? Woohoo!]

[Am I the only one curious why the ghost doll asked who Su Li was?]

The ghost doll thought it over with her sluggish little brain. She couldn't beat Su Li, so she might as well deal with the others first.

She turned to Liu Jinjian and said coldly, "You. Sit on that sofa."

Liu Jinjian hadn't expected the ghost doll to actually listen to Su Li. He hurriedly said, "Su Li was the one who smashed the glass ball! Why aren't you going after him!!" His face twisted with fear.

"Sit... on the sofa!!" the ghost doll shrieked at him. Everyone felt a sinister gust of wind rush into their faces.

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Liu Jinjian shakily shuffled over to the sofa and sat down. His legs were nearly giving out from fear.

"I'll ask you four questions. You have to tell the truth." The ghost doll stood before him.

"Did you ever love your ex-wife?" she asked.

Liu Jinjian had an ex-wife. They had divorced a few years earlier.

"Yes!" Liu Jinjian answered immediately.

But the ghost doll said eerily, "You're lying!"