Are you even a man?!

Meanwhile, the other guests, who had just found their partners, were startled.

Meng Yun shuddered and jumped straight into Bai Yuanyuan's arms.

Bai Yuanyuan slowly lowered her head to look at the man in her arms, her face full of confusion. Haven't we got our positions backward?

Su Weiwang tilted his head as he looked at the slightly stiff Shen Rui beside him. To him, this haunted house was just like coming home. He had worked plenty of jobs in haunted houses before, from playing NPCs to running the front-desk register.

Give him a chance to get into the control room, and he could shut down the entire haunted house.

"Mr. Shen?"

"Don't be afraid. I'm here." Shen Rui's large hands shook at a steady rhythm inside his pockets.

Su Yu was still standing where he had been, with no one beside him. The moment he heard the noise, he collapsed onto the floor.

Si Chen was no better. He had just opened the door and stepped one foot outside when he swiftly retreated and shut it again.

Elsewhere, Yan Yi, with Shen Ting on his back, stared thoughtfully at the intersection they had passed for the third time.

"Turn right. I heard something." Shen Ting firmly pointed to the left.

"That's left," Yan Yi said speechlessly.

"Oh? Is it? Sorry, sorry. My sense of direction isn't very good." Shen Ting looked at his left hand, then his right, then back at the intersection ahead.

"Fine, I'll just figure it out myself." Yan Yi ran to the right.

Yan Yi did have a knack for it. He had barely reached a corridor before coming face-to-face with Bai Yuanyuan and Meng Yun.

"Surprise~~" Shen Ting's face looked particularly frightening under the glow of the special-effects lights on the chainsaw in his hand.

"Aaaaaaaaaah!!!" Meng Yun jumped into Bai Yuanyuan's arms again. This time, he shut his eyes outright.

Bai Yuanyuan's whole face flushed red, whether from anger or fright was unclear.

Burdened by the weight in her arms, Bai Yuanyuan turned and ran. "Meng Yun, are you even a man!!!"

"Babies, wait for me!" Shen Ting raised his chainsaw again. Its built-in sound effects rang out once more, filling the entire haunted house with terrifying noise.

"Help!!!" Unable to bear the weight in her arms any longer, Bai Yuanyuan put him on the floor, grabbed one of his hands, and charged forward with all her strength, dragging him along.

"Urgh, ah, urgh." Meng Yun was being dragged so hard he nearly threw up his stomach.

[Shen Ting: surprised?]

[Hahaha, Meng Yun is in danger.]

[Sister Bai's soul-searching question: are you even a man? Staaare-]

[Can someone tell me, is this really a dating show? I've practically laughed myself into exhaustion.]

[Someone calculate the extent of the director's psychological trauma.]

[Sister Bai is smiling elegantly on the outside and swearing like crazy on the inside.]

[Meng Yun: I'll pass out first as a sign of respect.]

The two swept past Shen Rui and Su Weiwang like a gust of wind.

Su Weiwang watched their retreating figures curiously. "What happened to them?"

Shen Rui said nothing. He simply stared blankly at the giant creature gradually approaching from not far away. It looked about two meters tall and held a chainsaw over a meter long.

"Hm?" Su Weiwang wasn't annoyed at receiving no reply. He was just about to look back, but before he could finish turning around, Shen Rui swept him into a bridal carry.

Never in his life had Shen Rui run so fast in a suit. His leather shoes were practically smoking.

Su Weiwang instinctively ducked his head and began struggling all over. For someone with social anxiety, a bridal carry was simply too devastating.

"Don't move! There's a monster." Shen Rui forced himself to calm down and patted the man in his arms.

A monster??? This is a civilized age. We should be scientific.

[I'm dying. A monster! Congratulations to Shen Ting on his new title.]

[Shen Ting: bro, turn around and look at me. Turn around and look at me! Haha.]

[The commenter above has cornered the market on cheek.]

[Shen Rui: I absolutely refuse to admit that this monster is my clever, quick-witted, adorable little brother.]

[Su Weiwang looks pretty calm.]

Shen Rui's long legs gave him a natural advantage, and he soon overtook Bai Yuanyuan.

Bai Yuanyuan looked at the pair running farther and farther ahead, then at the burden behind her.

She slowly came to a stop.

"Stop." Bai Yuanyuan made a time-out gesture at Shen Ting and Yan Yi behind her.

Seeing that the situation ahead looked rather bad, Yan Yi quietly stopped.

"They look like they're about to fight." Shen Ting sounded excited, his face filled with the look of someone enjoying the drama.

"Give me a minute." Bai Yuanyuan clasped her hands and twisted them from side to side, then spread her legs and knelt astride Meng Yun. Her two small hands rained slaps on the large face in front of her as though they cost nothing.

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!!!

"That's for fainting! That's for playing dead! Get up, damn you!!!"

Meng Yun felt only a burst of intense pain in his face. Dizzy and dazed, he slowly stood up.

Bai Yuanyuan shook out her slightly reddened palms, unceremoniously jumped onto Meng Yun's back, and pinched his ear. "What are you standing around for? Run!"

Still dazed, Meng Yun turned his head and looked straight into Shen Ting's smiling face. The room was pitch-black, and Shen Ting was dressed entirely in red. The chainsaw in his hand gave off an eerie green glow that lit his face. Combined with the wildly rising corners of his mouth, it was utterly terrifying.

"Aaaaaah!!! A ghost!!!" Meng Yun shot forward. A closer look revealed that he had even lost a shoe.

Watching the two race off like the wind, Shen Ting and Yan Yi silently exchanged a glance.

"So the acting career that suits me best is playing ghosts," Shen Ting sighed, touching his handsome face.

Yan Yi opened his mouth, but then he remembered the television drama his mother had forced him to watch at home. He silently swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue and nodded earnestly instead.

[Hahaha, all hail Sister Bai.]

[Sister Bai must be the first person to slap the young master silly.]

[Shen Ting actually stumbled into the niche that suits him best.]

[Horror and comedy directors, come check out our Shen Ting. Looking for work online.]

[Yan Yi's expression as he held back what he wanted to say absolutely killed me. I wonder what crossed his mind at that moment.]

[Could it be, commenter above, that he's also a victim of "The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me"?]

[That freaking "The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me"-the female lead was 176 centimeters barefoot, and Shen Ting's domineering CEO wasn't even as tall as her in heels.]

[Girl above, you forgot the most important part: this drama made everything popular except its male lead.]

[Shen Ting, utterly heartbroken: if I go home to inherit the family fortune one day, everyone here will have been an accomplice. Hahaha.]