All ready-when would his wife get here?

Of course Bai Luochuan hadn't fainted.

He had simply fallen asleep.

He had actually planned to play his game.

But on second thought, he had a camera strapped to his head. If he logged in now, the livestream viewers would get to see his husband along with him.

Bai Luochuan wasn't in the habit of sharing his husband.

It was just like what he'd said when he snapped back at Yan Cheng earlier.

He knew anyone could download that string of data onto their phone. But to Bai Luochuan, the Qi Yu on each person's phone was a different Qi Yu.

Anyway, the Qi Yu on his phone belonged to him alone.

He wasn't letting anyone else see him.

So rather than stare blankly and waste this boring stretch of waiting time, he might as well get some sleep and replenish his energy.

It wasn't as if he hadn't slept in worse conditions back when he was a mercenary.

Bai Luochuan didn't mind.

He even slept especially soundly.

But unlike his relaxed state, things were different for the others.

For the other two, despair had begun the moment they walked through the door.

Chu Zhu told himself that he had to work hard to become the first person to find Qi Yu.

But after taking only a few steps forward, his legs went weak, and he leaned against the wall, unable to advance or retreat.

There was a door right in front of him.

But he didn't dare open it.

He agonized and hesitated like this for nearly five minutes.

Finally, Chu Zhu convinced himself and slowly pushed the door open with trembling fingertips.

The next second.

A blood-covered ghost lunged straight at him.

Just like Bai Luochuan, Chu Zhu stood his ground.

He neither dodged nor moved.

But his next reaction was rather different.

His eyes simply rolled back.

Before the ghost could even disappear, Chu Zhu had already toppled backward, stiff as a board.

The camera view shook violently.

It was accompanied by the production staff's anxious shouts: "Chu Zhu's fainted! Pause this livestream! Get a doctor over here to check on him!"

Then Chu Zhu's livestream feed went dark.

In a sense, Chu Zhu had let himself off the hook.

But the viewers had absolutely no intention of letting him off:

[Why bother? If you're not cut out for it, just accept your limitations. If you'd given up from the start, you wouldn't have embarrassed yourself this badly.]

[Let's all give him a break. Not only is he a coward, but he also lost his chance to compete for Qi Yu, and he even fainted on camera and made a huge fool of himself. He's so pitiful.]

[But you're not giving him a break either?]

[I have a question. The production team stepped in for Chu Zhu but not for Bai Luochuan. Doesn't that prove...]

[Bai Luochuan really was just asleep!]

[Bro, wake up. This is a horror escape room. How can you be so carefree?]

[So Yan Cheng's the only one left who's seriously looking for anyone?]

[I'm dying. How is this a dating show? It's pure comedy!]

The guests couldn't see the comments being discussed on screen.

But unlike Bai Luochuan and the other seekers, the people who had hidden earlier had each been given a tracking device by the production team. It displayed several little red dots marking the seekers' locations.

For the sake of the show, the production team hadn't shown any footage of Qi Yu and the others earlier.

But now the search party had suddenly dwindled to just one person.

The production team really had no other choice.

They could only turn on the livestream cameras on that side too.

That way, while watching Yan Cheng's first-person perspective, everyone could also see Qi Yu's and the others' reactions from a third-person perspective.

Compared with the baffling behavior of Bai Luochuan's group of three, things on Qi Yu's side could only be described as far more normal.

He Gui was a Beta.

Perhaps because he knew that showing fear on camera wouldn't win over any viewers, even though he broke out in a bit of a cold sweat throughout, he still followed the production team's instructions properly and found an empty room in a corner to hide in.

Lan Muxing, meanwhile, brought his acting skills to their absolute peak.

He trembled as he walked the whole way.

But he didn't fall apart like Chu Zhu.

He simply looked tearful, delicate, and frail.

Every so often, he touched his slightly reddened eyes.

He shrank into himself.

Making himself look a little smaller.

It stirred an endless urge to protect him among his fans.

The hiding spot he finally chose was the room beside the second-floor stairway.

Since the production team required those hiding to choose a location on the second floor or above, Lan Muxing chose the room where he would be easiest to find.

He couldn't team up with Qi Yu this round anyway.

So being the first one Yan Cheng found would actually be pretty good too.

With that thought in mind, Lan Muxing obediently kept his eyes on the tracker in his hand as he waited, watching the seekers' movements.

[Baby Mu Xing is just too cute! Such a tiny little bundle—even an Omega like me can't help loving him, okay!]

[Give me a chance! I want to protect Lan Muxing too! Don't be scared, baby! Don't look so pitiful! I'll come in and save you right now!]

[Stop dreaming. Lan Muxing belongs to Yan Cheng! His husband's about to save him!]

[Okay, but I'm a Lan Muxing fan, and after seeing those two Alphas standing together, what do I do if I ship Qi Yu and Lan Muxing more now...]

[Don't worry, bestie. It's perfectly normal to think that. After all, there's no shame in losing to Qi Yu. Qi-Xing is sweet too!]

[I want to see everyone fall for our Mu Xing!]

[Production team! My bro has spoken. Did you hear him? Make it happen!]

Once the cameras on that side went live, the discussion in the comments grew even more heated.

Aside from Lan Muxing, it was all about Qi Yu.

Because he was the only one of those three who didn't seem normal.

He hadn't simply found a place and stayed there.

Instead, he kept roaming back and forth across the building's upper two floors.

Whenever he came across a room, Qi Yu would push open the door and go inside.

He ignored the ghost projections and even examined and turned over every dummy corpse in the morgue.

As for this behavior of his.

The comments all said.

Qi Yu had probably been reminded of his wartime past.

He was remembering the sorrow and pain of those days.

But no one had imagined.

Qi Yu, the founding patriarch of lovesick fools, had nothing on his mind but his wife.

Previously, following the instructions in that text message, he and his wife had gone on a date in this kind of horror setting too.

Back then, he had played a corpse and waited for his wife to come find him.

Like the other corpses, he had lain in the morgue beneath a white sheet.

But his wife hadn't even needed to lift it to look. He had spotted him among the corpses at a glance.

Recalling the past.

Qi Yu's heart filled with sweetness.

Delighted, he went over and moved one of the fake corpses to the doorway.

Then he lay down on the bed himself.

He was ready.

He believed that once his wife experienced their past in person, he would fall head over heels for him again, successfully turning his status as a virtual boyfriend into a real-life one.

When would his wife get here?

He couldn't wait!