After Entering a Romance Reality Show Disguised as a Man to Win Over All the Female Leads - Chapter 20

He Huaiting’s answer truly left Rong Yu stunned.

She even ignored the fact that the other girl’s movements at this moment were not quite right.

No matter what, Rong Yu had never expected this to be the reason.

The expressionless strange people around them were still turning back to look at her. Rong Yu did not know whether it was her imagination, but the classmates closest to their position seemed to be slowly giving off black qi as well, like a precursor to becoming ghost-faced people.

Thinking of what He Huaiting had said, Rong Yu began to feel that the way every classmate around them looked at her was extremely strange.

So she withdrew her gaze and looked back at He Huaiting.

“Then… what about you?” Rong Yu asked softly. “Will you become like them too?”

He Huaiting’s answer was very decisive. “I won’t.”

Rong Yu nodded and gave an “oh,” somehow feeling a little disappointed.

This was the script He Huaiting had chosen. If He Huaiting would not become a ghost-faced person, did that mean she did not like Rong Yu?

This thought had only just surfaced in her heart when He Huaiting suddenly held her lower back and pushed her forward. The two of them, who had been facing each other, instantly pressed together, their scorching breaths tangling.

When Rong Yu raised her head, He Huaiting happened to lower hers to look at her. By accident, she brushed past Rong Yu’s soft lips, and a tingling tremor instantly spread through Rong Yu’s whole body.

For an instant, Rong Yu thought they were about to kiss.

Even the legs she had straddled over He Huaiting’s body went a little weak.

“I won’t let you hurt,” He Huaiting said in a low voice, her warm breath brushing against the side of Rong Yu’s face.

She was stronger than all of them.

He Huaiting thought.

She could hide her heart secretly and without showing a trace.

The reason He Huaiting chose this script was to tell Rong Yu this:

To someone like her, someone neglected among the crowd, Rong Yu was like a beam of light splitting apart the clouds and mist. She would make people who had lived in darkness for a long time desperately want to get closer.

Those people who turned into ghost faces had originally all had good grades, but they had been wooden and out of place among the group.

Just like He Huaiting’s childhood once had been.

Only Rong Yu’s heart could heal her.

But she was more rational and more calculating than those unclean things.

She would make Rong Yu, after one restart after another, become like a frog slowly boiled in warm water, clinging tightly to her as if grabbing a life-saving straw.

Like a frightened little bird fleeing for its life, voluntarily flying into her territory.

Thinking of this, she raised her hand and tucked the loose hair beside Rong Yu’s ear behind it.

This movement made Rong Yu feel as if He Huaiting’s cold, clear aura had spread all over her. Her every breath was filled with that crisp, cold fragrance.

He Huaiting’s words made Rong Yu let out a breath of relief.

She looked at the calm, self-possessed girl before her, who never revealed panic on her face, and could not help her heartbeat quickening.

She instinctively looked away.

Yet her body took the initiative to lean a little closer to He Huaiting, giving her an especially secure feeling.

Just like every time she stayed with Lian Langsheng.

From the main livestream camera angle, it looked as if she had buried herself against He Huaiting’s shoulder.

Only now did the livestream viewers finally understand.

[Wah wah wah, He Huaiting, don’t be too good at this! Wasn’t this script chosen by He Huaiting? She definitely wanted Little Brother Rong Yu to take the initiative to rely on her!!! So bad, hehehehe.]

[Female A, male O. This is female A, male O! He Huaiting absolutely has something going on. Who understands?!]

[Sss, He Huaiting, you scheming girl. She definitely isn’t as calm and self-possessed as she looks. Baby Yu is going to be tricked. covers mouth]

With a crisp crack, something snapped.

Sitting in the control room, Mu Shuiqing had snapped the pen in her hand. Her pale, wooden face showed no expression, but her eyes seemed to be burning with open flame.

The little paper figure in her arms had already jumped out of her chest pocket. With fire blazing all over its head, it pointed at He Huaiting on the screen and cursed furiously. Although it was only a paper figure and could not make a sound, the raging flames above its head proved its mood.

On the other side, Lin Mengxing raised a brow and looked at Rong Yu and He Huaiting on the screen. The smile still hung at the corners of her mouth, but it did not reach her eyes. Her fingers curled slightly, tapping the table in front of her. No one knew what she was thinking.

He Jiao, beside them, did not quite understand. “Why did they bring us here to watch this?”

So they could not help rushing in to kill someone?

Watching the livestream in this control room had no meaning for them at all.

Two enormous screens, each as tall as a person, hung on the wall before them. The one on the left was the direct camera feed. The one on the right was the livestream-room feed.

Lin Mengxing raised a brow and looked between the two screens, then sneered. “Maybe that director who has never appeared has some special fetish.”

Just then, in the main-camera livestream room, someone suddenly began frantically spamming the comments.

[The boss is here!!]

[Holy crap, it’s rich lady sister.]

[Is rich lady sister here to send today’s Super Chat?]

Heartbeat Moment did not have any particular fan categories, and the livestream room was basically full of passerby viewers. There had never been this kind of situation where everyone made a huge fuss and collectively sent comments for one viewer. Now, no one knew who had entered the livestream room, but quite a few viewers had started posting comments to join the excitement.

Mu Shuiqing, who was watching the livestream, frowned slightly and looked over.

She saw an eye-catching purple comment appear.

Bright Moon Shines on the West Tower: Mm. I came to see Rongrong.

Mu Shuiqing frowned, displeasure appearing on her face.

The other two had clearly seen it too. The smile at the corner of Lin Mengxing’s mouth almost failed to hold. “Who is this?”

He Jiao pondered for a while. “I’ve never seen them.”

Displeasure spread through Mu Shuiqing’s crimson eyes. “Didn’t you say you already experienced this once?”

He Jiao spread her hands. “You also said this life is different from the previous one. Rong Yu is completely different.”

Mu Shuiqing: “……”

Lin Mengxing beside them was also somewhat puzzled. “This person didn’t exist in the original plot.”

And judging from the current situation, she kept feeling this was not a simple fan.

The people behind the screen were still thinking, while Rong Yu in front of the screen had already heard the heavy, powerful footsteps of “Teacher Wang.”

The woman’s tall, burly figure soon appeared at the classroom door. With her appearance, the cold and strange atmosphere inside the classroom instantly reached its peak.

Rong Yu had not forgotten that in her previous few restarts, it was this person who had aggressively demanded that she sit at the front. Rong Yu had not obeyed, and then she had quickly died.

Because of the many repeated scripts, Rong Yu clearly remembered the same death result after every different reaction she had tried.

She instinctively grabbed He Huaiting’s arm.

The girl pressed down on the back of her hand. Warmth flowed from He Huaiting’s palm into her hand, immediately reassuring Rong Yu.

But unexpectedly, after “Teacher Wang” entered, she merely glanced at the two of them and quietly began class, despite that bloody mouth full of sharp teeth and her skin that was so pale it was abnormal.

Rong Yu had originally thought she would at least say something about her and He Huaiting’s movements. Unexpectedly, Teacher Wang did not make a single sound, as if she had not noticed anything wrong at all.

Rong Yu let out a long breath of relief.

She had guessed correctly. Finding He Huaiting and staying with her really was the only way to clear this instance.

At this moment, she suddenly remembered the small words above He Huaiting’s head, projected by the program team’s hologram when this instance first began—

[She is your deskmate, roommate, and companion, who appears aloof on the surface but is actually easy to talk to. The two of you are intimate and inseparable. You talk about everything. If you keep anything from her, she will be sad.]

[The two of you are intimate and inseparable. You talk about everything.]

Just like in reality.

At first glance, it looked like Rong Yu and her mother had always accompanied Lian Langsheng. In reality, it was her closest friend who helped her solve all kinds of problems.

All troubles seemed to be easily resolved before Lian Langsheng, even in the plot of this brain world.

So it turned out the program team had given her the hint from the very beginning. She had stubbornly wanted to finish it alone, which was why she had restarted the plot so many times for nothing.

Fortunately, she had chosen correctly now.

Rong Yu looked at the silent, indifferent He Huaiting before her, and excitement could not help surging in her heart.

Not only had she chosen correctly, she was now sitting on He Huaiting’s lap. Their bodies were pressed close together. Every breath the other girl took brushed beside her ear, and every rise and fall of her breathing moved Rong Yu along with it.

They seemed to have merged into one, maintaining the most intimate distance under everyone’s eyes.

The next part of the plot was so peaceful it was almost unreasonable.

After experiencing so many repeated bloody scenes, now eating, attending class, and doing homework with He Huaiting gave Rong Yu an oddly peaceful feeling, as if the years were quiet and good.

In a trance, it was as if she had truly returned to the high school days when she had gone to school with Lian Langsheng. That had been when the two of them were closest and most inseparable, and Rong Yu could not help feeling nostalgic.

Until that night, when it was time for the two of them to sleep.

Rong Yu followed He Huaiting back to the dormitory. Looking at the dorm room where only the two of them lived, she had thought it was fine before. But today, for some reason, she suddenly became bashful.

She thought of how she had sat face to face with He Huaiting in class for one whole period, and only after confirming that she temporarily would not encounter danger again had she turned around and sat back in her own seat. Her face immediately flushed red.

He Huaiting beside her, however, seemed not to notice. With a calm expression, she walked to the bed and began changing clothes.

Rong Yu knew that according to the character setting, in the program team’s eyes, she was a man disguised as a woman right now, so she should avoid looking.

Yet as if possessed, she walked to her own bed and sat down.

Her and He Huaiting’s beds were originally opposite each other, so one could see the other just by turning one’s head.

Now, He Huaiting faced the bed while changing clothes. Rong Yu could not see her face, but she could see the beautiful curve of her back.

The khaki sweater on the outside had been taken off by He Huaiting. All that remained on her body was a white shirt and the dark-brown pleated skirt below.

He Huaiting’s sexy, curvaceous figure was completely wrapped inside the white shirt. For comfort, the shirt was not very thick. Under the bright white incandescent light in the room at night, it faintly became translucent, allowing one to see the tight, fair skin beneath the clothes.

Rong Yu was still observing when she saw He Huaiting, with her back to her, raise her hands and begin unbuttoning the cuffs and collar.

The girl’s fingers were slender and powerful. When she moved, the blue-purple veins on the back of her hand could even be seen. Her skin gave off a lustrous glow beneath the light.

Rong Yu could not see He Huaiting’s expression as she unbuttoned her clothes, but it was not hard to imagine how she half-lowered her eyes, bowing her head to undo the tight buttons at her cuffs. Her pink fingertips leapt between each button, as elegant as a medieval noble.

The shirt cinched He Huaiting’s waist very slenderly. The instant the buttons were completely undone and the collar slid from her shoulders, Rong Yu even felt her heartbeat speed up. She could not help parting her lips, somewhat breathless.

In the next moment, the livestream camera went black again.

Only one line of small text appeared on the screen:

[Signal transmitting…]

This was a server malfunction. It could not connect to the internet. Even the control room’s camera feed lost signal along with it.

The viewers who had been enjoying the comments felt as if their throats had been grabbed.

[??? You beep—again?]

[Ahhhhhhh, fuck, I was shipping so hard! Where’s customer service? If your server is this bad, just burn it directly!]

The viewers in the comments anxiously began flooding the screen.

A purple comment slipped past unintentionally.

Bright Moon Shines on the West Tower: Heh.

In the control room, Mu Shuiqing’s face turned completely black. She turned around and was about to push the door open and leave.

Lin Mengxing raised her voice. “What’s the rush? They haven’t done anything.”

He Jiao turned to look at her.

Lin Mengxing narrowed her eyes and continued, “If you go now and ruin He Huaiting’s plot, she’ll be even happier than you. Guess who Rong Yu will protect.”

Mu Shuiqing’s eyes became even redder.

For a moment, it was hard to tell whether she was angry or about to cry. It made her face, which had always been paler and more wooden than most people’s, seem a little more vivid.

Mu Shuiqing puffed her cheeks and sat back down in her seat. Her words were almost squeezed out through gritted teeth.

“I’m doing this for Rongrong.”

Lin Mengxing raised a brow at her and said nothing more.

Inside the script, Rong Yu had no idea what was happening outside. The girl before her had already taken off all her upper-body clothes with her back to Rong Yu, bent down, picked up her nightdress from the side of the bed, and raised her arms to slip it on.

When she lifted her arms, her shoulder blades rose along with them, like a butterfly about to spread its wings and fly.

Rong Yu could even imagine what that butterfly would feel like when touched: warm, smooth, clinging to her fingertips, trembling slightly as her hand kept moving downward…

When that butterfly was once again covered by the nightdress He Huaiting put on, Rong Yu had not yet come back to herself. She stared blankly at He Huaiting’s back.

Until He Huaiting took off the pleated skirt underneath, properly hung up her clothes, and turned back to look at her.

Those clear golden pupils did not carry the slightest extra meaning, yet they left Rong Yu’s secret impulse from earlier nowhere to hide. She quickly looked away, hugged her own pajamas, and went into the bathroom.

Only after hiding in the bathroom did Rong Yu finally recover completely from that ambiguous impulse.

Thinking that she had actually been entranced watching her closest friend’s consciousness body and had almost been discovered, she was so ashamed she wished she could find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

She did want to seduce her closest friend and date her inside her brain world, but when facing He Huaiting’s calm, self-possessed, unwavering eyes, she still felt awkward and restrained, carrying a guilty unease.

Rong Yu lowered her head and looked at her obvious bodily reaction. She took a deep breath, changed clothes, and waited several more minutes to calm herself before pushing the door open and walking out.

When she walked out of the bathroom, the livestream room and the control room cameras just happened to return to normal.

The livestream room, the control room, and Rong Yu, who had just stepped out, all simultaneously saw He Huaiting already lying in bed.

Only, the place where she lay was not quite right.

She was on Rong Yu’s bed.

Rong Yu froze. “This… isn’t this a little inappropriate…”

Yet in her heart, a hidden excitement rose uncontrollably.

Lian Langsheng’s consciousness body was taking the initiative to invite her into bed. She had even already lain down on Rong Yu’s bed.

How could there be such a good thing? Did He Huaiting even know what she was doing?

Rong Yu hesitated as she walked to the bedside. Looking at He Huaiting’s clear eyes, an indescribable guilt rose in her heart.

A part of her closest friend’s consciousness body was worried about her safety, yet she wanted to sleep with her.

But just as Rong Yu finished speaking, the surrounding space suddenly began glowing red in a strange way.

The ceiling light in the room had not been turned off yet, but the brightness had already begun to dim. In the darkness of night, once the light dimmed, things became indistinct. The red light gradually thickened, illuminating the room with a bloody glow.

From outside the door, there seemed to come a thump, thump sound. It sounded like someone was hitting the floor with bones.

As the sound drew closer and closer, the red light in the room became increasingly obvious.

Rong Yu clearly felt a cold wind instantly crawl up from her ankles to her whole body. Frightened, she quickly rushed into the quilt and hugged He Huaiting.

She buried herself tightly in her arms.

The soft, warm breath in her arms instantly dispersed the fear on Rong Yu’s body. That strange, damp chill seemed to be abruptly blocked outside.

Rong Yu was startled to discover that the eerie sound outside had vanished. Even the red light in the room had returned to normal.

She let out a long breath of relief, then began to feel something was wrong.

But she could not say what exactly was wrong.

She only felt that the surrounding environment had reacted far too quickly.

“Huaiting—”

Rong Yu wanted to ask a question.

But she was interrupted by He Huaiting getting up to turn off the light.

The girl turned off the ceiling-light switch beside the bed. The room at night immediately sank into darkness. In the pitch-black environment where one could not see one’s hand in front of one’s face, Rong Yu could only see a hazy shadow approaching her again.

Carrying a cool, faint fragrance.

“Sleep,” He Huaiting said in a low voice.

Their distance was extremely close. As she spoke, her red lips brushed past Rong Yu’s long lashes. Rong Yu instinctively blinked.

Thinking of how the space around them became strange and abnormal the moment she left He Huaiting, Rong Yu did not pull away. Obediently, she curled up in He Huaiting’s arms and closed her eyes.

If the person lying beside her were Lin Mengxing, Rong Yu might still be vigilant. But the one beside her was the indifferent, cold, stunning He Huaiting, who could not possibly do anything else.

Lying in her arms, Rong Yu felt a long-lost sense of security.

She had thought she might not be able to fall asleep, but unexpectedly, the moment she closed her eyes, she fell asleep.

Just as she sank into sleep, the girl beside her, whose eyes had been tightly shut all along, abruptly opened those golden, feline-like eyes and quietly gazed at Rong Yu’s sleeping face.

The missions in infinite-flow game instances mostly used dark backgrounds: boundless starry skies and dense, shadowy secret rooms rich with color.

He Huaiting had long since grown used to observing the scenery around her in airtight darkness. So inside the moonlit dormitory, she could see even Rong Yu’s delicate eyelashes clearly.

Those golden pupils carefully traced the exquisite, beautiful features of the person beside her, from slender brows to tightly closed eyes, over the high bridge of her nose, finally landing on her delicate, full red lips.

Rong Yu’s appearance carried an immaturity that blurred age. Although the two of them were clearly not that far apart in age, Rong Yu indeed looked much younger.

When she slept quietly, she was like an obedient doll. Even her breathing was especially shallow and light.

This kind of peaceful sleep was something He Huaiting had never possessed in any instance.

Even in the seemingly calmest puzzle-type game instances, while you sank into sleep, other players would secretly sneak into your room to kill you.

After all, the number of survivors in an instance was fixed. As long as extra players survived, the instance would not stop.

When He Huaiting had first been pulled into an instance, she had not yet learned to keep her distance from others.

In a deep-sea escape instance, she had once saved a little girl less than thirteen years old.

Unexpectedly, the girl had been another player’s younger sister. She had deliberately waited until He Huaiting let down her guard and slept to rest, then opened a hole in He Huaiting’s only boat. If He Huaiting had not woken midway, she would have become a ghost forever trapped at the bottom of the deep-sea instance, controlled by the instance and stripped of personal consciousness.

From then on, He Huaiting never again interacted with other players in instances.

Her only communication with others was limited to team missions where cooperation was unavoidable.

Rong Yu was the only person who could sleep beside her without making her feel disgusted or resistant.

Looking at Rong Yu’s sleeping face, she could even feel the emotions in her chest gradually slowing. Even her breathing calmed along with it.

She reached out and stroked the air above Rong Yu’s cheek, carefully tracing the outline of her features.

The system in her ear began frantically sounding alarms again.

[Warning! Warning! Player He Huaiting’s emotional fluctuations are too great. Player, please pay attention!]

[Warning! Warning! NPC Rong Yu is a dangerous figure. Do not approach without authorization! I repeat, NPC Rong Yu is a dangerous figure. Do not approach without authorization!]

He Huaiting carefully circled Rong Yu in her arms and closed her eyes, ignoring it.

There were only three hours left before the end of the instance. She would not fall asleep, but she would quietly experience this rare warmth.

The livestream viewers drooled at the sight.

[Wuwuwu, I want to hug Little Brother Rong Yu too. Sister He is fine too!]

[www, I don’t want to watch the other instances. Can this exciting one continue for two more days? I really don’t want to watch other scripts, www.]

[Imprisoning you, enveloping you—outside of me, wherever you go, you’ll die. So you can only obediently and peacefully stay under my wings. I ship it. More, give me more. I can still write!!!]

Only Mu Shuiqing in the control room gritted her teeth while watching the comments. She picked up a pillow from the lounge beside her and wanted to open the door and leave.

Lin Mengxing stopped her with quick eyes and quick hands. “Uh, what are you doing?”

Mu Shuiqing looked at He Huaiting intimately holding Rong Yu on the camera and felt her head glowing green.

“Offering myself as a pillow mat.”

Lin Mengxing glanced at the pillow in her arms.

This was truly offering herself as a pillow and mat.

The corner of her mouth twitched. “…I advise you to calm down.”

She spread her hands to soothe Mu Shuiqing. “If you violate the program team’s rules, you’ll be kicked out. Did you forget? The program team follows the rules very strictly.”

She pointed at the comment from Bright Moon Shines on the West Tower still hanging in the comments. “Maybe the moment you leave, you’ll just happen to make room for someone else.”

Mu Shuiqing instantly fell silent and sat back down through gritted teeth.

·

Rong Yu did not know how the program team had done it. She only knew that when she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the inn the program team had initially arranged for her.

The scenes of spending a day with He Huaiting yesterday were like a mysterious and strange dream. Once the dream ended, she had returned to the original starting point.

Looking at the clean, pure white ceiling of the inn room above her, she still felt a hazy sense of unreality.

Until there was suddenly a knock at her door.

Rong Yu immediately got up from the bed and leaned close to the door to look outside through the peephole.

But she saw nothing.

After yesterday’s constant inexplicable murder scenes, she had become much more cautious. Since no more sound came from outside, she quietly stood there and did not open the door, afraid of encountering another uncontrollable event.

The livestream viewers had already gotten up early and were waiting to watch the stream. Early in the morning, the livestream heat was already steadily maintained at over 6.9 million. But from their perspective, like the cameraman, they could only see the scene outside the door.

Seeing that Rong Yu did not open the door for a long time, the viewers in the comments laughed loudly.

[We told you not to bully Rongrong! Now look, she completely refuses to cooperate with your plot.]

[xsr, who would dare follow this plot? Hhhh. Maybe there’s a knife at the door, and the moment you open it, you’re gone.]

Rong Yu did not know what the livestream viewers were saying. She also had not had time to check her phone.

After standing at the door for a while, a card suddenly slid in through the gap beneath the door.

Rong Yu: “……”

This kind of behavior—sliding a card through a door crack—was already very hard to accomplish in modern society. Only a place like this, where the door was not electronic and was completely opened with an old-fashioned key, could achieve this kind of retro feat.

The card slipped through the door and fell to the ground with a plop.

Rong Yu squatted down and carefully picked up the card, flipping it open. She saw a handwritten line on it—

Student Rong Yu:

Hello.

Our company has received your job application résumé.

Because your phone has been unreachable, we have specially sent someone to deliver this message. Please be sure to arrive at Room 103, No. 47, Building 3, Qianhua Garden before 8:30 a.m. to attend the interview.

Rong Yu quickly went to check her phone, only to discover it had actually shut down.

She hurriedly plugged it in to charge. When the phone powered on, a flood of missed-call notifications popped up on the screen. The current time was displayed—

8:07 a.m.

Only twenty-three minutes remained before she had to go to the interview.

Rong Yu opened the navigation app and searched for the exact location. She discovered that the place she needed to go was only a ten-minute trip from the inn where she was currently staying.

So Rong Yu waited another five minutes, letting the phone charge for a bit. During that time, she speedily washed up and dressed. Then she immediately set the phone to low-power mode, rushed out of the inn, and quickly hailed a taxi to Qianhua Garden.

After getting in the taxi and telling the driver where she wanted to go, Rong Yu was lowering her head and tidying her clothes when she heard a gentle, sexy female voice.

“Mm, okay.”

Rong Yu froze.

For a taxi driver who worked in a car all year round, such a gentle, calm voice was truly somewhat abrupt.

Hearing it, she raised her head and looked over, but she did not see the other person’s full face. She could only see a small portion of a beautifully curved side profile and fluffy, sexy brown waves.

The woman wore a rare sleeveless, stand-collar qipao in bluish green. The tailoring was fitted but not overly tight, allowing the pure silk fabric to perfectly outline her curvaceous figure.

The full, upright line of her chest was wrapped beneath elegant embroidered camellias. Farther down was a slender waist with a perfect curve and full hips.

Even with her back to Rong Yu, sitting in an ordinary and even somewhat old taxi driver’s seat, she still could not hide that overly exquisite waist-to-hip ratio. She looked like a narrow-necked blue-and-white porcelain vase carved with beautiful camellia patterns.

In the fast-paced modern world, very few people still wore qipao.

Rong Yu suspected she might be a staff member from the program team. But a pure silk qipao with such exquisite hand embroidery—just this one qipao probably cost more than many people’s two months of salary. No matter how one looked at it, it did not seem like something the program team’s wages could support.

She suddenly remembered that on the first day she participated in the program, she seemed to have seen a woman wearing a qipao too.

That bright, graceful face, like burnished gold beneath rain, was still fresh in her memory.

Only, the taxi driver had her back to Rong Yu, and even the rearview mirror had been deliberately adjusted. Rong Yu could not see her full face at all, but she could see her own figure in the rearview mirror.

During the moment she hesitated slightly, the car had already stopped at the entrance of Qianhua Garden.

Rong Yu did not have time to think about anything else. She quickly unlocked her phone and was about to ask about the fare when the woman had already spoken gently.

“The distance was too short. No charge. Get out.”

Rong Yu was still hesitating when the woman pointed at the clock on the dashboard. “You should be in a hurry, right? It’s already 8:27.”

This sentence instantly made Rong Yu stop hesitating. She thanked her softly, immediately turned, got out of the car, and ran toward the Qianhua Garden community ahead.

After she left, the woman who had kept her back to Rong Yu finally turned her head, revealing a face that lost nothing to the four female guests.

The woman looked in the direction Rong Yu had left and curled her lips in a light smile.

“Saw the real person.”

The viewers who had followed Rong Yu’s perspective and silently watched the livestream through the camera inside the car suddenly became alert.

[Why do I… why do I feel like she’s so familiar?]

[Ahhhhhhh, I remember! Isn’t this the staff member who came to deliver the key to Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing after they won first place in the haunted house game on the first day of filming?]

[Right, right!! I remember too. So pretty, www. There are really too many beautiful sisters this season. So happy, so blessed, www.]

[No, no, what I mean is, I feel like I’ve seen her outside this program before. She’s very familiar. I just can’t remember who she is.]

[Sister above, now that you mention it, I also feel like I have an impression of her. It seems like I saw her at some award ceremony. No, she isn’t a staff member. I think she was the one receiving an award.]

[Actress?]

[No, no, not an actress.]

Rong Yu could not see the viewers’ comments. Her phone had not charged much, so she could only turn off the internet and maintain low-power mode. She could not watch the livestream either.

At this moment, she could only rely on herself to fumble through. After asking the community security guard for the exact building location, she ran all the way toward the place written on the card.

The place the program team had given her was Building 3, No. 47. It did not look like a residential building. It looked more like a research institute.

From the outside, the cold, pale, square-shaped building was covered in specially made glass with isolated optical fibers.

Rong Yu glanced at the time, which had already reached 8:29. Having no time to think, she rushed into the building to look for Room 107.

But from the first room she saw upon entering, all the room numbers started with 2.

This building did not seem to have a first floor.

Rong Yu ran an entire circle along the corridor, but she did not see Room 103. She did not even see a living person.

At this moment, the time had already reached exactly 8:30 a.m.

Before Rong Yu could figure out what to do, she suddenly heard an urgent alarm.

Along with red and white beams flashing through the corridor, several tightly closed doors suddenly opened from the inside. More than a dozen middle-aged men and women in white hurriedly put on lab coats and rushed toward the end of the corridor with anxious expressions.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry. See what happened.”

“What’s going on? A problem this early in the morning?”

“Stop talking. If something goes wrong with this, none of us will have an easy time!”

Rong Yu watched them hurriedly pass her and rush toward the depths of the corridor with frowns. She quickly reached out and stopped one of them.

“Hello, um…”

She looked at the anxious people around them and tentatively asked the young woman she had stopped, “Excuse me, do you know where Room 103 is?”

As soon as she finished speaking, a middle-aged man who had just hurried past them in front abruptly stopped. His bright eyes fixed tightly on her.

“Which room did you say?”

The man was probably someone who had spent years doing research and held a certain status. The moment he spoke, several people in the originally hurried crowd immediately stopped along with him and looked over when they heard him.

Rong Yu felt her heart tighten under their gazes. For some reason, she felt a little uneasy.

“…Room 103.”

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Author’s Note:

Ruan Mingyu: Mm, I’m making you watch from the control room so you can experience how I feel.

[Ah~ I won’t tell you that my beloved yuri author followed me, la la la.]