On the second floor of the villa, there are seven paintings hanging on the walls of the corridor at equal distances, with the same length, width, and height. Each painting depicts a person.
Chu Huai is a bit nearsighted, and he can’t see clearly from a distance. He just feels that something seems off with those paintings.
He murmurs and takes out his phone to find the indoor map with the second-floor corridor. He gradually enlarges the image and looks at the paintings, which become clearer and clearer. Suddenly, his pupils shrink.
He knows what the problem is.
It’s the eyes.
In the indoor map, the people in the seven paintings have eyes, but the ones on the wall don’t.
Jin Tianyi follows Chu Huai’s gaze and looks over. He is stunned for a moment and instantly understands, as he has also seen the indoor map.
To confirm, Chu Huai turns around and says to everyone: “It’s getting late. Let’s pack up and go upstairs to choose our rooms and rest. We’ll have a good time tomorrow when we’re fully energized.”
The bottom floor of the villa has a large living room and entertainment area where people can karaoke, play video games, and watch movies on a big screen. The upper floor is for tenants to live in.
Suddenly, the word bloody appears in everyone’s minds: [Please choose a room on the second floor for yourself.]
Chu Huai comes back to his senses and takes out a room key from his bag. “The rooms are all the same. Just pick any key you want.”
Everyone takes a key and goes upstairs. There are seven rooms on the upper floor, each with a painting hanging in front of it.
Luo Ziyang scratches his head and asks: “Shen, which room does this key correspond to?”
He compares his key to the others and says in surprise: “Every key looks exactly the same!”
Chu Huai is surprised too and secretly glances at Jin Tianyi. He says vaguely: “I don’t know either. There are just seven keys. You can all try them, and you’ll eventually find the right one.”
As he speaks, he approaches the paintings on the wall and carefully examines them.
The painting in front of him depicts a man with a red face and thick hair, drawn in a few simple strokes with an abstract style.
The painting without eyes is not scary, just the empty eye sockets look a bit strange.
“How could there be no eyes?” Chu Huai deliberately exclaimed in surprise to convey information to the other residents.
“What no eyes?” Everyone immediately pretended to be curious and gathered around.
Chu Huai handed them his phone.
The two new girls looked at the pitch-black eyes in the painting on the phone screen and their legs suddenly went weak, but they still tried to act calm.
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Chu Huai looked up and deliberately paid attention to that painting. Then he inserted the key into the lock in front of him, but didn’t open it.
It’s not this room.
Everyone tried and soon found their matching rooms.
Chu Huai’s door had a girl wearing a grass skirt on it, while Jin Tianyi’s had a man holding a coin.
Chu Huai paid special attention and found that Xia Yu, the girl with white flowers, opened the door with a naked woman in the painting.
Chu Huai glanced at the key in his hand, his thoughts racing. Suddenly, he grabbed Jin Tianyi’s hand and acted coquettishly: “Darling, can we sleep in the same room?”
With their fingers interlaced, he leaned close to Jin Tianyi, looked into his eyes, and secretly switched the key in his palm with Jin Tianyi’s.
“Sister, I can’t sit still when you do this.” Jin Tianyi took the key and sweetly smiled, flirting and quietly using the key to open his own room.
Chu Huai stared at Jin Tianyi inserting the key into his own door and then…
The door actually opened.
He instantly understood.
The rooms and residents were matched, and others couldn’t open that door. So the key didn’t have any special properties, it was the person who had them.
These paintings must have hinted at something.
Following the routine of horror movies, the main course should be in the next two days. Tonight, there may only be some empty threats, as the plot needs some time to unfold.
Chu Huai is not afraid, but he is annoyed by this inefficient way of communication.
They are actors under the camera, constantly monitored and every word and action must conform to their characters.
Although the script did not mention any punishment for going out of character, it strongly warned the tenants not to challenge the rules. Chu Huai has a preliminary guess: if the actors make a mistake, will they be immediately replaced? If so, what kind of replacement will they get?
Or perhaps they will simply have their roles reduced and become cannon fodder.
After all, the parts that are cut can be filled in by other actors.
No one dares to take risks.
The other tenants have already entered their respective rooms, and Chu Huai cannot share the results of his experiment with them. He can only hope that they will be vigilant.
Lost in thought, Chu Huai saw the bloody words appear in his mind.
[Actor Chu Huai did not follow the original script during filming.]
Chu Huai is startled.
Is this a punishment for himself? After all, the previous blood message required “tenants to choose their own rooms separately.” If he and Jin Tianyi live together, would that violate the main storyline?
The message continues: [The unexpected but logical plot deviation of the actor Chu Huai has gained some director’s favor. Note: Three director’s favor can be exchanged for one N shot”
Chu Huai lowers his gaze, hiding his surprise.
Director’s favor? N-shot? What is this?
Does the film start from the characters? As long as they don’t go out of character or deviate from the main plot, branching off the storyline is acceptable?
If that’s the case, then his actions should have little impact on the main storyline. Otherwise, the world would have to make corrections.
Does that mean that, at least for tonight, their room is safe?
Realizing this, Chu Huai temporarily puts his mind at ease and watches Jin Tianyi slowly change clothes. But he can’t help but think, what if the main storyline requires them to “do” something…
Damn it.
He shook his head violently, tossing out all the annoying thoughts.
Jin Tianyi had taken off his shirt, revealing his slender back. His abs were very beautiful, evenly distributed, and well-shaped, seemingly containing amazing explosive power.
Chu Huai couldn’t help but take a few more glances.
When preparing to sleep after taking a shower, Chu Huai hesitated in front of the big bed and then climbed onto it in a fit of despair.
After all, they had slept together before.
When Jin Tianyi really turned off the lights, Chu Huai couldn’t fall asleep, tossing and turning.
Being held by Jin Tianyi, Chu Huai began to complain about his loud breathing and noisy heartbeat.
Why did he suddenly have such a strong presence? Clearly, he used to sleep so soundly.
Chu Huai couldn’t help but turn over again, and Jin Tianyi couldn’t take it anymore, his voice hoarse: “Can you stop moving?”
Chu Huai thought to himself that he was still bothering you, and to express his dissatisfaction, he deliberately turned over a few more times, and after finishing, he looked at him teasingly in the dark, his expression surprisingly seductive.
Jin Tianyi laughed out of anger, feeling that he couldn’t let him get away with it.
He then punished him by suddenly holding their wrists and kissing him.
Chu Huai widened his eyes, symbolically resisted for a moment, and then began to respond in a daze, secretly sighing at how skilled his kissing technique was.
“My job is to act,” Jin Tianyi stopped and leaned close to his ear, saying with a meaningful smile.
Chu Huai’s hand around his neck paused, blushing for a second, and then whispered softly: “Me too.”
After all, he couldn’t lose face.
Jin Tianyi lightly sneered, and deep laughter rippled in his eyes: “I was lying.”
Chu Huai was about to reply “Me too” but was stopped by Jin Tianyi’s gaze.
Chu Huai looked at him squarely and said firmly: “I’m really just acting.”
“Um,” Jin Tianyi nodded, leaning close to his ear with deep meaning: “Then I think you might be better at acting below than above.”
Chu Huai: “…Damn it.”
His face turned red, immediately pushed him away and turned over to sleep facing the other way. Now he was completely behaving.
The next morning, everyone went downstairs as expected, and as they were eating breakfast around the table with the TV on, a man’s crazy screams suddenly came from the news.
Everyone’s hearts trembled slightly, instantly attracted by the news.
The news reported that a man’s wife had cuckolded him, and in retaliation, the man had stabbed his wife to death in the middle of the night.
When arrested by the police, the man was still hysterically shouting: “The slut must die!”
He was already somewhat delirious, laughing wildly: “She’s just the first! She’ll die first! And her lover will be next!”
Chu Huai’s pupils tightened slightly.
This instance/film feels like that One Hollywood Horror movie, where a group of 7 people also went to a cabin in the woods, and then being killed by monsters according to their trait, to keep a god from not waking.
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*keep a god from waking up.
I think it’s death flag!
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