Chu Huai was led along and his palms began to sweat.
As his eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, they felt their way toward the main valve.
Jin Tianyi fiddled around for a while and reluctantly said: “It’s not a problem with the villa’s main valve. It seems like the entire area is experiencing a power outage. We might have to wait until morning like this.”
This was bad news. Their limited visibility and mobility in the darkness made them vulnerable to danger if they encountered any ghosts.
The fat guy and the sailor-suited girl finally found their way over in the dark.
Everyone gathered together and Jin Tianyi searched the villa but couldn’t find a backup power source. In the end, he only managed to bring over some colorful candles.
Chu Huai leaned closer and took a good look at the small handful of candles, his expression strange. “Did you get these from the fridge?”
Jin Tianyi raised an eyebrow. “How did you know?”
Chu Huai picked up a candle. Each one was only the size of a index finger.
“…Because these are the candles from your birthday cake,” he said.
They had brought a cake with them last night and stored it in the fridge.
Jin Tianyi: “…”
Birthday? A sudden realization dawned on Chu Huai.
Of course! Today was Zhou Ling’s birthday! They had come to the villa for this reason!
He could be sure that they were still in a safe time period. Rather than waiting around aimlessly, it was better to try and earn some favorability points with the director.
He didn’t know how many times Jin Tianyi could forgive him, but he was only one step away.
Jin Tianyi asked Luo Ziyang for a lighter and lit one of the candles.
Chu Huai looked up at him, making the best of a bad situation, and smiled sweetly. “Little Ling, can I celebrate your birthday with you?”
Jin Tianyi was taken aback and played along, forcing a bitter smile. “Birthday? Today is a day of mourning, not a true birthday…”
He didn’t finish speaking before he was silenced by Chu Huai, who lowered his gaze and stared at the candle that had not yet been extinguished in his palm.
“Look at it,” Chu Huai said. “It’s been almost blown out several times, but as soon as the wind subsides, it immediately recovers…”
Jin Tianyi understood the hope in his clear eyes.
Without hesitation, Chu Huai went to the fridge and took out a cake, placing it on the coffee table. He took the candle from Jin Tianyi’s hand and carefully inserted it one by one, with a solemn expression.
After this birthday, Zhou Ling would be twenty years old.
Finally, both his youth and he would have two words in their age.
Chu Huai half-knelt in front of the coffee table, and the dim and faint light cast a warm hue on his fair and handsome face.
Everyone also gathered around, knowing that it was just acting, but there was still some emotion in their eyes.
Only Chu Huai was still able to forget his character and take the time to act out a play that seemed like redemption.
In the pitch-black night, the candles were lit one by one, and Chu Huai finally saw the two chocolate figures hugging each other in the center of the cake.
It was Shen Huai and Zhou Ling.
Jin Tianyi’s gaze fell on Chu Huai, full of tenderness, but the word “wish” appeared in his mind.
[Note: This plot is deviating from the original script and is derived from the plot of “Zhou Ling and Shen Huai’s Mutual Understanding”.]
[The love between Zhou Ling and Shen Huai inspired the director, who decided to temporarily modify the script and give the actors playing Zhou Ling and Shen Huai some benefits.]
[Benefit: Same life and death.]
[Same life and death introduction: Not seeking to be born on the same day, month, and year, but seeking to die on the same day, month, and year.]
[Positive effect: Zhou Ling and Shen Huai can predict the danger that will happen to each other ten seconds in advance.]
[Negative effect: If one of them dies, the other will immediately become a target chased by ghosts, which will continue until the end of the movie, ending with the death of the other.]
[Note: This benefit is a choice trigger, and the choice belongs to actor Jin Tianyi. If he chooses to accept it, he only needs to make a wish to the candle to share the same life and death with Shen Huai. If he chooses to give up, he can make other wishes.]
Chu Huai also received the word “wish” prompt, and his mood was complex.
He… of course, he would like to accept it.
Unconsciously, killing the ghosts inside his body was no longer his only goal in the world of horror.
He was someone else’s nightmare when he was alive. For so many years, he desperately told himself that as long as he lived for himself, it would be enough because no one cared about his life or death.
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But… Jin Tianyi’s actions slowly showed him that he was also worthy of love and cherish.
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As Chu Huai thought of this, he was about to shake his head slightly at Jin Tianyi, but Jin Tianyi didn’t even look up, he just clasped his hands together in front of the candle and said loudly: “I lived for twenty years. The first eighteen years were for my parents, and the last two years were for my own desires. The rest of my life…”
Chu Huai realized what he was going to say next and was shocked. He immediately rushed up to cover his mouth to stop him, but Jin Tianyi had already guessed it! He restrained his wrist and continued to say calmly: “I want to live for Xiaohuai and Xiaohuai’s beloved Zhou Ling for the rest of my life.”
Chu Huai froze.
He didn’t say Shen Huai, he didn’t say Sister, he said… Xiaohuai.
Just like calling him.
Xiao Huai.
Jin Tianyi’s voice was low and pleasant, with a gentle firmness that was either too immersed in the role or a true expression of his feelings, making people willing to drown in it.
“If there is no me,” Jin Tianyi paused, sneered lightly, as if indifferent: “then let’s die together here. If Xiaohuai dies, I will not live alone.”
Chu Huai stared, and his brain stopped thinking.
Jin Tianyi finally looked at Chu Huai: “Xiaohuai, I’m sorry, I woke up too late, making you wait too long and lonely for too long.”
Making you wait too long, lonely for too long.
Chu Huai didn’t know what he was thinking, his emotions were a bit out of control, and he immediately buried his head, afraid of being discovered.
Luo Ziyang looked at Jin Tianyi, then at Chu Huai with lowered eyelids, suddenly realizing that the boss was really good at seizing opportunities!!
Chu Huai suddenly looked up, staring at Jin Tianyi fiercely, as if he was about to curse him out loud: Are you fucking crazy, saying such cheesy things like we’re going to die?
Jin Tianyi knew he liked to resist, so he just smiled and suddenly hugged him tightly.
With reassurance.
Chu Huai stiffened, but did not try to break free. His face turned red as he murmured that he was only acting. After hesitating for a moment, he quietly slipped his arm around Jin Tianyi.
The bloody words appeared, forming the bond of “live and die together.”
Jin Tianyi’s eyes flickered with a sense of accomplishment.
Every word he said was true, but also had a purpose.
Having lived for too long, he used to think that he could wait for anything. He had the patience and time for it.
But later on, he suddenly realized that if he truly liked someone, he shouldn’t let them constantly guess his thoughts.
He and Chu Huai were not in competition, nor were they playing games of seduction. He didn’t need to play hard to get. If Chu Huai was unsure, he would tell him over and over again until he had no doubts left.
For a long time, Jin Tianyi heard Chu Huai stubbornly say: “I don’t want to die with you. If you die, I’ll immediately find another pretty boy!”
Jin Tianyi chuckled. “Okay, okay, I got it, sister.”
The bloody words simultaneously appeared in the minds of Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi: [Congratulations to actors Jin Tianyi and Chu Huai for fully developing their characters, enhancing the completeness of the plot, and perfectly fixing the bug in the ‘birthday’ scene without being asked to do so. Each actor has earned one point of the director’s favorability.]
At this moment, Chu Huai got the prompt: [Director’s favorability accumulated to three points. Do you want to exchange for one N shot?]
Chu Huai confirmed, hoping that the bloody words could explain the use of the N shots, but was disappointed when it returned to calmness.
Although the windows and doors were tightly closed, a gust of wind suddenly blew, extinguishing the faint candlelight. The room was plunged into darkness in an instant.
Outside, there were no stars or moon.
The sailor-suited girl screamed in terror and rushed toward them in a panic. Chu Huai had previously informed everyone that she was the next target of the ghost, so everyone picked up whatever they could find as weapons and took a protective stance.
In the darkness, Luo Ziyang looked up and faintly saw some crimson flashes, like a dragon lurking in a cave. He rubbed his eyes desperately, finally confirming that it was not his illusion.
There really were four red dots there.
Luo Ziyang pulled Chu Huai’s hand and gestured for him to look.
The sense of direction was extremely poor in the darkness. Chu Huai glanced and found that the red dots seemed to be moving. He frowned tightly, pondered for a moment, and finally knew what it was.
“Teddy is dead, and there are also eyes on the painting in front of his room. Together with Xia Yu’s, there are exactly four.” Chu Huai said calmly.
Everyone was chilled to the bone.
Chu Huai looked at his watch and realized that it was already past 11 o’clock unconsciously.
The fat man trembled and suddenly said: “Did you guys hear that…?”
“What…” Luo Ziyang was about to ask when he heard the crisp sound of something falling to the ground.
One after another, getting closer and closer, everyone’s hearts were in their throats. The thing that fell to the ground should be some kind of metal, not large in size, and possibly round because Chu Huai heard it spinning on the ground.
What is it…?
Although sailor suits represent jealousy, he had imagined every possible way for the sailor-suited girl to die, but none of them were related to this eerie sound of metal hitting the ground.
Did he miss something?
The villa was locked, and terrifying events could happen in the rooms. They had nowhere to escape.
Teddy’s death had told everyone that even if they were gathered together, they were not necessarily safe, and the ghost still had the ability to kill them.
Jin Tianyi frowned: “What? What sound?” He held his breath and listened carefully, but heard nothing.
Chu Huai looked at him in astonishment. Jin Tianyi wouldn’t joke about this kind of thing. If he didn’t hear it, then he really didn’t hear it…
A painful palpitation suddenly struck Chu Huai’s heart, causing him to panic and despair.
In ten seconds, he immediately reacted and his blood almost froze.
The “to live and die together” strategy worked!
A buzzing sound echoed in Chu Huai’s mind as he watched the shadow suddenly appear behind Jin Tianyi. His heart contracted violently and his pupils dilated.
A ghostly hand reached out toward Jin Tianyi…
Five, four, three…
“Be careful!!”
Chu Huai was about to rush over when Jin Tianyi finally reacted and dodged forward, narrowly avoiding the ghostly hand that grazed his shoulder and left a bloody mark. Fortunately, they were safe from harm.
The ghostly hand disappeared.
Everything happened in a split second, so fast that others had not even seen what happened before the crisis was resolved.
Chu Huai gasped for breath and quickly checked Jin Tianyi’s injuries, asking: “Are you okay?”
Jin Tianyi shook his head with a sarcastic smile, indicating that there was no need to worry.
Chu Huai asked: “Can’t you hear or see anything?”
Jin Tianyi gritted his teeth in pain as Chu Huai quickly bandaged his wounds and said: “No.”
Chu Huai was filled with anxiety.
How could this happen? The third victim clearly should be the sailor girl. Why did the ghost attack Jin Tianyi?
Jin Tianyi asked: “What was that sound?”
Chu Huai remained silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed with anger in his eyes, feeling deceived. “It’s the sound of coins falling.”
Luo Ziyang asked: “Coins? Why are you so sure, Shen?”
Chu Huai turned to look at him and said: “Do you remember the painting in front of Xiaoling’s room?”
Luo Ziyang scratched his head, trying to remember. “It seems to be a hand holding…”
His face suddenly changed.
The man holding the gold coins.
The fat man was in a state of collapse and shook him frantically: “Didn’t you say that the third damn one was Gao Yuan? Why is it like this? The order you told us was fake? Why did you deceive us?!”
The sailor-suited girl named Gao Yuan was angry: “What do you mean?!”
Jin Tianyi coldly tore off the fat man’s hand, and the fat man was taken aback and almost fell to the ground due to inertia.
“He didn’t deceive you, the order of the book arrangement was fake.” Jin Tianyi said coldly: “I am actually the third one.”
They were all deceived.
If it weren’t for the fact that they had lived and died together, Jin Tianyi, even with his extraordinary skills, would not have been lightly injured.
Jin Tianyi didn’t even lift his head and said lightly: “This is not entirely a bad thing.”
The fat man quickly asked: “Why do you say that…?”
Jin Tianyi glanced at Chu Huai in front of him and swallowed back what he wanted to say: “It’s nothing, I was just talking nonsense.”
Chu Huai suddenly looked up at him, and his hand gradually clenched into a fist.
Jin Tianyi said: “You guys rest first, nothing will happen tonight.” He still had the ability to last for a night.
After Jin Tianyi finished speaking, he turned around and walked upstairs. Chu Huai couldn’t take it anymore and chased after him, grabbing his clothes from behind and gritting his teeth: “Who do you think you are?!”
Others didn’t understand what Jin Tianyi meant, but Chu Huai did.
If the ghost killed people in order, as long as the ghost made a mistake and failed to kill the person it was supposed to, then that person who was supposed to die would not die, and the ghost could not skip that person to kill someone else. Therefore, the person who was supposed to die after that person would be absolutely safe.
The death order he received was wrong, and the only thing that can be determined now is that the third person to die is Jin Tianyi, who represents greed.
Jin Tianyi said “This is not a bad thing” and quietly distanced himself from everyone, just to face the attack of ghosts and monsters alone, delaying time for them.
Jin Tianyi turned around and looked at Chu Huai, whose eyes were slightly red, and sighed inwardly.
He knew that he couldn’t hide anything from him.
Sometimes he didn’t want Chu Huai to be so smart and hoped that he could learn to depend on others. Sometimes, he couldn’t help but worry and hoped that he would be even smarter, as the instance was dangerous and he was afraid that there would be places he couldn’t take care of, which would lead him to be harmed by the traitor.
Chu Huai saw that he didn’t speak, and couldn’t help but get angry. His words unintentionally became heavier: “Do you think you’re Superman?! You were almost seriously injured just now, where do you get such confidence…”
The others saw that the situation was not right and wanted to step forward to persuade them, but were shouted away by Chu Huai.
“I have some business to deal with him.” Chu Huai said coldly.
The others obediently avoided.
Jin Tianyi lowered his gaze.
“Can you say something?” Chu Huai, who rarely gets angry, was really provoked this time. “Even letting out a fart would suffice!”
He clenched Jin Tianyi’s collar with great force, his fingertips turning white, and his eyes piercing.
Jin Tianyi looked up and said in a deep voice: “If you were me, you would do the same.”
His tone was very certain.
Chu Huai was momentarily speechless, avoiding his gaze and retorting: “I wouldn’t! Don’t think you know me so well…”
Jin Tianyi suddenly smiled, about to reach out and touch his head, but Chu Huai ruthlessly knocked his hand away. Feeling annoyed, he pointed at him fiercely: “Don’t think you can deceive your way out of this!”
Jin Tianyi suddenly said: “Do you understand my feelings from before?”
Chu Huai’s expression froze: “What?”
Jin Tianyi leaned in closer and whispered: “Watching you dismember yourself without hesitation, watching you risk your life to protect your teammates, watching you knowingly endanger yourself but still go deep into the tiger’s den, how are you so capable? Do you know that I’m also very worried?”
Worried to the point of not being able to sleep at night, afraid that if he wasn’t careful, he would lose Chu Huai.
He never learned to take care of himself.
Chu Huai’s heart surged, not expecting him to be so frank. He felt a little uneasy and turned his face away, pretending: “That’s not the same thing! Anyway, this matter is not up for discussion!”
He questioned with red eyes: “What about me if you died? Have you forgotten that we swore to live and die together? You… don’t even want me anymore? Aren’t you afraid of me dying?”
Jin Tianyi listened to his words that almost admitted their relationship and his heart trembled. “I won’t die.”
Chu Huai sneered: “I didn’t realize you were so arrogant?”
Jin Tianyi said: “We have no choice.”
He was the third one, and the ghosts would do everything in their power to kill him. Even if he didn’t bring it up, he would still be passively assassinated time and time again.
“Is there any point in talking about this?” Chu Huai said with an unusual look in his eyes.
“Do we have no choice?” Jin Tianyi replied, suddenly covering Chu Huai’s mouth. Chu Huai struggled, his beautiful eyes burning with fire.
“I said no,” Jin Tianyi said, getting agitated. “How can there be no other way?”
The ghosts could only kill people in a predetermined order, but humans did not have to follow this rule. Therefore, as long as any resident was killed, the ghost’s plan could be disrupted and the killing would enter the phase of indiscriminate killing.
The advantage of the latter was that the crisis was shared instead of one person bearing the burden of the entire team.
“I didn’t realize you were such a saint,” Chu Huai sneered.
“You’re overthinking it,” Jin Tianyi shook his head helplessly. “They don’t have much to do with me.”
Chu Huai was taken aback.
“I just don’t want you to lose faith because of me.”
Killing was not something Chu Huai wanted to do. He would rather cut himself up than cut up a corpse. For him, killing an innocent person was equivalent to losing his faith.
Chu Huai was momentarily lost, then came back to himself and said fiercely: “I’ll accompany you.”
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Oh my goodness, so many things happened!!
Thank you for your translation 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
With ml as the next target, everyone will survive this instance UwU
Unless a mishap happens and we get a chance to see an amnesiac/reborn ml in thr future OwO
Technically, since their life and death is bound together now… one method of killing Jin Tianyi is to kill Chu Huai.