Chu Huai: “So, you mean, if, and I say if, I die in this world, then in the real world, it’s like I disappeared into thin air, or never existed at all? The memories of people who know me will be erased?”
Jin Tianyi hadn’t had a chance to nod when a scream from Luo Ziyang came from the darkness.
The stone slab under Luo Ziyang’s feet collapsed without warning, and he fell into the water with a “plop.”
XiaoYe immediately turned around to pull him, and Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi also rushed over. At first, Luo Ziyang tried desperately to climb up, but soon he looked dazed and his pupils dilated, as if he had gone crazy, and he forgot to struggle.
“Little Luo!” Chu Huai tried to wake him up.
But Luo Ziyang was immersed in the river and died.
Jin Tianyi immediately used the N shot.
After rewinding, Luo Ziyang stood like a wooden block, motionless for a while. Everyone ran over, and Chu Huai lightly patted his face, frowning: “What’s wrong?”
But Luo Ziyang didn’t seem to hear him, turning his head to stare at Ye Yuan, who looked anxious. He unconsciously moved his mouth, as if he wanted to devour him.
“Brother, why didn’t you struggle just now?!” Ye Yuan went to hold his hand, and his tone was inevitably a little harsh because of his concern. Seeing that Luo Ziyang was in a trance, he tried to speak gently: “What’s wrong? What are you thinking? Don’t be silent. I’m not blaming you…”
Luo Ziyang shook his head and said something nonsensical: “This is my last copy.”
Ye Yuan froze, his expression a little bleak. Then he covered up his true emotions and smiled: “Well, that’s good…”
Luo Ziyang suddenly looked up at Ye Yuan, his face pale: “Do you really think so?”
Ye Yuan couldn’t say anything.
Chu Huai: “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing,” Luo Ziyang kept his eyes on Ye Yuan: “I just can’t bear to lose ‘you’… all of you.”
Chu Huai’s mind was full of doubts, she turned her head to look at Jin Tianyi, who had an almost understanding expression.
A few minutes later, Luo Ziyang called Jin Tianyi over and spoke in a low voice. Chu Huai only saw Jin Tianyi shake his head at him, then Luo Ziyang said firmly: “You’re lying to me.”
Chu Huai thought for a moment, then walked over and whispered: “Boss, I beg you to tell me the truth, just this once.”
Luo Ziyang’s voice was trembling, his tone was humble, and his eyes were slightly red. Chu Huai had never seen him so stubborn before.
Then came Jin Tianyi’s almost imperceptible sigh. He remained silent for a moment, then finally nodded and looked down at his fingertips, his expression seemingly melancholy.
Luo Ziyang breathed a sigh of relief and apologized: “Boss, I’m sorry for not treating you well for so long.”
Before he could finish his sentence, Luo Ziyang saw Chu Huai approaching and immediately fell silent, avoiding eye contact.
Jin Tianyi grabbed Chu Huai’s hand and simply smiled at him, pretending to be clueless.
It was then that they reached the point where the slate collapsed and Luo Ziyang fell. He had avoided that spot beforehand, but Chu Huai stood at the edge of the collapsed area and clearly saw a pair of eyes in the river. They were not blood red, but normal human eyes, or rather, his own eyes.
So, was it the ghost that was possessing him that pulled Luo Ziyang into the water just now?
He needed to get rid of it.
He didn’t know if this method would work, but it was worth a try. Perhaps it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The ghost and he were temporarily separated. If he missed this chance, the ghost would definitely return to him later, and it would be much more difficult to deal with then.
In the last minute and a half of the mission, everyone was highly focused.
Now, there was only one chance for Jin Tianyi to use the N shot.
When the idea of using N shots on each other emerged during the mission, it was essentially considered over. The variables were the appearance of XiaoYe and the parasite, but the ghost was not strong enough to violate the N shot rule.
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Chu Huai stared at the surface, with only a few seconds of error.
As the final moment approached, Jin Tianyi’s attention was completely focused on Luo Ziyang. Luo Ziyang nodded to him, expressing his determination, and Jin Tianyi moved his lips slightly, nodding back to show his understanding and blessings.
Luo Ziyang’s eyes instantly turned red again.
Ye Yuan patted Luo Ziyang’s head and silently bid farewell to him.
The last ten seconds.
After this, they would truly be separated forever. Luo Ziyang would forget about the previous XiaoYe and, after returning to the world, he would forget about the XiaoYe who had become a ghost.
There would be no more himself in his world.
But if his little brother Luo could live a peaceful and happy life without him, what did it matter?
He had no regrets about being able to see his little brother Luo again in the horror world.
Not far away, a ghost identical to Chu Huai appeared, and it seemed that only Chu Huai could see it.
The ghost’s shadow approached silently and was about to possess Chu Huai’s body, and the time had finally come… the last ten seconds.
Ten, nine, eight…
The ghost smiled at Chu Huai, with a strong malice and ridicule, as if saying that he could never get rid of it, and his fate was to become its nourishment. The ending was predetermined, and there was only one way to death.
Chu Huai also smiled at the ghost and raised his middle finger, then… used a knife to cut his own throat.
Blood splattered.
The perception of the crisis in the relationship between the couple took effect, Jin Tianyi turned around suddenly and saw Chu Huai lying straight on the ground, his heart stopped beating. He immediately used his last N shot.
“Jiao Jiao!” Luo Ziyang screamed.
Time was up.
[Congratulations to actors Jin Tianyi, Luo Ziyang…] The blood words paused for a moment, and finally added another name, [Chu Huai, for successfully completing the filming of the movie ‘Haunted Villa’…]
Jin Tianyi and Luo Ziyang saw the blood words and instantly breathed a sigh of relief. All the strength in their bodies dissipated, but the blood words kept appearing one by one because Jin Tianyi used the N-machine, and the scene before their eyes was rapidly reversing.
The ghost that was about to touch Chu Huai, which was originally within reach, was also reversing visibly, gradually moving away from Chu Huai with the distortion of space, and had already retreated hundreds of meters away in the blink of an eye, frozen there.
Chu Huai, who was caught and hugged by Jin Tianyi, laughed.
The movie stopped, time was completely frozen, and the instance was declared over.
Time will no longer move forward, and the last few seconds are the last remaining time.
He really succeeded. That ghost could no longer approach him with “time.”
He was left behind in the movie “Haunted Villa.”
The last expression of that ghost was full of horror and disbelief. Everything changed when Chu Huai killed him.
As the N shot reversed to the last moment, he had to abide by the rules of the movie once he appeared in it because he was in the movie…
He can never leave.
No!
The wind around them was whistling as if the ghost was sobbing.
Everyone, including Jin Tianyi, was shocked by everything that happened in an instant.
Chu Huai’s clever, decisive, and firm operation once again refreshed Jin Tianyi’s cognition. He quietly hugged Chu Huai tighter, including Luo Ziyang and XiaoYe.
Blood words: [Teleporting away…]
XiaoYe smiled warmly but choked up, trying to keep his voice steady: “Goodbye, Brother Luo.”
“Goodbye…?” Luo Ziyang turned around, and suddenly grinned: “Goodbye, your mother!”
XiaoYe was stunned.
Like Chu Huai, he also pulled out a dagger.
Chu Huai’s pupils shrank, realizing something in an instant: “No!”
He was about to rush over, but Jin Tianyi restrained him and covered his eyes without hesitation.
Warm blood splattered onto Chu Huai’s body. Jin Tianyi could feel his body gradually becoming limp, curling up into a small ball and feeling helpless.
His partner died in front of him.
The companionship of so many worlds had come to an end.
Chu Huai understood why Luo Ziyang did what he did, but the more he understood, the more he felt like a huge stone was pressing on his chest, making it hard to breathe.
Jin Tianyi wrapped him up, let out a soft sigh, and hugged him. For the first time, he revealed his true feelings: “I’m also very sad, but this was his choice.”
When a tasker successfully completes a copy and leaves the world, they will be forced to forget everything that happened in the horror world.
Luo Ziyang didn’t want to forget, so he chose not to leave.
The only way to not leave was to die and become a vengeful spirit.
The fifth order is a watershed, and this is Luo Ziyang’s fifth world. Only residents of the fifth order or higher will become vengeful spirits after death.
Jin Tianyi said gently: “Without Xiao Luo, you still have me.”
After a long time, he added in a soft voice: “Forever.”
He would never abandon him in his choices.
Chu Huai listened to these two sentences and gradually became calm.
He still had Jin Tianyi.
Xiao Luo had gotten what he wanted.
When the ghost possessing Chu Huai’s body dragged Luo Ziyang into the water, a voice full of temptation suddenly appeared in his mind.
“Have you ever felt that XiaoYe looks familiar?”
Without waiting for his answer, the voice continued: “Have you been stubbornly believing that you lost a certain memory? Are you regretting your low intelligence, dragging others down?”
“I can give you an answer, as long as you’re willing to die once. Don’t worry, they have N shots to save you,” the voice, identical to Chu Huai’s, chuckled: “You won’t lose anything, right? If you miss this opportunity, you won’t know for the rest of your life. Originally, you could only retrieve your memory after you died and became a ghost, but luckily, you have a chance to fake your death with N shots during the filming. Are you willing to take the risk?”
Luo Ziyang was stunned. Chu Huai’s words had a fatal temptation for him.
The ghost possessing Chu Huai’s body couldn’t harm Chu Huai this time, so it turned its attention to his friend who mattered to him. He looked forward to Luo Ziyang’s choice after he regained his memory and wanted to see Chu Huai’s despair.
However, he didn’t expect, that Chu Huai, had his own plan and got rid of him forever, leaving him behind in the film.
Luo Ziyang died.
Luo Ziyang came back to life. With all his past memories, he truly lived again.
He did not commit any crimes, but he was chosen by the world.
XiaoYe turned out to be… the one who went for him.
In that sudden memory, XiaoYe found out the truth, tricked him to his home, drugged him, and calmly cut off his Tianji mark on the back of his hand.
XiaoYe had taken his Tianji mark.
As midnight approached, XiaoYe took the mark and went to the world of terror on behalf of him.
At the moment when XiaoYe disappeared, his own hand healed. He also forgot about XiaoYe, his little boyfriend, continuing his boring high school life.
It wasn’t until seven or eight years later that the Tianji mark appeared on his body again.
So, the boss asked if XiaoYe was a ghost.
So, despite his own poor condition, XiaoYe chose to let him pass in “If You Are the One” without hesitation and gave him a break.
That’s why XiaoYe protected him like that.
That’s why when he asked XiaoYe if he had ever been in love or slept with someone, he suddenly blushed.
Although there were so many clues that proved XiaoYe was the boy in his dreams, he was so dull and licked his wounds alone for so long.
Once he knew, he had already forgotten once, how could he bear to forget the second time?
Back to reality, then what? He could see his future, desolate and hopeless.
His parents passed away in the past few years, and Luo Ziyang had no worries.
So he could kill Gao Yuan for Chu Huai. He didn’t have such a big obsession with living.
Staying behind and becoming a ghost like XiaoYe would enable them to be together forever, and also to redeem himself by killing Gao Yuan.
Luo Ziyang knew it was a trap, but the reason why a trap was a trap was that someone willingly jumped in. He couldn’t refuse this trap.
That ghost told him that leaving meant forgetting forever. He asked the boss and the boss said that he was lying to him.
The boss said this calmly and with no expression, with convincing power, but Luo Ziyang knew that he was deceiving himself.
The boss hoped that he would leave alive.
Jin Tianyi gave him life, but in the end, he chose death.
Fortunately, Chu Huai avenged him and, at the last moment, got rid of that ghost.
Things are winding down to an end and I’m sad to see it go
😭 😭 😭
This world is playing on my nerves… Whoever made the rules deserves annihilation
Brother Luo, I hope you will live your best life as a ghost!!!
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I don’t know if I should be happy for Luo Ziyang and XiaoYe or sad. On the one hand I’m happy they’ll finally be together but on the other I’m sad they had to die to do so. I’ll at least hope they are happy together now. 😭
And hip, hip, hooray the ghost is gone!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Though I wonder what jin Tianyi Chu Huai will do when Chu Huai completes all the required instances. Here’s to hoping they won’t have to go the Luo Ziyang-route and can just be guardians together or something. 🤞🤞
Thanks for the chapter(s).
Q_Q Wishing Lou Ziyang and Xiao Ye eternal happiness
Thank you for the chapter
Now I am afraid for our main CP…One is a…guardian? One is human, can they be together?
Sad to see little Luo go 😞 I liked him. At least he doesn’t have attachments in the real world and can live longer with his lover in their ghost forms. We also get to see how did little ye come to the horror world. Also, ohh so it’s lvl 5 where they can become vengeful ghosts. On another note, glad to see the parasite go. Mc finally found a way to seal/leave him (〃´o｀)=3
On the one hand I’m angry, after all he died! On the other hand, I can’t even stay angry for very long, because THAT is his happy ending… I just hope he’s happy for eternity.
It is kinda predictable but ok wwwww in this arc i realize how Luo Luo actually a big burden lol, maybe that is why the author end his fate as a player now before the readers aware of it more