"They sound nice calling you a candidate, but aren't you just a bastard?"

After saying that, she even rolled her eyes at Ming Mei. If Ming Mei didn't say something back to her sour attitude, she would feel sorry for her.

So Ming Mei retorted, "Oh, I don't know anything about noble hairstyles, but you do? Just spouting nonsense. Besides, someone is willing to do my hair for me, and I'm very pretty, isn't that enough?"

After being stared at by countless people and the comments on the StarNet posts, Ming Mei knew that her appearance should be good.

She had that much self-awareness.

As for how beautiful she was, she probably couldn't describe it. However, Ming Mei's confident appearance was enough to make the other person speechless.

Before the other person could open her mouth, Ming Mei touched the rose in her hair and said with a twinkle in her eyes, "Some people are just like that for their whole lives. They go out every day gossiping and saying sour words, and that's all they have. But some people are just pearls covered in dust, and one day they will reappear in the world~"

After saying that, regardless of what the people behind her thought, Ming Mei straightened her posture, picked up her skirt, and walked out of the kitchen. She didn't say a word along the way until she stopped at the door of a small single room of less than four square meters under the stairs.

This was her "employee room" in this instance.

[Host, you were so imposing just now, you're so confident! Calling yourself a pearl!]

Gui Gui never thought that Ming Mei would say such things. It knew that she wanted to retort to the cook, but it never expected her to say those self-praising words!

"Aren't I?" Ming Mei raised her eyebrows, pushed the door open, and lit the oil lamp in the small room. The light of the candle was reflected in her pupils as she said, "Every girl is a shining pearl, I'm telling the truth, but—"

Ming Mei suddenly drew out her tone at the end. Gui Gui thought she was going to retort again, but then it heard Ming Mei say, "But—how does she know about noble hairstyles? This cook knows quite a lot~"

As Ming Mei said this, she seemed to be implying something, squinting her eyes as if asking Gui Gui and herself, "The other cooks don't seem to know as much as she does~"

[Isn't she just jealous of you?]

"I know, but, tell me—where did she learn that from?"

Gui Gui: [...] How would it know?

[Is it hard to know this?]

"It's not hard, but the other NPCs don't know, but she does. What do you think?"

[Host, I don't have my own opinion, whatever you think is fine.]

Gui Gui felt like it understood something after listening to its host say so much.

Wuwuwu, its host had turned bad, she liked to say half and hide half, how annoying!

"It's getting dark..." Ming Mei looked up at the small ventilation opening in the room. "Should I go to sleep? Will the game system automatically pass the night later?"

"Knock knock."

Suddenly, just as Ming Mei was thinking about the events of the night, she heard a knock on her door.

Ming Mei opened the small window on the door and saw Mu Chen standing at the door.

"It's you?"

As soon as Ming Mei opened the door, Mu Chen quickly squeezed in, but he didn't do anything. He just gestured for her to be quiet and not speak.

Ming Mei then realized that the evening he mentioned at the banquet was the evening in the game!

Huh! She thought...

While her thoughts were running wild, Ming Mei looked at him, who was now leaning tightly against the door panel. The solemnity between his brows suggested that he had planned everything tonight.

Soon, it seemed to be the night node in the game. Ming Mei only felt a darkness in front of her, and then she clearly saw her body fall on the bed, and she seemed to have become a—"ghost"?!"

[Gui Gui! Is this a paranormal instance?!]

[No, no, Host, calm down. This is just a forced sleep process in the game system, because non-designated players or NPCs are not allowed to enter and interfere with the plot at night. However, players or NPCs who have not fallen asleep under special circumstances can watch through the "ghost perspective." The time during this period is frozen and is not counted in everyone's game time.]

Just as Ming Mei was communicating with Gui Gui, Mu Chen also turned into a "ghost" state.

Even though their hands were transparent, even though they knew they couldn't grasp each other, Mu Chen tirelessly made a grasping gesture when Ming Mei reached out her hand.

"Come with me~"

"Got you~" Mu Chen chuckled, "Follow me closely, I'll show you something fun."

After saying that, Ming Mei followed him and floated gently through the wall, up the stairs in the castle to the second floor. At this moment, the castle in their vision seemed to have faded a layer of color compared to the daytime, cold and unreal.

"Will people find out if we talk?" Ming Mei asked.

"No, we won't interfere with the plot here." Mu Chen shook his head. Ming Mei followed him, floating in the corridor, and followed him through the wall into a double room.

At this moment, Lou Jia and Julian were sound asleep in the plot.

"Their doors are bolted from the inside." Mu Chen looked back at the door bolt, as well as the tables and chairs propped against the door. There was even an upside-down wine bottle on the tables and chairs.

To this, Mu Chen nodded slightly and said, "They are quite vigilant."

"If one of them is really chosen to die tonight, can the door really work?" Ming Mei frowned, thinking about the settings in the game. There must be death at night. If this can really be avoided, wouldn't this be smashing her own signboard?

"No, but other players will have a record when they wake up tomorrow morning about the noise of the door being broken open last night."

Mu Chen said so confidently that Ming Mei was confused, and then said, "Is my uncle so biased? How do I feel like you know more than me?"

"I saw it last night. The door of the player who died last night was also broken open, but no player revealed this detail during the day."

As soon as he said this, Ming Mei saw the corners of his eyes and eyebrows curving, and it was obvious that he already knew who knew about this.

"You didn't sleep last night either?" But Ming Mei was more concerned about another question.

"I drank coffee last night."

"Then tonight..."

"Tonight I have a stomachache..." Mu Chen said, feeling a little unnatural. It was still a little inappropriate to say this in front of the person he liked.

Ming Mei now understood that his late-night diarrhea package was for this!

"Why didn't you drink coffee tonight?"

"Because everyone present is shrewd. No one noticed the first day yesterday, but if I drink coffee tonight, I think someone will follow suit."

Mu Chen was extremely sensitive to the gazes of others, and Ming Mei had noticed this.

"Aren't you afraid that even if you don't drink it, others might want to drink it?" Ming Mei argued, but Mu Chen smiled and said, "These people don't have the habit of drinking coffee? Neither yesterday, this morning, nor at noon."

Just now Mu Chen himself said that other people were shrewd and their eyes were rolling around, wasn't he the same?

As he spoke, Mu Chen took Ming Mei to the door of another room. Ming Mei saw that Mu Chen didn't go in.

"This is the room for two female players." After Mu Chen finished speaking, he saw Ming Mei's eyes move and quickly added, "Because my room is at the very end, I pass by every time I go back, that's how I know."

After speaking, those deep eyes looked at Ming Mei and earnestly added, "I swear, I have never gone in to see."