Chapter 21 "So, you let them run around your mansion so they could destroy the marriage contract?" Mingmei finally spoke, and the young master of the Zhang family nodded without denying it.

"Then... are you the young master of the Zhang family, or the vengeful ghost they invited?"

Mingmei's words caused a sudden silence. Everyone instantly realized that they had almost forgotten the identity of the one telling the story. They nearly overlooked the fact that the young master of the Zhang family was the villain.

Indeed, the mansion was full of paper figures, and the ancestral hall had suddenly burst into flames. It was hard to believe that this young master was human. No one would believe it.

Yet, he knew so much, so many details.

"Whatever Meimei thinks I am, that's what I am."

Even at this point, he couldn't help but say something flirtatious.

"Shut up. Don't say things that aren't related to the story." After saying that, Mingmei secretly rolled her eyes at the young master of the Zhang family.

"What exactly are you? It's the grand finale! I can't even pass the level! Just give me a straight answer!"

Lu Xiaoyao chimed in with a righteous air, but as soon as she finished speaking and met the young master's gaze, she immediately withered like before.

"I-I'm just saying... i-it's okay if you don't tell me. I'll just ask again next time..."

After saying that, a pitiful, weak, and helpless "worm"-like creature was added to Mingmei's feet. Then, Mingmei heard—"You want to know too, don't you?"

Mingmei: =。=

No, I don't. I'll just find the back-end after the game ends.

"Actually... you should have realized it by now. Tonight, neither those who came to the Zhang mansion nor the others in the mansion are human."

The self-reveal at the end was a standard part of this escape story's conclusion. After all, the players wouldn't be able to find the clues themselves!

Everything was unclear, the teammates turned against each other, and then suddenly, the grand finale.

Where was the gaming experience in that?

However, this would be even more appealing to later players.

Meanwhile, Mingmei's back-end staff saw Lu Xiaoyao's live stream chat explode. The reason seemed to be something else?

Many people in the chat were saying that the game company had posted another announcement, saying that after the first batch of players finished, the game would undergo another round of updates and adjustments based on feedback.

Right now, a large number of players who wanted to play couldn't get in, and the players who had come out desperately needed to vent the tons of damage they had received in the game. As a result, the popularity of Lu Xiaoyao's live stream, which was still in the game, soared once again.

[Damn it! I was tricked by Mother Bai! I ate a whole plate of snacks and woke up as a bride heading straight for the grand finale!]

[Wuwuwu, damn it, the Feng Shui master here is useless! We became fertilizer together~~]

[Wuwuwu, come on, Lu Xiaoyao, you are the hope of the whole village!]

[Wuwu, girl, Mom is counting on you before the game updates!]

[Wait, the player who called himself "Lao Tzu" earlier, are you Miss Bai, the cross-dresser?]

……

[Jeez, what's with the official website updating again?] Mingmei was a little confused. Hadn't the game just been updated?

[It's probably aimed at players who look at walkthroughs. The specifics will be known after the game ends.]

After Guigui answered, Mingmei temporarily pulled her thoughts back to the game, raised her eyes, and once again met the villain's gaze, which was always too flirtatious.

Young Master Zhang: ^_^

Mingmei: =_=

"Actually, your Bai family's marriage contract isn't that powerful. It can't bind me for generations."

The young master Zhang spoke lazily, stood up, and wherever he went, he was a human-shaped light source. He walked to Yuan Fang with a smile and sized up the two brides behind him.

"Although the old Taoist priest made a deal with the Bai family, he still had some skill. He only set a marriage contract between me and the Bai family's daughter for one lifetime. Only one young lady from the Zhang family should have been sacrificed. By borrowing her life, I would be able to continue living and extend the Zhang family's luck."

"You! You are..."

Now, Yuan Fang's expression also cracked. The one standing in front of him was actually the Zhang family ancestor who first invited the vengeful ghost back?!

"Heavens..."

Bai Xiao's face instantly turned ugly as if she had thought of something, "Could it be that you discovered that you could borrow life from the Bai family's daughters, so you simply went along with it, even making the Bai family believe that your marriage contract could be useful for generations, constantly sending you brides to extend your life? The marriage contract can only bind you, not the Zhang family?"

"That's right."

"Monster!"

Even though it was just a game setting, the faces of the players present were extremely ugly.

"What about the vengeful ghost? Who taught you these methods of borrowing life?"

Mingmei's words also enlightened everyone. After talking for so long, the villain's own problems hadn't been explained clearly!

"The vengeful ghost? It's still doing well. If I didn't know some unorthodox methods, how do you think I would have invited the vengeful ghost back?"

Everyone: …

That was true, but why did they have a feeling that their necks were cold?

"Then what are you doing now—" Before Mingmei could ask him what he was doing now, the villain, young master Zhang, directly said, "Alright, that's about it. The auspicious time has arrived. The newlyweds should enter. Please bring the master over."

The joyful sound of a Suona suddenly rang in everyone's ears, and the hall in front of them suddenly became bright. The surroundings were covered with auspicious red silk at some point.

Yuan Fang had also recovered from the story he had just heard. A dark color flashed in his eyes, and he inconspicuously glanced at the brides behind him before starting to lead the two brides toward the hall.

"Ah... Miss Merchant, what... what kind of ending is this? QAQ?"

After hearing all the stories, Lu Xiaoyao had no idea how to describe her feelings. The happier the music outside was, the more miserable she felt.

Looking at her current pitiful caterpillar appearance, and then looking at the two young ladies who were about to become vengeful ghost brides, Lu Xiaoyao felt that life was full of ups and downs!

"I don't know either..."

Mingmei shook her head and looked towards the entrance of the hall. She looked at the Zhang family's master, who was being supported by paper figures, with a complicated expression. To her surprise, the Zhang family's master seemed to be alive?

Mingmei stared at the Zhang family's master for a long time without coming back to her senses. It wasn't until the shout of "Second bow to the ancestors" that the Zhang family's master burst into tears and stepped forward to hold Yuan Fang, saying, "The Zhang family will rely entirely on you from now on!"

As he spoke, the Zhang family's master's face gradually lifted into a smile that didn't match his previous old age. Meeting this eerie smile, Yuan Fang also raised his head and smiled back at the same time.

Although they were smiling on the surface, Yuan Fang secretly took out a talisman and slapped it towards the Zhang family's master's chest at the last moment!

And the two brides, who had just been stiff and unwilling, suddenly burst out. One flipped out a bottle of black dog blood from her hand, and the other took out the Feng Shui master's long sword hidden in her sleeve and stabbed it into the Zhang family's master's chest!

The reversal was in this moment!

No one had guessed that Yuan Fang and the others would suddenly turn against them at this time. As the Zhang family's master was covered in black dog blood, followed by a miserable scream from the old man, the whole scene instantly went out of control.

Since the young master of the Zhang family wasn't a vengeful ghost, then the vengeful ghost could only be the Zhang family's master in front of them!

"Aaaaaah!"

The three of them acted out a spy-within-a-spy drama, and they didn't forget to drag the caterpillar-like Lu Xiaoyao with them as they frantically ran outside.

Although the ground was hard and the stairs were bumpy along the way, Lu Xiaoyao didn't blame them for choosing to do so in this special situation.

As long as she was alive, as long as all her limbs were still there!

Lu Xiaoyao felt that she had surpassed her predecessors in this way!

Mingmei sat in the hall from beginning to end, watching the happy hall instantly turn into a mourning hall, the red candles turn into white candles, and the old man turn into a skeleton. The entire Zhang mansion quickly declined, and even Bai Shui Town began to fade with the Zhang mansion as the center.

Mingmei saw through the live stream perspective in the back-end that the four players rushed to an unmanned boat on the edge of Bai Shui Town and left in one breath. The scene the group saw when they stood on the boat and looked back.

Yesterday's prosperous Jiangnan water town was now dilapidated and unbearable. The black and white pictures on both sides of the bank made everyone feel that everything that had happened was like a dream...

And only that man in green was sitting in the broken hall, with the skeleton that had turned into after the vengeful ghost was removed beside him. He was smiling and looking at her.

"Your story is not over..."

Mingmei looked at the young master of the Zhang family. It was obvious that a game should have come to an end, just like a play that was about to end, but the actor was still on the stage and hadn't left.

"Do you want to hear it?"

Young Master Zhang stood up and stood in front of Mingmei once again. Mingmei looked up at his dark eyes and nodded.

This was an exclusive insider story. How could she miss it?!

Mainly because Mingmei's serious face was too deceptive, and she couldn't see her gossipy heart at all.

"The young master of the Zhang family did have someone he liked, but unfortunately, they died too early. Others advised him that there was no fate between them, but he didn't believe it. He sought unorthodox ways and exhausted half his life, but the result he got was only 'wait'."

"Wait... for reincarnation?"

"Who knows?" He heard Mingmei's question and laughed softly, with a hint of self-deprecation, "But how could he have the life to wait for her?"

"So... that's why he borrowed life?"

This time, he nodded. Mingmei frowned slightly and couldn't help but sigh in her heart that a hateful person must have something to pity. It was a pity that he would probably never be able to wait in this game, right?

[The game is about to end, please prepare to go offline.]

News came from the system back-end. Mingmei didn't delay when she saw this and stood up to leave, but before going offline, she looked back at the villain who was still standing in the old mansion. She didn't say anything, just looked at him all alone and sighed softly.

As Mingmei turned to leave, young master Zhang showed a gentle smile as he looked at her leaving figure. The face in the game gradually blurred, and a sigh that was too soft to hear came from his mouth before the game completely closed—

"He didn't wait, but I waited~"