"Creak—"

Mu Yiran turned around upon hearing the sound, and raised an eyebrow slightly as she looked at the open door in the corner.

It's quite unusual, like playing an escape room game.

Mu Yiran hesitated and moved her feet, then looked around at the strangely shaped dolls.

Although I've never seen a pig run, I've eaten pork. I'll be chased by ghosts when there are nine moving rooms out of ten in the secret room.

These dolls, will they chase after her later?

Although it was absurd, Mu Yiran still turned around and moved towards the open door with her back against the wall.

As she walked away, the sunlight she had blocked shone on the doll's face, and a faint light flashed in the doll's pupils, which had been poked by the pen.

Mu Yiran crept forward, trying to survive and develop stealthily. She finally reached the doorway. She glanced around, grabbed a handheld makeup mirror for self-defense, and habitually touched her collarbone, even though it was empty.

She immediately calmed herself down and walked into the room. "Young Master, I'm back again."

This damn familiar start.

Even so, Mu Yiran still didn't learn her lesson. After taking a few steps into the room, the door was closed again.

She pressed the handle, but it wouldn't turn on.

In the dark, other senses become more sensitive, so Mu Yiran can now clearly feel the gazes directed at her in the room, a feeling that is even more agonizing than when she washes her hair with her eyes closed.

It seems that, in the end, that's the only way...

Next door, a boy sitting on the sofa was rubbing the blade with his fingertips when a sudden, loud voice startled him. A cut appeared on his fingertip, and bright red blood flowed out, accompanied by the words: "The vast horizon is not my love. Those who refuse to be slaves, rise from the ground, hey!"

Shi Youxi: "..."

He looked up at the screen with a face full of profanities, and saw a woman on the screen waving her arms and legs, waving something and howling.

It was noisy, but her voice sounded a lot like her mother's... both were very gentle.

want to...

I want to seal her vocal cords and mouth shut so she can keep saying what I want to hear.

The boy's expression changed again. He looked at the knife with a troubled expression and thought, "I'll be gentler this time. Last time I used too much force, and that woman screamed until her voice was ruined."

Hopefully this woman will calm down later. If she gets hurt, her blood will drip into the room, and the smell of blood will be unpleasant for others, and he will have to go through the trouble of cleaning the room.

The boy licked the blood off his finger, then got up and left.

On the other side.

"Shatter the darkness with thunder!"

After striking her ending pose, Mu Yiran withdrew from the pose with satisfaction and confidently strode forward.

Suddenly, the wall lamps in the room turned on, and Mu Yiran squinted.

Overjoyed, this was a stroke of genius! It seems Buddha thought his singing and dancing was pretty good.

This room is no different from the one outside; it is also filled with a bunch of dolls, not just human-shaped ones, but also various animals.

What's different is that these dolls and animal toys all bear traces of damage. Some only have eyebrows and lipstick on their faces, while others only have hands with lifelike skin and bright nail polish.

The dolls have no eyes, yet they all wear smiles.

The male and female dolls sit together with the animals, creating a scene that is both eerie and harmonious, like a warm family picture.

Mu Yiran also saw a doll dressed in the same maid outfit as herself.

She placed the hand mirror in the corner of the wall, and a trouser leg flashed across the hazy gray mirror.

Mu Yiran: ...

Mu Yiran calmly turned around and walked towards the pile of dolls. The dolls, which were the same height as her, easily concealed her figure.

Mu Yiran hadn't yet figured out Shi Youxi's intentions, but he was, after all, still a boy who hadn't reached adulthood.

She knew she couldn't possibly lose; she would fight magic with magic, so she decided to take the initiative!

She moved quietly to the maid doll, glancing at the hand-held mirror behind her, and then pretended to touch the doll's head out of curiosity.

After holding my breath for a few seconds, sure enough, I saw that little bit of black trouser hem again.

The situation is starting to get tense.

As she was thinking about how to lure Shi Youxi over, she grabbed the doll's hair in her palm.

Um?

…

Shi Youxi stood in the blind spot between the doll and the wall, watching the woman's unguarded back, and thoughtfully twirled the baseball bat in his hand.

He was a little troubled.

He originally planned to knock the woman unconscious so he could properly sketch her mouth, but actually it would be better to just cut it off.

But this way he wouldn't be able to see the woman crying and trembling because of the pain.

But never mind, how beautiful can an ugly woman be when she cries?

He doesn't yet have the ability to make someone disappear without a trace. If rumors spread, his father will punish him, so he has to settle for second best.

Knock her out and lock her in the room. You can get what you want, and then the woman will be eager to leave the Shi family home without him even having to chase her away.

He had a rose pinned to the collar of his suit jacket, which he planned to give to his mother in the courtyard that evening.

We can't get it dirty.

Shi Youxi took the flower down, glanced down at her pockets to see if she had any other pockets, and finally stuffed the flower into the belt pocket at the back of her overalls.

When he looked up again, the woman was still standing there with her back to him.

The wall lamp cast a dim light, and Shi Youxi slowly walked over. When he was only a few steps away, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

Shi Youxi turned around sharply—

At the same time, Mu Yiran, who had been lurking behind the doll, suddenly sprang out.

Beneath her wide skirt, she half-squatted, holding the boy's hand, and smiled gently: "I've caught you, Young Master Shi."

......

Never underestimate a woman's intuition.

As Mu Yiran stood there dumbfounded, a sudden chill ran down her spine, and an alarm bell rang in her head.

And just then, I happened to touch the wig on the head of the doll dressed as a maid, and without thinking too much, I took a gamble.

They simply turned the doll's hair in a different direction and used the visual illusion to hide it behind the doll.

At this moment, Mu Yiran held Shi Youxi's hand, a smile on her face but inwardly cursing. Luckily, she had struck first and won her gamble, otherwise...

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Shi Youxi's hands behind his back reflected in the mirror she was holding.

Although it's unclear what she's holding, it's definitely something that will cause her trouble!

A thousand curses raced through his mind, but he suppressed the swear words that were about to come out of his mouth, and his smile became even more perverted. "Young master, I'm the new maid, uh... the one in charge of your daily life."

Damn.

She simply couldn't bring herself to say the word "maid," but what's so great about "servant" anyway?!

Shi Youxi had long since recovered from the momentary surprise on her face, and her round phoenix eyes were now fixed on the girl in front of her.

From her eyebrows to the curved corners of her eyes, he could see the small mole on the tip of the girl's nose clearly because of the close distance.

Shi Youxi suddenly didn't want to knock her unconscious anymore.

It seems like her mouth doesn't need to be cut off; it's still presentable on her face...

His fingertips twitched involuntarily as he touched the girl's warm, soft palm.

This leather is also very good.

Shi Youxi laughed, scratched her palm with her fingernail and pulled it out, then touched the waistband at the back of her pants and took out the rose.

Shi Youxi took a step forward and immediately smelled the faint fragrance on Mu Yiran. He opened the girl's hand and placed the rose in her white palm.

He looked into Mu Yiran's eyes, tilted his head back, and smiled with his phoenix eyes curved upwards.

"Sister, nice to meet you. I am Shi Youxi."

"Please take good care of me in the days to come."