Chapter 16 Ghostly Encounter

The tall man slumped in the corner, looking utterly disheveled.

Luo Huayi's vision blurred in waves due to the excruciating pain radiating from her abdomen to her limbs.

With a constant buzzing in her ears, Luo Huayi seemed to hear the footsteps of her opponent leaving.

It's negligible.

Luo Hua made a snap decision, not knowing who he was trying to prove it to. Perhaps it was the strange woman named Xin Que who dragged him in the hotel corridor, or perhaps it was Zhou Zichuan who tore off his mask and mocked him, or perhaps it was the ruthless criminal across from him who looked down on him.

Since he ascended to the top of the Luo family, he hadn't suffered so many setbacks at the hands of others in a long time.

Xin Que paused in her steps.

She glanced down at the man gripping her ankle tightly, and a complicated expression immediately appeared on her face.

The piercing alarm from the drama's plot began to torment her eardrums again.

[Please have the character Xin Que immediately enter the Encounter and Love Quest and fall in love with the male...]

Xin Que bent down and slowly pried open Luo Huayi's well-defined fingers.

Luo Huayi seemed to have lost her mind; just as Xin Que pried her right hand open, her left hand grabbed her wrist with a "snap."

Xin Que "..."

If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't kill off Luo Huayi, the male lead, she could have made him write a will to settle his affairs right now.

Luo Huayi reacted quickly and grabbed her wrist with her right hand, using both hands to try to throw her to the ground.

Xin Que "..."

Luo Huayi's upper body froze in mid-air in a very comical pose.

How can this person be so strong?!

Luo Huayi's face turned red, but she still couldn't pull Xin Que down.

Instead, he grabbed her arm tightly, as if trying to pull her up to her feet.

The fighting techniques that Luo Huayi's coach had taught him instantly became a joke.

Luo Hua wanted to die.

I've never been so embarrassed before.

Xin Que "..."

Hmm, the male lead doesn't look very energetic.

Just as Xin Que was about to exert force to throw the person off, Luo Huayi's mind seemed to have been turned on by some other impulse, and he directly trapped Xin Que from behind.

Xin Que's face darkened as she looked down at the man's thick arms that were tightly wrapped around her ribs.

Luo Huayi's plan was simple: hold out until the police arrived and arrest the man on the spot!

"Let go!" Xin Que roared.

I was furious that I had wasted my time on such an idiot.

Luo Huayi sneered, tightening her grip on his arm to prevent the prisoner from escaping. "You'd better stay here and wait to get into the police car!"

Xin Que's anger hadn't even been vented before this person's stupidity made her laugh.

Luo Huayi felt frustrated.

He wanted to just twist the other person's arm and pin them against the wall, or simply lay them down on the ground, just like before.

But this time the opponent is ridiculously strong.

Even with such a large size difference between us, I couldn't subdue him.

The only option is a clumsy one: trap him from behind to prevent him from escaping.

Xin Que raised her heel and kicked him hard in the shin.

Luo Huayi almost screamed in pain.

His face turned a deep liver color from the pain in his leg bone. He swayed, but he stubbornly held on and refused to let go.

Using the force of his restraint on her upper body, Xin Que lifted her lower body, pushed off the wall with her legs, and then pushed backward with great force.

Luo Huayi was knocked off her feet by the force of Xin Que kicking the wall and stumbled backward.

Xin Que took the opportunity to use him as a cushion.

"Ugh!" Luo Huayi's arm was almost pinched to pieces by Xin Que. She had no choice but to loosen her grip a little, and Xin Que immediately found the opening and broke free from Luo Huayi's embrace.

Luo Huayi clutched her arm and leg, collapsing to the ground in pain, wincing and grimacing, "You can't escape, you..."

Luo Huayi was taken aback.

Xin Que had already put her baseball cap back on and was about to leave when she heard Luo Huayi shout angrily.

"Xin Que!"

"It was you?!"

Xin Que "..."

At most, she only lost half of the keloid scar that was supposed to be a fake burn; the rest of the disguise remained. The fact that Luo Huayi could recognize it only proves…

This ridiculous plot must have given him some kind of X-ray vision cheat!

Luo Huayi recognized Xin Que entirely based on her scattered and vague memories of women.

Of course, there was also that faint voice in his ear, like a steel stamp of thought, trying to imprint itself into his soul.

She is...

Xin Que didn't even glance at him, and continued walking out of the secret room.

After passing through the hidden door disguised as a bookshelf, Xin Que stood in front of Luo Huayi once again, and the two looked at each other in bewilderment.

I knew bumping into the male lead would never end well!!!

The hidden door is like a Möbius strip; the world inside and outside the door is a secret room, and no matter how many times you go through it, you will always return to the starting point.

Xin Que stood expressionless by the door frame, contemplating life.

Do I have to complete this ridiculous storyline to leave this place?!

That's not right. She didn't seem to be part of the storyline at the hotel, yet she left the next morning...

Will we have to wait until dawn this time too?

Luo Hua observed Xin Que repeatedly stepping over the doorframe and back, like a character in a skit, then stepping over the doorframe and back again...

It was repeated more than ten times.

Luo Huayi looked puzzled.

"Are you sick?" Luo Huayi ignored the pain in his calves and stomach, pushed himself up, and looked at the door frame where Xin Que was standing. "Such a good opportunity, why aren't you running away?"

Xin Que glanced at him, then stepped aside.

Just as Luo Huayi was about to rush forward to continue subduing her, Xin Que twisted his wrist, grabbed him by the back of his collar, and threw him out of the door frame like water being splashed.

Luo Huayi landed heavily on her stomach in the corridor at the entrance to the secret room.

He was about to open his mouth and shout angrily when he realized that he was in the wrong position.

Luo Huayi suddenly raised her head, looked at Xin Que in front of her, and then, as if she didn't believe it, got up and walked towards the door frame.

They stared at each other, one after the other.

Luo Huayi: "???"

"Am I lost in a maze?!" Luo Huayi got goosebumps all over.

Xin Que distanced herself from Luo Huayi.

...

"Ugh," Luo Huayi was the first to break down. After trying several times to leave the secret room without success, he sat down in the corner like a coward. "Are you a human or a ghost?"

He wasn't oblivious to the malice Xin Que harbored towards him.

But Xin Que's most ruthless act was simply to scare him with a knife.

He won't really kill himself.

Luo Huayi, having probed Xin Que's inexplicable bottom line, relaxed considerably.

Xin Que is already considering whether she should carry TNT with her when facing the male lead in the future.

I wonder if the power of explosives or the power of the plot is greater?

She thoroughly investigated the secret room, even digging out the gold and silver jewelry that Zhou Zichuan's father had hidden before leaving the country, but she still couldn't find any other way to leave.

"Xin Que?" Luo Huayi leaned against the corner of the wall, his arm casually draped over his bent knee, looking quite respectable.

He was really bored.

Xin Que was annoyed by his incessant chatter, so she walked over with a dark face and smacked him on the head with the back of her knife.

Luo Huayi “…”

He touched the swollen and painful spot on his head, then his gaze followed Xin Que. "What exactly did you do to Zhou Zichuan?"

Xin Que was even more annoyed.

She wanted to know too!

She had finally managed to hide the half-dead Zhou Zichuan siblings in the innermost part of the secret room, only to have the male protagonist become such a variable.

Now, the half-dead brother and sister have vanished completely from the innermost secret room, sometime in the past.