Chapter 5 Coincidence

Xin Que exerted some effort, finally finding a comfortable and effortless position to drag Luo Huayi's legs into the stairwell.

Since she had to avoid the plot... she couldn't possibly allow herself to be alone with Luo Huayi in a space.

But given the male lead's cursed constitution that attracts all sorts of trouble, she decided to leave him in the fire escape and hide in a place in the lobby on the first floor until the next day when the woman's accomplice arranged for someone to come to the hotel.

She can leave as soon as the door opens.

Luo Huayi was originally in a very peaceful coma.

"Bang!"

Xin Que dragged Luo Huayi into the fire escape. His upper body was lying face down on the ground, and his legs were roughly dragged back by Xin Que. As expected, his head hit the door frame hard, making a crisp sound.

Luo Huayi was abruptly woken up by being knocked awake.

His mind was still in a daze, and he was originally unable to exert any strength, but as he leaned against the cold stairwell, he was horrified to find that he had several aches and pains on his body, probably from the bumps and bruises.

My joints, in particular, are very painful.

Luo Huayi groped along the wall, trying to get up, but he was too weak to support himself. In the end, he only moved a little before collapsing back onto the concrete floor.

Gasping for breath to calm her panic, Luo Huayi could roughly tell that she was in a stairwell.

He tried to make a sound to wake up the motion-activated light and brighten his vision.

But the darkness remains.

Luo Huayi forced himself to calm down, and when he regained some clarity, the hairs on his body stood on end.

The echoes in the corridor were particularly noticeable, and Luo Huayi's hearing was exceptionally sharp under the darkness. He could clearly hear another light, barely perceptible breathing sound in addition to his own.

Xin Que “......”

"Looking for me?" Xin Que's voice was urgent, and the empty corridor made it all the more frightening.

Luo Huayi was almost scared to death by the woman's hushed voice in the darkness.

The hotel suddenly became empty, the guests and waiters disappeared... and I was inexplicably moved from the lobby to the corridor.

Luo Huayi's rationality was being challenged by one irrational event after another, to the point that she was almost unable to hold on.

Xin Que's cry was like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Luo Huayi fainted again.

Xin Que turned on her flashlight and glanced at the man who had slumped against the wall and collapsed to the ground. "Did he faint again?"

Perfect, saves her from having to do it again.

wrong.

Xin Que squatted in front of Luo Huayi, her eyes swirling with thoughts, it was unclear what she was pondering.

[A character has been detected making a potentially fatal threat to an important figure. Disciplinary measures have been initiated.]

Suppressing the taste of blood rising in her mouth, Xin Que threw herself out of the stairwell.

You can't kill the male lead.

Dragging her heavy body out of the fire escape, Xin Que returned to the first floor and hid under the long table at the front desk of the lobby.

The source of the entire abusive story cannot be directly eliminated.

Xin Que carefully memorized the rules she had just discovered before curling herself up.

As the excruciating pain in her internal organs gradually subsided into a slow, dull ache, Xin Que struggled to glance at the time.

There are still four hours until dawn.

......

Fortunately, her deduction was correct.

Shortly after daybreak, a bustling sound came from the doorway.

It seemed that the hotel had suddenly returned to normal at some point, with guests coming and going in and out of the lobby and elevators.

Waiters were also waiting on both sides of the door.

The receptionist had just arrived to take over when she stared wide-eyed at Xin Que, who had crawled out from under the table. She almost screamed in fright.

Xin Que stood up expressionlessly and walked towards the door as if nothing had happened.

This went very smoothly.

She finally walked out of the revolving door right under the waiter's nose and successfully left the hotel.

Xin Que glanced at her phone, which was almost out of battery, and finally took a taxi back to the apartment she had previously rented.

Since we're currently trapped in this city, we can't just kill the male protagonist directly; we should hide first.

She might be able to find a flaw in it.

But this morning, for some reason, the red text urging her to follow the plot no longer floated before Xin Que's eyes.

Back in her apartment, she locked the doors and windows before collapsing onto her single bed and drifting off to sleep.

The woman who had fallen into a deep sleep probably never expected that the two videos of her entering and leaving the hotel, captured by surveillance cameras, would coincidentally overlap with the original storyline.

Main Quest: Hotel Encounter Completion Rate: 30%

......

When Luo Huayi woke up, all she saw was blinding white and an IV drip bottle dripping from above her head.

Hospital?

He stretched his arms and tried to get up.

My body felt like it had been disassembled and reassembled; the pain was excruciating.

"Mr. Luo?" The assistant entered the ward and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Luo Huayi had woken up. "How are you feeling now?"

When Luo Huayi opened her mouth, her throat was extremely dry.

Taking the warm water handed to her by her assistant, Luo Huayi finally recovered somewhat. "Who brought me to the hospital? And what about the hotel yesterday...?"

"Cheng Zheng, can the wine glasses from yesterday's dinner still be tested for evidence?"

Once his mind cleared, he began to think about yesterday's dinner party again.

Everything seemed eerie.

An invitation to a dinner party with friends, a drugged man drugged by someone unknown, and a hotel suddenly emptied out...

“Mr. Luo,” Cheng Zheng hesitated for a moment before finally answering his employer’s question directly, “you were discovered by the hotel security guards patrolling the building this morning.”

"The hotel owner has worked with you before, and even the manager who served you knows you, so he immediately notified me to come pick you up."

"You've undergone a comprehensive medical examination. Aside from drug residue in your blood, which requires a few days of hospitalization for rest, everything else..."

"These are the bruises on your body."

Luo Huayi couldn't understand why the assistant's expression was so complicated when the bruises on his body were mentioned.

Soon, Cheng Zheng shook his head and changed the subject to the matter of Luo Huayi being drugged, "After getting your blood test results, I immediately took people to the kitchen of the hotel where you had dinner last night."

"But... all the tableware has been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected."

"But we found a short, suspicious clip from surveillance footage."

Cheng Zheng showed the copied surveillance footage to Luo Huayi.

“Look here,” Cheng Zheng pointed to a corner of the screen, “Although there are no cameras inside the private room, the cameras at the door of the private room captured something.”

"While you were dining with your friends in the private room, although most people came in and out of the room, they all came out with their phones or empty-handed."

"Only Miss Xin Xin... has ever gone out with a bag and then returned."

"But her little dress didn't have pockets, so she might have been carrying a bag to touch up her makeup... We can't suspect her based on that alone."

Luo Huayi frowned, her expression shifting in a few moments, before coldly uttering two words, "Call the police."

Cheng Zheng immediately took the surveillance footage to the police station and asked them to intervene.

The ward was empty.

Luo Huayi leaned against the hospital bed and lifted her hospital gown.

His body was covered in bruises.

Luo Huayi's expression was even more indescribable.

No wonder Cheng Zheng's expression was so strange when he mentioned the bruises.

Even he himself, upon seeing these ambiguous scars on his body, subconsciously began to think of things in a reckless manner.

Luo Huayi exhaled a breath of stale air and slowly relaxed.

Carefully recalling the fragmented memories from yesterday after taking the traditional Chinese medicine: some of my friends, some of the toasts Xin Xin made, and some of my own fumbling for help...

The image freezes on the woman who steps over his head, then flashes a terrifying moment in the dark stairwell.

The deliberately lowered female voice in my ear seemed to become clear again.

Luo Huayi raised her hand to cover her face, a chill running down her spine.

I went to the Taoist temple after being discharged from the hospital.