In the flickering candlelight, Su Ping saw a bride sitting on the bed, dressed in a red wedding gown and wearing a red veil.
She must be Xue Rongmei, the young lady from the Xue family who is about to be married.
Su Ping had just taken two steps in that direction when the door behind her suddenly slammed shut.
Suddenly, only she and the young lady sitting motionless on the bed remained in the enclosed room.
At the same time, eerie music began to play inside the room.
The others outside were startled when they saw the door close, and looked into the room with worried expressions.
The windows were made of wood, and you could vaguely see inside.
The large expanse of red, coupled with eerie music, sent chills down my spine just by listening to it, let alone Su Ping, who was alone in the room with the NPC.
Just thinking about it makes them worry for her.
But Su Ping, who was in the room, was staring with great interest at the NPC on the bed who was trembling slightly. Was the performance about to begin again?
"Xiuzhi, where's the purse?"
The young lady's voice sounded somewhat amused, as if she were in a very good mood.
Su Ping stepped forward and handed the purse to the person, but did not see her reach out to take it.
"I'm about to marry Brother Ziqiu, why aren't you smiling? Are you unhappy?"
Su Ping's slightly upturned lips froze. What was going on?
Before she could speak, the bride on the bed had already ripped off her red veil, and said in a sharp, mocking voice.
"Of course you're unhappy! Don't think I don't know what you're thinking!"
"Brother Ziqiu and you were deeply in love, but in the end, didn't he still marry me with great pomp and circumstance? A maid is always just a maid; she can never rise to the top and become a phoenix!"
Hearing this, Su Ping guessed a bit about the cause and effect of the story.
So now, the maid Xiuzhi and the young lady Xue Rongmei are both in love with the same man, but the man is in love with Xiuzhi. However, Xue Rongmei finds out and in the end, she separates the two and forces the man to marry her.
Su Ping raised her eyes slightly, startled by the skull in front of her.
When the veil was lifted, she discovered that the person sitting on the bed in a wedding dress, waiting to be married, was not a person at all, but a human skeleton!
"To tell you the truth, I deliberately lost that purse, but I didn't expect you to actually find it."
"Today is the big day for my brother Ziqiu and me, so I'm sorry to trouble you to stay in the woodshed for the time being."
Xue Rongmei's voice carried a hint of malice, and at the same time, the gentle female voice from before rang out again, kowtowing and crying as she begged for mercy.
"Miss, Xiuzhi will never dare to do it again, please forgive me..."
Before he could finish speaking, it was as if someone had covered his mouth and dragged him away.
Then Xue Rongmei's voice sneered: "Zhang Ma, didn't your son lose money at the casino? I can help you pay it off, but my maid is inevitably lonely and cold being alone in the woodshed at night..."
The rest of the sentence was left unsaid, but the implication was already quite clear.
An elderly woman quickly expressed her gratitude, saying, "Thank you, Miss. My son will certainly not disappoint you."
Upon hearing this, Su Ping's heart skipped a beat; she feared that the maid was likely in grave danger tonight.
But what does this have to do with the theme of escape rooms?
Did the maid commit suicide and become a ghost to haunt her mistress?
The thought had barely formed in her mind when Xue Rongmei's voice rang out again: "Now Qiu-gege is all mine, hahaha..."
As the sound faded into the distance, the bride skeleton, who had just been sitting on the bed in her red wedding dress, suddenly fell apart, and the room, which had been lit by candlelight, went dark.
At the same time, the tightly closed door creaked open.
Before Su Ping could even step outside, the voices of the boy band members could already be heard from outside.
"Miss Su, are you alright?"
They could hear everything that was going on inside the room clearly from outside. The boys were terrified, let alone Su Ping, who was locked inside.
So when Xiuzhi was kowtowing and crying, they all thought Su Ping was crying because she was scared.
So she asked the question anxiously only after the candlelight inside had gone out.
"I'm fine."
After Su Ping finished speaking, she opened the door and went out, taking advantage of the moonlight shining in from the window.
After hearing the commotion inside, He Ruoruo couldn't suppress the smile on her face; she was almost laughing out loud.
She was hoping to see Su Ping cry from fright, but when Su Ping opened the door, her expression was calm, and she didn't seem frightened at all.
Why wasn't she scared?
Su Ping looked over at the group and immediately noticed the smile on He Ruoruo's face that she hadn't had time to hide.
On the other side, Tu Hengchuan lowered his head, seemingly lost in thought.
As soon as she stepped out of the room, she heard the sound of suona horns coming from the other side, like a wedding procession.
However, late at night, the sounds of the suona horns did not bring joy to the group; instead, they made them feel uneasy.
What normal family's daughter gets married late at night?
"Master, are you really going to let our daughter get into the bridal sedan chair so late at night?"
It seemed to be a woman's voice that rang out, followed by a voice that was both authoritative and helpless.
"My daughter is very stubborn, so let her be. Sigh."
"Besides, Ziqiu grew up right under our noses. Even though he's marrying into the family, as long as our daughter is happy, that's all that matters."
While the wedding ceremony was in full swing on one side, a commotion was heard coming from the other room.
"Who are you! Who let you in? Let me go!"
Judging from the voice, it was clearly Xiuzhi's voice from just now. Thinking of Xue Rongmei's instructions to the servants, I'm afraid that now…
"You little slut, don't push your luck. Your young lady has already given you to me, how dare you refuse?"
"No one will come to save you. The new son-in-law is currently having his wedding ceremony with the young lady. You don't actually think he's interested in you, do you?"
Then came Xiuzhi's resentful roar: "Xue Rongmei, I will haunt you even as a ghost!"
The surroundings returned to calm, but Su Ping knew that things were not over yet; the maid Xiuzhi's tone just now contained a determination to die.
Sure enough, the next day, Xiuzhi's body, which had been hanging in the woodshed, was seen by the maid who came to deliver food.
"Someone's dead! Someone's dead!"
Then came the sound of footsteps, followed by the sound of the door being kicked open.
"How could you be so cruel? I've already agreed to marry you, why are you still forcing her?"
It was a clear male voice, which must have been Ziqiu, Xue Rongmei's husband who had just married her.
Xue Rongmei's aggrieved voice rang out: "Are you blaming me? I also treat Xiuzhi like my own sister. She deliberately hid my purse. I just wanted to lock her in the kitchen for one night and release her today, but who knew she would..."
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