After arriving in the living room, Lan Shuang found the medicine box and bandaged Li Weiyan first. Li Weiyan felt a little embarrassed and kept glancing towards Jiang Lusheng, "How about I do it? I can do it myself—it hurts!"
Lan Shuang used tweezers to hold the alcohol cotton ball to disinfect him, "Stop talking nonsense, I can do it faster."
Li Weiyan remained silent, only grinning occasionally. The others looked at each other, wanting to help each other, but at this moment no one trusted anyone else and the situation was at a stalemate.
Jiang Lusheng stepped forward and said, "Men, come to me. I'll take care of you, okay?"
Pei Jinzhi rolled up his sleeves and said, "Girls, come here."
Everyone then started to move and lined up obediently to wait for their wounds to be treated.
It took half an hour before everything was done. Everyone sat on the sofa with different expressions on their faces. The atmosphere was as heavy as if someone had died.
Lan Shuang thought to herself, if it was the butler who died, everyone should be celebrating with joy and beating drums and gongs, right?
"Okay, everyone cheer up. The game isn't over yet. We can't give up on ourselves first."
Lan Shuang stood up and clapped her hands, and everyone's eyes fell on her.
She recounted what had happened before, and everyone's expressions gradually became solemn.
"My experience was similar to yours. I encountered an imposter not long after entering the room." Liu Quan took off his glasses and leaned back on the sofa, looking depressed and confused. "So, is this imposter a ghost or Rose?"
"It's very likely Rose, but it's hard to say." Lan Shuang touched her chin and said, "The situation is very complicated now. This Rose Manor is under Rose's surveillance. She has absolute control. Besides her, there should be other ghosts in the manor. The relationship between the housekeeper, the couple, and Rose is not that simple."
"But we are just ordinary people. How can we fight against them? If Rose wants us to die, we really can't survive."
Zheng Mingxin grabbed his hair in frustration, "How about one of you give me a knife right now and let me die?"
Wen Qingqing also sobbed and sobbed, "I'm so scared. I'm not smart or brave. I can't beat those fakes. I almost died. I want to go home..."
The crying made everyone's already irritable mood even worse.
Before Lan Shuang could continue, footsteps were heard on the stairs. Everyone turned around like frightened birds and saw the master, mistress and the housekeeper standing on the stairs looking at them.
"What are you doing? It's almost nap time, everyone, go back to your rooms. If I catch anyone wandering around outside, I'll break their legs!"
The master threatened fiercely.
Liu Quan put his glasses back on and glanced at the others, "What should we do?"
"Go back and take a nap. I dare not disobey them." Zheng Mingxin suddenly stood up and strode towards the stairs.
"Wait, go back now—"
Before Lan Shuang could finish her words of dissuasion, Zheng Mingxin suddenly turned around and glared at her with red eyes, "Do whatever you want to do on your own, don't drag me into this. I just want to live peacefully until my last day. It's you who have repeatedly provoked the system that made Rose change the rules. If it weren't for you, I might still be alive and well now. I beg you, please let me go!"
She screamed and walked away with her hair disheveled.
Lan Shuang was stunned by the resentful look in his eyes when he left.
"How can she say that? It's too much, right? If it weren't for Lan Shuang and Brother Jiang, we would have died long ago. She doesn't know how to appreciate kindness and even bites back. What kind of person is she?" Li Weiyan was so angry that he stood up and rolled up his sleeves.
He looked at Liu Quan and He Ping, but got no response.
He opened his mouth slightly, "You guys..."
Liu Quan stood up silently, said nothing, and followed him upstairs.
He Ping looked at Lan Shuang and Jiang Lusheng hesitantly, but finally said nothing.
Watching them leave one after another, Li Weiyan's heart sank. "What does this mean? Don't trust us?"
Pei Jinzhi looked at Gao Yaozu.
Gao Yaozu quickly waved his hands and said, "I'll listen to you. I don't know anything and I can't do anything. If you hadn't been holding me back, I might have died long ago."
Li Weiyan felt a little better.
Wen Qingqing looked from one to the other and whispered, "I'm sorry, you guys did help me a lot before, but I don't think being reckless is a good idea. I'm going upstairs too."
In the end, only Lan Shuang, Jiang Lusheng, Mu Tiao, Pei Jinzhi, Li Weiyan and Gao Yaozu were left in the living room.
Lan Shuang looked at Mu Tiao and jokingly said, "Aren't you afraid, big star?"
Mu Tiao leaned back on the sofa and raised his eyebrows lazily: "Actually, I'm not really afraid of death. I'm just afraid of turning into a half-human, half-ghost after death. That would be too ugly."
She played with her fingers and said, "Besides, I'm not a big star yet. I'm just an 18th-tier star. I have nothing to lose. I'd rather take a gamble with you than sit and wait for death."
Pei Jinzhi nodded: "Me too."
"Okay, since everyone is willing to stay, Jiang Lusheng and I promise that as long as you trust us and don't betray us, we will work hard to help everyone escape from Rose Manor."
As for the others, Lan Shuang thought coldly in her heart that these people had nothing to do with her, and she had no responsibility or obligation to save them. They were all strangers, and now they were just returning to the original relationship.
If you let go of the desire to help others and respect the fate of others, you will live a happier life.
"What should we do now?" Mu Tiao asked.
The master and his mistress were still standing upstairs. The housekeeper said to them in a sinister voice, "Why don't these young ladies come upstairs?"
Lan Shuang whispered, "Go back to your room first and wait until they leave. Don't go out for now. I suspect Rose will come out during her nap."
Jiang Lusheng glanced at his watch and said, "Everyone, meet in my room in ten minutes. We'll look for clues together."
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Everyone went upstairs and returned to their respective rooms. Lan Shuang stood at the door and observed. Sure enough, as soon as they entered, the master and his men left.
Lan Shuang leaned against the door and waited, and the surrounding scenery suddenly faded away.
"Here we go again, host, be careful."
Lan Shuang nodded and looked at the corridor intently. In the blink of an eye, a woman appeared in the corridor. She had long hair and was wearing a tattered nightgown that seemed to have been torn and could barely cover her body.
Lan Shuang narrowed her eyes, wondering who this person was, when a red light flashed at the corner. A lady in cheongsam suddenly walked over, stood in front of the woman, and slapped her in the face.
"You bitch, what did you do last night? How dare you seduce Shu Ting?"
"Shu Ting?" Lan Shuang raised her eyebrows. Could this be the eldest young master's name?
"I don't!"
The woman in the nightgown suddenly raised her head, and the half of her face that was hit quickly became red and swollen.
"He's crazy! He forced me!"
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