Director Mo and Rong Yu offered several more guesses, but Yin Chengjue stated that they were all unrelated to the plot.
Finally, Rong Yu asked: Is there any key clue that we haven't found?
Is the "Big Fish Spreads Its Wings" incident related to the miniature surveillance camera that the male protagonist placed in the room?
Having finally received two "yes" answers, Director Mo's interest was rekindled.
Director Mo: Has anyone else ever been in the male lead's room?
Dig three feet into the ground: yes or no.
Director Mo: ...Yes or no? How should this be understood?
What happens in the male protagonist's room at night?
The Big Fish Spreads Its Wings: Are the events that happen related to the ending of the story?
Director Mo: Is it really not that the male lead has a split personality? It sounds a lot like a split personality to me.
Big Fish Spreads Its Wings: It's not a split personality, but something happens in the male protagonist's room at night. The male protagonist feels that his things have been moved... Could it be a ghost story?
Digging three feet into the ground: ...not quite, let me give you a hint: mirror.
The two were taken aback, and then quickly went to look at the enigmatic script that Yin Chengjue had given them.
Sure enough, mirrors were mentioned many times, and it seemed that there were mirrors everywhere on this luxury cruise ship.
Dig three feet into the ground: Maybe I should just reveal the answer directly, otherwise it's really hard to guess.
Digging Three Feet Deep: Every night at midnight, everyone on the cruise ship enters the mirror world and swaps with their reflection in the mirror. Because only living things can swap, and inanimate things cannot, every night, the surveillance cameras placed by the protagonist in the world outside the mirror capture his swapped reflection in the mirror.
Digging three feet into the ground: The person in the mirror didn't want the male protagonist to discover his existence, so every night he would delete the memory data in the male protagonist's surveillance camera. This is also why the person who deleted the data knew how to unlock the male protagonist's computer, because that was his mirror image.
Dig three feet into the ground: The person in the mirror has a great advantage. He has his own consciousness, knows the male protagonist's existence, and knows the male protagonist's secrets, but the male protagonist does not know him.
Dig three feet into the ground: Can you guess what the person in the mirror usually wishes for?
This problem is quite simple.
Director Mo: He wants to replace the male lead and lock him in the mirror forever.
Dig three feet into the ground: Yes, he wants to replace the male protagonist. The reason why the person in the mirror can come out at night is because they are on this cruise ship. Once they leave the cruise ship, the passage between the mirror and reality will be closed. This is a major premise. Therefore, if the person in the mirror wants to replace the male protagonist, he needs to leave the cruise ship at night.
Director Mo: Isn't that a bug? If I were the person in the mirror, I would have left the cruise ship immediately upon discovering this! Why did you stay there for so long? Were you afraid of not being discovered?
Dig three feet into the ground: Yes, but the male protagonist isn't a reckless man, and the person in the mirror is even less of a reckless man. He definitely needs to observe the situation first and make sure everything is alright after leaving the ship.
Director Mo: How do you observe?
Digging Three Feet Deep: The male protagonist has a miniature surveillance device, and so does his mirror image. The male protagonist's mirror image persuades some of the passengers' mirror images to leave the ship, and then he places his surveillance device on the yacht they are on to observe them.
Director Mo: ...Why didn't you write these things into the script?
Dig Three Feet Deep: I thought I had written it, because the plot was all in my head, and it was already finished, yay!
Big Fish Spreads Its Wings: So, those ships rescued from the wrecked cruise ship at the beginning of the story were actually the people reflected in the mirror who left the yacht? Did they encounter something and then learn that the cruise ship would run aground in seven days?
Director Mo: !!! Holy crap?!
Dig Three Feet Deep: ...No, there's no time travel plot or rebirth plot here. The people on the wrecked ship aren't the mirror images that left the cruise ship, but their appearance is indeed the key to leaving the cruise ship. The male protagonist only realized this key at the very end, when he saw the ship about to sink completely, and then chose to commit suicide.
Director Mo: ...Just say it directly, stop beating around the bush.
Yin Chengjue looked at Rong Yu, who was still struggling with the answer, and said, "Do you want me to just give you the answer? Well, this answer is both unexpected and incredibly boring."
Rong Yu: "..." Now that you mention it, I'm even more curious...
Rong Yu: "Tell me, why? What is the reason?"
Dig three feet into the ground: because.
Dig three feet into the ground: This entire story is a game world.
The two: ...
Digging Three Feet Deep: The male protagonist is in a game world. He is someone who is completing a game, but he doesn't know at first that he is in a game.
To complete the game, you must kill the person in the mirror, and the way to kill the person in the mirror is to commit suicide. "The cruise ship will run aground in seven days" is actually a time limit for the game. If the protagonist does not realize this before the cruise ship runs aground and sinks, and drowns, then the game will fail, and he will really die.
Dig Three Feet Deep: If he chooses suicide, he can complete the game and enter the next game world. The survivors rescued on the ship are actually NPCs in the game. Their existence is to issue missions, announce game times, supervise players, and eliminate rule-breakers. That's why some murders occur during the ship's journey. Some of these murders are revenge killings between players, while others are due to violations of game rules and being eliminated by NPCs.
Director Mo and Rong Yu: ...
Director Mo: This ending is... both unexpected and boring.
Dig three feet into the ground: By the way, we can also promote our company's [Source of Space], as we are preparing to open a few new dungeons.
Big Fish Spreads Its Wings: It's okay, no matter what script my brother writes, I'll act in it!
Dig Three Feet Deep: However, this time the male lead's mirror image is not good. He is the opposite of the male lead's personality. The male lead is sunny and cheerful, while the mirror image is dark and gloomy. The male lead is upright and honest, while the mirror image secretly stirs things up. The male lead saves someone, while the mirror image pushes them down.
Dig three feet into the ground: Last time you finished filming "Ghost," even the fans were afraid of you and avoided you when they went to see the movie. If you act in this this time...
Rong Yu: "..." Why not just let that incident from last time pass by? Why bring it up again?
Yin Chengjue patted Rong Yu's head.
Rong Yu paused for a moment, then snuggled closer to Yin Chengjue and rubbed against him.
Director Mo: In short, please refine the details. Write down everything you're thinking. We're filming it so the audience can guess, not the other way around.
Two weeks later, the final recording of "Journey to the Stars" concluded, and the show's promotional materials were officially released online. Donghuang Qingyan's schedule became available, so Xi Bei contacted Rong Yu to prepare for filming.
Yin Chengjue also started to get busy with company matters.
At Huansheng, the artists who passed the auditions and signed contracts went to film. Those who didn't have any roles for the time being either attended training courses at the company or were arranged by their agents to play minor roles to hone their acting skills.
Meanwhile, the animation that is about to be released in Xinming has also started its promotion, and the number of submissions on Xinming Original Network is increasing, and it has already entered the stage of screening and selecting the best.
As for the mobile game "Space Source", those players who previously complained that it was too difficult have gradually gotten the hang of it. Many people, in order to show off their awesomeness, will actively attract more friends and relatives to play, experience the joy of bringing others along, and when they get tired of clearing levels, they can set off fireworks or give roses.
Of course, this excludes players who can complete single-player games no matter what they play.
Yin Chengjue signed a pile of documents until his neck was stiff, then he stepped out of the office to relax and went downstairs to buy some drinks.
As I walked past an assistant's office with its door open, I overheard the conversation inside and stopped in my tracks.
One of them said, "Have you heard? Su Zi had a miscarriage!"
Another person asked, "Su Zi? Is she the mistress that Feng Chengda cheated on her with?"
The man said, "Yeah! What a scumbag. But Su Xiaosan isn't doing much better now. At his son's engagement party, he was exposed as gay and a marriage fraudster. In a fit of rage, he smashed a bottle against his fiancée and ended up in jail. Although Su Zi was also involved, she didn't go in because she was found to be pregnant."
Another person asked, "Whose child is that?"
The person said, "I don't know. I guess it wasn't Feng Chengda's. Otherwise, Feng Chengda wouldn't have caused Su Zi's miscarriage."
The other person: "Huh?"
The man said, "I only found out last night that Su Zi actually rented a house in our neighborhood and is having her pregnancy there. You know how bad the soundproofing is in our neighborhood; if one family has a problem, everyone knows. Last night it was really loud, and an ambulance had to come. I had to use the binoculars I bought before to confirm that the person was indeed Su Zi."
Others: "Oh wow!"
The man said, "Actually, to be precise, it wasn't Feng Chengda who caused the trouble, but rather his parents and relatives—oh, the same group that came to cause trouble downstairs at our company last time and were driven away by our suona horns."
Others: "..." The description of "blowing it away with a suona" is quite apt.
One of the female assistants said, "To be honest, this is too much. No wonder they raised someone like Feng Chengda. The whole family are cold-blooded animals. Didn't Feng Chengda sever ties with Feng Changheng? Then he has nothing to do with Su Zi either. Yet he still made a scene in the middle of the night, causing her to miscarry."
The man said, “That’s right! I barely slept last night. I heard a commotion downstairs. That old man Feng and his wife were so loud. Even though they were speaking in dialect, I could tell they were cursing Su Zi’s ancestors for eighteen generations. They were using vulgar language. If you didn’t know better, you would think that Feng Chengda and Su Zi got married and that Su Zi’s pregnancy was a cuckolding tactic against Feng Chengda.”
"Huh? Feng Chengda has been divorced for so long, and they still haven't gotten married?"
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