Su Deng walked towards the wedding altar, but there was nothing there.
She walked into the village, went to the house in the middle, pushed open the dusty door, and entered the "new house".
The new house was dimly lit, barely visible thanks to the moonlight outside. The interior was still furnished as it was during the ghost marriage ceremony, with even the wine cups in the same positions, though now covered in dust and looking worn.
It's eerie and creepy.
Su Deng staggered to the bedside, lay down on the floor, and looked under the bed, but didn't actually look; she just stretched out her arm and felt around inside.
Soon, I found a pair of shoes in the innermost part of the middle.
She took out a pair of red embroidered shoes with mandarin ducks on them, which were covered in dust and cobwebs.
Su Deng sat down on the bed and put on the embroidered shoes.
The moment I put it on, the faded and dilapidated surroundings suddenly became bright and new, the wedding candles on the table lit up, and everything returned to its previous lively state.
The hole that had been ripped out in front of Su Deng disappeared, restoring her to her original, gorgeous and clean bride appearance.
really!
Embroidered shoes are the key to this game's dungeon!
While she could still move—though she might be partly controlled by the plot—she carried her large, heavy wedding dress and ran outside.
All the red lanterns in the village lit up, the hanging silks returned to their original blood-red color, and people appeared. The square was packed with people, all of whom were sitting down and enjoying a lively feast.
"The bride has run out!"
"Why did you run away!"
"Grab her! Don't let her get away!"
When someone spotted the bride who had suddenly appeared, chaos erupted. Everyone dropped their chopsticks and rushed to grab her.
Su Deng instinctively ran towards the edge of the village, along the bridge, into the forest shrouded in a thin white mist, running and running, running at all her might, trying not to let her embroidered shoes slip away.
She always felt that as long as those embroidered shoes fell off and were no longer on her feet, the story would continue to repeat itself, and more bad things would happen.
"ah!"
He was running too fast, and his feet tripped over the dry branches in the woods. He stumbled and fell forward, rolling twice on the ground before falling into a pit.
Inside the pit was an open mahogany coffin, inside which lay a person with closed eyes and a face so white it looked as if several pounds of flour had been applied.
More accurately, it was a corpse.
The rolling Su Deng came face to face with him.
She tried to get up by supporting herself on her arms, but the coffin lid, which was already open, suddenly flew up and closed on its own. There was another wave of desperate suffocation, thrashing and struggling, but what she got in return was the sound of villagers burying her with soil.
After being suffocated to death once again, Su Deng woke up and appeared on the bridal sedan chair for the fourth time.
This plot, including the first time she watched it as an observer, was repeated five times in total, and she herself became the "bride" four times.
But there will be a fifth, a sixth, a seventh time...
Each time, the starting point was a bridal sedan chair traveling from the forest to the village. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't escape the control of the plot, and she couldn't use her own strength at all.
It was as if she was truly trapped in this game instance, becoming a main NPC within it, constantly experiencing various deaths.
It's said to be a cycle, but the storyline after each wedding night is different, and the way they die is also different.
She was buried alive, nailed to death, drowned in a pond, buried with a male corpse, killed by a rooster, exorcised by a Taoist priest, tied to a wooden frame and killed, burned to death in her bridal chamber, and once she was almost violated...
Various methods, but the same ending of death.
It's not a cycle; every time I die and wake up, I'm sitting in a bridal sedan chair, being married off as a ghost bride.
Each time, Su Deng was looking for any possible flaw.
But none of them.
Those embroidered shoes, which seemed like the key to the game's dungeon, no longer served any purpose.
On the 32nd time, when Su Deng was able to move freely, she took a knife from the bridal chamber, killed a rooster, and then killed all the residents of the village.
But in the end, she still died, and she had to start over.
This time, he was struck by lightning.
Later, Su Deng became numb and obediently followed the plot, experiencing one painful, suffocating, and desperate death after another.
Until the 99th time.
This time, the ceremony still begins with a forest sedan chair, a wedding ceremony, a bridal chamber, a memorial tablet, and a rooster.
But before midnight, chaotic screams suddenly came from the village outside. Su Deng, who was still able to move, opened the door and saw that the village square was on fire.
The fire was dark green.
It swept through the entire village at a speed visible to the naked eye, swallowing up all the villagers' houses.
Including herself.
Su Deng stood at the door, looking at the towering dark green flames around her, feeling the pain of her flesh and blood burning all over her body, and suddenly felt like crying.
This is her own emotion, not something that comes from the [bride], the scene, or the world.
After the flames completely engulfed the village, its inhabitants, and her, reducing them all to ashes, Su Deng was plunged into a long period of darkness, only to hear someone calling out in her ear.
"Mother……"
"Mom, wake up!"
"Su Deng!"
"Su Deng, can you hear me?! Wake up!"
"Mommy, don't die, waaaaah..."
“Su Deng…”
"She won't die, and I won't let him die either."
There was more than one sound: the cries and calls of frightened children, mixed with resolute, cold voices, creating an exceptionally noisy cacophony, yet every sound was familiar.
Su Deng struggled to open her eyes a crack, and through her long, thick eyelashes, she saw several blurry figures.
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