Chapter 55 Swan Castle (Second Update Combined)
Inside the banquet hall on the first floor of the central tower of Swan Castle, servants were still busy coming and going.
The only change was that the busy work shifted from arranging banquets for the male guests to setting up the wedding venue for Princess Yu Naixin.
With the authority granted by her status as a princess, Yu Naixin's orders were carried out with the concerted efforts of all her servants.
Yu Naixin herself didn't take this wedding, which was purely to meet the conditions for ending the episode, too seriously. The four male guests were only sealed for fifteen minutes, so all that was needed was to set up a small area and give it a general look.
The four male guests followed Yu Naixin down the stairs. Except for the werewolf knight, whose gaze kept drifting towards Yu Naixin, the remaining vampire duke, elf prince, and ghost wizard didn't seem to want to see her.
The three of them each found a secluded spot near the wedding venue where they wouldn't disturb each other, silently releasing their pent-up tension.
The vampire duke was the most irritable of them all. He was grinding his teeth fiercely, already plotting how to deal with Yu Naixin once the seal was broken.
He even kindly promised this lamb to the slaughter that he could give her a quick and clean death.
Looking back now, ha! She wasn't worth it at all!
He should have slowly drained all the blood from Yu Naixin's body, little by little, so that she could truly experience what it felt like for life to gradually fade away!
The silence of the Elf Prince and the Ghost Wizard was even more thorough.
These two male guests, who had actually interacted with Yu Naixin, knew that the female guest sent by the "Heartbeat 1000%" program team this time was definitely not a kind person.
Previously, Yu Naixin could cause so much trouble in just a few tens of seconds or minutes of interaction, but now the seal has bound all their methods for a full fifteen minutes.
I'm afraid... Yu Naixin could have cleared this Swan Castle episode before these fifteen minutes ended.
The thought that the female guest, who knew the deepest secret in his heart, would leave unscathed made the Elf Prince's face darken, and he looked quite displeased.
It was completely inconsistent with his bright and holy appearance.
Although none of the female guests who had previously appeared on his show "Rose Spire" had made it out alive, the Elf Prince learned from them that these show guests might meet and interact with each other after leaving the instance.
This time, the female guest... has a real chance of revealing her secret to more people!
The ghost wizard was already trying to calculate in his mind how much purification Yu Naixin would receive after clearing the level.
During the previous episode of the show "Moonlight Town," out of hundreds of female guests who came in, you could count the number of them who made it out alive on one hand.
After the show ends, "Heartbeat 1000%" will inform not only the show's guests of various data, but also the alternate guests. However, if a show's guest dies in the alternate, it means all their efforts are in vain, the final cleansing level will not be calculated, and the alternate guests will not know the data.
Therefore, the sample size that the Ghost Wizard can refer to is very limited, and it is really impossible to calculate a more specific value.
He frowned and glanced in the direction of the werewolf knight.
This muscle-bound, simple-minded guy is still giving the female guest a disgusting look of lustful desire!
The Ghost Knight cursed under his breath, withdrew his gaze, and closed his eyes with a headache.
What a useless piece of trash!
It's unclear how much he himself could have been cleansed, as the vampires and elves are still uncertain, but the werewolf knight's cleansing level is definitely greater than 50%.
If this mutated fusion instance of Swan Castle, like the previous instances, will also be a cycle with new program guests constantly joining, then the higher Yu Naixin's level of cleansing is now, the worse the situation these instance guests will face in future program instances will be!
The Ghost Wizard couldn't understand it. He and the Werewolf Knight had only been on the show for two short hours since they entered, so how could the Werewolf Knight be so infatuated with Yu Naixin!
In the past, during the "Moonlight Town" show, most of the female guests who came in were first lured away by the Ghost Wizard through various means. If the Werewolf Knight wanted to take them away, he could only use the most direct method: violent breakthrough.
Later, the werewolf knight learned some strategies under the constant attacks of the ghost wizard, and his personality became much calmer, but the confrontation between the two was still fierce.
Every time the Ghost Wizard comes into contact with the Werewolf Knight, he has to try his best to avoid being completely overwhelmed by the other party's force, and he doesn't have many opportunities to observe what the Werewolf Knight likes or dislikes.
This is why, even after racking his brains, the Ghost Wizard still couldn't figure out how Yu Naixin had managed to bewitch the Werewolf Knight.
However, these are all things of the past that have already been established facts, and the Ghost Wizard knows that there is no need to waste too much energy on regretting them.
What made him even more uneasy and anxious was what kind of future he would face after this episode ended.
There were rumors that the guest who could cause the original instance to mutate would have a chance to escape the damned show "Heartbeat 1000%" and gain freedom after devouring the other guests in the mutated instance.
but……
The ghost wizard's gaze unconsciously drifted upwards, landing on the ornate ceiling above him, adorned with numerous lights.
In the distant heavens above the ceiling, that great being... can overlook all instances.
Is He really that merciful?
Yu Naixin's request was to keep everything simple and complete it as quickly as possible. The servants in the banquet hall finished setting up a simple wedding venue in less than three minutes.
The elderly butler with gray hair, who always stayed in the hall, would occasionally come to consult Yu Naixin on some decisions. During their conversations, he revealed that his name was Defman.
The NPC names in this instance are all quite complicated; there's Rosiluna first, then Devman. Aren't they usually just names like Zhang San, Li Si, or Mary Jack?
[Perhaps because this is a mutated fusion instance? So the NPCs are also more complex in various aspects? Anyway, it's quite rare to see an NPC with such high mobility and such a detailed character setting as the head maid.]
[Speaking of which, where's that NPC with the tongue-twisting name? The princess's wedding is coming up, and she, as the head maid, isn't showing up at all?]
[Oh, I know that. The female guests were playing hide-and-seek the whole time, and I got so bored that I started switching between the four male guests' perspectives. While they were searching for the female guests, they killed any NPCs that got in their way. When I switched to the vampire's perspective and saw the head maid, she was already being choked by the vampire and quickly turned into a pool of blood.]
Yu Naixin discovered Rosiluna's disappearance the first time she used her princess privileges to observe the entire Swan Castle.
Even the freckled brown-haired cleaning maid she only exchanged two sentences with in the last simulation, Yu Naixin could easily find, but there must be a reason why such an obvious NPC as Rosiluna is nowhere to be found.
As one of the owners of Swan Castle, the "Princess" is also a human clock that allows everyone in the castle to know the time, so she has some authority regarding "time".
Yu Naixin then tried to lock onto Luosiluna to rewind time, and sure enough, she was able to see some scattered images, like a PowerPoint presentation showing what Luosiluna had encountered not long ago.
The blood belonging to Rosluna, dripping from the vampire duke's hands onto the ground, was thick and bright red.
Yu Naixin's eyelids drooped slightly.
...She found out.
“Alright,” Yu Naixin clapped her hands, drawing everyone’s attention, “Now that the venue is ready, let’s begin my wedding!”
After speaking, Yu Naixin walked confidently to the center of this small wedding venue.
Who exactly is the groom?
[The wedding has already started, but the groom is still nowhere to be found?!]
[I just tried to figure out who the little witch chose as her groom by observing which male guest she was focusing on, but it didn't work at all. The little witch was just casually watching the NPCs' preparations the whole time!]
Not only the respectful servants and NPCs present, but also the four male guests, regardless of their inner thoughts in the previous three minutes, couldn't help but focus their attention on Yu Naixin at this moment.
With all four of them present, none of them could make a move against Yu Naixin. If Yu Naixin wanted to take any one of them as the groom, it was entirely possible.
The four male guests were also somewhat nervous.
Who will this female guest choose?
With just over eleven minutes left before the seal expires, will Yu Naixin do something else during this time?
Yu Naixin didn't keep anyone in suspense.
“I believe everyone is curious about who I’m marrying.” Yu Naixin raised her hand to indicate, “You can come up now.”
Before anyone could see what was happening, a paper puppy suddenly darted out from some corner, carrying a folded white gauze cloth in its mouth, wagging its tail as it rushed to Yu Naixin's feet.
[What?! Holy crap, she chose a paper dog as her groom?!]
[I not only considered the individual possibilities for each of the four guest stars, but I also thought of all sorts of combinations of two, three, and even four of them, and the female guest didn't even choose from these options?!]
[Wow, it's this special magical puppy! Turns out, it was this little creature that won the female guest's heart in this entire episode!]
[Oh my god, hahaha, all four male guests lost to a paper puppy! Hahahaha!]
I was speechless for a moment, and could only say that she was indeed as good as ever... Indeed, compared to these four male guests, each with their own ulterior motives, my own magical artifact was definitely much more pleasing to the eye. In any case, the system didn't specify that I had to choose my marriage partner within this instance of the program.
As the paper puppy trotted happily toward the center of the wedding venue, the four male guests beside it were momentarily stunned.
It wasn't until the paper puppy nuzzled Yu Naixin's ankle affectionately with its head, and Yu Naixin squatted down to pat its head and said "Good boy" with a smile, that they finally realized what Yu Naixin was doing.
The vampire duke immediately exploded: "What are you doing?!"
These male guests were standing right in front of Yu Naixin, allowing her to choose freely as if she were picking out merchandise. That was humiliating enough!
Even after all this, Yu Naixin still had to choose a dog in front of them?!
What a humiliation!
Are they even less than a dog?!
Yu Naixin's smile instantly turned cold.
She raised her eyes, her expression displeased as she looked at the vampire duke: "Did I ever give you the right to question me?"
The priest's folding fan emerged from another corner and launched a surprise attack on the back of the vampire duke's knee. The vampire duke, who was caught off guard and sealed by the mirror, stumbled, his knee buckled, and he had to kneel on one leg.
A very standard kneeling posture.
It was right in the direction of Yu Naixin.
The mirror seal prevents the guest contestants from doing anything harmful to Yu Naixin. The priest's folding fan, as Yu Naixin's exclusive bound artifact, can share many permissions with her.
The vampire duke couldn't do anything about the priest's folding fan, and he couldn't even retaliate.
Moreover, the priest's folding fan is a special spiritual artifact of the domain lord level, which has a natural suppressive effect on the vampire duke.
This raid was therefore exceptionally successful.
Although the vampire duke was able to get up from the ground on his own in the next second, it did not change the fact that he had knelt before Yu Naixin.
[Damn, who said the only thing missing was for the vampires to kneel before the Demon King? Now we have everything!]
[A single reality show episode made all four guest contestants kneel before her... This female guest is really something!]
[The little witch really did achieve the feat of making the male guests kneel four times in a row, hahaha!]
[The other three male guests were at least hypnotized by the female guest using that mahjong magic item before they knelt down, but the vampire knelt down to the female guest while fully conscious, hahaha!]
[Quickly switch the camera to a vampire's perspective and zoom in on his face! The colors are changing so much, it's hilarious!]
The vampire duke knelt on the ground, his mind a chaotic blank.
He was still a little dazed, not knowing why he had suddenly knelt down.
On the other hand, the vampire duke was also overwhelmed by immense shame and humiliation, wanting to rush over and fight Yu Naixin to the death, and also wanting to kill everyone around him who saw his predicament.
But he knew very well that he couldn't do it.
At least, during the ten or so minutes he was sealed by the mirror, he couldn't do anything to Yu Naixin!
After seeing the vampire duke kneel down, Yu Naixin stopped paying attention to the male guest who seemed to have a poor brain development and turned her attention back to the paper puppy: "I just like obedient dogs, so what?"
The paper puppy was so excited to receive its owner's approval that its ears and tail were wagging wildly.
[What the female guest said... wow, that's really captivating!]
When it comes to dog training, our Great Demon King is a professional!
【No way, she's really going to marry a paper dog?!】
Yu Naixin reached out and took the neatly folded piece of snow-white gauze from the mouth of the paper puppy.
Then, Yu Naixin put the things she was holding on her head.
Everyone then realized that it was a bridal veil.
With a casual wave of her hand, Yu Naixin dismissed the paper puppy from the wedding venue.
[!! It turns out the puppy was just delivering a veil!]
[Oh right, this episode has pretty strict requirements for the clothing corresponding to the character's identity. The white princess dress the female guest is wearing can be used as a wedding dress, but the veil will need to be prepared separately.]
[Who is the groom?!]
As melodious music began, the servants who were specifically responsible for playing musical instruments started to play the wedding march.
The wedding ceremony officially began.
However, the bride was still the only one in the center of the wedding venue.
The old butler, Devman, who was in charge of hosting the event, also entered the venue and asked with a kind smile: "Your Highness, do you take it upon yourself to uphold your wedding vows, whether in poverty or wealth, in sickness or in health, in beauty or in loss, in success or in amnesia, to love yourself, comfort yourself, respect yourself, and protect yourself?"
Are you willing to remain faithful to yourself for the rest of your life?
As Devman spoke, the entire Neuschwanstein Castle, along with the live broadcast room, fell into an extremely eerie silence.
The numerous NPC servants did not make any unnecessary noise during the princess's wedding ceremony. The four male guests, including the vampire duke who was still kneeling on the ground and had not yet stood up, stared at Yu Naixin in astonishment, dumbfounded.
Only the band continued playing their routine, which only made the banquet hall seem even quieter.
There was a brief pause in the chat during the live stream.
Then, a large number of question marks flooded the screen.
[What the heck?! Why is the female guest reciting her wedding vows to herself?!]
[The bride is a female guest, and the groom is also a female guest?! Is this wedding really that surreal?!]
[?! Did the little witch ultimately choose to marry herself?!]
[Quiet down! I'm thinking! ...Never mind, I don't want to think anymore, let's just watch the female guest's antics!]
[Wait a minute, this doesn't make sense at all! How can someone marry themselves?! It's much more logical to marry that puppy from earlier!]
You actually managed to find a reasonable explanation for this female guest...
Amidst countless astonished gazes both on and off the live stream screen, Yu Naixin smiled and responded with ease: "I do."
"Good!" The old butler, Devman, smiled even more joyfully and lovingly. "The wedding ceremony has been successfully completed. Congratulations, Your Highness, on becoming husband and wife!"
The moment Devman finished speaking, Yu Naixin received a system notification.
[Congratulations to the female guest on "Heartbeat 1000%"! You have successfully completed this episode's challenge and are currently calculating your final reward!]
Yu Naixin's lips curved into a smile.
Sure enough, marrying myself is a viable option.
Anyway, the initial system description was just "You held an unforgettable wedding with your sweetheart at Swan Castle". She herself was her sweetheart, and the wedding was definitely unforgettable for everyone who attended, which perfectly met the requirements.
The biggest challenge in ending this segment of the show was ensuring that the four extremely capable male guests wouldn't disrupt the wedding proceedings, and Yu Naixin did an impeccable job in this regard.
Even if it's just a formality, Yu Naixin has no interest in randomly choosing one or more of the four male guests—the Vampire Duke, the Elf Prince, the Ghost Wizard, and the Werewolf Knight—to hold her wedding.
As for finding an NPC to make a cameo appearance as another bride in her wedding, Yu Naixin did consider it, but only briefly.
You might as well marry yourself.
Yu Naixin turned around, glanced at the four dumbfounded male guests behind her, and smiled sweetly: "You want to marry me?"
"—Then keep thinking about it."
[Wow, it really happened?!]
[Damn! I knew it! Even if it's fake, the Great Demon King wouldn't lower herself to a wedding with a male guest she doesn't like!]
The live stream feed is starting to become unstable! This is a sign that the live stream is about to be shut down!
[Let me quickly see how these four male guests react! The vampire kneeling on the ground, looking up with his mouth wide open in disbelief, is just too funny, hahaha!]
The ghost's mouth was also wide open, just like the expression he had when he saw the werewolf being manipulated by the female guest!
Why does the werewolf look so sad? Oh right, he seemed to have a high level of affection for the female guest. Watching his crush run off with him, he's left heartbroken, hahaha!
The most normal one was the elf, maintaining his elegance to the very end; he just stared intently at the female guest, hahaha!
Amidst the incredulous farewells of the four male guests, Yu Naixin gradually transformed into specks of golden starlight and disappeared into Swan Castle.
Last time, Yu Naixin completely ruined the entire program, causing it to collapse and disappear. This is the first time she has experienced how program guests actually leave under normal circumstances.
I felt as if the space around me was constantly being split and pieced together, as if I was about to split into tiny units and then piece myself back together in another space.
However, Yu Naixin could only experience this much.
The simulator has a limited usage condition: "The host has three opportunities to simulate the future direction of each romance variety show."
Now that Yu Naixin has completed the requirements for passing the program's level and left this dating reality show, this simulation has automatically ended.
It's a bit of a pity about Yu Naixin.
She was originally thinking of picking her up from the airport and then going to the lounge to relax and unwind a bit. After all, all the consumption during the simulation doesn't count in reality, so she could test how well the items she was interested in from the two stores worked.
There's still no way to exploit this loophole.
The familiar sensation of passing through the membrane returned to Yu Naixin, and she was once again back in the small storage room in the middle of the right corridor of Swan Castle.
The simulator has one last chance to run without using it.
However, Yu Naixin is already prepared to begin the real-life version of the story.
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