CH 45

Jin Tianyi took the clue paper and after thanking her, he stepped off the stage. He stepped towards the elevator and when the door opened, he saw Chu Huai.

Chu Huai raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a smile: “Officer?”

The word “officer” was equivalent to Xianggong in the early Song Dynasty, but it gradually evolved into other meanings later. Chu Huai knew the meaning, but he couldn’t help teasing Jin Tianyi.

Jin Tianyi couldn’t help laughing, knowing that he was pretending, his eyes drifted away from him, and he spouted shamelessly: “Your Ladyship.”

Chu Huai felt choked, and reached out to ask him for the folded piece of paper: “Give it to me.”

“What? You want to confiscate the token of love?” Even though Jin Tianyi said that he obediently put the piece of paper into Chu Huai’s hand.

Seeing that Luo Ziyang was still there, he asked, “Why aren’t you on stage yet?”

Luo Ziyang rubbed his hands and said honestly, “…I’m nervous.”

With Jin Tianyi leading the battle, he felt that it would be embarrassing if his situation was too bleak. It’s about the dignity of a man.

Jin Tianyi patted him on the shoulder and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility: “You can do this, bring a ghost back. I also want to know the role a ghost guest plays in the instance.”

Luo Ziyang stood at attention, saluted, and said with a smile: “The task must be completed.” He took a deep breath to calm himself, then he entered the elevator with confidence.

“Wait…” Chu Huai suddenly said, and before he finished speaking, the elevator door was completely closed.

Jin Tianyi: “What’s the matter?”

Chu Huai waved at him on the spot, Jin Tianyi went over, Chu Huai didn’t speak, took out the folded paper he got, and stuffed it into Jin Tianyi’s hand. Jin Tianyi lowered his head slightly and opened the note with his slender fingers. He looked at the twenty-five phrases that appeared in his field of vision, and his eyes showed doubts: “Is there a problem?”

Chu Huai was taken aback, and then explained: “This is not your card, yours is with me, and what you are holding is my card.”

Jin Tianyi’s eyes froze, the content of the cards he and Chu Huai got was exactly the same, as if they were typed out by a printer.

Chu Huai: “There are a total of twenty-five phrases, each of which has no connection, and the phrases are arranged neatly, with five phrases in a row, a total of five rows. I thought that the clue will somehow be hidden the same as Feihualing. That you can get clues by connecting words with special rules, but I don’t think it can be deciphered.”

Chu Huai smiled: “So…we may have been tricked by the world again. I thought at first that I got prompts for single or multiple projects, but looking at it now, it is likely to be prompts for all projects, and one phrase corresponds to one project.”

Jin Tianyi asked with a smile: “With twenty-five clues, how many permutations and combinations are there?”

Chu Huai knew he understood and teased: “The number of permutations and combinations is not important, the important thing is that if you choose the wrong one, you may fail, the probability is one in 25.”

Jin Tianyi quietly folded the piece of paper, and because Chu Huai’s dress had no pockets, he kept Chu Huai’s paper as well.

“Actually, I’m not out of ideas,” Chu Huai said while watching Luo Ziyang’s first VCR, “First of all, these phrases can be roughly divided into two categories. One category being the couple category, such as ‘say you love me’, ‘kiss’, and so on. So that the scope can be narrowed down, of course, this is just a preliminary guess.”

Jin Tianyi nodded thoughtfully: “Yea, they seem to be divided.”

“You can also see it?”

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Chu Huai laughed in surprise, and Jin Tianyi also looked up.

In the VCR, Luo Ziyang gave a clear account of his household registration, and now he is excitedly talking about the greatness of his surname, about how he is a descendant of King Luo Bin.

Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi looked at each other: “…So that’s the reason why he is single.”

Luo Ziyang saw the lights go out one by one on the stage, his eyes widened in disbelief.

From what Chu Huai heard, Luo Ziyang was an actor in the real world, but judging from the way he spoke, he must have not been popular.  

The VCR stopped abruptly, probably because the ghost director couldn’t bear to watch anymore. There are only two lights left, numbers 23 and 24.

On the 24th, Ye Yuan left a light for him.

The camera pointed at No. 23. No. 23 is a female ghost with a bloated body and dark skin. She looks normal, but the child holding her hand is extremely scary.

It is not accurate to say it is a child, it looks more like a fetus, one that is less than a month old. Although the ghost baby was only 30 to 40 centimeters, he could stand upright. His fingers and toes were transparent and hadn’t grown well at all. His head was huge, and his eyes were cold and cloudy. 

When the host asked her why she left the light on for Luo Ziyang, the No. 22 ghost next to her intervened and answered in a bad tone: “She wants to find someone to take responsibility for her and the child!”

The female ghost got angry and said coldly: “Brother Ye Yuan(No. 24) is afraid that you will lose face, so he asked me to leave the lamp on. Since now you know, I have no choice but to turn it off.”

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Ye Yuan apologetically, and turned off the light with a “click”. 

Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi backstage: “…” 

The audience was pitch black, only Ye Yuan was left with a light on, and twenty-three pairs of ghostly eyes looked at him. 

Ye Yuan didn’t expect that Luo Ziyang would still be so foolish after not seeing him for many years, it was too embarrassing. He gritted his teeth and said, “don’t look at me, I just like… talking.”

Luo Ziyang’s head drooped, but his eyes lit up when he heard this. 

When the camera pointed at Ye Yuan, he sighed in relief, and said embarrassingly, “I’m afraid of being alone, and I can’t the quiet. If he likes chattering, I’ll feel comfortable.”

Luo Ziyang held the microphone with an excited expression: “Big brother, you have really good vision!” 

Ye Yuan: “…” 

The second VCR of emotional experience began to broadcast, and Luo Ziyang’s guilty conscience was written all over his face. He originally thought that he had completed the first part well and could make up for the second part. Now… 

Chu Huai heard the phrase “more than a dozen short-lived relationships”, and took a leisurely look at Jin Tianyi: “Why is this child so honest?”

Jin Tianyi asked with a smile: “When you say that, does it mean that you indirectly admit that you lied in the VCR?” 

Chu Huai didn’t expect him to be so perceptive, and he didn’t bother to hide it. He raised his eyebrows and asked, “Did you not?”

“Some of it,” Jin Tianyi paused, his eyes downcast, “but one sentence is true.” 

“Which sentence?” Chu Huai began to think back, Jin Tianyi gently turned his face, met his gaze, and there was a faint sense of certainty in his eyes: “That I want to be with someone I love.”

Chu Huai began to think back, Jin Tianyi gently turned his face away, met his gaze, and there was a faint hint in his eyes that he must win: “Someone I love.” 

Chu Huai turned his head and laughed at himself, the sense of immersion has been too strong recently, which is not a good thing. Jin Tianyi was confessing his love to Chu Jiao, not him, he had a clear conscious.

He is him, Chu Jiao is Chu Jiao. 

Luo Ziyang gave up hope, but until the end of the second segment of the VCR, the only light was still on, and Ye Yuan’s flamboyant face had a different kind of beauty under the light.

Chu Huai stared at Ye Yuan for a while, then frowned slightly. The way Ye Yuan looked at Luo Ziyang made it difficult for him not to notice. Does he know Luo Ziyang? 

Host: “Now announcing our male contestant’s pick!”

Ye Yuan raised his eyebrows, wanting to know which female ghost the worthless Luo Ziyang chose, but when he heard “No. 24”, he froze for a moment.  

Before the corners of his mouth could be raised, Luo Ziyang said embarrassedly: “Big brother, I chose randomly, you are good-looking.” 

The veins on Ye Yuan’s forehead twitched. 

He came down to the stage, wearing a white T-shirt and black slacks, with a tender face and fair skin, like a high school student.

On the stage, Luo Ziyang called out courageously: “Come on!” 

Ye Yuan was startled, his face was full of black lines. He thought that Luo Ziyang could improve a little bit, but looking at him now, he didn’t change.

Ye Yuan: “Once upon a time, two people ran to a hut in the woods to have an affair. They didn’t know that there was a ghost living in the hut. That ghost would kill people only when his name was called, but the woman died in the end. Why?” 

On the stage, Luo Ziyang’s looked dazed with a face of bewilderment.

Chu Huai was stunned for a second, with a strange expression on his face, it was too obvious to him. 

Jin Tianyi asked with a smile: “Do you know the answer?”

Chu Huai nodded seriously and decided to act cheeky. His slender finger slid across Jin Tianyi’s chest, Jin Tianyi felt strange in his heart and was about to grab his hand to stop him, Chu Huai whispered coquettishly: “You old pervert~” 

He stopped after that and laughed so hard that his stomach hurt.

That ghost was called a “sex ghost”, and the woman called out the name of the ghost while flirting with the man, so she died. 

Jin Tianyi looked at him with a doting smile.

On the stage, Luo Ziyang and Ye Yuan stared with big eyes and small eyes for a long time, and Ye Yuan’s teeth itched impatiently. 

You can answer with anything you want.

Host: “The time is running out…” 

“Don’t, don’t, don’t,” Luo Ziyang said anxiously, “Because the woman saw a ghost, so she yelled ‘ghost’, and that ghost was called a ghost.”

After Luo Ziyang finished speaking, he felt that he was quick-witted, well-founded and that his answer is extremely reasonable. 

He looked at Ye Yuan with some hope. Ye Yuan felt hopeless about his IQ. He turned his head to look at the host, with a surprised expression on his face: “Sister, he got the answer right, he’s so smart!” 

The host: “…” Ye Yuan, why are you so impudent. 

Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi: “…” Brother, what have you been through?

Luo Ziyang patted his thigh, showing a frightened expression. 

Ye Yuan asked softly: “That’s it from me, sister, can I go with him?” 

The host: “The holding hands is successful. Will the contestant bring the male guest No. 24 to play in the Amusement Park?” 

Ye Yuan gave Luo Ziyang a secret “look”. If you don’t take me with you, you are finished.

Luo Ziyang didn’t receive the radio waves at all, he only remembered Jin Tianyi’s previous order in his mind, Jin Tianyi asked him to bring a ghost guest back to understand the role of the ghost guest in the instance. 

“Yes, I will.” He answered quickly. The corners of Ye Yuan’s mouth raised uncontrollably. At least you arent sensless.

Because he was in a hurry to show off to Jin Tianyi and Chu Jiao, Luo Ziyang happily took Ye Yu’an’s hand. 

Ye Yu’an’s expression was complicated for a moment.

“Why are your hands so cold?” Luo Ziyang felt that he had grabbed a piece of ice, and was suddenly frozen, shivering for a while. 

Ye Yuan chuckled: “Because I was frozen to death.”

Luo Ziyang didn’t let go: “Come on, I’ll warm you up.”  

Ye Yuan smiled obediently: “Thank you, brother Luo.”

Chu Huai: “…” 

He turned to look at Jin Tianyi: “I have an ominous premonition.”

Jin Tianyi: “…coincidentally, so do I.” 

Luo Ziyang dragged Ye Yuan off the stage.