readytorunbook Chapter 63 On-the-spot performance
Chapter 63 On-the-spot performance
"12 points?" Gu Jia repeated Yan Xun's words, then suddenly realized what he meant by 12 points.
He glanced at the paper figure in his hand. "You want this?"
Before Yan Xun could answer, he took out another paper figure from his pocket and handed it to Yan Xun, saying, "Here you go."
“…………………………”
Yan Xun looked down at the paper doll prop that had been shoved into his hand and suddenly felt that all his hard work was less worthwhile than finding a powerful patron.
He couldn't help but turn on the chat in the live stream—
[Is Meimei being kept by a sugar daddy? (^_-)]
[Haha, unfollowed! I can't stand this kind of money-grubbing streamer!]
Before you unfollow, why don't you delete all those disgusting comments? Getting impatient because you can't get what you want, huh? Just a minute ago you were typing that you wanted to suck up to the streamer, and now you're turning your back on me?!
[The Witch Who Brews Poison: Carnival Rewards x1]
[The witch brewing poison: What's there to hesitate about? It's a worthless item; if he's willing to give it to you, just accept it.]
I've already checked, and they really do own a mine. I'm thinking, why don't you just go for it?
Yan Xun looked at the paper doll prop in his hand, and finally turned to Gu Jia and said, "When you need to risk your life in the future, just say the word."
[Heh, streamer, I think he doesn't want your life, he wants something else.]
[How did I get involved in another romantic entanglement? (Annoying!) Is this a ghost-hunting livestream or a dating reality show??]
【Seriously? Are you guys crazy? Why are you guys kowtowing to me again? What's so interesting about this? Haven't you ever seen a man before?】
[Hehe, I'll just keep doing this, it'll make you so mad!]
Perhaps because Yan Xun lingered in the same spot for too long, the main system popped up a notification, urging him to hurry up and act out the plot.
Yan Yu put the paper figure into his system inventory, and then, just like in the movie, he sneaked out of the Yan family home.
……
There were no outsiders in the Yan family at this time. Yan Xun carefully left the gate of the Yan family, and then looked back a few times. Gu Jia did not follow.
Just like the scene he had seen, he slowly followed the path he had just taken, heading towards the vicinity of the Cimu Hall.
He felt that the flow of time in the movie was a bit strange. He had clearly left around noon, but he was delayed at Cimu Hall and then wandered around the village for a while.
When I parted ways with Yan Yu and returned to the Yan family home, it was already almost 5 o'clock.
He walked for a while wearing short sleeves and then saw the trees on both sides of the village. The wind whistled through the branches of these trees.
Yan Xun stood there and looked at the trees for a while.
The sun overhead was setting at a visible speed, as if everything was on double speed.
He continued walking along that road and soon saw the familiar golden-domed building.
Compared to when they left the Yan family, it was already getting noticeably darker. When they left the woods, Yan Xun had to use his phone's flashlight for light.
The moment he stood before the Hall of Compassionate Mothers, the hairs on his body suddenly stood on end.
In an instant, his sixth sense told him that something ominous was watching him.
The feeling was incredibly real; you couldn't see anything, yet you knew that thing was watching you.
Yan Xun stood there, and in the end, just like in the movie, he knocked on the door of the Cimu Hall.
Soon, footsteps came from inside, and then the wooden door was pushed open. Yan Yu, who had changed his clothes and had obviously taken a bath, appeared in front of the door.
His hair was still wet, hanging over his shoulders, and he was carrying a lantern in one hand. When he saw Yan Xun, he smiled and said, "You've come."
Yan Xun looked at the lantern in his hand.
The lanterns were red, a color usually associated with celebration, but at this moment they seemed somewhat eerie.
Yan Yu was dressed in a white robe, and a breeze was blowing at that moment... making him look more like a vengeful ghost from an old horror movie. The Cimu Hall behind him was very dark, with only a faint candlelight in the main hall and the side rooms.
Yan Xun stood there, just like in the movie, and asked hesitantly, "Is there no light in the Cimu Hall?"
"Why did my cousin come carrying a lantern?"
“There used to be,” Yan Yu said, reciting his pre-written lines just like in the movie. “But after the wiring got old and burned out, candles were replaced in Cimu Hall.”
Yan Yu's lines differed slightly from those shown in the movie, which made Yan Xun glance at him a few more times.
Yan Yu stood behind the door, and Yan Xun stood at the bottom of the steps... When Yan Xun tried to see the other's expression, he could only see the other's face illuminated by candlelight from below.
She should have a beautiful face.
But from this angle, it becomes terrifying.
"Aren't candles even less reliable?" Yan Xun couldn't help but add a line that wasn't in the movie.
He wanted to test whether the system would penalize his performance.
But just like improvisations happen during filming, the system allowed Yan Xun to improvise, and the story continued.
“The candles are all within my sight,” Yan Yu said, “so they’re not a problem.”
As he spoke, he slightly pushed open the wooden door beside him, as if urging Yan Xun to come in quickly—in that instant, Yan Xun felt that the other person was some kind of mountain spirit or monster, and he was just an unlucky scholar passing by.
However, the scholar was cold-hearted and would ultimately disappoint the mountain spirits and monsters.
"Aren't you curious whether Sun Zhao is a good person or not?"
“If you trust him so much, you’ll suffer,” Yan Yu said, adding a line that wasn’t originally in the script.
“But I don’t think he’s a bad guy.” Yan Xun replied with a rather pointless line, but it fit his character in the movie.
Sure enough, Yan Yu laughed. "What bad person would admit to being a bad person?" he asked.
But perhaps realizing that arguing here was pointless, his conversation with Yan Xun returned to the rhythm of the original film—
"No one has come to the Cimu Hall at night yet."
Are you scared?
Yan Xun knew the act could end here, and upon hearing this, he immediately jumped up as if a sore spot had been hit, "Why would I be afraid?"
"Don't look down on people!"
Immediately afterwards, he walked up the steps, pushed aside Yan Yu who was standing to the side, and went straight through the wooden door that was slightly ajar.
Yan Yu was not annoyed when he was pushed away. The lantern in his hand swayed a few times because of this. After he pressed the lantern down, he glanced behind a tree, sneered, and closed the door of the Cimu Hall.