Special Delivery to the Midnight Opera
By @john1208
He Xiaotian was just trying to deliver a late-night order of spicy crawfish when he drove his scooter through the wrong fog bank. Suddenly, he is the unwilling star of "Nightmare Broadcast," an otherworldly reality show where humans are thrown into lethal scenarios for the amusement of spectral viewers. His debut episode? A ghost marriage inside the rotting Hundred-Echoes Opera House, where breaking any of the thirteen bridal rules means instant dismemberment by paper-effigy ushers.
His assigned bride is Pei Shuang, a fearsome general betrayed and murdered in her wedding armor centuries ago. The sadistic ghostly audience expects Xiaotian to scream, panic, and die horribly. Instead, the seemingly brain-empty delivery boy flashes a million-watt smile, seamlessly twisting the deadly taboos into charming excuses to hold her bloodstained hand, adjust her crimson veil, and whisper terrible, flirtatious jokes. But beneath his golden-retriever exterior lies a razor-sharp mind counting down a hidden, unlisted twist: they only have until the broadcast's hidden runtime expires. Can Xiaotian melt the frozen heart of a warrior ghost and break the stage's curse before the screen fades to black and deletes them both forever?
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