Scarlet Wards and Bridal Cords
By @john1208
Lu Feixing falls asleep in his messy apartment and wakes up on a cold morgue slab, dressed in a traditional red groom's robe. His phone flickers with the *Midnight Absolution* app, welcoming him to an S-Rank instance: a ghost wedding inside the abandoned Ci'an General Hospital. The rules are absolute: deliver the dowry through the haunted surgical wing, ignore the weeping paper-effigy nurses, and never touch the bride's veil. Breaking a rule means being violently purged. But Feixing is a lazy genius and a con artist who despises hard work. Realizing the survival tasks are a tedious suicide mission, he opts for a massive shortcut - shamelessly wooing Rong Qinglin, a fierce 1920s militia commander who was betrayed and murdered in this very hospital on her wedding day. While veteran player Ding Shaobai frantically scrambles to survive the horrific wards, the narrative shifts to reveal Feixing leaning into the danger, offering teasing smiles and stolen kisses through the bloody veil. His flirtatious gamble works, turning the calamity boss into his lethal protector. But as they near the final ceremony, Feixing uncovers a terrifying truth: the app’s promised survival reward is actually a trap. Can he con the supernatural system itself before their souls are anchored forever?
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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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