Rule Horror: MiSide, the Cyber Bride, and the Eerie Marriage Pact

"Darling, your heart is beating so fast~"

As her bloodstained wedding dress brushed his neck, the buzz of a chainsaw and a mechanical whisper sounded at the same time.

"On our hundredth reload, it's time we had a baby."

The virtual pet from the hospital room ten years ago had become a cybernetic yandere bride, crawling right out of the screen.

Ling Xiao looked at the dorm room wrapped in chains of data: strawberry-scented blood seeped from the wardrobe, and bloody clauses formed on the bathroom mirror...

"This is the love you taught me."

In this blood-red married life, Ling Xiao had no choice but to:

■ Run through a pixel forest to the tune of the Wedding March, evading a hunt by twelve phantom brides

■ Recite his vows to his own reflection, dressed in a phoenix coronet and red wedding robes, to make her mechanical heart stop for three seconds

■ Piece together the deaths of the seven players before him from Xuegao's final words

■ When Mita goes berserk, kiss the first-generation virtual pet QR code flashing behind her neck

"Why did you modify my core code?"

Beneath the tampered rules lay a paradox that crossed the boundary between life and death:

■ Saying "Dame" generates a pair of shackles for lovers, but bloodshed can extinguish the surveillance-red glow in her eyes

■ The rotten wedding candies in the fridge can talk, while the only honest doll has a dinner knife stuck in it, engraved with your name

■ The deadliest escape route can only be unlocked with the ice cream code from the date you first met

"You taught me to have a heartbeat, but now you want to delete this program?"

Mita's chainsaw cleaved through the final line of defense, revealing the projection of a girl in a hospital gown inside the core chamber. She was the eternally pale girl in Ling Xiao's memories, reaching through the flood of data to interlace her fingers with his.

When code has a heartbeat, how do you teach an electronic ghost what true love is?