“Welcome to the Heartbeat Casino. Your current debt: -1,000,000 points.”
The instant the electronic voice sounded in her mind, Lin Xi looked at her reflection in the mirror, dressed in a blood-red wedding gown, and finally remembered the contract she'd signed three days ago. Here, every step in the horror school's stairwell could devour you, a million livestream viewers decided where the zombie virus would be released, and the System bug who always appeared at moments of crisis... had the face of the upperclassman she'd secretly loved ten years ago.
“Don't smile at me. Your heartbeat will give away your secret.” The silver-haired administrator wiped the blood from the side of her neck. The chains around his wrist rattled in time with the System alarms. In this game where affection was the stake, who was hunting whose heartbeat?