Secret Realm Horror: I Accidentally Started the Darkening Hunt?

Zhong Lichen opened his eyes from the blood mist. What he saw was not the familiar archaeological camp, but a bronze door engraved with strange symbols. The door slowly opened before his eyes, like the call of some ancient ritual, or like the entrance to an abyss opened for him by fate. The secret realm has no map and no rules, only a maze where death and desire intertwine. Every wall here whispers, every fork in the road hides a trap, but the most deadly thing is the human heart. Zhong Lichen originally thought he was just an ordinary person who accidentally fell into it, until he discovered that everyone close to him would die in an incredible way - some were swallowed by their own shadows, some slept forever in their dreams, and some turned into a puddle of scarlet water in front of him. Ruan Qinghuan, the woman in the blood-red cheongsam, first appeared in a mirror. She smiled, but her eyes were filled with obsessions that were not of this world. "You are mine." When she said this, her fingertips swiped across the mirror, and the glass oozed blood like skin. She loved him, but she wanted to bury him with him in the whole secret realm. Bai Ye was once his most trusted friend, but now he has become synonymous with betrayal. He peeped in the dark and set up traps in the secret room, just to swallow the legendary treasure. But he doesn't know that the secret realm never lets people succeed easily. Luo Li used codes and logic to create a trace of order in this chaos, while Murong Xue split the curtain of the truth with sword light. Who are they? Is it an ally, or the beginning of another conspiracy?