[Ensemble cast + No CP + Entertainment Industry + Escape Rooms + Strong Female Lead; Book Two is currently in progress...]
Other people play escape rooms and rely on effort to get out. They build escape rooms and rely on skill to scare people.
Ke Jingwei is a rising host on a popular provincial TV station. Born into a wealthy family, she insists on using her brains to carve out a “bloody” path in the escape-room design world.
Her teammates are all “talented” in their own ways:
· Screenwriter Su Xingman: a master of Infinite Flow web novels, specializing in “psychological torture.” Her scripts are scarier than ghosts.
· Costume and Props Designer Shan Zihe: impeccable taste and a delightfully macabre touch. She can whip up glowing bloodstained clothes and slime-covered diaries in no time.
· Structural Engineer Cen Junle: tough and taciturn, a machine for creating physical dread with hydraulic walls and tilted mazes.
· Executive Director Jiang Huaiye: a master of managing the production process, precisely delivering every “surprise.”
· Rising Actor Ji Senyu: equally convincing as sweet or salty, he can play an elegant, perverted asylum director or a deranged navigator.
From the eerie “Ciguang Orphanage,” to the ghost ship “Phantom Voyage” shrouded in fog, to a traditional Chinese mansion where red candles flicker and a ghostly wedding sends chills down your spine...
They build one terrifying “nightmare prison” after another with their own hands, then watch their celebrity guests scream, break down, and cling together for comfort.
Until one day
“Teacher Ke, would you care to experience the escape room you designed for yourself?”
With a “kindly” smile, the director threw her and the trembling guests into a gloomy old mansion where red and white omens collide and paper money flies everywhere.
Everyone: “???” Sis, are you here to survive a trial from heaven or tear the place apart?!
Honestly, Chapter 26 alone deserves a five-star rating! And the puzzle-solving is absolutely fantastic, possessing a kind of inexplicable beauty! (Or maybe I'm just too clueless.) If you enjoy ensemble casts, this is a must-read. Creating the escape room together feels like co-creating a child!
I like things that look good!