Rule Horror: I Send Off China’s Loyal Spirits

Lin Wanyue was swept into an infinite-loop survival game called Echoes of Obsession. Rumor had it that the S-rank instance, Cloudglow Theater, was home to two peerless murderers who killed without batting an eye. One was a red-robed martial-role actor with a charred mask over his face; the other, a peerless leading lady whose eyes were covered in strange patterns. Countless top players had been torn apart by their cruelest methods. But when Lin Wanyue entered the instance, she triggered the only SSR-rank talent on the entire server: Historical Resonance. While countless players screamed and fled, she stood before the stage engulfed in flames, tears streaming down her face. She saw Jiangnan, 1937. For the sake of everyone in the city, two childhood friends who were both opera performers drank poisoned wine and sang their final performance of The Tale of the Loyal Couple amid the flames. “Today, we, husband and wife…” “Those who tread upon our homeland and harm our people will be hunted by our souls day and night. We will make sure you never know peace for all eternity!” They were not bloodthirsty ghosts after all, but loyal souls of China who had remained steadfast even in death. Lin Wanyue wiped away her tears and drew her dagger. “I’m not running from this one. I’ll use my blood to send the heroes home!” From the bloody siege of a lone Ming Dynasty city to the crimson curses of a ghostly Jiangnan wedding… Lin Wanyue crossed a thousand mountains and rivers, guiding countless souls to their rest, only to discover that the greatest obsession of all was the top player who had been by her side all along, smiling carelessly yet guarding her with his life…