"Welcome to "Night Survival Game", your horror value is the best ratings."
Shen Juan was originally just a lighting engineer who worked for the theater company. When he woke up, he became a "wasted substitute" in the thriller audition.
Here, elimination means death, the scripts are all based on real tragedies, and the people in the audience are all the dead souls of previous generations.
#Substitute's survival rules#
Others rely on acting skills to pass the level, but Shen Juan relies on "being lazy".
While the top team was busy grabbing the C position and the crazy team was busy wreaking havoc, Shen Juan led his "night watch team" to find loopholes in the script:
Abandoned hospital audition? He slept in the shadows of the morgue.
Puppet master's dinner? He disguised himself as a backdrop and changed the lighting script.
A runaway performance train? He dismantled the public address system and silenced the NPCs.
#Teammates are all "defective products" #
None of the teammates he picked up were normal:
The soul-crying man Lin Xiaoman can soothe the souls of the dead, but cannot soothe his own past;
Zhao, a stuntman with a broken arm, had a photo of his daughter hidden in his abdomen;
Crazy critic Xie Jiuci, who joined the show just to find her sister who has been missing for three years;
The talented screenwriter Su Ruan predicts his own death in every script he writes.
# Finale rehearsal #
As the program progressed, Shen Juan discovered:
The "high-dimensional being" on the judges' bench is the first-generation champion;
All scripts are tampered with real-life tragedies;
And the more involved they are in acting, the deeper the traces of reality are erased.
"If horror is an unfinished farewell, then our performance is the last scene for the dead souls."
✨ Reading Tips (Demining)
From the perspective of the male protagonist, the emotional line is very light: it mainly depicts the bond between teammates and self-salvation. There is no CP or micro-BL (Shen Juan × Xie Jiuci) tendency, so please proceed with caution.
The group portrait writing is subtle: each character has a complete background story and death foreshadowing, and there is no whitewashing or forced HE.
Setting tribute: It combines the "troupe" setting of "I'm Not a Drama God" and the "variety show" elements of "Thriller Paradise", but the plot is original.
The pace is slow: there is a long foreshadowing in the early stages, and it is a long novel with 500+ chapters, which is suitable for readers who like long-term and foreshadowing recycling.
Purpose: In the desperate situation of having to perform, to complete the belated curtain call for the deceased who cannot speak.
