Escape Plan for the Locked Room [Showbiz]

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Shi Qiao is a top-tier beauty in the entertainment industry. In front of the camera, she always wears a radiant smile and is like a warm little sun.

No one knows that off camera, she's timid, claustrophobic, and afraid of ghosts.

To promote her new drama, newcomer Shi Qiao is forced to sign up for a horror escape-room show.

She thinks it'll be a small production, but then she sees the names of her two ex-boyfriends on the guest list:

Newly crowned Best Actor He Chen, and Ren Ling, the latest winner of the Golden Melody Award.

Faced with two escape-room veterans, Shi Qiao sees black. She can already imagine how badly they'll mess with her in the rooms...

But to her surprise, the two big shots turn their attacks on each other, clashing like flint and steel.

He Chen: So you're the homewrecker who came between a couple?

Ren Ling: So you're the scumbag who used her and dumped her?

Shi Qiao: ...Can you stop arguing and help me get through this solo challenge first?

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Shi Qiao never imagined that after they broke up, two big shots would get jealous over a little starlet like her.

Every time, her gaze would drift toward He Chen without her meaning to.

When they broke up, he left her battered and unable to let go for a long time.

Just when she was ready to move on, He Chen had the gall to show up in front of her again.

Shi Qiao resolved not to let anyone manipulate her this time.

She deliberately got close to Ren Ling, hoping to make He Chen give up.

When she was scared, she stood behind him. When she couldn't solve a puzzle, she asked him. Even during the group photo at the end, she deliberately stood beside him and flashed a peace sign.

Watching the two of them act so close, He Chen felt his heart being torn apart. Whenever they leaned together in the dark, his chilly gaze swept over them, and the air around him turned icy.

Just as his anger was about to boil over, Shi Qiao accidentally grabbed his hand in the dark, and the two of them were locked together in the punishment-room closet.

The closet was cramped and dark. Outside, the NPCs were screaming like monsters.

He pinned her inside the closet, his warm breath brushing her ear, his voice half threatening and half pleading:

“Tell everyone you're mine, and tell that guy to stay away from you.”

“Say yes, and big brother will get you out of here. How about it?”

Reading Guide:

1. The author isn't an expert on the entertainment industry, so some details about how it works may be invented. This story is mainly about romance in escape rooms, with the entertainment industry as a secondary backdrop. Please don't read too deeply into that part.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads are inexperienced, happy ending. Neither lead has done anything to hurt the other. The heroine dated other people for certain reasons, but only briefly, for less than two weeks.

3. The leads have a seven-year age gap.

My next novel will be The 2.5-Dimensional World Between Him and Me, which is listed on my author page. Please add it to your reading list (heart, heart).

Mo Xici's three relationships all ended with her being dumped. After her faith in love is shattered, she resolutely downloads the hottest dating sim around, hoping a paper-doll boyfriend can heal her broken heart.

She plans to play queen in the dating sim, but then she picks a jealous boyfriend. Whenever she starts thinking about building a harem, he starts causing trouble.

Mo Xici: Male Lead A looks like he's in good shape. I'll buy him some underwear.

Yu Yi: So you like his body but not mine, huh? Fine, I'll have a game character model welded onto my body! No abs for you to see, no little bird for you to touch!

Mo Xici: Male Lead B's companion mode seems pretty fun. I'll try it out.

Yu Yi: You're going to another man for company? Fine, I'll turn on Do Not Disturb. If you don't comfort me, don't come into my nest again! :)

Mo Xici: Male Lead C's new card looks pretty good. I'll draw one and see what I get.

Yu Yi: You like his card? Then I'll make you pull off-banner, over and over and over again, until you get sick of it~!

Off-banner pulls are too painful. After Mo Xici pulls Male Lead C's standard card three times in a row from Yu Yi's solo limited banner, she finally behaves herself and swears she'll only ever be a devoted fan of one character, never flirting with the other flowers and weeds outside.

Yu Yi finally stops causing trouble, but Mo Xici suddenly realizes something:

There's something seriously off about this two-dimensional male lead... Isn't he a little too lifelike?

Yu Yi is in a real bind.

As the last pureblood phoenix on the planet Mierde, he should be enjoying a bird's life at the very top of the pyramid. But one misstep and he fell in love with a human from Earth.

Mierde and Earth are separated by complex cosmic dimensions, so he can only connect with his beloved through a dating sim.

But Mo Xici thinks he's just a two-dimensional paper doll!

This woman has no cyber chastity at all. She falls for every man she sees, and pampers those other flowers and weeds even more than she does him!

Yu Yi has no choice. He racks his brains to get her attention, displaying himself like a peacock every day.

One day, he can't resist going to Mo Xici's side and gently poking her soft earlobe.

Mo Xici jolts in fright. What the hell! A ghost!

Yu Yi: ???

Both are devoted to one another and inexperienced / Happy ending

The male lead doesn't stay in the two-dimensional world forever.

Theme: Only love remains steadfast forever.