Shh, There's a Ghost Behind the Door

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Blurb:

Chi Tan was chosen by the "Door" to become a task-taker and dragged into terrifying missions, where she came face-to-face with the resurgence of the paranormal.

Disobeying the "hidden rules" other task-takers discovered at the cost of their lives means death. Failing a mission means death... Task-takers must venture deep into the horror and find the "way to survive" hidden in the mission information. Only after completing 12 missions can they escape the curse of death.

[Mission: Before 22:00 tonight, go to the Midnight Theater and watch the 120-minute play Shadowing You. Leaving the mission site during the task is prohibited.]

At midnight, a play is being performed in the long-neglected theater. Thick black mist slowly creeps from the corners, and a bone-chilling gaze follows them like a shadow...

The task-takers die one after another. Those left behind are terrified and uneasy.

"...He died at the very beginning of the mission. That means he must have found the way to survive. What did the hint he left before he died mean?"

"What exactly is the way to survive?"

When that sense of terror wells up again, Chi Tan looks behind her, horrified.

So that's it. The way to survive is...

"Run!"

[Mission: On November 4, in the outskirts of Linhai, Zhoushan City, complete a horror game. The mission ends at 24:00 that day. Leaving the mission site during the task is prohibited.]

[Mission: A strange neighbor lives across from you. You must escape the strange house before the rain stops, without being discovered by him.]

[Mission: For the week around Qingming Festival, the dead wander among the living at midnight and make several phone calls. "So, who am I?"]

After Chi Tan escapes death, she pieces together her experiences from the missions, only to suddenly realize that horror is lurking among them, the task-takers...

She begins to doubt everything. Are the rules discovered by the players chosen by the Door really all true...?

Reader's Guide:

1. Traditional horror, no golden finger or items. You can only use your wits to find a way to survive.

2. The male lead appears late. Both leads are sexually inexperienced and evenly matched.

3. The story contains extensive author-created settings. The logic serves the plot, so please don't apply it to real life.

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Blurb for the upcoming story, The Stingy One Takes on the Apocalypse:

Before the apocalypse, Ren Xingchen transmigrates into the future. Having grown up poor, she is stingy to the extreme and loves saving and stockpiling things. When the apocalypse arrives, a twist of fate gives her a one-cubic-meter storage space.

...Wait, everyone else's storage space is so huge. Why is hers only one cubic meter?!

Still, if she makes good use of that one cubic meter, she won't have to worry about food and drink for years.

Flour has a density of 0.52 tons per cubic meter, and contains more calories than the same weight of rice. One cubic meter of flour is enough to feed an adult man for three years.

If she can collect half a ton of flour, that will leave 38.5 liters in her one-cubic-meter space. She can use 18.5 liters for seeds, then fill the remaining space with salt and oil. She can carry small items and instant food in her backpack, and condense her own water, so she doesn't need to store any extra...

To make the best use of this tiny space and thrive in the apocalypse, Ren Xingchen grows increasingly thrifty, surviving through sheer stinginess and careful calculations...

She doesn't eat much, so two meals a day are enough. She can split the seasoning packet from instant noodles, using half with the noodles and saving the other half for later. The sweet potato shoots and chives in the water bottle she always carries gradually grow, giving her some leafy greens every so often. When she finally gets her hands on meat, she saves the bones to make soup for her next meal...

A stingy person can't help thinking, "What if this comes in handy?" whenever they come across something.

Later, Ren Xingchen picks up some peanut and rapeseed seeds, thinking she could plant them and press them for oil to replenish her supplies. She collects fabric left behind in an empty supermarket, cuts it up, and makes herself a few outfits. Aluminum foil and foam she finds are used to patch up her drafty little shelter and keep out the cold...

Then one day, Ren Xingchen picks up a young man.

"What if he comes in handy, too?"

Theme: The Door has opened. Strive to survive.