You're my wife, don't doubt it!

“If Zhou Qi is really here, regardless of whether he has any connection with the KTV, this surveillance footage will definitely be checked. There are fewer people during the day, so it’s easy to find out.” Yu Luying was very dissatisfied with Xiao Yao’s carelessness.

“Oh, okay,” Xiao Yao said, “By the way, you’re really too thin. I’ve decided to fatten you up a bit.”

"You just walked right into the mirror in the hallway like that that day?" Yu Luying ignored Xiao Yao's nonsensical remarks.

"No, I saw her in the corridor as soon as I left the private room," Xiao Yao recalled.

“Then we need to find another mirror, somewhere without cameras,” Yu Luying thought.

"The bathroom!" Xiao Yao had a sudden inspiration: "A place with a mirror and no cameras."

"Good idea." Yu Luying smiled sincerely. "How about leaving a note for the little bear?"

--split line--

"But didn't you consider that the restrooms are separated by gender?" Yu Luying looked at the two doors, caught in a dilemma.

"Since there's no one around, what's the difference between men and women?" Xiao Yao didn't understand.

"How could there be no difference! Me, me, me alone, in a KTV, following you into the men's restroom? What kind of person am I?" Yu Luying wanted to express her anxiety but didn't dare to speak loudly, which made her look somewhat shy.

“…Then I’ll go to the women’s restroom with you, okay?” Xiao Yao shrugged.

"Dream on! I led you into the women's restroom, but it's not like you're the one who made the sacrifice. I'm the one who let the wolf in... I'm an accomplice to the tyrant... Why should I?"

"You're so dramatic! Let's go back and sing karaoke then!" Xiao Yao snapped.

"..." Yu Luying hesitated for a moment, then reached out and tugged at Xiao Yao's sleeve, peeking out as she walked toward the men's restroom.

And then, the little bear just walked out of the toilet.

Chapter 47 Royal Knights

2022-12-24

Yu Luying shuddered and instinctively hid behind Xiao Yao, but when she realized it was Xiao Xiong, she came out again.

"Hey, is that you guys?" Little Bear said, "I just looked around but didn't find anything. I was just about to take a break and then come find you. What are you guys talking about at the toilet entrance?"

"We... left you a note, on the coffee table in the private room. Why don't you go back and take a look?" Xiao Yao said hesitantly.

"What note?" Little Bear seemed a little impatient with being rushed around. "We've already met, let's just say it here."

Xiao Yao and Yu Luying exchanged a glance, unsure what to do. Yu Luying hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Xiong Ji, we're going to find Zhou Qi. Do you want to come with us?"

Xiao Yao hesitated, but Xiao Xiong agreed, "Of course I'll go."

"There might be danger," Xiao Yao warned sternly. "You'd better go back to your private room and wait for news. If the fruit platter isn't enough, ask for more. Young Master Yu will pay the bill."

"It's precisely because there's danger that I'm worried about sending just the two of you," Little Bear said, patting his chest.

Xiao Yao sighed. Sometimes, his good friend's excessive enthusiasm was really bothersome.

"Xiong Ji." Yu Luying kicked Xiao Yao's calf with her toe. "Xiong Ji, the situation is different from what you think. Can you keep this a secret?"

Little Bear readily agreed and followed the two into the men's restroom, where a row of mirrors stood above the sink.

"Zhou Qi is in the mirror?" Little Bear naturally didn't believe it: "This isn't some kind of ghost story, is it?"

"Who dares to say for sure that it isn't?" Xiao Yao sighed.

As Xiao Yao's left half of his body entered the mirror, the little bear's mouth turned into an "O" shape.

He rubbed his eyes repeatedly.

"Maybe we should let Xiong Ji wait in the private room..." Yu Luying regretted it a little.

“Little Bear is such a hero, how could he possibly back down at a time like this, right?” Xiao Yao reached out his hand to Little Bear: “It’s precisely because there’s danger that you’re worried about sending just the two of us.”

"You don't have to drag me into this kind of thing," Little Bear waved his hands repeatedly.

"You chose the path to heaven but refused to take it, barging into the gates of hell instead." Xiao Yao grinned maliciously, grabbing Little Bear and saying, "You insisted on being a third wheel. Now that you're here, having stumbled upon my secret, you think you can just run away?"

"What kind of light bulb is this?!" Yu Luying protested.

"Ah, no, no, no, no, it's stuck, it's stuck!" The little bear struggled desperately.

"The mirror is a bit narrow, you need to tuck in your stomach a bit," Yu Luying said calmly, touching her chin.

"Then please help me!" The little bear was covered in sweat.

Yu Luying climbed onto the sink, preparing to reach out and compress the teddy bear's belly, when Xiao Yao's head popped out from the mirror next to her and shoved her hand away.

Then, he reached into the mirror, half inside and half outside, and slowly pushed the bear's belly inside. The scene was truly somewhat terrifying.

"Come on, hurry up, it'll be troublesome if someone sees us," Xiao Yao then called to Yu Luying.

Yu Luying skillfully grabbed Xiao Yao's hand, and one foot entered the mirror first, followed by both legs, the upper body, and finally the head and a hand disappeared into the mirror.

--split line--

"Isn't this still a bathroom? It's not even left or right turned upside down." Xiongji looked around after passing through the mirror.

“That’s right, Xiao Yao, how much do you know about what’s in the mirror?” Yu Luying straightened her disheveled clothes and tucked the hem of her shirt back into her high-waisted jeans.

“I don’t know the principle, but from what I understand so far, it’s a space that is similar to but not the same as the space outside the mirror. Your room in the mirror is an empty room without furniture, and my room in the mirror is Shen… which is also a roughly empty room,” Xiao Yao tried to summarize.

"Shen?" Little Bear always has a keen eye for new elements.

"What Shen?" Xiao Yao denied it outright.

"An empty room? Then it becomes our paradise?" Little Bear got into the mood quickly: "There's an episode of Doraemon..."

“Yes, this is our paradise, but if you tell anyone, all three of us will be captured and dissected for research,” Yu Luying warned without missing a beat. Xiao Xiong repeatedly promised to keep his mouth shut.

“No, after entering the mirror, I couldn’t leave the room and my range of movement was very small.” Xiao Yao realized that they seemed to have misunderstood something.

“You didn’t say that before,” Yu Luying said, somewhat surprised. “Does that mean we have to stay in the men’s restroom? Where are we going to find Zhou Qi then?”

As she spoke, Yu Luying pushed open the door, intending to leave.

Xiao Yao reached out but couldn't grab her; she ran out, so he had no choice but to follow her out with Xiao Xiong.

Just outside the door was the place where Xiao Yao and Yu Luying had argued not long ago about whether they should go into the men's or women's restroom.

Yu Luying went to the women's restroom, looked around, and then shook her head when she came out.

"This is indeed a good place for Tibetans." After wandering around for a while, Xiao Xiong commented that the place was almost exactly the same as the original KTV.

"It's a pity there's no one here." Yu Luying shook her head with regret.

"Don't you guys feel like something's off?" Xiao Yao asked.

“It was already strange to be inside the mirror, so we might have already become desensitized.” Little Bear turned on his flashlight and shone it around.

"Even if you tell me now that this is the original KTV, I can't find any evidence to refute it. Or shall we go check if the staff are here?"

Xiao Yao felt something was wrong because the environment here gave him a feeling that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

"Did any of you see the camera?" Yu Luying suddenly asked.

The little bear shone his flashlight on the corridor ceiling and shook his head.

"Let's go to our private room." Xiao Yao suddenly seemed to understand something and quickly went to find it.

“I clearly saw a camera here just now,” Yu Luying said with certainty, pointing to the ceiling in the corridor outside room 2049V.

"Let's take a look inside the private room." Little Bear pushed open the door and immediately noticed the problem: the KTV's free tea and fruit platter were gone.

"I should have eaten a piece of cantaloupe." The little bear seemed to be trying to distract himself from his anxiety.

"As expected, there are no waiters either." After calling Yu Luying in, Xiao Yao also began to look around.

The private room gave Xiao Yao a strange sense of familiarity—a familiarity that highlighted the particularly eerie feeling he had when he first arrived: he had clearly spent half the night in this room that day, so why did it feel like he had never been here before? If he had forgotten, why did it feel so familiar now?

"Is this yours?" Little Bear picked up a small square box from the sofa cushions and asked Xiao Yao.

This... isn't this Zhang Zhengkai's game console? Xiao Yao took the game console, turned it on, and the title screen of Tactics Ogre confirmed his guess.

"This, this is..." Xiao Yao was filled with question marks.

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Chapter 48 Back to School

2022-12-24

Why is this game console here? Even if Zhang Zhengkai left it behind that day, it's been so many days, and it's just been left here so openly, no one has taken it? Has this private room been empty? There wasn't a game console in the room when we came today. Besides, when we came for Zhou Xiaoying's birthday, it wasn't reflected in the mirror. What's going on?

!

Is it possible, just one possibility, that when playing King's Game at a karaoke bar, everyone is actually reflected in a mirror?

Upon realizing this, Xiao Yao gasped and almost cried out.

He picked up the game console and, together with Yu Luying and her teddy bear, checked the other private rooms, but they were all empty, and the waiters were nowhere to be found.

Throughout the journey, Xiao Yao was absent-minded, pondering what had happened that day.

If, on that day, everyone unknowingly passed through an invisible mirror in the dim light—a wild hypothesis, but not impossible—then everything that followed would make sense.

Why were everyone drunk even though they hadn't drunk any alcohol? Because in the mirror world, the drinks given by the "waiter" were laced with some kind of drug.

So, the waiter who led them to the private room that day is highly suspicious? But why would he do that?