Chapter 32.2 (1/2)

Xiao Tangqiu hadn’t quite gotten over the shock yet, when the housekeeper turned around and removed a painting from the wall behind her. She piously held onto the painting with a humble posture. Then, she carefully placed it at the other end of the table, that is, directly opposite the Castle Master.

It was the portrait of Lily Marlene.

The newbies who were originally sitting at the back suddenly turned pale and regretted their decision. It seemed less frightening to sit next to a ghastly old man than a portrait of a dead woman.

However, the Master of the castle obviously didn’t think that there was anything wrong having dinner with the portrait of a dead person. He looked at it with deep emotions swirling in his eyes. But after a brief moment, he bowed his head and coughed for a while before he said in a low voice, “Guests, please enjoy your meal.”

The newbies were still hesitating whether to eat or not, but Xiao Tangqiu had already lifted the silver cloche off the dinner plate. He let out a sigh of relief . There wasn’t anything weird inside – it was steak.

Although some of them weren’t used to using forks and knives, they soon started eating after having endured hunger for so long. The steak was little raw, but it tasted good.

Seeing that others had started to eat, the newbies finally joined in with confidence. Everyone was hungry and even the picky child ate with gusto.

Xiao Tangqiu secretly stared out of the corner of his eye at Shen Yuan who sat next to him. Compared with his own crude and clumsy movements, Shen Yuan cut the steak with grace and elegance. He was obviously very familiar with using a knife and fork.

He withdrew his gaze and sighed quietly.

Just like him, Meng Xinghe seldom had western cuisine, so he wasn’t very good at using a knife and fork.

When everyone was almost done with dinner, the Castle Master said, “I believe you already know my identity. I am the Master of this castle, Lippinobert. Are you all suitors who read my marriage solicitation letter in the newspaper?”

………Wait a minute? Marriage solicitation letter? Suitors?

Did he just hear something strange?

Xiao Tangqiu blinked, wondering if he had heard voices.

Everyone else’s reaction wasn’t much better than his. They all sat dumbfounded. Tang Mianmian dropped his jaw in shock, so scared that the fork in his hand fell off with a clatter.

The Master of the castle, Lippinobert, lowered his head and coughed a few more times. Then he said in a hoarse voice, “I am a puppet master and I love puppets very much, so I hope my wife will love puppets too. In seven days, I will choose a beautiful young woman from among you suitors, and then she will be my wife……..”

“But within these seven days, you cannot damage any puppets in the castle.”

“What if we damage them?” Windbreaker Man grinned and asked.

Lippinobert looked at Windbreaker Man coldly, “……you don’t want to know.”

Twenty players sat at a long table and had a discussion.

“What is this place? Can we leave?” The female college student couldn’t help but ask in fear.

“Can we get out of here? I have an important interview tomorrow!” A young man with glasses spoke up at once.

The middle-aged Suit Man burst out, “Yes! I have a meeting the day after tomorrow to discuss a deal that involves tens of millions of dollars.”

A young woman who looked like a white-collar worker also grumbled, “I’m supposed to attend my best friend’s wedding tonight!”

Windbreaker Man looked at the newbies with a wide grin on his face, as if he didn’t want to ruin their fantasies.

However, someone still had to handle this sort of unpleasant but necessary matter.

“You can’t go back.”

The woman who followed Shen Yuan coldly continued, “You can’t go back. This is another world entirely…….”

The newbies turned pale at the sound of that. Although they didn’t want to believe it, everything they had experienced from the beginning to the present made it impossible for them to delude themselves.

“We really can’t back?” The female college student asked the woman in horror.

The woman gave the female college student a vague look; perhaps it was because they were both women, she added a few more words, “No one has ever been able to return to the real world.”

“Do we have to stay in this terrible place forever?” The female college student looked pale.

The woman said flatly, “After completing the mission, we can leave this instance.”

“Mission? Instance?” The young man asked, “Is this a game?”

The woman seemed to have something else to say but was rudely interrupted by a voice, “Fu Ling jiě, why bother explaining all these to these newbies?”

The person who spoke was the other woman beside Shen Yuan. However, rather than the word “woman”, it seemed more appropriate to call her a girl because she looked really young, around 15 or 16 years old, and was wearing a pink skirt covered in diamonds and lace. While twirling her curly hair, she smiled and spat out a cruel sentence, “……They can’t even survive tonight so what’s the point of explaining it to them?”