Chapter 103: The Ending of Harmony Burial Village
"I don’t care if this is a time loop."
Emo Han sneered as he confidently sat at the banquet table.
"So long as you don’t sit down..."
"Everyone in this courtyard will focus their attacks on you."
"This is exactly what I heard from the future before entering this dungeon."
He looked at Shen Yu with a malicious grin.
"Shen Yu..."
"I want to see how you survive this."
Yet the next moment...
Emo Han was stunned speechless.
Luxian seemed to have realized something.
Ignoring the banquet entirely, she quietly walked to the entrance of the small room on the right and stood there silently, waiting.
Strangely...
Not a single villager paid any attention to her.
She quickly understood why.
Outsider women aren’t allowed to sit at the banquet.
Which means...
They’re free to move around.
Her eyes narrowed.
That rule lets me enter the room first.
She glanced toward Shen Yu.
Just what are you planning...?
Meanwhile...
Shen Yu didn’t head toward the banquet table.
Instead—
He walked straight toward the crimson coffin.
"...Damn."
Emo Han’s eyes nearly popped out.
"Shen Yu!"
"What the hell are you trying to do?"
"You aren’t seriously planning to flirt with another man’s bride..."
"...right in front of his parents?!"
"Have you lost your mind?"
"Come back!"
"Come back here!"
He was genuinely horrified.
This was their first time entering this dungeon.
Their first time witnessing the Joy Burial ceremony.
Yet Shen Yu...
Was charging directly toward the ghost bride.
Even the craziest veteran players wouldn’t dare do something like this.
But Shen Yu ignored him completely.
Step after step...
He approached the coffin.
Watching Shen Yu move farther and farther away from his control...
Emo Han became frantic.
"Shen Yu!"
"Do you dare disobey your superior’s orders?!"
"You—"
THUD!
THUD!
THUD!
Almost instantly...
Every smiling face in the courtyard darkened.
The tombstones behind the villagers crashed onto the ground.
One after another...
Hideous Tombstone Guardians crawled from the cracked monuments.
Their lifeless eyes all locked onto Shen Yu.
"Outsider..."
"You wish to die?"
The middle-aged man stormed out of the main house.
His shovel swung downward with terrifying force.
At that very moment—
"Yun Han!"
"Catch me!"
Without the slightest hesitation...
Shen Yu leaped into the burial pit.
Inside the coffin—
The girl in the bright crimson wedding dress had already been waiting.
As though she had known he would come.
She reached out with both arms...
And effortlessly caught him.
Like a princess carrying her prince.
A faint smile blossomed across her pale face.
"You still came."
Shen Yu smiled back.
"I told you before."
He chuckled softly.
"To die beneath the peony..."
"Even as a ghost..."
"...would still be worth it."
One man.
One ghost.
Openly flirting...
Right before the dead groom’s parents...
Right before the entire village.
Emo Han’s worldview shattered.
"...What the hell?"
"There’s a ghost!"
"He..."
"Why does the ghost bride already like him?"
"It’s their first meeting!"
"He’s cheating!"
"I’m reporting him!"
CLANG!
The iron shovel descended toward Shen Yu’s head.
Yun Han’s crimson sleeves fluttered.
A snow-white skeletal arm extended from beneath her robes...
Blocking the shovel effortlessly.
The middle-aged man’s expression twisted with rage.
"You shameless woman!"
"My son’s corpse is lying beside you!"
"What exactly are you doing?!"
Yun Han slowly raised her head.
Her voice remained calm.
"From beginning..."
"To end..."
"I never admitted..."
"...that I was his wife."
She looked coldly at every villager surrounding the pit.
"You."
"Kill them."
"Kill this adulterous pair!"
"Kill them all!"
Instantly—
The courtyard exploded into chaos.
Countless Tombstone Guardians rushed toward the burial pit.
But they were too late.
Yun Han wrapped both arms tightly around Shen Yu.
Together...
They fell into the crimson coffin.
BANG!
The coffin lid slammed shut.
The entire courtyard froze.
Everyone stared blankly at the sealed coffin.
For a long moment...
Nobody moved.
"...The Joy Burial..."
"...has already begun."
One elder swallowed nervously.
"The coffin has been sealed."
"Joint Burial has officially started."
He turned toward the middle-aged man.
"Old Wang..."
"Are you really going to reopen the coffin?"
The question immediately silenced everyone.
Even the Tombstone Guardians hesitated.
This wasn’t simply a burial.
It was a sacred village ritual.
Breaking it...
Would violate generations of custom.
Old Wang’s face became deathly dark.
His fists trembled.
Finally—
He roared furiously.
"You damned slut!"
"You’ve ruined my son’s wedding even after death!"
"Fine!"
"If you insist on dying with him..."
"Then I’ll bury you together!"
He raised his shovel.
"Cover the coffin!"
Shh...
Shh...
Shh...
Earth continuously poured into the grave.
Around the burial pit...
The Tombstone Guardians stood motionless like silent mourners.
The entire scene looked bizarre beyond description.
Outside—
Emo Han stared with his mouth hanging open.
"...This..."
"This makes absolutely no sense."
"He played the dungeon like a complete lunatic..."
"So why..."
"Why does the future still say he’ll survive?"
He couldn’t understand anything anymore.
Inside the coffin—
Darkness enveloped everything.
The muffled sound of soil falling echoed overhead.
Shh...
Shh...
Shh...
Shen Yu suddenly felt something soft press against him.
Yun Han had deliberately pushed him down...
Against the groom’s corpse.
Then...
She lay directly on top of him.
The crimson wedding robes wrapped around both of them.
The narrow space became unbearably warm.
She looked into his eyes.
"You’re..."
"...the first person..."
"...to come this far."
Shen Yu forced an awkward smile.
"Don’t you think..."
"The atmosphere is a little strange?"
"The people outside are trying to bury us alive."
Instead of answering...
Yun Han gently tapped his cheek.
Then...
Her slender jade-like arms slowly wrapped around his neck.
Their faces drew closer.
Very close.
Those misty eyes quietly gazed into his.
Her favorability had already reached 80 points.
She no longer hid her feelings.
The two embraced inside the cramped coffin.
Beneath them...
The unfortunate groom’s corpse was completely crushed flat.
The groom’s corpse silently protested.
Shen Yu had never imagined...
That the timid little girl who had once cried helplessly in the courtyard...
Could become so bold.
There was an old saying—
Beneath the calmest hot spring...
Lies the fiercest volcano.
Sometimes...
The gentlest people...
Once pushed beyond their limits...
Explode far more intensely than anyone else.
Perhaps...
Yun Han was exactly that kind of person.
She quietly stared at Shen Yu.
A dreamy smile appeared on her beautiful face.
"Shen Yu..."
"You’re the first person..."
"...who truly understood my pain."
"The first man..."
"...who still wanted to save me..."
"...after everything."
"Thank you..."
"For letting my parents fulfill..."
"...their final wish."
She lowered her eyes.
Her voice became almost inaudible.
"I..."
"I like you."
"No matter whether you survive this dungeon..."
"Through all these years..."
"You’re the only person..."
"...I’ve ever looked upon kindly."
She glanced at the shriveled corpse beneath them.
"That boy from the Wang family..."
"Died before he ever touched me."
"So..."
A faint blush appeared on her ghostly pale cheeks.
"This..."
"...is my first time."