Rules of the Unusual: My Yandere Husband Pretends to Be Innocent Online

It's Lu Yang! It really is Lu Yang!

Xia Xiaoqin was overjoyed and immediately grabbed the wooden bucket.

She knew Lu Yang would come to save her!

"I'm here, Lu Yang, quickly pull me up!"

The moment she was pulled out of the well, the girl collapsed onto the blue brick floor, trembling uncontrollably.

Her soaked clothes clung tightly to her body, making her teeth chatter from the cold.

"Lu Yang, is your face alright...?"

Xia Xiaoqin asked in a slurred manner.

A large hand slowly reached out and gently brushed the messy, wet hair from her forehead behind her ear. The movement was very light.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. You're the one who should be worried. Change quickly, don't catch a cold."

A clean new garment was handed to her, carrying a faint scent of incense ash.

Without thinking twice, Xia Xiaoqin quickly took off her soaked clothes and wrapped herself in dry fabric, disregarding her image.

As that tiny bit of warmth seeped into her skin through the fabric, she excitedly hugged "Lu Yang".

"Lu Yang, thank you!"

But just then, she suddenly heard a suppressed gasp.

The low gasp sounded extremely painful, like a muffled groan leaking from between teeth after reaching the extreme of pain.

"Run! Sister!"

"We've been arrested..."

The clear voice that belonged only to a young man rang out now, extremely hoarse, as if it were bleeding.

Xia Xiaoqin froze instantly.

She reached out in disbelief, tentatively touching the man she was holding.

Following the fabric upwards, her fingertips touched a soft, silky ball.

It's a red embroidered ball, the groom's red embroidered ball.

At that moment, Xia Xiaoqin's face turned deathly pale. She pushed away the tall man in front of her, but he grabbed her wrist.

"Darling, where do you want to run away to?"

Lu Yang seemed to smile, his slender fingers fastening Xia Xiaoqin's clothes that weren't buttoned properly.

Swah——

Behind Lu Yang, one large red lantern after another lit up.

Blood-red lanterns adorned with the double happiness symbol swayed in the night wind, forming a long, winding dragon.

The paper figures, without even faces, dressed in the clothes of male servants, held lanterns and swayed in the wind.

"Waaaaah, waaaah..."

A mournful cry rang out in the darkness. The ghost bride, her hands and feet bound by hemp rope, stared at the ground with her cloudy, grayish-white eyes, tears streaming down her face.

Qin Bufei, bound hand and foot, was thrown at her feet, his school uniform trousers soaked in blood and stuck to his legs.

He was panting heavily, his face pale, and it was clear that he could not hold on any longer.

"Hehe, our third young mistress thinks that just because she's educated and studied abroad, she can rebel against the eldest young master. Women should obey their husbands' families, and she even wants to elope with someone! How shameless!"

A paper figure spoke in a shrill voice and circled the ghost bride.

"Yes! Those two adulterers deserve to be drowned in a pig cage!" another paper figure chimed in, trembling with excitement. "Throw them both into the well! Throw them into the well!"

Xia Xiaoqin stood there in despair.

However, the paper figures turned their heads, their dark, lacquered eyes all fixed on Xia Xiaoqin.

"Hehe, there's another one here."

"Tie them all up! This time, tie them up tightly before throwing them into the well! Let's see how they survive!"

The paper figures surged toward Xia Xiaoqin.

Xia Xiaoqin struggled frantically, but those paper hands were surprisingly strong, with seven or eight pairs pressing down on her shoulders and arms at the same time.

"Let me go! Let me go..."

Xia Xiaoqin was utterly desperate and writhed on the ground.

The paper figures scattered and cried out excitedly. In order, they grabbed the ghost bride's rope and dragged her to the well first.

"Sister, give me all the clues and cut ties with me as a teammate."

Qin Bufei's voice sounded muffledly behind her.

Xia Xiaoqin turned her head in confusion, not understanding why he was saying this.

But in the darkness, the boy's peach blossom eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and his voice was very soft, like a murmur.

"I'm sorry, sister, I lied to you. Actually, I had another secret I didn't tell you. If teammates give each other clues and then break their teammate relationship, they will exit the main quest and avoid the death ending of failing the main quest."

"Sister... I was just using you to survive, but now that I'm injured like this, I can't survive no matter what, so I want to ask you for a favor."

"If you manage to get out of here alive, could you please visit my grandparents' graves every year? I'm a left-behind child... My parents abandoned me a long time ago. They're the only ones in this world who care about me. Please, please?"

The sound of the butterfly knife snapping open suddenly rang out.

The boy's nimble hands cut the ropes binding Xia Xiaoqin's hands and feet.

The moment the restraints on her wrists were suddenly released, Xia Xiaoqin's eyes widened.

In the pitch-black night, Qin Bufei fell back to the ground, the butterfly knife slipping from his hand and clattering to the floor.

"Sister, run!"

The boy's voice was so soft it seemed to be squeezed out of his throat, carrying the last trace of his cynical laughter.

[Player Qin Bufei requests to terminate the teammate relationship with you. Do you agree?]

Xia Xiaoqin gritted her teeth, dropped the clue from her arms, and ran away.

But after running a few steps, Xia Xiaoqin suddenly stopped.

The paper figures caught up from behind and pressed down on her shoulders again.

The rope wrapped around her wrist again, but the girl, with her head down, suddenly laughed, a wild laugh.

"I remember! I remember!" Xia Xiaoqin shouted frantically, "The rules of the Ghost Bride apply to you monsters! This is the way to break them!"

The air became deathly still.

But Xia Xiaoqin suddenly felt a surge of fierceness and roared in the direction of the ghost bride.

"Jiang Zhaodi! Stand up!"

"These men who bully us have all broken the rules. They mean you no harm, they're just ignoring you because they don't even know who you are! You've never been Xu Jianwei, the third eldest daughter-in-law of the Lu family—you're the fourth, Jiang Zhaodi!!!"

In an instant, a dark wind arose.

The entire Lu residence was enveloped by a violent, eerie wind. Blood-red lanterns swayed wildly, and even the double happiness character on the wall was blown away.

The ghost bride stood there, a hint of hatred flashing in her gray-white eyes.

"Jiang...Zhao...Di..."

"My name is Jiang Zhaodi..."

"Oh right, I remember now, I have a name, my name is Jiang Zhaodi... You bought me here to bring good luck, you've never looked at me properly, you've never treated me like a human being, you can't even remember my name..."

Slowly twisting her neck, the ghost bride suddenly smiled sinisterly, her gray eyes peeking out from her wet hair, looking utterly ferocious.

The revenge has begun!