Esports world champion, debuted as the center of a talent show

Before the staff could think twice, Jiang Zhiyu had already taken a utility knife and carefully cut open the edge of the gift box.

Jiang Zhiyu paused for a moment when he saw the box in front of him, which was packaged in a way that was completely different from the previous ones. Then, without changing his expression, he carefully opened it.

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A worn-out doll fell from the bottom of the box to the ground and rolled to Jiang Zhiyu's feet.

"This is...?" Lin Sen was stunned, looking at the strange doll, and had a bad feeling.

The staff member panicked and, disregarding the still-running recording camera, hurriedly approached and bent down to pick up the doll from the ground.

He had barely reached out when his arm was gently restrained by a pair of well-defined knuckles.

The staff member was slightly taken aback when looking at the doll that was so close yet untouchable. He looked up along the hand and met Jiang Zhiyu's dark pupils.

Jiang Zhiyu gently reminded him, "Wrap it up before you take it."

"What's wrong?"

"That's not quite right."

The staff member's heart skipped a beat, and he lowered his head to carefully examine the strangely colored doll.

This plush toy is an official collaboration between RXG and River. Only one version was ever released, making it an official item that is highly sought after but rarely available.

At this moment, the doll was stained with a large area of ​​black and red, the color seeping into the entire doll, giving it an ominous aura.

Not only were there black and red stains seeping into the plush, but the doll's entire surface was also covered with a thin layer of transparent, sticky liquid, which shimmered with a strange, crystalline reflection under the warm lights of the dormitory.

This little doll, which had been priced at over five figures, lay quietly at Jiang Zhiyu's feet, like a cursed doll that could not speak.

The dormitory became eerily quiet.

Lin Sen's face darkened completely, all traces of his earlier excitement at unwrapping the gift vanished, and his brows furrowed deeply: "This is definitely not something prepared by the fans."

Mi Lan tensed up instantly, her eyes turning cold: "Someone has infiltrated the gift list."

The fan club meticulously screened and registered each of the ten gift slots, with dedicated personnel handling the entire process. In theory, there should have been no chance of any mishaps.

This one, however, somehow managed to sneak in, fooling both the fan club's screening and the program team's initial verification.

The box containing the doll was still in Jiang Zhiyu's hand. He stared at the doll on the ground for a moment, then calmly opened the bottom of the box and looked inside.

Sure enough, there was more than just this doll inside the gift box; there was also a black letter tucked inside.

Jiang Zhiyu looked around but couldn't find any other tools to remove the item, so he bent down, picked up a pair of scissors, and gently used them to pick up the thin piece of paper.

The paper is thin and stiff, completely different from ordinary writing paper, and has a cold and rough texture.

The eyes of everyone in the dormitory immediately fell on that black paper.

The letter was smoothly unfolded by the scissors, lying flat in the air, covered with dense white characters, both glaring and eerie.

Every word exudes extreme paranoia and a twisted, morbid possessiveness, and a chill seeps out little by little from between the lines.

Happy 18th birthday!

I wish you adulthood, and I also wish you to be trapped forever.

Others offer you a sea of ​​flowers and applause, but I offer you a unique mark that belongs only to you.

You want to stand cleanly on the stage, to escape all constraints and control, and to walk your own path.

That's impossible.

As long as I refuse to let you go, you'll never escape.