[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world":3,"chapter-survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-chapter-27":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Survival Guide in a Mysterious World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2298996,4497,"Chapter 27: Bai Zhi","survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-chapter-27",27,"\u003Cp>To keep this crumbling building standing, Ning Zhe must ensure the stability of its foundation—that is, the mistaken belief Feng Yushu had formed after that phone call, thinking Ning Zhe was a ghost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All current advantages rest upon a lie; once Feng Yushu learns the truth and corrects her misconception, Ning Zhe will face total collapse and utter defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Ning Zhe clearly knew what his immediate priority was: “I must never let Feng Yushu learn the truth. I must never let her perception change.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the most straightforward way to achieve this goal was: —kill Feng Yushu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a dead person’s thoughts can never change; once Feng Yushu is dead, her mistaken belief can never be corrected, and Ning Zhe will be forever invincible—even facing the unpredictable, eerie rules of ghosts, he will still have ample time and resources to outlast them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Auntie, do you want to live?” As hurried footsteps crossed the empty street, Ning Zhe suddenly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? Of course I do—who wouldn’t want to live?” Feng Yushu didn’t understand why he’d asked so suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m asking you,” Ning Zhe corrected. “I’ll be blunt: you’re not a strong person. Your upper-class status and pampered lifestyle have deprived you of any real experience with setbacks or danger, and you lack the capacity to bear pressure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Compared to Ye Miaozhu, who endured her father’s bankruptcy and family restructuring, your life has known almost no major blows. I see it in your confused eyes and timid behavior.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In other words, Auntie, you’re the screaming, flesh-revealing heroine of horror movies, the eye-candy damsel in the classic rescue trope—but we’re not acting. The ghost isn’t the director. The ghost won’t give you more screen time just because you’re pretty and have a good figure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Surviving in the cracks of rules, watching others die in eerie, inexplicable ways—it demands immense, immense, immense psychological pressure. I don’t believe you have the resilience to endure that pressure without breaking. In short, you should’ve died long ago.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the reality was that when death loomed, Ye Miaozhu was shattered by Ning Zhe’s casual words, and even the meticulous Zhang Yangxu made an irrational decision, leading to his identity being usurped by the ghost… Feng Yushu was far weaker, far more timid than both of them, yet it was she—this fragile woman—who had held on until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Logically, you should’ve broken first, yet you’ve clung on this long. That means, Auntie, you want to live more than anyone else… your will to survive is extraordinarily strong—so strong you’d give up everything to escape this place. You even hinted you’d submit to me. I didn’t take you up on it, but for someone of your status and upbringing, that’s unimaginable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Ning Zhe spoke, Feng Yushu’s wrist, held in his palm, twitched slightly. He continued: “The will to live is the most basic human desire, yet yours has grown so intense it overrides normal physiological limits. That’s extremely rare.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“—So why do you want to live so desperately? What’s your reason?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Yushu lowered her head and fell silent for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, she spoke: “Because I’m a mother.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see,” Ning Zhe understood roughly. A woman is soft by nature, but becomes strong as a mother? Ning Zhe had no interest in prying into her family affairs, yet Feng Yushu went on unprompted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My daughter’s name is Bai Zhi. She’s a very proper girl.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My husband is a workaholic—completely absorbed in his career, ignoring everything at home, never caring about his daughter’s studies or growth. I’m not good at raising children. Bai Zhi grew up almost like a child from a single-parent family—so pitiful, so pitiful…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…But she matured early. Even as a child, she learned to take care of herself—never needed me to worry about her studies or daily life. I wanted to care for her more, but I didn’t know how. I’ve been through that age myself—I know how sensitive teenage girls are. I feared I’d make things worse…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bai Zhi is truly such a good, good child. I wanted to give her all my love… but she matured too fast, became too independent too soon, shut her heart away early. At school, she went everywhere alone. Her clumsy mother didn’t know how to reach her. I watched her grow day by day, yet our relationship grew farther apart, like strangers… sometimes I even wondered: is this elegant young woman really born from my womb?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Yushu chattered on, not stopping. In the past, she always kept silent, careful and restrained—but once Ning Zhe mentioned her daughter, she seemed to have endless words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhe didn’t interrupt her rambling. He treated it like a TikTok family drama, listening as he hurried her through the empty streets, his attention tightly focused, noting every cobblestone they passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Last year, Bai Zhi’s laptop broke. My husband wasn’t home, and I don’t understand computers. After we took it to the repair shop, the boot password disappeared for some reason. I know it’s wrong to peek into a child’s private things—but I really wanted to understand her. I really needed to know what Bai Zhi was thinking.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I couldn’t help myself—I opened her computer and started rummaging through it like I was possessed. I found a lot of bizarre, explicit manga, and some extremely bloody, eerie horror games…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then, on a WPS Notes bookmark page, I found Bai Zhi’s digital diary.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reading a child’s diary… the traditional Chinese parent’s art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhe made no comment. He’d seen it all before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what surprised him was that Feng Yushu’s daughter actually kept a diary. This Bai Zhi girl clearly wasn’t a proper lady. Who keeps a diary—especially an electronic one stored in the cloud—with a laptop full of bizarre manga and horror games? She’s supposed to be a refined young lady raised in luxury, yet her tastes are so peculiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are all rich people this twisted?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, Ning Zhe had treated Feng Yushu’s rambling as a trivial, amusing distraction—a way to relieve the pressure of being hunted by ghosts. But then, what she said next sent a chill through him, icy cold crawling up his spine to the back of his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1039,"2026-06-20T06:29:21.893Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","56b9383d4b69cbd964e1f0618ea5901b33d4347b909fbd132432f970739ba770","survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-chapter-28","survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-chapter-26",353,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurvival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-cover.jpg"]