Birth of a Top Superstar 8

He sat up and looked—there, curled up under the quilt, was Little Red Turtle, now grown to the size of a rice bowl, sound asleep!

Woken up by his butt landing on it, the sleepy little turtle blinked drowsily and stared at him, looking adorably clueless.

"What the—! Why is there a turtle in my bed?" Eric Lan, who really didn’t like this kind of creature, freaked out.

"Pfft! Look at you, such a coward," Samson Zhang rolled his eyes.

"Just get rid of it already!"

"Do it yourself. Take it over to Little Smudge."

"No way am I touching that thing!" Eric Lan grabbed Samson. "Just get rid of it!"

"Not happening." Samson Zhang shook him off and turned to leave.

Panicking, Eric Lan yanked him hard.

Samson Zhang lost his balance and lurched forward.

Eric Lan also lost his balance, and the two of them tumbled onto the bed together.

"Ah! My waist!" Eric Lan screamed miserably.

His waist had been jabbed by Little Red Turtle again.

"Samson Zhang! Get off me! You're crushing me!"

Samson Zhang: "Let go of me first! You're clinging to me so tight, how am I supposed to get up?"

"Shut up! Who's clinging to you? Have you no shame?"

"Weren't your hands just around my waist?"

"I was just trying not to fall, okay? Needed something to grab onto!"

"Get off!"

......

Little Red Turtle hid inside its shell, totally clueless about the chaos outside.

Lily Bai just shook her head from the side.

Those two are such a pair of troublemakers...

Honestly, it's weird—Little Red Turtle just loves sneaking into Eric Lan's bed to sleep, for some reason.

Lily Bai often gets woken up in the morning by Eric Lan's miserable screams.

Because every time he opens his eyes, he finds Little Red Turtle right by his pillow, staring at him with those beady little eyes...

......

Five days before Dragon Abyss's scheduled release, Lily Bai posted a video simultaneously on the company website and on both their Weibo accounts.

It was the same content as the previous 'beating people' video.

Only this time, the filming angle was much wider, and the footage was much clearer.

From this angle, you could see that outside the haunted house, besides Samson Zhang, Eric Lan, Ryan Tian, and Jason Zhong, there was also a girl.

Her name was Yanni Yan.

The name of the game was 'Escort the Princess Out of the Haunted House.'

Yanni Yan was the princess.

The four boys were her escorts.

Once inside, they would be called on one by one to solve puzzles before moving to the next stage...

The footage showed them waiting outside the haunted house, ready to go in.

Eric Lan was terrified of ghosts. Staring at the scary skull at the entrance, he clung tightly to Samson Zhang's arm, trying to hide behind him.

Samson Zhang kept shooting him looks of disdain, but didn't shake him off, just letting Eric hold on.

Yanni Yan, on the other hand, seemed completely unfazed—she kept laughing at Eric Lan and looked pretty close with the group.

Ever since joining the show, Yanni Yan had gotten along well with Eric Lan and Samson Zhang, but barely spoke to Ryan Tian or Jason Zhong.

Ryan Tian and Jason Zhong exchanged glances and suddenly asked her, "Yanni, are you scared?"

Yanni Yan said, "Not at all!"

"Really not scared?"

"Really! I'm nothing like Eric Lan—he's such a scaredy-cat!" she laughed.

"Then come here," Jason Zhong said.

"What for?" Yanni Yan walked over, completely unsuspecting.

"Snake!" Ryan Tian suddenly threw a little green snake down Yanni Yan's collar.

Samson Zhang could tell right away—it looked real, but it was just a battery-powered toy.

But Yanni Yan didn't know that.