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Chapter 461

Author: Lana Mora
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-28 06:54:52

It was the second floor.

The camera shifted.

It was pitch dark up there!

The director reminded everyone to switch to night mode.

But just at that moment, the equipment malfunctioned.

Unlike the first floor, where Amelia and Sebastian were continuously racking up points, the guests heading to the second floor were almost completely wiped out.

Except for the middle-aged doctor following Morgan, none of them had picked up the flashlights prepared by the production team.

The chief director frowned. "What’s going on with the stage control? Why are we cutting power this early?"

This was not part of the plan.

But the guests didn’t know...

Especially Morgan, who, despite being scared earlier, now acted as if everything was under control, grabbing a flashlight from a passerby and pretending with a smile, "The power outage is just one of Director Jordan's old tricks, everyone, don’t panic."

"But, Morgan, we only have one flashlight," Killian now regretted not choosing a male guest instead. "If
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