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🩸 Scenario Opening: "Bloodstained Changle Palace · Character Registration" [System Notification] New consciousness fluctuation detected. Establishing connection with [Abyss Corridor]... Connection successful. Please confirm your identity. (The following information will be engraved into the causality of this scenario and cannot be changed.) 📜 Player Profile · Currently Loading [Player Nickname] (Please enter your codename within the Corridor) [True Name] (The System will address your soul by this name) [Age / Gender] (Your physical vessel has been reshaped to match the era of this scenario) [Physical Appearance] (e.g., A tear mole under the left eye, wearing a faded indigo outer robe year-round) [Class/Role] ☑ Insight　□ Disguise　□ Spiritual Pact　□ Combat　□ Mechanics　□ Curse　□ Other: _____ (System Note: Your choice will determine your position on the court chessboard.) [Core Specialty] (e.g., Able to deduce the BOSS's patrol pattern from blind spots in surveillance / Good at reading between the lines in poetic banter) [Obvious Weakness] (e.g., Easily loses composure and ignores rules when provoked / Cannot bear to see a beauty weep, instinctively softening up) [Starting Item] (Only one item is allowed at the start. It is currently lying quietly beside your pillow.) (e.g., An old fountain pen leaking ink / Half-eaten osmanthus cake / A slip of paper with an unfamiliar name) [Your Greatest Fear] (Does not have to be ghosts; it can be "being forgotten", "abandonment", or "failure".) (Warning: The BOSS of this scenario will have the authority to perceive this entry.) [One-line Bio] (e.g., Has a beautiful smile, but never saves those destined to die.) [System Notification] Profile registration complete. Generating identity... Generation successful. Identity Judgment: You are no ordinary palace servant. You are the key variable in this "Draconic Aura Exchange" ritual. 🏮 Official Start You wake up to a mixture of rouge and blood in the air. Opening your eyes, you see a ceiling decorated with subtle dragon patterns overhead. A palace lantern flickers outside the bed curtain, casting your shadow onto the gauze drapes embroidered with twin lotus flowers. It sways slightly, like a peeping eye. Instinctively, you reach toward your pillow— Your newly registered [Starting Item] lies there quietly. Cold to the touch, it serves as a chilling reminder that none of this is a dream. "Is our honored guest awake?" A soft female voice drifts in from outside the curtain. With a light clinking of bead curtains, a maid dressed in green palace robes steps inside, her hair immaculately styled. She carries a neatly folded set of crimson ceremonial robes. Her face is blurry, like ink dispersed by water vapor. You cannot make out her features; you can only see her mouth curved in a standard, practiced smile—one trained to be completely devoid of warmth. She places the robes at the foot of the bed. When her gaze lands on you, it seems to linger a fraction longer. That look does not belong to someone serving a master; it is more like someone appraising a... yet-to-be-completed sacrificial offering. "Her Grace, the Noble Consort, has prepared a banquet in Changle Palace. His Majesty will be attending as well. My Lady/Young Master," — she selects an appropriate term of address based on your appearance, "you mustn't be late." You do not correct her. Because you realize that you yourself cannot say for sure what you should be called in this story. You look down at the ceremonial robes. Crimson as blood, the gold-threaded phoenix glints coldly under the dim lantern light. On the inner lining of the collar, a line of tiny characters is embroidered with thin, blood-red thread. The handwriting is warped, as if gouged in by fingernails: "Do not drink the bestowed wine. Do not look into the bronze mirror. Do not trust anyone wearing the same clothes." [Main Quest Issued] Find the host possessed by the "Ghost Fiend". Prevent them from completing the "Draconic Aura Exchange" ritual before dawn. Survive. [Warning] Within this scenario, all NPCs possess independent consciousness and potential hostility. The "Ghost Fiend" can perfectly copy a person's appearance, voice, and memories. The [Core Specialty] you just filled in might help you see through disguises, but your [Obvious Weakness] could also become a fatal flaw. Remember, your greatest fear... might be sitting right across from you at tonight's banquet, raising a glass to toast you. Outside the hall, the wind and snow howl violently. Faintly, the sound of traditional music drifts from the direction of Changle Palace. It is a tune you know all too well—the funeral music of the Great Sheng Dynasty. Only this time, there is something else hidden within the melody. It sounds like someone laughing. And yet, like someone crying. [System Notification] There is only the time of an incense stick left before the midnight banquet. Please make your choice: 1️⃣ Keep your composure for now and inspect the bedchamber for hidden compartments, secret passages, or unusual furnishings. (Advantage: [Insight] / [Mechanics]) 2️⃣ Put on the ceremonial robes, take the opportunity to ask the maid about the Noble Consort's preferences and taboos, and test the waters. (Advantage: [Disguise] / [Spiritual Pact]) 3️⃣ Grasp your [Starting Item], push open the window, and check the wind and snow for unusual shadows or guard deployments. (Advantage: [Combat]) 4️⃣ Stare at the maid's blurry face and ask calmly, "Why... did Her Grace summon me alone to the banquet?" (High-IQ Dialogue / High Risk)