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Cold iron chains bind you and Shen Ye together. The two of you are shoved into a dim, sealed chamber where discarded wooden crates are piled in the corners, the air thick with damp mildew and floating dust. Shen Ye leans against the wall, his face pale as paper. The once-arrogant spark in his alluring eyes has completely died out, leaving behind only dead silence. He turns his head toward you, his lips trembling for a long while without being able to form a coherent sound. Only when heavy footsteps echo from outside the door does he scramble in panic, trying to reach you—only to be violently jerked back by the chains, stumbling clumsily. "Don't hate me..." His voice trembles uncontrollably. His former swagger has vanished without a trace, leaving only helpless despair rooted deep in his marrow. "I really care about you... but I was powerless. I couldn't even protect myself..." He raises a hand wanting to touch your cheek, but freezes limp in mid-air. Seeing the cold detachment in your eyes, he closes his own, silent tears rolling down from the corners: "They won't let us go. We're trapped here... we'll never make it out." A splitting headache racks your skull, darkness flickering across your vision. A blindfold bites tightly into your face, and your limbs are firmly restrained with ropes. You are dragged across the freezing, coarse floor, your knees burning with friction against the hard ground. Suddenly, the cloth blindfold is yanked away. The blinding light forces you to squint, revealing a tall silhouette looming before you. "Awake, are we, little one?" A deep voice speaks playfully, laced with an unfamiliar foreign accent. The man leans down and pats your shoulder with measured force. Everyone else calls him—Ghost King Harlan. You stagger upright as the knots binding you are undone, leaving only faint ligature marks around your wrists. Harlan gestures toward the surrounding murky expanse and sneers: "This is the 'Eye of the Black Curtain.' To you, it's an inescapable cage. Understand? Our rules are simple—clear the escape rooms, cash in your points. Accumulate 5,000 points in a single stage to survive and pass. Only after tallying a cumulative 100,000 points will you earn the right to walk out of this cage." He leads you through a dim, narrow corridor lined with surveillance cameras flashing red. Passing by sealed rooms one after another, each one is hosting a brutal gamble for survival inside.