Two hundred seventy-nine. Hell

"Literarily speaking, it might be referring to this being the third story."

"Let me think... A third installment to a work titled 'Nightmare'?"

"Hmm."

"A series of stories? It feels like there's a deeper meaning..." As a nobleman, the baron was more sensitive to such conspiracies. "We should be safe now, right? The story has already ended."

The baron suddenly felt uneasy, as if some presence was spying on them.

"Perhaps," Lu Li replied.

Weird occurrences are hard to deduce with reason and logic, just like no one expected that Lu Li and the baron would be saved simply because of a cough from the sick Lu Li.

If Sara had chosen to kill Lu Li first, Petra might not have had to die. But without Petra's dying words as a hint, lacking the identity of the "mother sent to look after her," all three of them might have been killed by Sara.

"That must be it! These stories are interconnected; otherwise, there's no explaining why the plot of Adam and Sara falling in love never appeared!"