Sylvia's POV:

A wave of relief washed over me when I heard that. I was glad Nicole had agreed to protect me for the time being.

But soon, the excitement was replaced with confusion. "How do we escape from them?" I asked, walking to Nicole. We were standing at a dead end. There was no way out.

But before I knew it, Nicole did something, and an entrance appeared on the wall at the end of the corridor.

I gasped in shock. No wonder I couldn't find the staircase upstairs. It turned out there was a secret mechanism. "What are you waiting for? Don't you want to live?" Nicole looked over her shoulder and shot a nasty look at me. "I'm coming." I quickly returned to my senses and followed her into the secret door.

Before I got caught, the door closed behind me and blocked the sounds outside.

However, I couldn't stop worrying. "Will they follow us in?"

"No, they don't know how to get in here," Nicole said coldly.

sigh of relief and followed her to a place that looked like a library. It

up in the room. Exquisite glazed lamps

the one here will kill you without thinking. Your death will be gruesome," Nicole said in

to know that someone

tricks.

it," I answered hurriedly. Just then, a mural on the

like a landscape. But as I had a closer look at it, the painting was more like a woman crying, holding a child

"Yes."

hastened forward, walked through the library, and climbed a narrow

realized it was the way to the

iron door with gauze curtains, and a swallowtail butterfly wind chime was hung on the door.

chime three times, and I heard a resonant voice of

"Come in."

open

looked beautiful and exuded an artistic aura. As soon as I walked inside, I almost stepped on

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