To Be a Heartthrob in a Horror Movie [English Translation]

Chapter 10: Luring

When Su Min caught sight of the manager's expressionless face as he appeared in the corridor, his heart skipped a beat.

The other person was clearly a living human being, yet the scare the man gave him exceeded the fright he received from confronting ghosts.

Truly experiencing a horror movie as opposed to just normally watching it was indeed different.

Su Min thought that if he was watching this movie in the theaters and saw the protagonist getting scared from this, he would say that it was unreasonable. As expected, only through personal experience could he clearly understand the situation.

He didn't watch the previous spat-on-the-streets horror movies this director created. He merely saw the online critics ranting on how unintelligible the movies were and how they didn't understand what the director was trying to convey.

Maybe that was the problem when literary film directors go rogue; they wanted to add more meaning to a horror film, failing to realize that this genre was not meant for that.

"University Thriller" probably learned from its failed predecessors. Some of Su Min's current experiences were common tropes found in horror movies, but there were also some scares that were innovating and frightening. If the secrets revealed in the conclusion were not too chaotic, it could be said that the director made process.

In the corner, Lin Yiri nervously stood on the stairs. "What is it? Did the manager discover us?"

Su Min shook his head, "No."

When the manager came from the staircase at the other end of the hallway, they just barely managed to make it into this one.

Lin Xiao Yan patted her chest. "That scared me. Let's hurry up and return the key while the manager is gone."

There wasn't that many people at dusk.

While Lin Xiao Yan and Lin Yiri were on the lookout, Su Min quickly placed the key back. As he left, he couldn't help turning back to take a backward glance. Coincidentally, he saw the manager emerging from the stairs.

'In this horror movie, you have to live like your life is on the edge every second,' Su Min sincerely thought.

The sun had already set outside, leaving behind a burnt orange afterglow in its wake.

As the three people saunter down the deserted road, Lin Xiao Yan asked, "Su Min, did you find out who the schoolgirl was?"

Su Min showed them the pictures he took. "I didn't have time to check, but they should be her classmates."

It was the first time Lin Xiao Yan saw this kind of photograph.

She thought that it was too bizarre. These faceless people from a photograph who knew how many years old were utterly horrifying.

"This graduation photo is so scary," Lin Xiao Yan spoke her thoughts out loud.

"Scary, yes, but it gave us a clue," Su Min said. "Why did so many people die in one class?"

The hole in Lin Yiri's brain widened. "Was there an accident when they were all out on a trip?"

They went out as a class to travel, but like those terrible bus accidents, the bus overturned and the lives of many students perished-he theorized.

Su Min rejected that theory, "Impossible. The accident should've happened inside this school."

If it had occurred outside, the thing Lin Xiao Yan and her roommates summoned would not be Kuai Xian but another ghost.

Lin Xiao Yan was doubtful, "But they had to have died together or else there wouldn't be so many faceless people in this photograph."

Su Min thought for a moment. "That's also possible."