Doted by Many: I became the Top-Tier Celebrity!-Chapter 250 - 249: Yao Bro... Death Has Come

"Of course, my acceptance depends on her being a good person."

This answer seemed reasonable to May Sloane.

No one is born a slave, and no one should do evil just to satisfy their desires.

Tiana Thorne smiled lightly.

If Meredith Ford couldn’t tolerate her...

Tiana’s fox-like eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a sinister and icy smile in their depths, not very clear, but extremely dangerous.

Another turn, and they reached their destination.

This was a five-star restaurant.

Tiana and May walked inside together.

At this moment, Tiana clearly felt a sense of unease crashing into her heart once again, as if reminding her to be cautious in everything.

"May,"

May nodded. "Huh?"

"Do you think Meredith is still here?" Tiana asked.

May thought for a moment. "Logically, she should be, since Clement Xavier doesn’t seem lucid. She would want to be here until you arrive."

Tiana nodded slightly and entered the elevator, one in front of the other.

"Seriously, Tiana, do you have something on your mind?" May noticed the brief heaviness in her eyes just now.

"There might be some situation coming up. Be ready to act accordingly," Tiana said.

May’s heart suddenly became flustered.

Whenever Tiana said things like this, it was never a joke.

Could it be that Tiana could accept this Ford heiress, but she couldn’t accept Tiana?

"This five-star hotel’s elevator is too slow. Why haven’t we reached the eighteenth floor yet?" May furrowed her brows.

Tiana squinted slightly, fixing her gaze on the floor number.

Seventh floor.

Eighth floor.

Ninth floor.

Tenth floor.

All the way to the eighteenth floor.

Ding——

The elevator chimed, and it should have opened its doors, but there was no response.

May frowned. "Seriously, what’s wrong with this elevator?"

Just as she was about to reach out to press the open button, Tiana grabbed her hand, her usually carefree face now extremely serious, and she stopped her in a low voice. "Don’t move."

May’s heart instantly became uneasy, restless.

Ding——

Another chime sounded, and suddenly, the elevator lights went out.

"Ah!" May screamed.

Immediately, the elevator plummeted downward at an unusually fast speed. May’s just-ceased scream once again pierced Tiana’s eardrums.

In just a shocking instant, the elevator stopped on the seventeenth floor.

May was already pale, continuously patting her chest, moving her mouth but finding she couldn’t speak.

Tiana’s breath tightened, could the elevator be malfunctioning?

All around was pitch black, and she could only find May’s position through the little red light displayed on the elevator screen.

She gripped her hand tightly, speaking in a deep voice, "Don’t be afraid."

May nervously swallowed, her voice trembling, "Tiana...is the elevator broken?"

Tiana nodded, frowning, "Yes."

"Will...will we...?"

"Shh, don’t talk." Tiana stopped her, for she heard the sound from the elevator’s external cables.

Screeching—screeching...

May heard it too, and she quickly touched the elevator’s emergency button, hoping the hotel staff could hear and come to their rescue.

Here on the seventeenth floor, if they fell from here, she and Tiana would definitely end up as a heap of flesh.

However, there was no response at all, as if the line connecting to the hotel’s front desk had been cut by someone.

May finally couldn’t hold back her tears, sobbing quietly, "Tiana...death has come."

Tiana’s eyes turned cold.

She had already died once, and the heavens had given her the chance to be reborn. They couldn’t just take her life away so casually.

She calmly reassured her, "Don’t worry, darling, press all the floors on the elevator, but don’t touch the open button."

May’s mind was initially blank, but upon her reminder, she wiped her eyes and did as told, hoping that if the elevator dropped again, it would stop at the pressed floor.

Screeching—screeching...

Suddenly, the sound of metal friction grew louder and more sinister in the visually black, audibly quiet space.

The elevator abruptly began to fall again, and the weightlessness made May scream once more.

Tiana wasn’t afraid of such a feeling; it was like returning to her past life, flying through the clouds again.

She embraced May, shielding her, "Don’t be afraid."

"Tiana." May’s subconscious also held onto her, her hands grasping her clothes tightly.

At this moment, Tiana, also a woman, unexpectedly gave her an intangible sense of security that stopped her screams.

Thud——

The elevator stopped this time on the fifteenth floor.

May still didn’t dare to move, fearing that moving would increase the elevator’s weight and cause it to drop again.

Tiana instructed her, "Try calling for help again."

May nodded, frantically pressing the emergency button.

But it still didn’t respond, like an old phone that had run out of power.

Tiana took out her phone from her bag, looked at the time, two-ten. However, her phone still showed no service.

It was as if they had fallen into the abyss of hell, cut off from all outside contact.

"May."

May turned back, seeing Tiana’s beautiful face in the light of the phone, which calmed her a bit. "Tiana, can your phone work?"

"No, try yours."

May’s hands were still trembling; she picked up her phone and immediately lit up the screen, which also showed no service.

Oh my God.

Why is this happening?

May was about to cry.

Tiana’s fox-like eyes suddenly turned cold and deep.

Both she and May’s phones had no signal. Was this a coincidence, or was it deliberate?

She asked, "In closed spaces, does your phone usually have a signal?"

May’s nose tingled. "It usually does. Possibly because we’re not on the ground but in a controlled area, so we can’t receive signals."

"No,"

Tiana shook her head, her voice low, her usually charming and playful eyes filled with a hint of coldness. She continued, "It can’t be such a coincidence. I lost signal right when I left the photo studio."

May murmured as well, "I don’t think I took out my phone to check back then..."

In an instant, Tiana understood.

This was someone else’s well-executed trap.

May trembled even more, feeling like oxygen was slipping away bit by bit in the confined space. She had some difficulty breathing, her voice carrying a hint of grim coldness, "Tiana, could we... be encountering ghosts?"

"Ha, ghosts?" Tiana coldly laughed, her eyes shining brilliantly.

She was more inclined to believe it was man-made.

She softly said, "The place we’re in is not only closed but also too high up. The oxygen will only become less and less. Breathe evenly. This is a five-star hotel; someone will definitely notice the elevator malfunction, and we will be rescued."

"Okay."

May had just finished speaking.

Suddenly——

Screeching—screeching...

The sound that seemed to call for their doom rang out again.