The Comic Bang Episode 17 Recap
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Ye Qi and Zuo Qiandai sat on a park bench discussing the future development of their manga. Ye Qi wanted to add some horror elements to it, which piqued Zuo Qiandai's curiosity. She picked up Ye Qi's latest manga to read, but just as she was getting excited, the latest chapter ended.
Since Ye Qi hadn’t yet decided how to continue, the two decided to find Chai Ziyu, the inspiration for the character Amei in the manga, to ask for some ideas. In the end, the three of them planned to watch a horror movie together to experience the feeling. As the horror movie was about to start, Zuo Qiandai fantasized about pretending to be scared during the scariest scene so that Ye Qi would hold her.
Just imagining such a scene made Zuo Qiandai want to laugh. But when the movie actually started, she couldn't bring herself to pretend to be scared and thought the movie wasn’t very frightening at all. Hugging Ye Qi would seem fake. Coincidentally, Ye Qi and Chai Ziyu also felt the movie wasn’t very scary and didn’t inspire any new ideas.
To help Ye Qi find horror inspiration, Zuo Qiandai planned a courage-testing night adventure and contacted Zhou Jieyue to share the plan. Zhou Jieyue also decided to bring Jiang Ruosong along. Zhou Jieyue was out shopping with Jiang Ruosong and brought him to a dessert shop. While enjoying the sweets, they happened to run into Zhao Xiaojian, a high school classmate who was Zhou Jieyue’s boyfriend back in school.
Seeing Zhou Jieyue and Zhao Xiaojian chatting so animatedly made Jiang Ruosong feel a bit jealous. On the way back, they encountered a cat, and Zhou Jieyue showed great affection for it, allowing Jiang Ruosong to see her kind side. That night, the courage-testing trip officially began. Ye Qi and Zuo Qiandai also invited Lu Dao and Gu Zhengxing.
The four of them looked at the dark hallway and couldn’t help but feel a bit afraid, but they mustered the courage to move forward. After walking through it, they found that nothing had happened. Ye Qi asked Zuo Qiandai what was supposed to have happened in that hallway. Lu Dao explained that several legends surrounded the hallway. One claimed that people would faint while walking through it.
It turned out to be the music room hallway, and the person who had fainted was Jiang Ruosong, who fell asleep after hearing Lorelei’s song. The other legends were also debunked one by one — there was nothing truly terrifying. So the group continued searching for the school’s supposedly haunted hallway. The four of them arrived at a room filled with plaster statues.
Lu Dao had to take a call and took Gu Zhengxing with her, leaving Ye Qi and Zuo Qiandai alone. Zuo Qiandai, leaning close to Ye Qi, was trying to find an opportunity to hold his hand. Just then, Ye Qi saw some plaster statues moving and, frightened, grabbed Zuo Qiandai and ran outside. Zuo Qiandai was thrilled because it was the first time the two had held hands.
But then she suddenly realized that Ye Qi wasn't holding either of her hands — she was holding a fake hand. After Ye Qi and Zuo Qiandai left the room, Lu Dao and Gu Zhengxing emerged from behind the statues. It turned out they had moved the statues to scare them, and they were very pleased with themselves. However, while they were celebrating, the statues started moving again, scaring them both into fleeing.
Ye Qi and Zuo Qiandai took their latest manga to Qian Ye to submit it, but he questioned their work. They decided to stand firm and seek help from Gong Jian, only to find that he was also being targeted by Qian Ye. To help Gong Jian, Ye Qi and Zuo Qiandai agreed to go to an escape room recommended by Qian Ye, hoping to exchange the experience for Qian Ye easing off Gong Jian.
Ye Qi also invited Chai Ziyu and several other friends. During the escape room challenge, Chai Ziyu was captured, and the group had to find and rescue him.
