In 2016, “Who’s the Murderer” premiered on the online media platform Mango TV, giving the murder mystery genre a greater audience and valuable media coverage. Building on the existing popularity of Werewolf, cosplaying, and escape room activities, venues across China started offering to recreate the experience of “Who’s the Murderer.” Script murder was born.
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Wang rattles off some of the roles she’s played at lightning speed. In medieval Europe, she was a fraudulent astrologist who gathered secrets using money and sex. In ancient China, she appeared as an ambitious and devastatingly beautiful imperial concubine. Once, she was a real estate tycoon who bought a castle full of time portals, leading her to solve mysteries across multiple dimensions.
“Ugh,” she cries with exaggerated frustration. “You even had to work out whether it was actually you — in another time period — that had committed the murder. It was so interesting!”