The Ghost Lady on stage was so shocked she collapsed to the ground.

Her finger still pointed at the pile of yellow earth she had scattered.

Her face was filled with terror.

What was happening?

The audience below wore completely bewildered expressions!

They began discussing among themselves.

“How is this different from what we saw before?” asked someone who had seen it previously, confused.

Someone nearby who hadn’t seen it asked: “How is it different? What happens next?”

“After this, the Ghost Lady is supposed to finish singing the theatrical verses and end it.”

“That’s right! Why did she only sing half? When I came to watch yesterday, it wasn’t like this.”

“Could they have changed it?” someone asked.

Others shook their heads: “Not sure.”

Countless pairs of eyes stared at the stage, waiting for the Ghost Lady to give some reaction.

Song Zhi, sitting in the front row, furrowed his brow.

Why couldn’t he remember changing the script?

Moreover, even if changes were made, they shouldn’t only modify the final part. What’s more, the most classic part of this play was the last two lines of theatrical verse—they were the soul of the piece.

There was no reason to stop abruptly halfway through singing.

But he just couldn’t understand—why wasn’t the Ghost Lady reciting her lines, and what was she doing sitting on the ground?

He looked in the direction of the yellow earth she was pointing at, but saw nothing!

He rubbed his eyes and continued looking.

On the second floor, Ji Yunshu was also watching and waiting nervously.

But—

She felt something was wrong there!

The Ghost Lady on stage had clearly broken character, and that terrified expression on her face couldn’t be faked.

She also followed the Ghost Lady’s finger to look at the yellow earth.

It was a pile of real yellow earth with green leaves sprouting from it, very loose—clearly freshly dug up. But from her angle, she couldn’t see what the Ghost Lady was pointing at.

Bai Yin stroked his chin, pondering from the side: “This play… are they going to continue or not?”

They waited quietly!

Meanwhile backstage, Troupe Master Tao, the theater masters, and all the other performers were also staring at the stage.

All were utterly confused!

“What’s wrong with Xiao Qu? She sang so well before, why won’t she continue with the verses now? This is disastrous!” The troupe master slapped the back of his hand into his palm, anxious to death. He turned and grabbed the theater master’s clothes, asking urgently, “Master Tang, did you change the play?”

Theater Master Tang was also dumbfounded, standing stunned for a moment before shaking his head: “No! Didn’t change the play.”

“Then what’s going on?”

“I… I don’t know!” Master Tang’s voice was trembling.

The theater troupe members panicked: “Xiao Qu wouldn’t cause trouble at such a critical moment, would she? This absolutely cannot happen! If the performance is ruined, this play will be finished along with it. What will we do in the future? Quick, think of something!”

“Don’t jinx it.”

“But what do we do about this situation?”

“Should we send someone up to save the scene?”

“How do we save it? In this situation, how can we save it?”

There was no way to save it!

Only if the Ghost Lady continued performing and singing could it work!

Everyone backstage was sweating with anxiety, watching the stage desperately.

Troupe Master Tao felt his business was probably finished!

Suddenly—

“Ah!” A loud scream came from the stage.

The female performer playing the Ghost Lady screamed once, kicked her feet hard against the ground, and retreated backward.

Instantly, the entire theater house erupted!

People stood up one after another, craning their necks to look at the stage.

Not understanding what was happening!

“What happened?”

“Has the Ghost Lady gone mad?”

“Did something happen?”

Discussions broke out everywhere.

Troupe Master Tao finally realized something was seriously wrong and shouted orders to those beside him: “Quick, quick, quick, pull down the curtain, hurry.”

“Yes, yes, yes!”

The theater troupe members rushed up in panic and pulled down the curtain.

As the curtain was being lowered, everyone’s discussions became even more intense!

All kinds of speculation.

Troupe Master Tao quickly ran to the front of the curtain and said to everyone: “Alright, alright, today’s play has ended, it stops here. Thank you all. There will be another performance tomorrow, please come early.”

“The play isn’t finished yet.”

“Today we truly apologize to everyone. The play has ended. Please leave, please leave.” The troupe master kept bowing!

The audience below was unhappy, saying: “How can this be?”

“We came to watch a play, and the play isn’t even finished.”

“That’s right! Refund our money, refund!”

“Refund!”

They began clamoring.

Troupe Master Tao had encountered many unpredictable situations, but today’s incident was somewhat beyond his ability to handle.

In the past, even if the play wasn’t good or the verses weren’t good, at least it was performed to completion. But today’s play had a beginning but no ending—no wonder everyone was upset.

To prevent the situation from escalating, the troupe master could only placate everyone with good humor and apologetic smiles: “Everyone, please don’t be angry. I apologize to you all here. There’s been a small problem with the play. How about this—everyone come back to watch tomorrow.”

“Who’s coming back to watch? Refund our money!”

“This…”

They couldn’t refund money just because one verse wasn’t sung! That would be too unfair.

So he insisted on not refunding.

Everyone was furious.

But Song Zhi sat there motionless. After all, his ticket had been given to him by the theater troupe members.

For him, whether or not money was refunded didn’t matter.

What’s more, it was a play he himself had written.

He picked up his things from the ground, didn’t intend to get involved, and prepared to leave.

But with the massive crowd behind him, how could his thin arms push through? Instead, he was pushed hard forward by the crowd, almost squeezed onto the stage.

And at this moment, behind the curtain—

The Ghost Lady was frightened to the point of utter terror, her lips pale, her face covered in sweat.

When the curtain was pulled down, all the theater troupe members rushed up.

“Sister Xiao Qu, what’s wrong?” a young woman asked.

Xiao Qu, who was playing the Ghost Lady, held her head, turned her body to one side, curled up her legs, and pointed at the yellow earth with one hand: “There, there… there’s…”

“There’s what?”

“There’s…” The Ghost Lady couldn’t speak.

The theater master walked toward the yellow earth.

He took one look.

Ugh!

He immediately stepped back several steps!

Eyes wide with shock.

Everyone looked at each other, then carefully walked to the yellow earth to look.

They only saw something foreign in the yellow earth that the Ghost Lady had scattered.

Looking more carefully, they discovered… it was a human finger!

A finger covered in fresh blood.

“Ah!”

“Ah!”

Several timid young women were terrified.

A few braver people used their feet to dig through the earth.

Little by little, they dug it open…

What they didn’t expect was that they actually dug out a pile of white bones from the yellow earth.

A pile of blood-soaked white bones.

Only that one finger still had flesh on it!

The theater troupe members were all shocked, their eyes frozen wide.

Meanwhile, outside, Troupe Master Tao still didn’t know what was happening inside. While everyone was shouting “Refund!” he kept apologizing.

And those people kept pushing forward.

Some even jumped directly onto the stage!

A trampling incident nearly occurred.

Troupe Master Tao blocked them: “Everyone, please don’t rush. We really cannot refund the money.”

“Refund!”

At this moment—

Someone somehow inadvertently pulled down that large curtain.

Someone with sharp eyes saw the pile of white bones dug out from the yellow earth and shouted: “There are… white bones!”