"Where are the handymen? A few of you, come with me to repair the main gate!"
"Where is everyone!"
What was going on?
Hearing Steward Zhao, who had been prying at the gate in the Front Courtyard earlier, suddenly start shouting almost like a madman in the Back Courtyard, the players standing in the Eastern Courtyard, preparing to lure the Bride into exposing a weakness, instinctively looked toward the courtyard entrance.
The moment the four players turned around, they discovered that the red lanterns hanging on either side of the entrance had somehow turned white! Though the candlelight had not gone out and their surroundings had not plunged into darkness as before, those ghostly white lanterns were still enough to send chills down their spines.
What on earth was going on?
Wen Wen thought back over what had just happened. They had originally only intended to question the Bride in the Eastern Courtyard and coax information out of her, but what should have been simple had not gone smoothly at all.
Although Wen Wen and the others could not see the Bride's face beneath the Wedding Veil, her hand pressed to her forehead and her general condition suggested that even trying to remember her own name caused her pain.
Before Wen Wen could ask anything else, cold winds had swept through their surroundings again. That chill, which seemed about to freeze them inside and out, was deeply uncomfortable for Wen Wen, whose body was still that of an ordinary child.
Then Steward Zhao had started shouting outside the courtyard entrance. He seemed to be searching everywhere for the long-term laborers and the cook?
*Was it because he couldn't pry the gate open himself and wanted help? Weren't they inside an illusion created by a strange creature? Why hadn't the handymen