Director Liu kept his word and soon went to the restroom to make a phone call.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Qian slipped back into the dressing room and gave Han Mengyao, who was sitting in a chair getting her makeup done, a wink. Upon seeing this, Han Mengyao immediately looked up and said to the makeup artist:
"Sister Ming, my stomach suddenly hurts a little. Could you please draw Mimi and the others first?"
"Okay, then hurry back, you haven't changed your clothes yet."
"I understand, thank you for your hard work, Sister Ming."
After saying that, Han Mengyao clutched her stomach, got up, and walked out of the dressing room with Ji Qian's help.
"Sister Meng, I... sigh!"
After the two went out, Ji Qian was about to speak when she saw Han Mengyao reach out and push open the door to the bathroom next door.
"Oh, I'm sorry to bother you."
After Han Mengyao finished speaking, she calmly closed the door.
Director Liu was squatting on the toilet with a roll of toilet paper, making a phone call to his boss, when he was stunned when Han Mengyao suddenly pushed the door open and walked in.
Before he could react to the matter, Han Mengyao calmly closed the door again, as if everything that had just happened was just his imagination.
"Let's go to the restroom over there. Director Liu is over here."
Ji Qian first finished speaking what she hadn't said before, and then suddenly realized:
"Sister Meng, are you alright? Do you need to see an ophthalmologist?"
"Ah, it's okay, let's go over there."
Han Mengyao remained remarkably calm, making Ji Qian wonder if she had overreacted.
Before entering the restroom on the other side, Ji Qian knocked on the door to make sure it was empty before pushing it open and going in.
The restrooms in the banquet hall were all designed with great ingenuity, including not only necessities like toilets, but also special makeup and changing areas.
"Director Liu has already made the call, but it will be at least tomorrow before the materials arrive."
As she spoke, Ji Qian looked at Han Mengyao with a worried expression: "Sister Meng, you should come with me today. I suspect that lady will come looking for you again."
Han Mengyao neither confirmed nor denied this; she had something more important to ascertain right now:
"Qianqian, do ghosts retain their appearance from the last moment of their lives?"
"Well, that's not necessarily true."
After returning from the old house, Ji Qian specifically called a metaphysics expert she knew about this matter, but unexpectedly received an answer that surprised her:
"I originally thought so too, but for example, there was Mr. Qian's situation last time."
Because the courtyard was filled with spiritual energy when they died, their souls remained connected to their bodies for a short period of time, even though they had left their bodies.
In this situation, their souls will change within a short period of time as the corpse transforms.
Han Mengyao's brows remained furrowed upon hearing this, clearly not the answer she wanted, so she asked again:
"If a person dies in old age, is there a way for her soul to become young again?"
"Well, there is a way, but..."
Ji Qian hesitated for a moment, unable to speak, but seeing that Han Mengyao was still looking at her with a serious expression, she finally managed to say:
"These methods are generally quite insidious, such as devouring the souls of others or nourishing oneself by absorbing the yang energy of living people, which does indeed offer a chance to make one's soul younger."
Another possibility is to cultivate into a ghost immortal. However, the last ghost immortal appeared before the founding of the People's Republic of China. That person has now converted to Buddhism and is diligently cultivating at the Pudu Temple in Beijing.
"That can't be the reason..." Han Mengyao murmured softly for a moment before explaining to Ji Qian:
"Here's the thing, I fainted yesterday and saw Leslie Brooke's wife in my dream, as you already know."
After I woke up, I looked it up online and found that historical records indicate this countess died of a lung infection caused by a cold at the age of 58. But in my dream yesterday, I clearly saw a young woman around 20 years old.
"Could it be an act, like that guy who impersonated you and came to deceive me and Xu Qi before?"
Upon hearing this, Ji Qian frowned. After thinking for a moment, she proposed a more feasible guess.
Upon hearing this, Han Mengyao shook her head, denying Ji Qian's speculation:
“In my dream, I saw her being whipped by a severed hand. Although her face was dented from the blow, it was not deformed or wrinkled.”
"Oh, I see, she's the blonde ghost who attacked us in the hallway!"
After a moment's thought, Ji Qian finally connected the countess with the blonde female ghost.
Unfortunately, she was too terrified to look directly at the ghost's face. She only remembered that the ghost had incredibly long, smooth hair, but this did not help her deduce the truth at all.
"Alright, we've been here a bit too long, let's go out first."
Seeing that the discussion had reached a bottleneck, Ji Qian decisively decided to postpone the matter. Although Han Mengyao was somewhat reluctant, she knew that Ji Qian's words made sense.
After Han Mengyao returned to the dressing room and changed into her dress, Director Liu finally came out of another restroom.
Seeing Han Mengyao greet him with a smile as if nothing had happened, Director Liu couldn't help but feel even more puzzled. Could it be that he had just imagined it?
'Filming a paranormal show is definitely too stressful. Maybe he should go back and find a temple to pray at.' Having finalized his itinerary upon returning home, Director Liu picked up the megaphone from the ground, stood in front of the camera, and loudly announced:
"Filming for the Castle Episode of 'Into the Truth' officially begins on its first day!"
"etc!"
Ji Qian interrupted Director Liu's passionate speech, her face filled with disbelief as she questioned him, her tone brimming with despair:
"Wasn't yesterday the first day of recording? Did time go backwards?!"
"Ah, well..." Director Liu paused deliberately, waiting until everyone's attention was on him before continuing:
"Because this journey takes too long, our production team and the agents agreed on a recording duration of 10 days from the very beginning."
Yesterday was just a warm-up event before the official recording began; the actual recording only starts today.
After saying that, as if he felt he hadn't been infuriating enough, Director Liu added a further comment:
"Aren't you teachers pleasantly surprised?"
"..."
Ji Qian was speechless and choked with emotion. She felt an itch in her palms and desperately needed to touch Director Liu's face to relieve the symptom.
Han Mengyao patted Ji Qian's shoulder to comfort her.
As one of the owners of the agency, Han Mengyao actually knew about this a long time ago, but she thought everyone knew, so she didn't specifically remind them.
The other boss present, Xu Qi, said he had never heard of such a thing.
Recalling the strange expression on his agent Zhang's face when he saw him off, Xu Qi thought at the time that the other party was worried about him, but he didn't expect that he was wrong.
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