Chapter 337: Chapter 337: Where is the Key?

Watching the red curtain being drawn, Tong Mo immediately patted her chest and sighed in relief, “Thank goodness I had a sudden stroke of inspiration, otherwise I wouldn’t know what to do with this play.”

“I need to go see how Mengmeng’s fall turned out.” Lu Zichen frowned as he spoke and quickly started running towards the outside.

“Wait for me, I’m coming too!” Tong Mo followed closely behind him. When Mengmeng had suddenly fallen, if it hadn’t been for her desire to keep the play going, she would have run off earlier.

Before leaving, she paused and looked at Jiang Yibai, “Are you coming to check on Mengmeng as well?”

Jiang Yibai slightly pursed his lips, his gaze fixed on a broken piece of stump, and shook his head, “You guys go ahead, I’ll come in a bit.”

“Okay.”

After Tong Mo finished speaking, she hurriedly ran towards the direction of the infirmary.

After Tong Mo left, Jiang Yibai took several steps forward to the stump split in half, knelt down, and inspected it. His brow furrowed deeply and his expression turned somewhat grave.

The break in the stump was too neat; it didn’t look like it broke on its own at all.

And there were traces of glue in the middle.

It was as if someone had previously cut it with a knife and then glued it back together…

Who could have done this?

While Jiang Yibai was deep in thought, a classmate who was helping clear the stage pointed at Xu Wenting, still locked in the prop cage, and asked them, “Hey, hey, hey, who has the keys to this cage? The performance is over; why haven’t you let the girl out yet?”

Poor Xu Wenting was still confined within the prop cage.

The prop cage had been custom-made to be extremely sturdy for dramatic effect, making it impossible to open without the keys.

“But we don’t have the keys,” a few classmates on stage said, looking bewildered as they shook their heads.

“The key is with Gu Zhihan!” Xu Wenting quickly reminded.

“Then I’ll go get it from Gu Zhihan,” a classmate volunteered to Xu Wenting.

Xu Wenting immediately showed him a gentle smile, “Classmate, thank you.”

“No worries, no worries…” The boy blushed and hurriedly ran off.

Jiang Yibai already stood holding the broken stump, thinking of the next act, and said, “You guys go ahead and carry her to the backstage for now; don’t interfere with the next performance.”

“Okay.”

The remaining classmates together lifted the cage containing Xu Wenting.

As they were leaving, Xu Wenting, noticing what Jiang Yibai held in his hands, suddenly felt anxious, “That, Student Jiang, what are you doing with that broken stump?”

“Why, can’t I pick it up?” Jiang Yibai, observing the change in her facial expression, suddenly had a guess.

Xu Wenting forced a smile, “No… I just wanted to remind you to be careful of the splinters, don’t hurt your hand.”

“Hmm, thanks for the reminder,” Jiang Yibai continued, holding the stump and walked away.

Xu Wenting watched his retreating figure with unease, but thinking about how stealthily she had acted earlier, she felt somewhat reassured.

Meanwhile.

At the school infirmary.

Luo Mengmeng lay in pain on the bed, while the school doctor was treating her wound.

“How is she?” Gu Zhihan asked with a furrowed brow.

Tong Mo and Lu Zichen also looked anxiously toward the school doctor.

The school doctor glanced at the X-ray that had just come out and said, “A minor fracture, I’ll stabilize it for her now.”

After speaking, the school doctor began to tend to Luo Mengmeng’s wounds.

At that moment, Jiang Yibai and another male classmate walked into the infirmary.

The boy immediately spoke upon seeing Gu Zhihan, “Gu Zhihan, where’s the key?”