The faint light of a cell phone illuminated the messy studio, and a suffocating silence filled the air. Huo Yao slumped weakly to the floor, her vision blurred with tears. The studio had been ransacked; the musical instruments and sheet music they relied on for the competition, and even the drafts they had poured countless efforts into, had vanished without a trace.
"How could this happen..." Huo Yao's voice choked with sobs. She could not believe that the notes carrying their dreams had been so ruthlessly wiped out.
Lu Chen clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force. He knew that all of this was by no means a coincidence. From the warning of the Music Spirit to the withering of the garden and the bizarre events in the studio, everything hinted that a dark force was manipulating it all from the shadows.
Chapter 204