Ghost Marriage

A bizarre red room. The whole room had been painted a bright crimson, casting dark shadows in the glaring candlelight. Everyone's face seemed stretched by invisible threads into a smile. "Hurry up. It'll be bad if we miss the auspicious hour..." A matron with her hair in a bun dragged me, stumbling, in from the front hall, then forcefully pushed me down onto the floor. I was dressed in the wedding robe a woman wore when she married, wearing the phoenix crown a woman wore when she married, with the bridal makeup a woman wore when she married I looked up and saw only a cold coffin, made from the finest red sandalwood and edged with gold. It was extravagantly ornate. Madam Xue sat in the main hall, fingering her prayer beads and muttering. Dressed in a dark red robe, she stared at me coldly. "The auspicious hour has come! Begin the ceremony!" "No, no... I've changed my mind! I won't do it... Can't I just refuse?" I grabbed the matron's clothes behind me, trembling as I asked. "Refuse?" The matron sneered. "Once you've come through this door, you don't get to decide whether you go through with it!" As she spoke, she pressed down on my head, grabbed my arms, and forced me to bow to the floor. A cold voice sounded beside us: "First bow to Heaven and Earth!" "Second bow to your elders!" Theme: