In the remote town of Phoenix in China, there is a place known locally as the "Ghost Bridge". This dilapidated wooden bridge is said to have strange things happen on dark and windy nights. The story begins many years ago, when a young woman named Ah Fang fled her hometown to Phoenix Town due to some family feuds.
Fong found a job at a small inn in the town and barely made ends meet. However, on one particular night, when the moon was unusually pale and full, she had to go home via the cursed "ghost bridge" after getting off work from the inn.
Legend has it that on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, a vague figure appears on the bridge, as if a woman in a white robe is waiting for something. And the locals would rather take a long detour than cross that bridge at night. But Ah Fang doesn't believe in these nonsense, she thinks it's just the result of people's rumors.
However, on that full moon night, as Ah Fong crossed the bridge, she felt a chill hit her from behind. At first, she thought it was the night breeze blowing, but she didn't care. But then, she heard the sound of water droplets, and following the sound, she saw a figure standing on the bridge, and it was the woman in the white robe that people described.
The woman's face was obscured by her long hair, making it impossible to see clearly, but she seemed to be waving to Fong. Somehow, as much as her sanity told her to walk away, her feet were as immobile as if they were glued to the ground. Then, she felt a cold hand touch her shoulder.
At this moment, a rooster crow pierced the night sky, and the figure of the white-robed woman disappeared into the darkness in an instant. Ah Fang dragged his heavy legs back to the inn and fell seriously ill. She hadn't crossed the bridge at night since.
The old man in the town said that the woman in the white robe was a bride who had drowned in the river many years ago. On the eve of her marriage, she was deceived by a negative person, and in desperation, she chose to commit suicide by throwing herself into the river. And on the night of the full moon, her soul would return to the bridge, hoping to see the negative person again, or find a substitute to end her unfinished fate.
Since then, the story of the "Ghost Bridge" has become even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, whether true or not, and the townspeople choose to avoid the old wooden bridge at night. And the encounter between Ah Fang and the white-robed woman has also been circulated in Phoenix Town as a classic folk supernatural story.