Chapter 16
Chapter 16
“This is hilarious. Fortune-telling? Feng shui? Hahaha, how does she even come up with this stuff?”
Lou Qianqian sat in a chair, chatting with her roommate while eating cake.
Ling Ling looked at her worriedly.
“Qianqian, are you okay? You just finished an entire six-inch cake-stop eating-”
Lou Qianqian was very thin and always strict about what she ate. She’d even split an apple in half, giving the other half away and only eating her portion herself. Seeing her scarf down cake like this was completely unheard of.
I walked up behind and touched the back of her neck. Sure enough, her skin was icy, and beneath it a swirl of black energy flickered and disappeared.
The Deadly Curse was here.
Lou Qianqian slapped my hand away, annoyed.
“Qiao Moyu, what do you think you’re doing!”
After being possessed by the Deadly Curse, your body becomes weak and needs lots of food to recover. Lou Qianqian should have an Evil Artifact on her. Yesterday, the Deadly Curse left the Jiang Family through her and is now somewhere else.
Two Curses working together, entwined and supporting each other-I’d already collected the Jiang Family’s Deadly Curse, so the one left should be badly hurt. It wouldn’t be able to take another life soon, but stirring up trouble was still possible.
“Lou Qianqian, don’t say I didn’t warn you. We’re classmates. If you ask nicely, maybe I’ll consider coming to your place and performing a ritual.”
Lou Qianqian burst out laughing, as though she’d just heard the biggest joke ever.
“Hahaha, Qiao Moyu, are you money-crazy now? Got addicted to pretending to be a master?”
She shot me a look of disgust and twisted past me.
“What, couldn’t make money from the Jiang Family, so now you’re after me? I knew it. Uncle Jiang would never go for someone like you.”
Lou Qianqian kept up the snide remarks, with Ling Ling chiming in.
I ignored them. Jiang Haoyan called to invite me out for a meal.
The Jiang Family really lived up to their reputation as the local tycoons-their investigation skills were top-notch.
Jiang Haoyan told me that when the house was being built, two workers fought, fell from the scaffolding, and died. Since these homes were luxury mansions, news of a death would make them impossible to sell, so the developer covered it up and handed out a rushed compensation.
Each family got eight hundred thousand yuan, which isn’t a small sum, but compared to homes costing over a hundred thousand yuan per square meter, it seems paltry. One worker’s family could never accept the amount and held a deep grudge against the developer.
Their ancestors had been professional Luban Masters and knew about mystical formations. When they learned the developer was keeping the house for his own family, they deliberately set up a Soul Suppressing Formation, hoping to bring misfortune to his household.