The secret room had no windows, and the walls
were all hung with black curtains. In the center
was an altar painted with complex runes in
vermilion.
Prescott Landis was standing in front of the
altar, and beside him stood an old man in a
gray Taoist robe.
The old man’s eyes were cloudy, and his face
was covered with wrinkles. He was the master
of ceremonies who had presided over the ghost
marriage last time, the mysterious sorcerer
whom the Landis family believed in.
Livia was lying on the ground, her hands tied
behind her back.
When she saw me, she laughed, looking at me
with resentment.
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“Ms. Monroe, we meet again.”
Prescott Landis turned around, playing with
another jade pendant in his hand.
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“Mr. Landis has gone to so much trouble to
invite me here, I don’t think it’s just to reminisce
about the past.”
Prescott Landis walked towards me step by
step. “Luna, this is your fate.”
He wanted to put the jade pendant around my
neck, just like in the previous life.
I stood there, not moving.
Just as the jade pendant was about to touch
my skin, I sneered. “Mr. Landis, your trick
doesn’t work on me.”
As soon as the words fell, a plain good–luck
sharm
minnol suddenly burnt into
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charm around my neck suddenly burst into a flash of light.
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With a soft crackling sound, the soul–locking
pendant in Prescott’s hand immediately split in half, falling to the ground.
The shattered jade pendant instantly lost all its luster, turning into two dull stones.
Pfft-
The sorcerer on the side suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his face full of disbelief.
“How is this possible!”
“How could a protective magic item backfire on
the main item?!”
Prescott was also stunned. He looked down at
the shattered jade pendant on the ground, then looked up at me, his eyes filled with shock and
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panic.
I sneered inwardly.
The first thing I did after being reborn was to
go to a dilapidated Taoist temple in the suburbs
of Beijing.
In my previous life, in the second year of my
imprisonment, an cleaning lady secretly gave
me a good–luck charm.
She said that she had asked for it from a Taoist
temple on the mountain, and that the sweeping
Taoist priest was a truly capable person.
It was that small good–luck charm that allowed
me to sleep soundly for the first time in that
gloomy room.
Although it ultimately failed to save me from
escaping the cage, it allowed me to breathe in
the endless darkness.
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In this life, I took all my savings and found that
Taoist temple.
I met that sweeping Taoist priest.
I didn’t say what I had been through, I only said
that I was haunted by evil spirits and asked for
his help.
I donated a large amount of incense money,
almost all the cash I could come up with at the
time.
The Taoist priest looked at me and sighed.
“Girl, the resentment on you is heavier than the
evil spirits.”
He didn’t ask any more questions and gave me
this good–luck charm.
“This talisman can protect you once, but the
one who tied the bell must untie it. The
misfortune in vour life must ultimately be
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As I was leaving, he called out to me again.
“Remember, for every extremely Yin object,
there must be an extremely Yang object to
counter it. Everything generates and overcomes
each other, and evil magic is no exception.”
On this trip, what I sought was not only this
amulet that could break all evil magic.
But also a shocking secret about the Landis
family, which I had exchanged for with
information and sincerity.
Looking at the horrified expressions on Prescott and the sorcerer’s faces, I slowly
spoke, “Mr. Landis, you’ve done so much for
your brother, but do you really know what kind of person your genius brother, Prescott Landis,
was like before he died?”
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Prescott’s face instantly turned gloomy. “What do you mean?”
“I don’t mean anything.”
I straightened my collar. “I just think it’s a little
sad to turn yourself into a madman for
someone who isn’t worth it.”
fter saying that, without waiting for his
eaction, I turned around and left.
Two bodyguards subconsciously wanted to stop
me, but Prescott stopped them with a look.
He knew that using force wouldn’t work on me.
And my words had obviously planted a thorn in
his heart.
Livia looked at my back in disbelief and
screamed, “Don’t let her go! She’ll ruin us! Kill
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But no one paid attention to her crazy ravings.
