acquisition case when Zachary Hayes’ internal
line rang.
“Luna, there are two gentlemen looking for
you downstairs, they say they were sent by
Mr. Landis.”
Zachary’s tone was a little heavy.
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“I understand, Director Hayes.” I calmly closed
the file.
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What was coming, was finally here.
In the company’s lobby, two men in black
suits stood, and the people around them were
whispering.
One of them stepped forward and nodded
slightly to me. “Ms. Monroe, Mr. Landis has
invited you.”
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“Okay.” I calmly picked up my handbag, didn’t
resist, and followed them out.
The car drove again towards the Landis
family’s old mansion located in the suburbs.
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The place I was taken to was not the banquet
hall from last time, but a secret room hidden
behind a rockery.
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.
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Livia was lying on the ground, her hands tied
behind her back.
When she saw me, she laughed, looking at me
with resentment.
“Ms. Monroe, we meet again.”
Prescott Landis turned around, playing with
another jade pendant in his hand.
“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
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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
charm around my neck suddenly burst into a
flash of light.
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 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.
In this life, I took all my savings and found
that Taoist temple.
I met that sweeping Taoist priest.
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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 your life must ultimately be
broken by yourself.”
