Chapter 757 - The Curse (32) (1/2)

Ji Cheng and Liwei watched in a daze as Zhao Ming flipped her tote bag on the ground, revealing the two boxes, a silver-carved box, the other was a blue-velvet case. She opened the boxes and pulled out the two jade hairpins that have a sharp edge, with gold exquisite flower carving on the edge. They were both identical, and without the different cases, it would have been difficult to identify which one is whose.

The hairpin in the velvet case was Xie Ming's hairpin that she had safely locked in her closet. While the other one in the silver case was the one that has been lost. In the morning when Bai Ju called Liwei, he informed him that he had found the hairpin.

When Ji Cheng and Zhao Ming left the hotel that day, it was dropped near the hot spring. The guard on duty picked up the hairpin and took it with him. The momentary greed caused him a great loss. He took it with him because of how precious it looks, and was happy to find something so expensive and valuable.

However, since the day he picked the hairpin, everything in his life started to go wrong. He got into an accident and fractured his hand, his daughter fell sick. Not only that he fought with his wife and she left the home, while his father grew gravely sick.

All the bad things started to happen at once, which terrified him. At that time, his mother advised him to return the hairpin to the person it belongs to. She told him that she doesn't get good energy from the hairpin and warned him about it. He didn't agree with her first but seeing the series of incidents, he got scared.

When he came to the hotel to return the hairpin, he saw Bai Ju asking the staff to search for the jade hairpin near the hot spring. He got anxious and was thinking of giving up, but Bai Ju spotted him among the crowd because of his suspicious behavior.

After questioning him, he spilled the beans and returned the hairpin to him after telling him whatever happened with him because of the hairpin which was carrying dark energy with it. They were glad that they finally got the hairpin but they couldn't believe that one hairpin could create so many problems for someone.

Zhao Ming was about to squat on the ground when Xie Ming interrupted, ” You can't sit on the ground like this. It is not safe for the baby.” she warned her.

Zhao Ming pursed her lips and smiled bitterly, not safe? The whole ritual is not safe and she was not sure what's gonna happen to the child if she went through this dangerous process.

She was not afraid before, but now when she knows that she is pregnant, her motherly instinct was making her afraid. However, what can she do? If they don't do this, there is no guarantee that things will get any better in the future, what if she dies again if the curse doesn't end?

However, she didn't say her thoughts aloud.

Liwei knitted his brows and removed his coat that he was wearing and placed it on the ground for her to sit on. Zhao Ming smiled and sat on the ground over his coat, crossing her legs comfortably. She placed the hairpins in their cases carefully and pulled out white chalk from her bag.

Xie Ming pursed her lips as she saw Zhao Ming making a circle on the ground and drawing a large cross sign inside it. She takes out the candles that she has brought with her and places them on the edges of the cross. Everyone watched in a daze as she prepared the holy circle that she had learned from Shen Jia.

” We need to burn a fire here in the middle of the circle. Bring some dry woods to start the fire,” she said at which Ji Cheng, nodded and hurriedly went to search for the woods. There was a huge pile of woods left by the workers for the reconstruction work from which he brought a bundle of woods enough for them to burn a fire.

Zhao Ming turned to Liwei and asked, ” Place these woods together in the center of the circle. It should be arranged together so that the woods remain in the center itself.”

After the fire was started, she looked at the time and it was 11:59, one minute was left at midnight. She looked at Xie Ming with a dull-sad gaze and smiled bitterly, ” Come and sit beside me. It's time we should put an end to all of this.”

Xie Ming glanced at Liwei and Ji Cheng before joining Zhao Ming in the process. Her eyes wavered as she can't believe that things are finally coming to an end.

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” Zhao Ming, you have to be careful while doing this.” Xie Ming glanced at her abdomen worriedly.