Ji Mingxia suddenly recalled the scene from long ago, before Li Youzi’s death.
A few years ago, a mysterious man invited Bao Guangyuan and his group to play a game of death hide-and-seek. When they failed the game, they received two blood-red rings from the mysterious man.
Knowing that the rings were ominous, they gave them to Li Youzi and Lin Siyun, who were unaware of it, in order to avoid punishment.
Ordinary people can’t control the energy of mysterious items and would eventually get devastated by it. This way, Lin Siyun became the first person to die tragically.
She died before the entrance exams. She was just one step away from her dream, but it all came to a screeching halt.
After Lin Siyun’s death, Li Youzi realized that had been tricked and begun her revenge.
In response, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning went to the Quanzhuang Hotel to look for Li Youzi. However, not only did they fail to find her, they also acquired a bronze mirror by mistake.
Later, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning met Bao Guangyuan and the others in the forest behind the hotel.
For her revenge, Li Youzi replicated the death game of hide and seek. She gathered all her friends from that year in the forest, used the blood from their corpses a medium and her soul as a sacrifice to make a deal with the ring, cursing all those who harmed her.
‘He who gave this ring will bear the backlash and curse. I curse his soul and body to rot for all eternity, never to be reborn.’
“All those who harm me will not be allowed to die well, and I will finally be with the one I love…”
Ji Mingxia muttered Li Youzi’s last words.
Li Yiuzi died in the middle of the forest, not even leaving her ashes behind, dissipating forever into the landscape.
With her death, the turmoil died subsided, followed by the appearance of the protagonist gong, Pei Yuan.
The two didn’t get along and Ji Mingxia was too busy dealing with the relationship between Yu Ning and Pei Yuan to think much about Li Youzi’s curse.
In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed and many things had happened around him, so naturally, he forgot all about Li Youzi.
Unexpectedly, the cursed person would appear before him, and even try to harm Yu Ning.
Ji Mingxia was shocked, “The mysterious man hiding in the shadows is actually Ding Jialin?!”
From the ghost on campus, the absorbed longevity in Banana Leaf Village, to the recent Ye family incident, most of the supernatural events that Ji Mingxia had encountered in the past six months or so had a connection to this mysterious man.
According to Bao Guangyuan and Zhou Tao, the mysterious man was dressed in a suit, held a magician’s prop and wore a clown mask. He dressed in a bizarre and pompous way, making it impossible to guess his identity.
Ji Mingxia originally thought that such a pervert would be a sophisticated old man, but it turned out to be such a young man ……
Ding Jialin’s looks unconsciously came to his mind.
He looked like a zombie, his body was rotting, and maggots were writhing in the rotting flesh he had thrown up.
Even with the mysterious items and his extraordinary powers, he could not resist the power of the curse.
His body and soul were decaying, and he now looed between a ghost and a human.
“I remember, Ye Chen said that Ding Jialin loved clowns and magicians since he was a child, that photo was taken at Ding Jialin’s clown themed birthday party. All this matches up with the description we have of that mysterious man ……I never thought that the person hiding behind the scenes would be Ye Chen and Ye Tian’s good friend.”
Ji Mingxia suddenly thought of something and a chill ran down his spine: “The Ding and Ye families were friends, so what happened to the Ye family over the years ……”
Lin Siyun, Bao Guangyuan and the others had nothing to do with Ding Jialin, but they were still victimized to that extent.
The Ye family and the Ding family had known each other for so many years, and with the ready-made candidates, there was no reason for Ding Jialin to spare them.
Looking at the trajectory of the Ye family’s life over the years, there were more or less shadows of the Ding family.
Yu Ning spoke at this time, “That Hong Kong master said that he was innocent and that the Ye family just given him money to come and do the deed, but he didn’t know that the lump of flesh was a person.”
Ji Mingxia thought back carefully and vaguely remembered that there was such a thing.
Master Zheng was from Hong Kong and he stumbled when speaking Mandarin, so Ji Mingxia had a hard listening to him and was practically guessing most of his words.
At the time, he was shocked by the secrets of the Ye family, and he assumed that the master was involved in that case back then, so he didn’t think much about the meaning behind Master Zheng’s words.
If not for Yu Ning’s reminder, Ji Mingxia would not have remembered that there was this clue.
“Master Zheng didn’t know that the lump of flesh was human, which means he only got involved at a later stage and had no prior knowledge of the matter.” Ji Mingxia analyzed, “The Ding family had been engaged in a mysterious proffession for generations, and Ye Tian also said that she came to H University because the Ding family instructed her to do so. From this, we can deduce that the Ding family began instructing the Ye family a long time ago, so the twins’ sacrifice for money was probably suggested by the Ding family. “
The Ye family was eager to seek wealth, and after the Ding family’s guidance, they sacrificed their youngest daughter and became rich. Having had such an experience, the Ye family would definitely trust the Ding family even more.
The Ding and Ye families became good friends, and the children grew up together as childhood friends. If things had stopped there, perhaps the past would never have been dug up again.
However, more than ten years later, the remaining twin, Ye Tian, met with an incident.
Ji Mingxia thought of Ye Tian, who had been driven to madness, and of the black stone that looked so inconspicuous.
He looked at the golden mask with no aura, Jiand couldn’t help but ask, “Is it possible that the meteorite was also designed to fall into Ye Tian’s hands? Ye Tian was affected by the power of the meteorite and felt the constant prying eyes, so she had no choice but to ask the Ding family for help. Ye Tian said that she came to H University because Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding had directed her to do so.”
After saying that, Ji Mingxia was a bit puzzled, “Why did they ask Ye Tian to come to H University? Did they have their eyes on you already?”
“Indeed.” Yu Ning added, “Ding Jialin was cursed and needed a lot of energy to bring him back to health, and the Ye family was not so much a friend of the Ding family as a reserve food for them to feed. But things didn’t progress as he expected, Ye Tian was far from being able to make up for the deficit in his body, so he turned to me instead.”
Ji Mingxia fell into silence as he listened, quietly digesting this mass of information.
After a long time, Ji Mingxia looked at Yu Ning and suddenly asked, “Yu Ning, did you guess all this a long time ago?”
Yu Ning looked at Ji Mingxia in mild surprise.
As soon as Ji Mingxia saw his expression, he confirmed that he had guessed correctly!
When he thought that Yu Ning was actually hiding something from him, Ji Mingxia sneered, “Don’t think I don’t know you. You were acting strangely the moment Ye Tian went crazy. When Ye Chen asked me to visit Ye Tian in the dormitory, normally, you would have gone with me, but you actually let me and Ye Chen go first, so I thought you-“
Ji Mingxia suddenly realized that he had spoken too much and quickly stopped himself.
Well that was a lot of recap lol
woahh i didn’t really connect the dots till they explicitly said it. im ashamed of myself