After the feast ended, Ji Cheng and Zhao Ming came back to their chamber after sending Grandmother Shuren to her chamber.

After getting changed, they laid on the bed and prepared to sleep.

" Zhao Ming, we should also invite Aunt She Jia to the banquet as well. Let's go tomorrow to meet her, it's been long since I have seen her." Ji Cheng said as he was laying in the bed while hugging Zhao Ming in his embrace.

Zhao Ming pursed her lips as she remembered about Zhao Ming's aunt. In the last few days, she was so busy that she didn't go to see her.

She needs to talk to her about many things. She nodded and said, " Okay, let's go tomorrow." She snuggled into his arms as she closed her eyes.

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The next day, Ji Cheng and Zhao Ming went to Shen Jia's chamber to invite her.

Shen Jia smiled and replied politely after Ji Cheng invited her to the welcome Banquet of Shuren.

" Your Majesty, I will be honored to attend this banquet. "

Zhao Ming felt a little jealous of the way she spoke to Ji Cheng. She never talks this sweetly to her.

" You go back. I am going to stay here a little longer."?Zhao Ming said to Ji Cheng asking him to go back and do his work.

After Ji Cheng left, Zhao Ming turned to Shen Jia and sat on the chair in the room as she said, " Now are you ready to talk to me?"

Shen Jia sighed and sat on the chair opposite her.

" What do you want to ask?"

Zhao Ming's face brightened up as she asked, " You haven't told me yet if you can send me back or not? You told me you didn't bring me here but I came to this world myself. However, is there a way that you can send me back? Or is there any possibility that Zhao Ming and I can change our souls again?"

Zhao Ming doesn't know what she was feeling while asking this question. Should she be happy or sad?

Shen Jia raised her brows and asked, " You want to go back?"

Zhao Ming pursed her lips as she stayed silent and didn't say anything. Her body was stiff and she can't help but wonder if she can live without Ji Cheng.

" I can't send you back but I am not sure if you can change souls with Zhao Ming later or not. I mean we have diverted the effect of the curse and brought you both back to life but the perpetrator who tried to poison you and pushed you into the pond is still there. What if that person tries to attack again?"

" Wait..wait..poison me? Who said I have been poisoned? I just fell into the pool and went into the coma." Zhao Ming was confused hearing her words.

Shen Jia frowned and knitted her brows, " Are you sure you're not drugged and just fell into the pool? Because according to this curse, the things are fated to repeat and your death is supposed to be caused by poison and drowning." Shen Jia mumbled as she tried to think about if there is a possibility for variability.

Zhao Ming blinked her eyes as she looked at Shen Jia, " So, Zhao Ming not only fell into the pond but was poisoned as well? And then she was accused of an attempt of suicide? Is that what happened?"

" But how do you know all of this?" Zhao Ming could not help but wonder. [ Read this novel on W e b n o v e l . c o m ( remove spaces). If you are reading this elsewhere, then this novel is pirated. Support the original author, not thieves. Regards Kamlyn]

Shen Jia stared at Zhao Ming and said, " I don't know what happened to Zhao Ming. But according to her past life, things are supposed to be this way. Also, there are many suspicious things about Zhao Ming's death. She knows swimming, then how can she go to a coma from drowning? So we need to catch that perpetrator before he makes another move."

Zhao Ming felt goosebumps hearing her words. She doesn't want to die again.

" Also, we need to find the thing which has been holding onto the curse for ages. We need to destroy that thing and only then you can be free from the curse. After burning that thing, we can make sure that the curse has died."

Zhao Ming was speechless hearing Shen Jia's words.

" Thing? What thing?"

" I don't know either. But when I was trying to understand the curse and the only conclusion I have is that these kinds of curses always hold onto material objects and will cling to you even after death. We need to find that thing and destroy it so that both of your lives can be free of the curse." Shen Jia said while trying to explain the way she found out to dissipate the curse after so many efforts.

Zhao Ming frowned as she wondered what things it can be. She doesn't remember much about the night when Zhao Ming night. What thing could it be? And who that person could it be who poisoned her and pushed her into the pond?

She pursed her lips and glanced at Shen Jia with hesitance.

" Speak up."

Zhao Ming sighed and asked, " So you mean I have to stay here for my whole life? I can't go back?"

Shen Jia stared into her eyes and replied, " Once the curse ends completely, you can change souls with Zhao Ming on the night of the full moon but the condition is that both of you have to be ready to change your souls. If you both want that, then you can get back to your old lifestyles."

" Do you want to go back to your world that much? What will be your decision if you were asked to stay here or go back?" Shen Jia pursed her lips because she knows that Zhao Ming is happy in the other world. She doesn't want her to come back to this world where she had such painful memories.

Zhao Ming pursed her lips and stared at Shen Jia with an unexplainable gaze. What response can she give? It's not that things can go the way she wants.

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