At the dinner party for Egbert's thirteenth birthday, he walked into the crowd holding the hand of a lady. That was his mother, one of Lost XV's many mistresses, who was once famous for her beauty.
The lady is like a flower in full bloom, while her child is still like a rose in bud.
After the Rose Manor was built, the little prince beloved by King Lost XV lived here most of the time. He grew up here and was familiar with every place here.
The luxurious dinner was just a boring game to him, so he finished dancing with his mother, and when the music faded away, he kissed his mother's hand with a smile, turned around and dived into the crowd, passing the ladies who were looking forward to dancing with him, and ran out.
There is a large horse farm on Tomani Island where the Rose Manor is located. He often rides his favorite black horse along the island. He can ride to the highest hillside on the coast, overlooking the sea, and let the horse go slowly forward, carrying him wandering aimlessly.
His father, King Lost XV, would occasionally visit him and his mistresses who lived here, but more often he enjoyed himself in other palaces.
When he was sixteen, Lost XV died suddenly. After a period of chaos, one of his elder brothers succeeded to the throne. At that time, the external situation was turbulent and chaotic, and it affected the Rose Manor.
At the end of the Lost Dynasty, Lost XVI was killed, the regime was in chaos, and several forces plundered each other's resources. Rose Manor, like the royal palaces that housed countless treasures, was plundered by outsiders.
Those people rushed to the island in a big boat.
The teacher who taught him painting was killed in the gallery because he couldn't bear to see his paintings destroyed. The blood spurting out of his head covered the walls.
His dancing teacher was hanged in the banquet hall;
The godfather and many of the island's servants hid in the church and were burned alive;
His mother was dragged out of the closet and fell down the stairs in despair.
He was angry and in pain, and wanted to fight those people with his sword. However, the maids who had raised him stopped him and hid him in a dense rose bush. They brought his black horse and begged him to hide quickly.
"Just like playing hide-and-seek when we were kids, hide away and don't let anyone find you." The older maid said in a trembling voice, stroking his hair lovingly for the last time.
He was a little prince who grew up in love and was the master of this place. This island was his paradise... He saw everyone being killed and their homes destroyed, but he was powerless to do anything.
He was the only one left, trapped on the island with nowhere to escape.
Finally, he hid in the maze-like rose garden with his wounds, curled up under the statue of the Virgin Mary, looked at the fires burning everywhere, and uttered a shrill curse:
—"After I die, I will turn into a nightmare and trap them all here to death. They will never, ever be able to leave my nightmare!"
The bells in the bell tower rang out solemnly.
Qin Feichang sat up from the ground. There was a red vine rose pattern on her wrist, and the statue of the Virgin Mary that she should have smashed with her gun was standing there intact, with a skull wrapped in a cloak in her arm.
Qin Feichang: “…” Was it another nightmare before? Why does this little lunatic have nightmares one after another, endlessly.
She took a deep breath, walked over to the statue of the Virgin, pulled back her cloak, and saw that the skeleton's forearm bones had the same red pattern as hers.
Very good, no matter what happened before, the curse was effective. Their lives were now linked together, and Egbert could not do anything to her, and she could not do anything to Egbert.
Although she came here with the intention of destroying the curse and the lunatic, judging by the results, she was simply offering herself to marry someone.
Qin Feichang shook the red cape, tied a knot around the curled-up bones inside, and walked out with it. The situation had come to this point, and it would be difficult to resolve it if he didn't take it back.
The skeleton Egbert lay motionless in the simple bag, without any reaction. Qin Feichang thought that his curse must have backfired on him. Why was he so traumatized
Walking out of the rose garden, Qin Feichang discovered that the fog on the island was flowing slowly. The fog that was previously excluded from the outer periphery of the island entered the interior of the manor. The translucent ghosts in the fog also appeared around as the fog spread.
She carried Egbert's skeleton, and the ghosts floating in the mist did not approach her.
Ordinary ghosts have no memory or consciousness. After most people die, their souls will slowly dissipate. Without special circumstances, they can only stay in ghost form for a short time. There are so many ghosts here, and they haven't dissipated in hundreds of years. It can only be because of Egbert.
After his death, he turned into a nightmare ghost for some reason. Because of the powerful resentment and curse, he isolated Tomani Island and forced these ghosts to stay, which should have dissipated long ago.
—Just like a little child, holding on to the good times and not wanting to let go, even though they have become something else.
"Your resentment has actually disappeared a long time ago." Qin Feichang walked in the moist mist. Next to her was a horse farm she had never been to. She still remembered the clip she had just seen, where a young man rode a black horse and galloped past here, full of vigor and vitality.
Just as she was thinking this, a gust of wind blew past her, and vaguely, it seemed that a few translucent horses were running past.
Qin Feichang: "... You are really good, you even want to keep the horse's soul."
The skeleton who had been pretending to be dead spoke and said, "I left something behind."
Obviously nothing was left.
He regretted it very early on, and as his resentment faded over time, he discovered that his curse had trapped his enemies, as well as himself and those who died on the island.
His wish before his death was so strong that it affected all the creatures on the island. He didn't know whether those who died were willing or forced to stay here with him.
The initial resentment disappeared, but new resentment kept coming. He really wanted to leave here. Only when he left here could the island no longer be affected by him and the ghosts would dissipate.
But he never thought that he would really leave one day.
"Are you really going to take me away?"
"How about staying here and sleeping with you forever? I think you've had enough sleep."
"Aren't you afraid that I might do something terrible when I go out into the world..." His tone gradually became weird.
Qin sneered, "Be honest, or I'll scatter your ashes."
Egbert couldn't believe it, "Are you threatening me?"
Qin said very seriously: "Princess, are you awake? The Lost Dynasty has been dead for hundreds of years."
Egbert: "Who is the princess?!"
Qin changed his words very naturally: "It was a slip of the tongue. It was the prince."
Isn’t she a princess? She is the one who trapped herself in the castle through a series of tricks and is waiting to be rescued.
With Egbert's skeleton in hand, Qin Feichang walked around the island without encountering any problems. She came to the edge of the island and just saw a group of people getting up from the ground in a daze.
"I...what happened to us?"
"Why are we here?"
Qin Feichang grabbed the skeleton of the boss he was going to fight and walked over calmly: "Let's go, get on the boat, we're going back."
The young people were even more confused. They always felt that they had never kept up with Luo Lan's progress. Why did they have to go back? Didn't they just get to the island? They hadn't even entered yet!
Wizard Rhodes looked even more confused. He vaguely remembered that he had a dream, but the dream disappeared deep in his mind like fragments.
"Our curse hasn't been resolved yet, why do we have to go back?" Leon asked.
"Ah!" Mei Shan raised her hand and took out the light to illuminate it in disbelief. She looked carefully over and over again, "It's gone! The cursed pattern is gone!"
Everyone hurriedly checked their wrists, and soon, a group of people cried and laughed as if they had escaped, and hugged each other.
Seeing them crying with joy, Qin Feichang heard a malicious sneer behind her, and a certain skeleton whispered in her ear: "They are too early to be happy, the curse has not been lifted, hahaha~"
Qin Feichang moved his mouth and said, "Shut up."
When they discovered that the curse pattern on their wrists had inexplicably disappeared, the group of people didn't even want to explore further and just wanted to leave quickly and return to the ship.
The bag that Qin Feichang was carrying was unconsciously ignored by everyone. Only Wizard Rhodes felt something and couldn't help but look at Qin Feichang.
Leon came to him with a big smile and expressed his gratitude: "Wizard Ross, thanks to your help this time. When we get back, my father and I will thank you very much."
"No, I didn't do anything." Wizard Ross frowned. He agreed to come here, thinking that something terrible might happen, but the reality was completely different from what he thought. He couldn't do anything at all. "If someone really did something, it was probably that girl over there."
He pointed at Qin Feichang with a serious expression, and suddenly felt an extremely uncomfortable breath coming from that direction. He unconsciously took a step back and retracted his finger.
"What's wrong with you?" Leon asked in confusion.
Wizard Rhodes' lips trembled, and he said vaguely, "Nothing."
He sat alone in the room, and did not say a word on the way back, and left in a hurry as soon as he returned to the dock. Only after he was far away from the ship did he show a look of fear.
If he guessed correctly, the girl brought something extremely terrible out of the island.
"Loran, you really don't want to play with us?"
"Yeah, we actually lifted the curse so easily, isn't it worth celebrating?"
Qin Feichang declined their invitation and went back with his luggage.
The curse was over, and it was time for her to concentrate on her work. She returned to her home in Luolan, packed up some things, and prepared to move into a house she had chosen earlier.
She came down from upstairs and saw Lonzo and the old grandmother. Because the curse was lifted quickly, the old grandmother was not dead yet, but it was only a matter of time.
Feeling that he had settled his grudges with them, Qin nodded to them very politely and left.
She could imagine what would happen here next. This house no longer belonged to them, they would move out soon, Lonzo was a selfish man, he would take all of the grandmother's money, the old grandmother would die at the hands of her most beloved grandson, and if Lonzo did not change, the tragic ending was almost inevitable.
After signing the contract with Egbert, she could suddenly see the aura of other people. The grandfather and grandson had a thick black aura on their bodies.
The house she temporarily rented was on the second floor of a retro old street near Qingshan University. The furniture and other facilities were all ready, and she could move in with her luggage. The landlady was a kind music teacher, and the house she rented to the tenant was also well maintained and quite stylish, with some of the decorative details revealing her taste.
The entire second floor was rented by Qin Feichang, which was spacious enough for one person.
After putting away her luggage, Qin Feichang took off her clothes and went into the bathroom. After a while, her suitcase was pushed open with a click, and a skeleton stood up from it, stepped on her clothes, and sat on the sofa next to her.
As the sound of water in the bathroom began to flow, the skeleton slowly transformed into a beautiful boy with red lips, white teeth and long hair. He held his chin expressionlessly and looked around the room which was too small for him.
It was too old, there was no relief painting on the ceiling, no crystal chandelier, the floor was scratched, and the carpet was too cheap... However, there were many strange things he had never seen before.
Egbert stood up and tapped the TV with the silver cane in his hand, and then tapped the refrigerator on the other side.
What are all these
Qin Feichang came out of the bathroom, all steamy. She walked to Egbert in her slippers, opened the refrigerator, and saw water and milk put in it by the landlord.
She took a bottle of ice water and gave Egbert a box of milk.
Closing the refrigerator door, she drank some ice water, wiped her wet hair with a towel and went looking for clothes.
Egbert looked at the cold box in his hand and imitated Qin Feichang's movements to open the refrigerator.
Qin Feichang was rummaging through clothes in the suitcase. Hearing the refrigerator behind him being opened and closed, he said without turning his head, "Princess, stop playing with the refrigerator."