“Now, seeing how affectionate you two are as a married couple, holding a wedding every year—what does it matter whether the one who married into the Lancaster family was Evelyn or not?”
Adrian Lancaster nodded, his eyes brimming with devotion.
Master Gregory suddenly understood. “No wonder I couldn’t summon the soul.”
“Now, all we need to do is follow Evelyn Moore’s spirit, find the place where her resentment has gathered, and break the curse.”
The group walked deeper into the ship’s cabin—only to freeze in place.
Master Gregory stared at the scattered piles of bones on the floor, his voice hoarse.
“This… this is a sign of a hundred ghosts locked in slaughter! There must be a formation here designed to refine a vengeful spirit!”
“So that’s it… that’s it. Evelyn Moore has become a vengeful spirit nourished by a hundred ghosts. When she fully forms into human shape at dawn today, she will kill the primary culprit—Miss Isabella Moore!”
At his words, my parents’ expressions darkened.
My sister’s lower body suddenly tore apart, expelling a string of blood bubbles.
Looking closely, each bubble bore human-like facial features.
“Ah—Evelyn, little sister, please let me go! If I give birth to ninety-nine children, I won’t survive! I was wrong, I was wrong…”
She trembled with hysteria, her eyes darting wildly.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Don’t haunt me. Since you’re dead, let go of this world—I’ll take care of our parents and Adrian, you can rest in peace.”
Hovering in midair, I felt nothing but bitter irony.
After hearing the prophecy, my parents decided my sister was the blessed daughter who would protect the family, pampering her like a princess.
To them, I was the drought demon who would ruin the Moores—a curse they despised to their core.
They pored over dictionaries to give my sister the perfect name, Isabella Moore.
Mine, Evelyn Moore, was meant to erase and conceal all traces—“to go away.”
No one in the Moore family ever wanted me to exist.
While my sister rode in luxury cars to elite private schools, I was locked in a cramped storage space under the stairs, never seeing the light of day.
I wasn’t even allowed the chance to learn to read.
From childhood, whenever business took a downturn, my parents would beat me until I vomited blood.
To show their devotion to “eliminating the curse,” I was never given medical treatment.
My right wrist was left permanently crippled.
I never thought I’d live to twenty, much less that the Lancaster family would specifically request me to treat Adrian Lancaster’s illness.
It was only after meeting Adrian that I learned life could be different.
He taught me to write, to use a smartphone, and even promised to take me traveling around the world.
I still remember—the day Adrian stood up on his own was the same day I found out I was pregnant.
Overjoyed, he proposed to me.
“Evelyn, having you in this life is a blessing I earned over three lifetimes. Give me a chance to defy fate for you.”
He went directly to my parents to propose, swiftly moving my household registration out of the Moore family.
He said he wanted to build a small home just for the two of us.
I believed him completely.
Until, ten years later, when we met again—he and my sister were celebrating yet another annual wedding, honoring their “true love.”
Even if Adrian had once loved me to the bone, even if he had risked his life for me three times,
ten years was enough to wash away any love.
He gave my sister a child,
and forgot the two unborn children from ten years ago.
By the time I returned to my senses, the others had already cleared away the debris.
The bones lay cold, falling to the floor in a heap like a mountain.
Seeing the scene, everyone’s pupils shrank sharply.
“What is this? How could it be so sinister?”
The bones on the ground were arranged in a bizarre pattern,
as if a hundred ghosts were hunting a single victim.
At the very center, a formation was painted in pitch-black blood.
At the sight of it, my parents panicked.
“We personally inspected the cruise ship and saw no such formation! And these bones…”
Master Gregory drew in a sharp breath and hurried to leave.
