The King of Curses

Chapter 185 Patient
"Hello, aunt."

Jiang Yunmei came up to the lady and greeted her with a smile.

"Oh, it's Yunmei."

Jiang Huijun stopped talking, turned to look at the girl and smiled gently.

"Are you here to visit Grandpa?"

“I’m here to help…”

"Help? There are so many people here, what can you help with?"

Jiang Huijun looked at her, then looked at the Jiang family members who surrounded the ward in three layers and three layers, and soon understood what was going on. She said unhappily:

"I think someone saw you studying alone in Tianhai City and thought you were easy to order around. You are not young anymore, but you find it easy to order around younger people. You really have no shame."

She is considered a core member of the family, but she can't stand this the most.

"I'll talk to them for you. You're still studying, why waste your time on this kind of thing?"

"It's okay, aunt." Jiang Yunmei smiled, "It's good for me to show my filial piety here."

Her reason was simple.

Things have been quite uneasy for the Jiang family lately.

It’s not that she hasn’t thought about escaping, but as long as she is in Tianhai and is a member of the Jiang family, she will inevitably be sucked into the family vortex...

It was no use just running away. Her parents were marginalized in the family, so if she wanted to know the inside story, she could only rely on herself.

Jiang Huijun was about to say something but stopped herself. At this moment, the phone in her pocket rang.

"I'm going to answer a call." She glanced at the caller ID on her phone and hurried to the corner, "Xiaoqin, Xiaoqi, you guys chat with your sister for a while."

……

"Sister Yunmei."

"Sister Yunmei, we haven't seen each other for a long time."

"Yes, I think the last time I saw him was during the Spring Festival party at the mansion."

Jiang Qin and Jiang Qi are both very enthusiastic.

Jiang Yunmei's family had conflicts with the clan in the early years, so they faded out of the core circle, but they maintained a good relationship with Jiang Huijun's family and always had contacts. So she had a good relationship with the brother and sister, and was considered the best among the younger generation.

"How is Tianhai University? I heard that Sister Yunmei is now the president of the student union."

Jiang Qi, who had just entered college, sighed, his tone sounding both envious and lost.

"I didn't perform well in the college entrance examination last year and was severely scolded by my parents."

"Not bad. In fact, college is not the most important thing. Personal efforts are more important. You can't slack off after entering college. I remember you went to Tiannan University, right? Isn't that a good university too?"

"That's what I said..."

"It's okay. Next year I will go to Tianhai University to meet Sister Yunmei in place of my brother. Then I can call you 'senior sister'."

Jiang Qin, who was standing by, patted her chest and acted very confident. When her brother glared at her, she glared back without fear.

Watching the interaction between the brother and sister, Jiang Yunmei's expression relaxed. She smiled and joked:
"Haha, by the time you pass the exam, I will have graduated."

"Hey~ Sister Yunmei can continue her postgraduate studies!"

After chatting with them for a while, Jiang Yunmei led the topic towards her interest.

Jiang Huijun's family is at the core of the Jiang family circle. They may have heard about certain situations from their parents recently.

"Do you know that Uncle San wants us to bring friends to Grandpa's birthday party?"

"I know. At first, they wanted us to invite our friends who are curse masters, right?"

"Ah."

The Jiang family is the "middleman" who serves as a bridge between the curse masters and ordinary people. Originally it was just a tradition that has been passed down to this day. After the great changes in the world and the situation, the Jiang family quickly realized the value of this and attached great importance to it.

Jiang Yunmei's gaze unconsciously drifted towards the direction of several of the guests.

The look of self-awareness of superiority and the aura he exudes make it very likely that he is a curse master.

But the problem of the Jiang family is that there is no pillar in the family who can hold up the scene. The younger generations have little potential, and the elders are very anxious.

"Did you find it?"

"Ah."

The brother and sister nodded together.

Compared to her, Jiang Qi, Jiang Qin must have more opportunities to interact with other curse masters.

"Didn't you find Sister Yunmei? I can help introduce her."

"No need." Jiang Yunmei shook her head. "If I had any idea at all, I have given up now."

Her parents have always been brooding over past events; and she happened to meet a very capable junior schoolmate in college, so she really had this idea.

She had offered to help Song Yutang and find the whereabouts of the sorcerer in order to get closer to them.

Of course, she would not force it, she would make everything clear to her friends in advance when discussing. If she could take this opportunity to get to know more curse masters, it wouldn't be a bad thing...

The Jiang family elders want to promote the position of "middleman". They will do whatever it takes to maintain the scene, and will definitely invite many people to come.

But after her grandfather fell ill, Jiang Yunmei quickly realized that something was wrong with the banquet and that her family seemed to have been caught up in some kind of chaotic quagmire.

Even she, a young person who is outside the family affairs, can see it, but those who control the family power, such as the third uncle and the eldest cousin, are always unwilling to tell the truth, and the rest of the members can only live in confusion.

And, in Jiang Yunmei's eyes, the biggest problem is that if an accident really happened, the Jiang family would be completely unable to control the situation.

"Guess what Uncle San and the others are thinking?"

She spoke softly, more like confirming the guess in each other's minds than asking.

"…Are you planning to have us find a spell master to work with? Although Third Uncle and the others introduced me to someone, it seems to me that anyone can do it, as long as they are a spell master."

"So what do you think?"

"Forget it." Jiang Qi shook his head. "I rejected all the blind dates I went on. Although I know a few friends, they... don't meet my standards."

"It's such a new era, and they're still trying to arrange a marriage. It's amazing that they could think of this."

Jiang Qin pouted, her tone very dissatisfied.

……

Young people living in the 21st century naturally cannot accept such an arrangement. Once they hear their parents' orders and matchmakers' words, they will only feel disgusted.

"Yeah, it's really ridiculous. I just came up with it on the spur of the moment..."

Jiang Yunmei agreed.

“I don’t know what these elders are so anxious about.”

"Yeah, they don't really care about us at all. My oldest cousin just said he wanted to introduce me to some men. He doesn't even know I'm still in high school."

The brother and sister complained.

As for Jiang Yunmei, when she confirmed that the younger generation of the Jiang family had encountered similar difficulties, she actually thought of something else;

Different from Jiang Qi and Jiang Qin, two relatively naive young people, she saw more and understood that truly high-level spell-binding masters were essentially not the same species as humans.

They can really act recklessly without being punished, because the price behind it is something that most people in the world cannot afford.

If there really is such a person who wants to "forcefully marry a commoner girl/man" in the Jiang family, not to mention whether the several elders with ulterior motives in the family are willing, the rest of the people can't even resist -

Since the world of curse masters is a society where the strong prey on the weak and the strong are respected, how could the strong be bound by the weak?
No matter what plans the family head and his men had, they would probably not succeed. As curse masters, they were too weak.

"This is not possible..."

Jiang Yunmei thought.

The more she thought about it, the worse it seemed.

She helped schoolgirl Song once, and schoolgirl Song later introduced her to Cen Dongsheng and agreed to attend the Jiang family's banquet... If it could be considered a deal up to this point, but now that she takes them there even though she knows there is something wrong with the Jiang family, that would be harming people.

Besides, with their strength, they don’t have to be afraid of the Jiang family, but the situation may not be the same for all the monsters and demons attracted by their stupid elders.

Jiang Yunmei no longer hesitated. She compiled two text messages and sent them to the master and disciple.

Putting away her phone, she planned to run away.

At this time Jiang Huijun came back and said to her child:
"Xiaoqi, Xiaoqin, let's go now."

Jiang Yunmei stood up quickly:

"Aunt, I've thought about it and I think I should go back to school first. I haven't been back for almost a week."

Jiang Huijun nodded.

"Okay, I'll go and tell it for you."

……

Jiang Yunmei and the brother and sister were waiting in the corridor.

At this time, a fifty-year-old man with a dignified appearance and dressed in a suit and tie approached from the other end of the corridor.

Jiang Huijun stopped, frowned, and looked at the Jiang family members around her who came forward to greet her warmly.

"Is it Uncle San?"

"Didn't he say he was going to the mansion? Why is he back again?"

Jiang Yunmei's heart tightened slightly.

The man called Third Uncle is the one who is in charge of the Jiang family today.

Aunt Jiang Huijun is not afraid of others, but if it is Uncle San——

...No, she thought, I am a nobody in the eyes of my third uncle, he won’t make things difficult for me, right?
"Brother Zhifeng, I took the children away."

"Are you ready to leave now?"

"Yes, Dad's current condition... I'm not too sure..."

Jiang Huijun's voice became low.

"Don't you want to go to the mansion?"

"No, who knows what kind of monsters you've invited? I'm afraid it'll scare the children."

"They are all guests of the Jiang family."

"If you were a guest, you wouldn't make our home so smoky."

"Don't say that. You know I'm doing this for this family... Huijun, you're also a member of it."

"..."

Jiang Huijun shook her head.

"Let's leave the family affairs alone. Don't involve my children. I'll take them back first... Oh, and Brother Wu's daughter as well."

"Him? You mean, Yun Mei...right?"

Uncle San's gaze suddenly turned over here, and after seeing Jiang Yunmei's face, his expression suddenly became strange.

"I'll go talk to her."

……

"Uncle San, I'm ready to go. I have things to do at school."

Jiang Yunmei now just wanted to leave quickly. The girl still had a smile on her face, but her attitude in her words was very firm.

Even if they were going to have a falling out later, she couldn't stay here any longer.

"...I know. You can go back anytime. I can't control you."

Jiang Zhifeng looked at her with a complicated look, which contained a bit of unfathomable surprise, worry, and... deep confusion.

Jiang Yunmei even felt that he was afraid.

What is he afraid of? The girl suspected that she had seen it wrong. He couldn't be afraid of himself, right?

"When did you...get noticed?"

"Being favored? What does that mean?"

Jiang Yunmei blinked.

"...Forget it. You don't have to tell me the reason."

After hesitating for a while, Jiang Zhifeng decided to give a reminder, just in case the child really didn't know what it was.

"Yesterday I attended a very important high-level meeting. The... 'big shot' who presided over the meeting suddenly mentioned your name to me. He said that he had taken a fancy to you and asked us to take good care of you. He also said that he would meet you soon."

"what?"

Surprise and panic filled my heart.

She suddenly thought of a bad possibility and wanted to ask about it, but Jiang Zhifeng was obviously unwilling to talk more about this topic.

"You can leave if you want, or go and tell Grandpa before you leave. Since you have this kind of background, it's normal for you to look down on our family. I will remind others to be careful."

After saying this, Jiang Zhifeng turned around and went into the ward.

……

Jiang Yunmei said goodbye to her aunt's family and sat back on the bench alone.

"This is bad..."

The girl covered her forehead weakly and looked up at the white ceiling of the hospital.

She had always been a nobody in the family, and had never become a curse-master.

Is it still impossible to avoid the result?

The big shot that Uncle San mentioned can only be the Curse Master.

If she were just an ordinary person now, why would she be targeted? The only reason left would be...

Jiang Yunmei stroked her soft cheek.

This is not narcissism, but the experience of being sought after by people since childhood. It has nothing to do with power or status. Extraordinary beauty is a treasure and will also attract people's covetousness.

But she really couldn't think of who this person was for a moment.

Was it because he was spotted by a spell-binding master when he attended a gathering of the Jiang family in the past?
But after realizing the danger of this group of people, Jiang Yunmei has been keeping a distance from her family; after realizing that the Jiang family is not reliable at all, she has never attended any gatherings again. She did this out of consideration of staying away from risks.

"Oh, right, could it be——"

A light bulb went off in Jiang Yunmei's mind, and she found a glimmer of hope.

Among all the spell-forbidden masters she knew, the one she had the closest relationship with was Song Xuemei. Her words... always seemed unlikely, but the man behind her was still possible.

Although they are both college students and two years younger than me, since strength is the most respected in the world of curse masters, maybe there won't be so many considerations.

If it was him, if it was him...

If it was him, would there be any difference?

Jiang Yunmei didn't really want to think in a bad way. Her impression of men was "strange" and "powerful". Maybe... the so-called "liking" meant cultivating me, just like cultivating schoolmate Song.

But then again, Song Xuemei is also very beautiful——

Thinking of this, Jiang Yunmei couldn't help but fall silent.

She put her headphones back on and turned up the volume.

"...Forget it, I'd better stay at home during this period..."

(End of this chapter)