Chapter 1: 1.第1章 被诅咒的冰棺

Tongcheng Public Mortuary.

It was the season of misty rain in the third month of spring. Although the depths of winter had passed, the damp weather still kept the entire city of Tongcheng shrouded in a biting chill.

In this oppressive atmosphere, the only public mortuary in this thousand-year-old city, located in the western suburbs, appeared exceptionally eerie and terrifying. Even the local commoners, when passing by inadvertently, would instinctively feel a sense of hair-raising dread.

Yet, at this very moment, two people who feared nothing were forced to break in to escape a sudden early spring downpour.

"I heard that the Gu family's Third Young Mistress hasn't been buried yet; she's being kept right here in this mortuary," one of the people seeking shelter suddenly spoke up, perhaps sensing the gloom of the manor behind them.

"The Gu family's Third Young Mistress?"

Upon hearing this, the other person’s face turned deathly pale. "You mean that Third Young Mistress who was killed by Old Madam Gu herself after being possessed by a demon?"

"That’s the one. I heard that because her baleful aura was too heavy, the State Shaman used talismans to lock her in an ice coffin. She has to be kept for three full days before burial, and today happens to be the third day."

No sooner had these words fallen than an extremely mournful and sorrowful wail drifted from somewhere unknown. Accompanied by the torrential rain pouring off the roof, it sounded just like a vengeful spirit drifting from a graveyard in the dead of night. In an instant, the two people standing under the eaves to escape the rain were scared out of their wits, scrambling away from the grim and terrifying manor.

Not long after the two disappeared, a lantern slowly drifted out from the darkest part of the mortuary. At first glance, it looked exactly like a will-o'-the-wisp in the vast darkness.

But that was only for a moment, for immediately after, an elderly woman wearing a white flower and a sorrowful expression appeared within the black-lacquered gates. "You scoundrels, how dare you slander my Young Mistress like that?"

Indeed, this woman was the wet nurse of the Gu family’s newly deceased Third Young Mistress, known as Mama Gui. At this moment, she had come to see her mistress off on her final journey.

Carrying the lantern back into the darkest mortuary room in the manor, the first thing that met her eyes was a transparent coffin covered in bright yellow talismans. Because the talismans were inscribed with cinnabar and human blood, a strong, bone-chilling cold rushed toward her before she could even get close.

"My poor Miss, you were still carrying the Gu family's flesh and blood. How could that Gu Liufeng be so heartless as to watch his grandmother poison you to death?"

Stumbling toward the ice coffin, Mama Gui looked at the female corpse inside with her abdomen heavily distended, and she could no longer control her wailing.

Her Miss, whom she had served since childhood, had been in the Gu family for less than a year. Just as the child in her womb was about to be born, she was suddenly dragged to the Gu family’s ancestral hall by the Old Madam, who shone an Yin-Yang mirror on her, declared her possessed by a demon, and ended her life with a cup of poisoned wine!

Thinking of this, the heartbroken woman reached out to touch the cheek of her Miss in the coffin. But unexpectedly, as she leaned in, several talismans beside her fluttered to the ground. Instantly, the faint red light before her eyes extinguished, and the coffin, which had been wreathed in icy mist just a moment ago, transformed in a flash into a crude, thin wooden casket!

"This is? This is..."

Mama Gui was, after all, just a servant. Seeing this, she released her grip in sheer terror, her eyes looking fearfully toward the mortuary that had suddenly plunged into total darkness.

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