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Chapter 155

Bagot hung up the call from Mae’s agent and let out an exasperated sigh, his face etched with lines of worry.

The fact that Mae had secreted away a found Ruby Bracelet would typically be a big deal in the entertainment industry.

After all, behind the glitz and glamour, the entertainment industry was a masquerade ball where everyone knew the dance.

But to the fans and the ever–watchful public, Mae’s little indiscretion might as well have been a scandal of epic proportions.

This could’ve been just another blip on the radar, but what really baked Bagot’s noodle was Mae’s obstinance. She had screwed up, sure, but instead of owning it, she had the nerve to play the blame game.

And now, asking for help to clean up the mess, Bagot couldn’t bring himself to even broach the subject.

Ruffling his hair in frustration, Bagot decided to bypass Winnie and went straight to Mervin and Gentry.

“This Ruby Bracelet debacle is stopping the show dead in its tracks. Master Mervin, Gentry, you guys got any tricks up your sleeve to deal with this trinket?”

Mae, upon hearing Bagot speak, instinctively thought of Winnie as the fixer, but remembering the blunt brush–off she’d just received, she turned her hopeful gaze to Mervin and Gentry.

Even if it cost her a few years off her life, she wasn’t ready to let her youth be stolen away. She was terrified of growing old before her time.

Gentry, faced with Mae’s pleading eyes, wanted to swoop in and save the day, but he knew his limitations and had to admit, with a heavy heart, “Mae, I’d love to help, but when it comes to borrowing life, or in this case, borrowing your looks, from the ether, that’s not really my wheelhouse, sorry.”

He sounded genuine, and Mae didn’t push further, instead turning to Mervin.

Mervin, with a solemn expression, confessed, “Ordinary methods of borrowing life are within my grasp, but this, filling lost belongings with ashes to borrow looks? That’s new to me, and I can’t quite wrap my head around it.”

After all, borrowing life, fortune, or looks was meant for the living.

Especially for those on death’s door, who seek to exchange someone else’s life force for a chance to continue their own.

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was no longer

life. It was

on Mervin as her second hope, but hearing

it your talisman that burned that thing to at crisp yesterday? Just whip up a more potent charm, will you?”

reeked of layman’s

she imagined, and besides, yesterday’s Exorcism. Charm worked because Winnie channeled her own spiritual energy into

that time. Mae’s bond with the bracelet was weak, making it easy to

had already lost five years of her youth, and with the Ruby Bracelet back on her wrist, it indicated that the

the force was human or spectral.

a deeper understanding of these matters. Can you shed

asked, she would’ve ignored her, but

ritual called ‘possession by proxy“?”

at her hint, “You mean to

bodies. It’s akin to reincarnation through another’s body, but rather than overt possession which is easily

their past, future, and kin. Faces are like

spirit begins by consuming the host’s appearance. Once everyone adjusts to the idea that they’re ‘changing.‘ the spirit gradually alters their looks, then their habits, speech, preferences. and

transformed, that’s when the possession

room fell silent, everyone

after she finished her explanation, then it

sounds terrifying. Do such

knows so much, and it doesn’t

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