True Tycoon Her Empire, Her Rules

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.

bound with hair or nails.

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lender was no longer among the living.

life. It was something else entirely.

hope, but hearing him admit

it out? Wasn’t it your talisman that burned that thing to at crisp yesterday? Just whip up a more potent charm,

reeked of

as easy as she imagined, and besides, yesterday’s Exorcism. Charm

Mae’s bond with the bracelet was weak, making it easy

Bracelet back

the force was

a deeper understanding

asked, she would’ve ignored her, but since Mervin had inquired, she obliged.

a ritual called ‘possession by proxy“?”

at her hint, “You mean to say…”

while the dead seize possession of living bodies. It’s akin to reincarnation through

often tell you about their past, future, and

adjusts to the idea that they’re ‘changing.‘ the spirit gradually alters their looks, then

is entirely transformed, that’s when

silent, everyone hanging on Winnie’s words.

silence until after she finished her explanation, then it

such dark arts really

it doesn’t seem made up

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