Jiang Muyao pulled out a piece of yellow paper from her bag, quickly wrote a few lines, and pushed it in front of her:
"Go home tonight and prepare three things: half a bowl of raw glutinous rice, the socks you've worn for three days, and the hair you combed this morning."
"Can this... break that life-borrowing spell?"
"First, cut off your connection with the caster." Jiang Muyao explained.
"Tonight at 11 o'clock, put these three things in a red envelope, take them to the crossroads and burn them.
Remember, when burning, you must recite 'Everyone returns to their place, and we cannot return once we have borrowed this road.'"
Pei Haoyu interrupted: "Do you need me to drive her?"
"If you follow me, you'll attract attention."
Jiang Muyao glanced at her blue nails and said, "Go home immediately after the burning. Don't look back if anyone calls you on the road."
*
At 10:50 in the evening, Tao Xiaoxiao stood at the nearest intersection to her home.
In his hand, he tightly grasped a red envelope filled with three things.
There was no one on the road, and the halo of the street lamp cast her long shadow on the ground.
Her palms were sweaty and she stared at the time on her phone.
When the time came, she squatted down and lit the red envelope with a lighter.
Just as the flames started to rise, a sudden gust of cold wind blew, and the flames suddenly jumped higher, almost burning her fingers.
Tao Xiaoxiao quickly took two steps back and whispered, "Everyone return to your positions. I'm not going back..."
Just then, there was a sudden brake sound from across the road.
She looked up and saw a man in a raincoat getting out of the car and rushing towards her.
Only a bluish-gray face was revealed under the brim of the hat, and his eyes were fixed on the red envelope in her hand.
Tao Xiaoxiao was so frightened that her whole body froze and the red envelope in her hand almost fell to the ground.
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