Chapter 1: The Turning Point of Fate

  My name is Ge Dong. Just now, I received a call from my girlfriend's phone, but the one speaking was her best friend. Her best friend told me that my girlfriend of just one month had died. The reason for her death was... she was actually squeezed to death by an elevator in a supermarket and strangled alive.

  When I received such a call, I was completely stunned, I didn't believe it, I didn't think such a situation would happen!

  It's the first day of the second month again!

  It's like this again!

  Damn it! What do you want?!

  I don't believe I'm a jinxed star, I don't believe in any nonsense about being destined for hardship, I don't believe it!!!!!

  At this moment, I'm like a fool, smiling and crying at the same time... Ah! Yes! I am smiling, I'm laughing at my own absurdity. I'm laughing because I've killed another woman I love...

  This isn't the first time my girlfriend has died. What chills me is that my previous two girlfriends also died suddenly like this. They all only spent a short month with me, then on the first day of the second month... an accident happened!

  My first girlfriend died in a car accident, her body was smashed into pieces when she died...

  My second girlfriend died of a high fever in the middle of the night, burning herself to death, her whole body was red and swollen, just like a fire doll.

  Today, my third girlfriend was ridiculously strangled to death by an elevator, and the elevator could actually strangle her! What...is going on?!

  Is it really because I'm worthless and will never get true love?

  I wiped away a tear and stopped thinking about it, hurrying towards the supermarket where my girlfriend had an accident.

  But when they arrived at the supermarket, their girlfriend's body had already been transferred away, leaving only scars around the elevator.

  After that, I tried to see her for the last time, but was blocked by my girlfriend's family members. After all, I had only been in contact with her for a month, and they didn't know me at all. In their eyes, I was just an outsider...

  Back in my own home, apart from feeling sad, I was also scared. Thinking back to when I left the village, an old grandfather from my hometown had warned me that my fate was too hard, with a lonely star and destined for a life of desolation, so he told me not to get involved with any girls, lest I harm someone's daughter. But at the time, I didn't listen, now three people have died, and the timing and manner of their deaths are all so consistent and eerie, this makes me have no choice but to believe him.

  I'm preparing to set off immediately and hurry back home, to humbly ask for advice from that old grandfather who once warned me, what I should do next and if there's a way to break the curse.

  My hometown is an ordinary rural village, my parents are also farmers, and I am a child of a farming family.

  When I returned home, I opened the door and directly asked my parents where that grandfather was now. I said I had an urgent matter to find him. My parents told me that this old man had long since moved away from this village. It is said that in previous years he enclosed a piece of land and built a public cemetery on the north side of the village. After the cemetery was completed, people came to buy graves one after another. It is said that if the dead lived in the cemetery he built, it would guarantee that the next three generations would be prosperous and wealthy.

  I heard that old man went to Beicun, I didn't even have time to eat, and then headed towards Beicun.

  Outside a small wooden hut next to a cemetery at the foot of North Village Mountain, I met that old man again who once said I was a jinx.

  The old man looked well-preserved, not much different from when I first saw him, still wearing very simple clothes, with a goatee beard, and an air of elegance in his every move.

  After I saw him, I affectionately shouted at him: "Old grandpa, do you still remember me? I am Ge Dong, the child of Tianxia Gu Xing that you once mentioned."

  The old man listened and found it was me, then looked at me again, and finally said to me: "Oh! So it's you! What's the matter, coming to find this old man?"

  When he asked me this, I immediately replied: "Old man, you don't know that I didn't listen to your words and successively had three girlfriends. However, all of my three girlfriends died mysteriously on the first day of the second month we were together. You are all-knowing and all-powerful, and when we first met, you said that I have a hard destiny and that I will inevitably harm anyone I get close to. So now that something has happened, I want to ask you for a solution."

  "What's the way to break it? What way to break it? You didn't listen to my advice at first, now what way to break it are you asking for? Besides, don't blame yourself, those three girlfriends of yours were doomed from the start. Heaven has ordained that they will die after midnight, and they absolutely won't live past dawn. Just accept your fate!"

  As soon as the old man said that, I quickly shouted: "Old grandpa, please help me! This time I believe in you, whatever you say is fine, if I don't trust you again, I'll really end up harming more people who love me!"

  As I replied to him, the bright and spirited eyes of the old man in front of me suddenly lit up, and a smile that seemed very strange to me appeared on his face...

  "Really want me to help you? Really believe in me?" The old man asked me.

  "Alright, alright! If I don't believe you now, then I'm just being obstinate. Sir, please show me the way, I'll listen to you!" I respectfully said to the old man.

  Seeing me respond like this, the old man proudly stroked his goatee and smiled with narrowed eyes: "Do you still remember what I told you a long time ago? You are a heavenly calamity, born to be lonely, destined to be desolate for a lifetime."

  I nodded in agreement.

  "But your grandfather knew some tricks, and soon after you were born, he used up the remaining years of his life to reverse your fate, so now you can live in peace with your parents and get along well with your friends!"

  My grandfather? Listening to him say this, I finally understood why on the first and fifteenth of every month, my father would always make me go to our ancestors' graves to kowtow three times to Grandfather, saying that my life was exchanged for Grandfather's sacrifice. At that time, I didn't understand what was going on, but now listening to him say this, I finally have some understanding.

  The old man continued: "Your grandfather named you Ge Dong, Ge Dong, which means the purple air comes from the east. I hope the auspicious cloud of purple air can dilute your evil spirit. Although Ni Tian changed your fate, but you are destined to suffer calamities and specifically oppress women, so I told you before to avoid flirting with women outside."

  "What? What am I supposed to do?" I anxiously looked at the old man in front of me.

  The old man smiled and said: "Your fate can't be changed, but it can be supplemented. Because you lack a marriage destiny in your fate, so you need to supplement your marriage destiny!"

  "What kind of compensation?" I asked.

  Seeing me like this, the old man suddenly smiled and looked at me and said: "Ge Dong, do you have a job in the city?"

  "Oh? You're an advertising planner, what's up?"

  "How much does it earn in a month?"

  "It's about 4,500 yuan." I replied.

  "Is that all the money? Then you might as well follow me and I'll give you 8,000 a month. And I guarantee that after three years, your bad luck will disappear, your evil spirit will be eliminated, and no more women around you will die!"

  "What... what? What did you say? Eight thousand a month? And guarantee that in three years, I won't be killed by the woman next to me? I'm telling you, old man, are you kidding me? Besides, what can I do following you? Help you sell graves?"

  When I asked him like this, the old man burst out laughing and said: "Sell graves? They all beg to buy them. Whether or not to sell depends on my mood. I didn't let you follow me to sell graves, but instead let you help me be a matchmaker for others!"

  "Be a matchmaker? Act as a matchmaker? What does that mean? Let me be the matchmaker?" I was shocked and my mouth was wide open.

  "That's right, matchmaking is originally a good thing and also a happy event. You help others matchmake, naturally you can share the joy and ward off evil spirits. I'd say it's a win-win situation where you can earn money and also ward off your own evil spirits, so are you in or not?"

  "But I won't be a matchmaker, will I? Look at me, I'm not exactly eloquent!"

  "No need to say more, you're just a middleman, passing on messages and whatnot. Speak up, are you willing or not? If you're willing, stay by my side for three years; if not, go play on your own!"

  Seeing the old man speak like this, I thought about it carefully. If I do it, I'll do it. If I don't do well, can't I do badly? Eight thousand a month, this salary is quite high!

  "I've had enough!" I retorted bluntly.

  As soon as I agreed, the old man suddenly seemed to let out a sigh of relief and relaxed completely. Then, he asked me to follow him into the small wooden house, slapped a contract on the table, and had me sign it and leave my fingerprint.

  I didn't even bother to read the details of the contract, I just signed it with a flourish and stamped my seal, considering the task accepted.

  But when I took on this task, I regretted it to death. I was deceived by this old scoundrel! And at the same time, just because I took on this job, my life trajectory has been completely changed... The noble gathering hall is shrouded in dark fate.

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