Taboo Mage - Chapter 90 - Falsely Reported Case

I crawled out of bed, still feeling a buzzing in my head.

“Awake?”

Jue Chi entered the room, smiling warmly when he saw me, and handed me a packed lunch. Coincidentally, my stomach growled a few times, and I truly felt a bit hungry.

I quickly unwrapped the lunch and started eating voraciously, asking Jue Chi, “I remember you told me I experienced a backlash after I passed out. Is that right?”

“Yes,” Jue Chi nodded and said, “Your symptoms indeed indicate a backlash. He specifically mentioned it before leaving.”

Hearing Jue Chi’s words, I nodded in understanding. I knew well who he was referring to, though I hadn’t realized that before he left, he had even made some plans for my future.

However, since it was confirmed that I was affected by a backlash from a life amulet, things would be easier to manage.

Ever since my Yin Energy was dispelled, I had been very careful in controlling the creation of life amulets and had never experienced a backlash before.

But this time, the unexpected backlash could only have one explanation: there was an issue with the life amulet made for the glasses-wearing man’s wife.

I shared my thoughts with Jue Chi, who nodded in agreement.

The situation was more complicated than expected. If I couldn’t resolve the backlash, I wouldn’t be able to continue making life amulets, and I couldn’t uphold my agreement with Chi Rui.

That glasses-wearing man!

Now, whenever I thought of his face, I felt an urge to tie him up and give him a good beating to vent my anger.

Damn it! How dared he deceive me!

The immediate priority was to find the glasses-wearing man and figure out what he intended to do with the life amulet, as only then could I find the cause of the life amulet’s backlash.

“Qingshu, have you noticed something?” Jue Chi sat on the sofa, deep in thought as he listened to me. After a while, he suddenly looked up at me and asked in a serious tone.

I shook my head in confusion, “What do you mean?”

“The man who took the life amulet, do you know his name?” Jue Chi stared at me intently.

I opened my mouth, quickly searching through my memories, but to my surprise, I realized that we had spent three days together with the glasses-wearing man, side by side, and later, after a chance encounter, another two days.

However, apart from knowing the little girl was named Bai Wei, we didn’t know the name of the glasses-wearing man or his wife at all.

At this thought, a chill ran down my spine.

This person… the more I think about it, the stranger it seems…

“I… monk, we…”

“That glasses-wearing man never once showed his true self to us.”

Jue Chi’s lips curled into a smile as the bracelet in his hand spun faster and faster.

The hotel room suddenly fell into an eerie silence. I clutched the spoon in my hand, stunned on the sofa, trying to recall any details about the glasses-wearing man’s appearance or any impression he had left on me.

But to my further astonishment, apart from those glasses, I couldn’t remember a single thing about him…

Jue Chi sighed softly, holding the bracelet in his hand, and said quietly, “Qingshu, I think we’ve been deceived.”

Is there any need to think about it? That’s blatantly obvious!

An unnamed fury rose in my chest. I shut my eyes tightly and after a long fight to control it, I finally hurled the spoon toward the pristine white wall.

“Damn it! That bastard!”

“Alright, getting angry won’t help now. Let’s figure out the best way to find him.”

Jue Chi looked at me with a calm gaze, his tone still gentle.

It took me five minutes of deep breathing to barely stabilize my emotions. I sat back on the sofa, discussing the situation regarding the glasses-wearing man with Jue Chi.

However, after recalling everything for a while, we realized that besides the glasses and the girl named Bai Wei, we had no clues at all.

Suddenly, an image of a white car flashed in my mind. I quickly pulled out my phone and opened the photo album. Sure enough, there was a picture quietly lying there.

Excitedly, I showed the photo to Jue Chi. “It’s a good thing I was cautious and took a picture of his license plate, worried he might be trouble. By the way, wasn’t his daughter supposed to have autism? They came to Shenyang to see a doctor, and from the sound of it, this doctor is probably quite famous. Maybe we can start our search from there.”

Jue Chi nodded, “That’s possible, but I doubt his story about Bai Wei is true.”

I opened my mouth and then, feeling deflated, tossed my phone onto the sofa.

Indeed, if his intention was to deceive me into giving him the fertility amulet, then anything he said to me could likely be false.

“No wonder the child seemed so lively and adorable-not a hint of autism,” I said with a wry smile, shaking my head.

After discussing further, Jue Chi and I went to the police station that afternoon to file a report, claiming we encountered a rogue taxi driver who tried to extort us.

To speed up locating the glasses-wearing man, I even shamelessly sought help from Mr. Cao. As it happened, Mr. Cao’s university friend was the deputy chief at the Shenyang branch, which made our filing process smoother.

After filing the report that afternoon, a junior officer came to take our statement. I narrated the story we had prepared, emphasizing the fact that the glasses-wearing man was truly nefarious and that the police shouldn’t be deceived by his gentlemanly exterior.

Halfway through taking the statement, the young officer suddenly put down his pen, gave me a deep look, and excused himself, saying he needed to step out.

Confused, I waited, wondering if my story had any flaws.

When the officer returned, he was accompanied by an older-looking policeman. Upon seeing Jue Chi and me, the older officer sat down directly and tossed a photograph on the table.

“Take a look. Is this the con man you were talking about?”

I glanced skeptically at the photo on the table, and when I saw the person in the photograph, my eyes widened in surprise.

“Damn! That’s him!”

The man in the photograph was indeed the glasses-wearing man.

However, unlike before, he wasn’t wearing glasses, and his hair was disheveled, with fierce eyes-not a trace of the refined look he once had.