Cursed Mansion [Completed]

17. The ritual...

tension rises as plans are set in place to perform the ritual to exorcise ziyi.

yibo gaze in dismay at the lin after what he just divulged.

"we'll need to perform a ritual. we must burn the possessed one." said the lin.

"you mean ziyi must be burned... alive?!" said yibo.

"yes. it is the only way, i fear." said the lin.

"absolutely not!" said yibo.

he gaze very fiercely at the lin.

"that would never happen, not when i'm here! there must be another way, right?!" asked yibo.

the lin grins toothily again.

"i'm afraid, boy, that i cannot help you in another way. ziyi must be exorcised by burning." said the lin.

"NO! i can't accept this, zhan? lord wei ying?" asked yibo.

lord wei ying looks away.

"i'm sorry yibo." said wei ying.

zhan holds yibo's shoulder.

"yibo, it must be miserable for ziyi to be trapped as a walking dead. that's the only way we can set ziyi free." said zhan.

"i know. i just can't let her go like that." said yibo.

his sorrow quickly turns into anger, and he turn to the lin.

"it's you. this is all because of you." said yibo.

yibo cover his face in his hands and let out a loud, bitter wail of despair.

'is there no hope for ziyi?? i feel very helpless!' thinks yibo.

"lin, there must be another way. there has to be something else that can be done to ziyi." said zhan.

zhan's tone of voice reveals that he is deeply affected by yibo's distraught state.

"perhaps, there is another way..." said the lin.

"i hope it doesn't involve ziyi dying." said wei ying.

lord wei ying glances exasperatedly at the lin, annoyed at him having upset yibo.

"we'll have to make a trap first, then we'll see..." said the lin.

"hnngh...!" said qiren.

"we'll have to go to the mansion to make the trap." said the lin.

"then what are we waiting for? it'll soon be dawn." said zhan.

yibo gaze out the window and see the sky gradually becoming bright.

yibo enter his room, exhausted by the night's events.

'i'm terribly tired but i cannot rest until ziyi is good and well.' thinks yibo.

he's walking down along the corridors of wei mansion, lost in thought.

'i hope ziyi will be free. i pray she will get rid of lan zhan's ghost. i will do all in my power to make sure she lives after this.' thinks yibo.

some servants hurry past him by the corridor, hastening to their various tasks. yibo is reminded of the previous night's events.

'zhan behaved churlishly towards me last night. he was deeply hurt by my romantic involvement with lord wei ying. i need to clear things up with him. i can;t leave things between him and me this way. i don't know what will happen after the exorcising. but first, i must deal with something important before that. i ought to go to the trap door.' thinks yibo.