A Fortune-telling Princess - Chapter 336

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“Cheon Bosal! It’s been so long!”
“Yes, Miss.”
Mari Choi greeted Cheon Bosal with a radiant smile.
“You’ve heard, haven’t you? I had a terrible accident not long ago.”
But her expression quickly shifted to one of distress as she pointed to a faint scar lingering on her forehead.
“See this? It hurt so much!”
“Yes, I heard about the accident.”
“I nearly died, I’m telling you.”
When Cheon Bosal offered little response, Mari pouted and began to whine. Her mother, Lee Suyeon, gently patted her daughter’s hand to soothe her.
“It seems the Cheon Bosal talisman isn’t very effective anymore.”
Lee Suyeon’s voice was as beautiful as her appearance—the kind that naturally lifted the spirits of those who heard it.
“It’s unfortunate, considering we only just replaced the talisman.”
A gentle smile never left her lips, yet the overall atmosphere she projected was decidedly cold. Her gaze toward Cheon Bosal was equally frigid.
“I apologize.”
“So then, what should we do now? I need a solution, not an apology.”
“You must now act on what I mentioned before.”
….
Lee Suyeon’s gaze slowly shifted toward Chairman Choi. Mari’s eyes followed suit.
Both of them already understood perfectly well what alternative method Cheon Bosal was referring to.
“We transfer the curse that Mari would receive to someone else.”
“Someone else….”
The method Cheon Bosal proposed was simpler than expected. All it required was having another person bear the curse that should have fallen upon the daughter.
In other words, all the suffering and accidents meant for the daughter would be transferred to that person instead.
“Dear.”
Lee Suyeon regarded Chairman Choi quietly. He was the one delaying the decision on this matter.
It should have been done long ago, but Cheon Bosal had been warning them for months that they couldn’t wait any longer.
Even before the Film Set accident, minor incidents had been occurring without pause.
Objects around the child would shatter for no reason, or the car she rode in would suffer minor collisions.
“Hmm.”
Yet Chairman Choi still couldn’t bring himself to make the decision. Transfer the curse to someone else? Something about it felt unsettling.
It was certainly something he should do to save his daughter, but what if this were to become public knowledge?
‘Can this really be handled quietly?’
Something kept nagging at him, leaving him deeply uneasy.
In business, whenever he felt this way, problems inevitably arose nine times out of ten.
“Dad… I really almost died.”
Mari’s voice trembled with tears. Here she was, nearly dead, and he was still hesitating? She looked at her father with eyes tinged with resentment.
“…Very well.”
Seeing his daughter’s glistening tears, Chairman Choi finally made his decision.
The moment Chairman Choi gave his approval, a brilliant smile bloomed across Mari’s face.
She would finally be free from this wretched curse!
“So, how should we find this person?”
Now the problem was finding the right candidate. Someone who could receive all the benefits that should have gone to Mari in her stead. This wasn’t a decision to be made carelessly.
“Someone around Mari’s age would be ideal. It would be even better if they were the same gender and similar in years.”
“I know someone!”
Before Cheon Bosal could even finish speaking, Mari cried out loudly. Her eyes curved beautifully with delight, and her smile deepened.
“I know exactly the right girl.”
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“Camilla!”
A girl came running from a distance—it was Yeeun. She had come to the Film Set because Sia had asked her to come along, and Yeeun was here as well.
“When did you come back to Korea? You didn’t even contact me!”
Though they had met only once before when Camilla visited her home, Yeeun still remembered her and hadn’t forgotten.
“Have you been well?”
“Yes!”
Yeeun had grown noticeably taller since they last met.
‘She must be in her second year of middle school now.’
Gone were the chubby, adorable cheeks; now she radiated a distinctly youthful charm.
“Is the role you took on this time a neighborhood child?”
“Yes!”
Yeeun’s character was a girl who couldn’t leave abandoned animals alone and constantly took injured creatures to the animal hospital, scraping together whatever allowance she had.
“Grandmother wanted to see you again too.”
As they chatted about various things, Yeeun grinned and shared news about her grandmother.
“Me? Why?”
“She wants to thank you.”
After Camilla’s visit to their home, her grandmother’s back pain had vanished as if by magic.
Yeeun’s grandmother attributed it entirely to the acupressure treatment Camilla had given her, and she brought up Camilla’s name constantly.
‘Tell her I’m truly grateful. Your grandmother wants to treat you to a meal.’
‘Grandmother, would you go get a dementia screening with me tomorrow?’
‘What? Where is this nonsense coming from all of a sudden?’
‘Camilla isn’t in Korea anymore. I’ve told you several times. She went back to her own country.’
‘Still… anyway, make sure to tell her when you see her next.’
‘Ugh, fine.’
“How is Grandmother doing?”
“She’s well! She’s being so stubborn about going back to work.”
Yeeun was actively trying to discourage her from returning to her cleaning job.
“What if she hurts her back again?”
“That’s what I keep saying.”
Yeeun chattered endlessly to Camilla like someone greeting an old acquaintance they hadn’t seen in ages.
“Our Yeeun seems happier to see Camilla than me.”
“Oh, Sia! No matter how many times I see you, you’re always wonderful.”
At their exchange, Sia let out a soft laugh and joined in.
“But Camilla, what brings you here?”
“Just watching.”
Sia was filming a drama with Yeeun, and when she’d asked if I was curious about the current atmosphere on set, I’d decided to stop by. Besides, I was interested in seeing how much their acting had improved.
“Yeeun!”
A figure rushed over.
A girl who appeared to be around the same age came bounding toward Yeeun, linking her arm through hers in a familiar gesture.
Her long, lustrous hair cascaded down her back, and her face was remarkably fair and unblemished. With large, expressive eyes and distinctly defined features, she was undeniably beautiful.
“Mari’s here too.”
“Hello, Senior Sia. I came!”
Sia seemed to know her as well. When I stared at Mari, Sia quickly introduced the girl to me.
“This is Mari Choi. She’s also filming with us this time. And this is my friend, Camilla.”
“Hello!”
At the mention of being Sia’s friend, Mari Choi’s face lit up with a bright smile. She waved cheerfully in greeting, yet never once loosened her grip on Yeeun’s arm.
“….”
I studied Mari Choi intently.
“Hmm… I guess you don’t understand Korean. You won’t even greet me back.”
When I offered no response, Mari’s expression quickly fell.
‘Camilla?’
Both Sia and Yeeun found my behavior strange as I continued to stare at Mari without any reaction.
‘What’s wrong with her?’
While I could be aloof and sharp-tongued, I was never one to dismiss or treat someone carelessly. So why Mari?
“We’re starting filming!”
At that moment, a staff member’s voice announced the beginning of shooting.
“Ah, then we’ll be going.”
“See you later, Camilla.”
The three of them hurried away toward the filming location.
“…What is this?”
After the three departed, I remained alone, my gaze still fixed on one person.
“That girl….”
…Why is she carrying around a malevolent spirit like a companion?
The moment I saw Mari Choi, I could immediately sense the malevolent spirit clinging to her side.
‘Of course, people can carry malevolent spirits.’
I’d seen such cases before. But there was something distinctly odd about this spirit.
‘It feels like it’s protecting the host instead?’
…The two seemed like a perfectly matched pair.
Normally, when a malevolent spirit fixes on a target, it becomes obsessed with consuming them. It clings tightly, draining their vitality while causing all manner of misfortune.
‘Only by letting the host suffer and die miserably can it consume their soul as well.’
Yet this one was ignoring its host and focusing its attention elsewhere instead.
‘If it acts like this, it’s not the host who suffers—it’s the people around her.’
The pain meant for the host gets distributed among those nearby instead.
Moreover….
‘It looks like that evil spirit is trying to transfer hosts.’
The malevolent entity wasn’t showing particular interest in Mari Choi—it was fixating on Yeeun instead.
The evil spirit’s aura was gradually, ever so subtly, drifting toward Yeeun.
“Tch.”
What kind of situation is this now?
Camilla’s brow furrowed slightly as she watched the three of them enter the Film Set.

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