It's Love That Blinds Him
It’s Love That Blinds Him – Chapter 71

Sophia returned to X City. Maybe it was because of the ghost stories she had heard about, or because of the city’s breathtaking scenery, but she immediately fell in love with the place. Of course, it was also because of the strange family she had finally zoned into after two years of thinking about it.

Sophia had no other special hobbies in her life. She enjoyed engaging in professional archaeology, studying corpses, arranging and arranging antiquities, all while getting her hands dirty in the process. His greatest interest in life was anything to do with ghosts and gods. In his eyes, X City held many mysteries that could not be explained by science.

Sophia shared the same interests as her eldest, Lorenzo. While digging monuments at historical sites with her teacher in Europe, she had often found herself fascinated by his stories of vampires, witches, and other similar folklore. One of the stories his teacher had told him was about an ancient family of witches in X City that had suddenly died out a hundred years ago.

For some reason, Sophia was intrigued by this particular story.

After finishing this archeology project, she came to X City alone and started exploring. Coincidentally, she had met Lorenzo there, who was also pursuing the same mystery. The two quickly became partners and remained in X City for a long time.

Usually when there was a local legend, at least the older people of the place would have heard of it. However, whenever she mentioned this certain family of witches to the people she met, they would stare at her with strange expressions. She bet those elders knew something but didn’t want to tell her.

But by nature, Sophia was persistent and she didn’t want to give up so easily. For an archaeologist, this was an essential quality. Usually, it was when one decided to give up that a miracle would happen. In this way, Sophia and Lorenzo ended up staying in X City for almost two years. Every day after their normal work, they spent time looking for clues about the witch family. They carefully followed the end of a lead they had and spoke to various elderly people in nearby villages to improve their relationship with them. “Sir, please tell me this story.

Come on, I’ve been here so long. It’s okay to tell me the story, right?” Sophia said to the old man in front of her with a local accent, acting like a spoiled child.

Sometimes Sophia wanted to laugh at herself. After living in X City for two years and exploring every inch of the place, she finally discovered that the witch’s birthplace was F Town. All she could think to console herself was that even if she hadn’t figured out the mystery and came back disappointed, she had at least learned the dialect of X City.

“Sophia, it’s been so long but you still haven’t given up. We may not recognize our own grandchildren, but we recognize you,” the old man teased.

F Town had slowly developed into a tourist area. Many people had left the old city and were living in nearby villages. Older people preferred to live in villages, where life was slow and easy. Young people, on the other hand, much prefer to stay in the old town where they run inns, or go to the big cities to earn money. For some elderly people living here, it has been years since they last saw their children, let alone their grandchildren. Therefore, talking to Sophia, who came to see them every day, became a part of their daily life that they looked forward to. Needless to say, they all remembered Sophia, the big city girl.

“That’s right. You all know me so well, so why don’t you tell me the story? You’re not funny,” Sophia muttered, acting like a spoiled child.

“Sophia, the family you want to know about is cursed. None of us want to talk about it because we’re also afraid of being cursed,” the old man finally said with a deep sigh.

“Cursed? What do you mean?” This was the furthest Sophia had gone in her quest to learn more about this family so far, so she could barely contain the excitement she felt.

“If you go to the innermost part of the village and walk to the edge of the cliff, you will see a stone tablet. This stone tablet marks the spot where a young witch jumped to her death. It is said that “she fell in love with a man who ended up betraying her. As a result, she jumped off the cliff, sacrificing her own life to place a curse on the young man’s family. According to her curse, the man will not would have no descendants and his lineage would end. Later, a shaman removed the grudge spirit and found a way to reverse the curse. He said that every eldest male member of each generation of the youngster’s family man should marry a woman born on the most positive day and have a son before the age of 35. Otherwise, the whole family would have no descendants. »

The old man remembered the legends he had heard from his ancestors while smoking his pipe. Perhaps because of their deep-rooted beliefs and the warnings of their ancestors, the people of this village firmly believed that the curse was not something to be easily discussed. Once their entire generation has passed away, there might come a day when no living person would be aware of the story anymore.

“Was this witch who cast the spell also from this village? Sophia asked curiously.

“No. She was from another place. But that’s just a story. I don’t know if that has anything to do with what you’re asking.” The old man waved his hand, indicating that he was not willing to continue talking about this topic any further.

“Thank you sir. I’ll go take a look at this stone tablet,” Sophia said happily.

She took out her phone and called Lorenzo, who was looking for ancient corpses nearby. Of course, they weren’t just staying here for their personal hobby, but also to excavate the ancient tomb that had been excavated recently. After receiving the phone call, Lorenzo soon appeared in front of Sophia. They both walked excitedly to the cliff that the old man had spoke.

“Sophia, are you sure the old man didn’t deceive you with a made-up story? How can there be a cliff in the middle of all this grass?” Lorenzo couldn’t help but express his doubts as he cut the grass with his sickle to create a path in front of them.

The grass was almost as tall as human beings. If they couldn’t replace the cliff in time, they might end up falling by accident.

“I don’t know, but there’s no harm in looking. What if it’s true?” Sophia remarked angrily.

Resigning himself to his fate with a sigh, Lorenzo continued cutting the weeds in front of him. It was only after a long time, when there were no more weeds in front of them, that the cliff mentioned by the old man came into view. After testing the path in front of her with her feet and making sure it wouldn’t collapse, Sophia stepped forward. The path came to a dead end that really looked down into what seemed like a bottomless abyss.

“Wow, the scenery here is so beautiful, and even the air is so fresh. Why would she choose such a place to fall to her death?” Lorenzo complained, shaking his head.

“Hurry up. Look, there really is a stone tablet there! The old man didn’t lie to me,” Sophia said excitedly, quickening her pace.

The two walk towards the stone tablet together. Although the stone tablet had not been kept here for so long, the inscription on it had disappeared after being exposed to the sun and strong winds. It would take time to restore it.

“What should we do? If we just take pictures, we might not be able to analyze it accurately. But if we bring the tablet back, we might get in trouble,” Lorenzo said, frowning as he thought. .

“Let’s just take pictures. We can try to capture all the details as much as possible,” Sophia suggested.

Then, she bent down to clean the dirt and dust deposited on the surface of the stone tablet. Lorenzo took the responsibility of taking photos of each detail of the stone tablet. It was not until sunset that they finished taking photos and retreated back along the path from which they had come. Now that they had obtained the photos, they had to decipher the faded inscription on the stone tablet. By doing this, they should be able to understand the end of the whole story.

But somehow, Sophia felt that things weren’t right. were not so simple. She had the feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn’t put her finger on it.

Referring to the photos that Lorenzo had taken, Sophia worked day and night to make a copy of the text on paper .For the words that were still readable, she just copied them. But for the half-erased words, she had to guess them based on the context. After a while, she managed to reproduce most of the inscription on the stone tablet. Although she was unable to copy it word for word, she could at least guess the general meaning.

When she finally put it all together and translated it, her expression changed. ‘What a coincidence…’ She looked at the translated text with her lips parted in awe, feeling stunned..

The first part of the text, which had been engraved on the stone with the witch’s b***d, gave a rough introduction to her family background. She came from a powerful family of witches. However, they were rejected by the world. The witch’s name was Cherry, and she was the most powerful person in her family for hundreds of years. According to a prophecy, it was she who would bring prosperity to her family, but unfortunately, she also had an insurmountable barrier to face.

The next part of the text roughly described the love between her and the young man, and how it quickly turned into hatred. That wasn’t what surprised Sophia; what surprised her was that the young man’s last name was Evans. The first thing that came to his mind was the wealthy Evans family. But she quickly pushed the thought to the back of her mind and continued reading the story.

In the end, the witch registered with strong resentment that the young man had betrayed her. Then, jumping off the cliff, she cast a curse with her life and b***d so that the Evans family would have no descendants.

Sophia couldn’t even begin to imagine the amount of resentment the witch must have had to make such a decision. After all, the text she had read so far only mentioned their love story in passing, and she could not understand how deep the witch’s grudge ran. As she continued reading the translated text below, she found that the protagonist of the story had changed. Cherry’s death was followed by the death of her entire family, and that’s how her story ended.

However, the text continued with words that had been engraved by another person. There was no record of this person’s last name or background. According to the text, this person had used his spiritual power to suppress the grudge spirits of the witch family, but could not replace a way to completely get rid of the death curse. Still, he could at least offer the Evans family a glimmer of hope. With his spiritual power, he came up with a solution that could defeat the curse in every generation. As long as each eldest male member of each generation of the Evans family married a woman born on the most positive day and had a son before the age of 35, the family line would continue. Otherwise, the family would have no descendants.

There were also some faded words in the middle that Sophia wasn’t able to decipher no matter how hard she tried. So in the end, she could only come to a rough conclusion.

According to Lucia’s lunar birthday, she was born on the most positive day. And Malcolm’s last name was Evans. It was too much of a coincidence for Sophia to ignore. Moreover, the Evans family was such a powerful family. Why did Malcolm harass Lucia just because of a one-night stand? No matter how attractive Lucia was, it made no sense for Malcolm to bet his marriage on it.

Sophia wanted to call Lucia, but after some thought, she decided to call her brother first. Zack was Malcolm’s classmate. They weren’t very close, but they at least knew each other.

“Zack, it’s me,” Sophia spoke.

“Sophia, why are you calling at this time? Is something wrong?” Zack, who was still a little sleepy, calmed down as soon as he heard his sister’s voice.

“Hey, don’t you have anything good to say?” Which woman are you flirting with these days? Quickly replace me a sister-in-law,” Sophia called.

“Did you call just to tease me? Zack asked, raising his eyebrows.

After all, Sophia rarely called him. At most she would send him a message to informing her that she was safe after arriving at a location. They had so little contact that sometimes Zack wondered if he had just imagined he had a sister. As she had called him out of the blue suddenly in the middle of the night, Zack was sure things weren’t as simple as she tried to make them out to be.

“No, I want to ask you something about Malcolm,” Sophia said abruptly, going straight to the goal.

Zack fell into silence. After a long moment, he asked flatly, “Why are you interested in him?

“You already know what I’m going to ask you, right? Sophia asked confused

. I don’t know him very well. I have heard of the legend that Malcolm must marry a wife and have a son before the age of 35. As for the reason, I don’t know,” Zack explained.

“Okay, it’s okay. I have to hang up now.” Sophia hurriedly disconnected the call without saying anything else.

Looking at the translated text in front of her, she frowned. After standing still for a long time, she picked up the phone and called Lucia This phone call is what led to the chaos that followed.