627 The door that could not be opened

Yu Pan, the receptionist has said prayed that she wanted to get engaged and Song Yan waited for the latter to get engaged, for three days consecutively she sent Fang Yanli to monitor that woman whether or not she was proposed to by her boyfriend and after waiting for four days and three nights she was finally able to get the 'good news' from Fang Yanli who told her that the woman has indeed gotten engaged to her boyfriend.

" You are here," Fang Yanli raised her head as she turned to look at Song Yan who was walking towards her while dressed in a black trench coat with completely black attire.

Song Yan nodded and asked whether or not Fang Yanli has seen Yu Pan who walked past this street every night.

Fang Yanli shook her head. As soon as the two of them came to stand in an inconspicuous spot, she started to relay everything that she has seen happening with Yu Pan, " Your guess was as right as it could have been, that woman's boyfriend did propose to her after three days but the thing is that he continued to act as if someone was telling him to do so. He did not seem happy or excited to be engaged with that Yu Pan, it was as if he was just going through the motions."

" For the first two days, everything was fine with Yu Pan but as soon as her wish got fulfilled, some weird things started to happen to her. She almost got run over by a car and then she was attacked by a thief, it can be said that she has been walking on thin ice ever since. What's more this morning when she was on her way to a bakery shop, the signboard  of the bakery shop almost fell on her, she was fortunate that she was pulled back in time or else she would have plummeted to her death."

Fang Yanli paused and then shook her head. " But I don't think that she will be lucky for long, your talisman's effect might be getting reduced, the more she gets attacked the lesser will be the effect of the talisman."

Song Yan has deliberately given that talisman to Yu Pan because she wanted to see whether or not her hunch was right, it turns out that she was indeed right. The portrait in the company did fulfil the wishes of those who prayed in front of it but in return, it took something more precious from them ——

Their lives.

She narrowed her eyes as she turned to look at the other end of the street and frowned when she did not see Yu Pan who was supposed to be here by now, that girl did not have a car since she was working as an intern receptionist. According to what Fang Yanli told her that woman should be back home by nine but now it was nine thirty and yet she could not see the sign of Yu Pan.

The good news was that Yu Pan's house was not far from the company, the bad news was that they were half an hour late waiting for her.

A bad premonition rose in her heart as she flipped her ring in the air and summoned her scythe before saying, "Let's go to the company, Yu Pan won't be able to come back home tonight."

Fang Yanli who heard her sudden proclamation was stunned as she asked, " What why? She has been fine for all this while!"

" Exactly," Song Yan's eyes glinted as she started to run in the direction of the company. " Someone got impatient seeing that she did not die as she was supposed to, in one clean swift…so now they are quite angry."

And took the matters into their hands.

….

Yu Pan bowed to her superior who was finally willing to leave and felt her back hurt, she has been looking for a quick way to get a promotion which was why she has been getting cosy with the superiors of the company. For some reason, the one who was at a high post in the company stayed back to have a meeting and as the receptionist of the company she was willing to do anything to get the promotion that she wanted for the down payment of the house she wanted to buy for her marriage, Yu Pan was quite desperate.

This was why she stayed behind serving the superiors together with the other receptionists and assistants hoping that she will catch the eyes of one of these superiors.

" Gosh I am hungry," Yu Pan heard her friend whine as she picked up her bag from her table and then walked over to her. " I am so hungry that I can eat an ox, are you ready to leave?"

" I am," she replied as she took out a lipstick from her bag and then started applying it on her lips. She looked at her reflection in the small pocket mirror that she brought with her and then nodded in satisfaction but as soon as she clasped the lipstick shut and was putting it back in her handbag, the lipstick slipped from her hand and fell under the table.

"Oops wait for me outside," Yu Pan muttered a curse when she saw that the lipstick was now stuck under her table, she did not want her friend to wait for her which was why she told her to make a move. " Go and grab a table for us, I will be right back."

" Are you sure?" Her friend asked as she looked around the company even though it was lit up and looked rather warm and nice, the entire place was now empty and with the silence ensuing in the entire vicinity, the woman couldn't help but shiver in terror slightly.

" I am sure, I just need to grab this lipstick and I will be right behind you, go on Sister Jing," Yu Pan assured her friend as she pulled her skirt up and crouched down, seeing that Yu Pan was certain, Tao Jing nodded and then walked outside the company but as soon as she stepped outside, a burst of cold wind came from behind and the door behind her was shut down with a loud bang, its sound was so deafening that Tao Jing felt her entire body turn cold as she turned to look at the closed door and blinked slowly as she walked over to the door and pushed it open, only to belatedly realise that she could not open it!