436 Jinx (1/2)

Author Donald G. Firesmith wrote; 'Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.'

That's exactly what Xiu did. She tempted fate when she thought that nothing could go wrong in five minutes. But one should never forget, even a minute is enough to change your whole life. Life and death are both only a blink apart. If the distance between life and death is so close, how can you expect that a minute is not enough to change a life?

Click-Clack...

The sound of her heels on the pavement could be heard as she carefreely scrolled through her phone. She honestly believed herself to be a jinx in her past life but she wasn't gonna do it this time around. However, the silence in her surroundings was really eerie. It didn't bother her until...

That gut feeling came rushing back to her... The same one she had had for weeks now. Someone was following her.

She could feel someone's gaze on the back of her head which made her hair stand on alarm. She neither hurried nor did she slow down. Her pace was exactly the same as before because she wanted to make herself believe that she was just overthinking. It was just her being paranoid. That's exactly what she thought.

”I'm just overthinking again,” she reassured herself.

.....

Yan Ying was going through a real struggle since last night she hadn't even slept. First, she heard the news of Xiaoli and Meihui's wedding then she was told that the person she was looking for was herself. Like, did that even make sense?

Even when Xiu stayed at the Jing Family house, Ying had been constantly wondering what exactly happened? Did she also have amnesia? Because one had to know, the first time she heard Destiny Novell's name was from Cali. Before that, she knew nothing about her. Absolutely nothing!

So amnesia could only be a good answer to her questions. Because the rest didn't make sense to her.

After all, no one could use her access card other than herself. There was a possibility of her card being stolen but even that couldn't be possible. Especially because only she knew the unique code associated with her card. Only having the access card was useless to anyone who got it. There was something missing somewhere which she couldn't exactly pinpoint right now.

Struggling to keep her brain from having a short circuit, she played games on her phone while waiting for Xiu. And silently followed after Xiu keeping a fair distance when Xiu decided to leave. Although she took the role of a guardian angel very seriously, it was getting boring now.

According to Xin Zimen, he was certain that Xiu's life was in danger but Ying hadn't felt or seen any abnormality in the past three days. But then again, it was too early to say anything. She wasn't that impatient anyway.

Suddenly, someone called her, she would have gladly ignored the call if the name flashing on the screen wasn't her grandmother's. If there was one person who could scare Ying in this world, that would be her grandmother. So, she had to take this call and got distracted at the moment.

During this time, she failed to notice the man that started walking right behind Xiu on the pavement. Earlier she wasn't being paranoid, someone was indeed following her but she didn't want to believe it this time as she had done previously.