Strangely enough, the moment the embroidered ball landed in Jiang Cheng's hands, his first reaction wasn't excitement. Instead, he felt a twinge of guilt, as if he wanted to throw it away immediately and distance himself from the First Lady.
He usually acted pretty casual, but only he knew that deep down, he was a rather conservative person. He had once gone out of his way to make this clear to the chubby Huai Yi, but the two of them hadn't believed him.
In any case, the embroidered ball was finally in their hands, which meant tonight's task was over.
Looking at the exquisitely crafted ball in his hands, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but sigh. It was soaked through, and felt cold and damp to the touch, as if it had come from the depths of some unfathomable lake.
Then the First Lady moved again. She reached out and fished several copper coins from her clothes. They clinked into the wooden box, five in all.
They were the very coins that had been stolen earlier, the ones Li Bai, Zhu Jie, and the others had lost.
Only after seeing the coins did Jiang Cheng finally relax. The First Lady had returned them, which meant the others, including the chubby man, could be saved. After all, these coins were, to a great extent, their lives.
When a ghost stole someone's copper coin, they fell into a deep sleep. If the coin was destroyed, they met the same fate as Lu Qin.
Jiang Cheng quickly picked up the coins and clutched them in his palm. In his eyes, they were the others' lives.
As long as he returned each coin to its owner before dawn, they would wake up.
But just as Jiang Cheng and the others thought it was all over,