Curse Returns: What did the human-shaped wishing machine do wrong this time?

1.

Early Meiji period.

"Zhang Xiang, go call your younger brothers for dinner."

A gentle-looking woman was busy in the kitchen while giving instructions to her son.

"Yes, Mother."

The little boy with pigtails skipped and hopped to the back of the mountain and brought all his mischievous younger brothers back home.

Zhang Xiang's mother was a very special woman. Because of her excessive beauty, she was taken in by the adults of the Kamo family, an Onmyoji clan.

However, that kind of decadent Japanese family could not tolerate a commoner woman. After living a blissful life with his mother, Kamo Noriyuki began to look for other women.

Zhang Xiang's mother led her brothers and escaped from Kamo's house.

Despite their standard of living dropping significantly after escaping, they were actually happier.

However, apart from him, the brothers all had some intellectual problems to varying degrees.

Seeing the blood smeared on his food, he buried his face in the rice bowl, and with a swollen, world-weary expression, he hurriedly pulled his younger brother's head out.

"Eat your food properly, don't waste your mother's food."

As a good older brother, Zhang Xiang felt obligated to teach his younger brothers to be polite and respect their mother's hard work. He put on a stern face and tried to restrain himself from disciplining his brothers, but the moment he lowered his head, his younger brothers had already surrounded their mother.

"Brother~"

The wicked one shouted, "Swelling!"

"Here it comes, here it comes."

Seeing this scene, how could Zhang Xiang still criticize his younger brothers? Tears welled up in his eyes. This was a scene he dreamed about in the Kamo family, but for some reason, Zhang Xiang always felt that something was missing.

"Is that scumbag father gone?" "No, no, no," Zhang Xiang shook his head vigorously.

Did he have other brothers who were not born?

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiang looked terrified.

"Mother! Are you going to find us another stepfather?!"

The bloated mother: "...Huh?"

2.

Xia Youjie twirled his pen listlessly in class, listening to his classmates say that there was a new transfer student today. The bell had rung for several minutes, but the teacher and the new student had not yet arrived.

"He might be a problem student..."

Just as Xia Youjie was thinking this, the teacher led a tall figure through the door and walked in.

The transfer student wrote a few bold characters on the blackboard. When he turned around, the students below the stage whispered among themselves, looking at his somewhat foreign appearance.

"Lao Tzu had five insights."

The transfer student, with his hands in his pockets, gave off an air of superiority.

A few seconds of silence fell over the audience, then the girls began to scream in alarm, while Xia Youjie covered his face and turned his head to look out the window.

The person in front of him was someone he had met a few days ago.

This young master, Wu Tiao Wu, was from some unknown family. While queuing to buy snacks, he tried to swipe his black card. The vendor didn't have a card reader, so Xia Youjie kindly paid for him, and the young master chased after him.

"You helped me, how can I pay you back?"

The white-haired boy's eyes were a strange color. Xia Youjie thought his hair and eyelashes were such strange colors that he might be sick, so he said with pity, "No need."

The white-haired boy narrowed his eyes, finding the attitude of the man with the bun hairstyle rather strange.

The bored young master followed Xia Youjie all the way, wanting to know why he was looking at him like that, but he saw the man with the bun help an old lady cross the road, and then ask him very considerately if he needed to go to the hospital.

"What kind of look is that, you squinty-eyed guy?! You're the one who's sick, are you trying to start a fight?!"

Xia Youjie's lips twitched, and before he could say anything, the man's fist had already arrived.

Xia Youjie had loved training since he was a child and was very good at physical skills. When he dodged, he was still wondering why they suddenly started fighting. A lot of people had already gathered around to watch!

He dodged very easily, but the white-haired boy looked very excited.

"Again!"

Fighting in public made Xia Youjie think this person was even more insane.

Using the crowd of onlookers as cover, he slipped away, but he never expected to see this person again at the school.

After the young master Wu finished his self-introduction, he gave Xia Youjie a provocative smile and mouthed from a distance: "Trying to run away?"

Xia Youjie covered his head, feeling that his campus life might never be peaceful again.

3.

From a young age, Fushiguro Megumi knew that this was not an ordinary world, not because he had any special abilities, nor because any master wanted to take him as an apprentice, but simply because he had a very special mother.

His father seemed to be a member of some underworld family who had defected and found his true love outside. Since childhood, many strangely dressed people had come to the house to ask his father to come back.

However, his father completely ignored the family members who were begging him, and even changed his own surname arbitrarily.

In Fushiguro Megumi's eyes, her father was a trashy man who smoked, drank, and gambled.

He became incredibly arrogant because of his superior physical abilities, which made him invincible.

Fukuro believes that his father will remain arrogant until he is over forty years old, when he will be too old to fight anymore and enemies will come knocking on his door. At that time, he will have to clean up the mess that Shin left behind when he was young.

But one day after school, he saw his mother, who had passed away many years ago, appear in his spirit form.

It turns out that there really is a love story between humans and ghosts in this world.

After years of arrogance and being invincible, Fuheishi has finally met his nemesis.

I don't know which kind person did this good deed, or whether he did too many bad things, but in any case, his father's life is no longer as comfortable as it used to be.

When Jinji tried to gamble for the 10086th time but was dragged back by the ear by his wife, Fushiguro wrote in his diary.

"Mom, you've sacrificed so much for this family... Finally, we don't have to worry about having to take Shen'er on the run from debt collectors anymore..."