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It's All My Fault  
 

Third Place Winner of the 1999 ROC Tall Tales Contest  Monica Yao Beast

 


Two years ago, my husband and I traveled to mainland China. The last day in Beijing, I visited an old jade market to find some antiques, but there was nothing to buy. Suddenly and old man called me and put a jade bracelet on my wrist. "Hi, I don't want to buy it." "I have been looking for you for 2000 years, you are the owner of the jade." "Me? No, No, I am poor. I can't afford it. Honey, please help me, the..."  The old man disappeared. "So crazy, oh, it's so expensive" But strangely, every time when I wore it, I felt dizzy and saw another me with long hair dancing and singing in a big. luxurious palace, I told my husband this strange situation, he always answered me, "My sweetheart, I promise, we will have a house as big as a palace, you can live there dancing and singing all the day. But now please let me sleep, OK?" "OK." I thought I was too tired. Day by day, I forgot it.

This year, my husband got an invitation form the palace museum, because there was an important exhibition about 馬王堆. It's a grave of a king, a queen and a prince of Han Dynasty. They hoped my husband to help them before the opening ceremony. Of course we wanted to go, because we were interested in Chinese history. The day, we drove to Taipei, ate dinner with them. After a long boring meeting, finally we stepped into the museum at 1:30, the very early morning of September 21st. I was tired but excited. Step by step, I felt dizzy again, every stuff looked so similar. When I saw the dead body of the queen, she suddenly stood up and shouted to me, "You son of the B----Beauty, I find you, I find you..." "Me? No..."  Yes, I remember,  I remember everything. In my last life I was one of the wives of the king, he loved me more than any women. One day, he gave me this jade bracelet. I was so happy, but the queen was so jealous, so angry and choked to death by melon. Before she died, she shouted, "I'll revenge.  I'll revenge." Now, she was standing there and approaching me. She raised her hands up...and down. Suddenly, the heavens were moving and the ground was shaking. A Strong light shot form her eyes, "No, I don't want to die, I don't want to die...." The light hit my bracelet and reflected back. Bang! Everything stopped.

When opening my eyes, I was lying in my bed. God! Such a terrible dream! I took the newspaper and read. God! Such a terrible dream! I took the newspaper and read. God! Such a terrible earthquake! No...No...No one knows what really happened. But I know it's all my fault.