Chapter 24

Alice lack of sleep is immediately noticed by Assistant Director Richard She confesses that she��s indeed suffering from sleep deprivation because she has been dreaming of a mummy knocking on her door every night. She then wonders if she has developed an ability to see ghosts after the accident. Richard, however, find the idea absurd because things like that never happen to second leads. She��s pissed at his remarks and starts hitting him with a pillow.
Speaking of leading ladies, Jaqueline, the country��s prime female lead and Alice best friend enemy pays her a visit. Jaqueline demands to know why Alice avoided her for a month and is angry that Alice initiated the proposal when she specifically told her not to. In the hopes of changing Alice luckless fate, she brings her to a fortune-teller.
The fortune-teller confirms that Alice is irrevocably, undeniably, terribly jinxed. In fact, in all his 70 plus years living on earth, he has never seen a person with unsurpassed bad luck. Alice is unconvinced with the fortune-teller��s declarations, reasoning that if she��s really that jinxed then how come her popularity surges after her accident. Fortune-teller can only call that as ��the last radiance of the setting sun��. Jaqueline worries that her frenemy is already at the setting of her life when she hasn��t even risen yet. The fortune-teller suggests that the only way to change Alice luck is to find someone more ill-fated than her.
Roman visits his old home which has now become a tourist attraction. He goes to the shores and talks with some invisible being. He��s resolved to know who tried to kill him and he already has 2 clues, Bill and Hilton. Both men are Alice exes so he figures, he must first form an alliance with Alice to get to the bottom of things. And given her undeniable bad luck, he vows to keep her safe.
Following the fortune-teller��s advise, Alice invites renters to her home. But finding a decent renter is easier said than done when her ad proves to attract only weirdos and perverts. Meanwhile, Roman reads her ad and smiles.
Alice finds the handsome looking Roman at her doorstep. And because she thinks it��s just a prank, she shuts the door at his face. She returns to her room and find him comfortably reading her tab. She forces him to leave but it��s clear he has no intentions to follow her command. She then carefully studies his face and finally recognition dawns on her. She runs off to the stairs but accidentally slips. Using his superhuman speed, he catches her and prevents yet another accident. To appease her fears, he tells her that if he really wanted her dead, she��ll be dead already.
Flash back to the night of the accident. Alice is still undecided whether to save her or not. She may have accidentally awakened him but saving her may not be good for both of them. In the end, he chooses to save her. He bits his lip and shares a drop of his blood through a kiss.
Alice is dying to know what the heck is going on. Romam readily supplies some answers and tells her he��s just a normal human being who lived 400 years ago. Somewhere along that timeline, something happened that made him immortal. According to his research, it may be due to genetic mutation. He only needs a place to stay and once he��s done with his business, he��ll leave her alone. And in exchange, he��ll protect her, because obviously, she practically screams bad luck.
Alice asks about his diet. He smiles. I love that he taunts her. He answers that he prefers fluids and comes near her. She backs away and he continues to get closer and closer. When she��s cornered, he grabs her cup and drinks milk tea from it. That��s the fluid diet he was talking about.
She infers that if her blood awakened him, then he should be calling her ��mother��. He is completely stupefied by her logic and tells her that even if she��s not that smart, she should have at least some common sense.
The one responsible for Roman's ��death�� remains anonymous and is already on the works. He had Roman followed and thoroughly investigated. He��s undeniably furious that Roman is still alive and swears that definitely this time around, he won��t miss out.
Back to Alice house, she shows him his room. He��s quite satisfied with it and asks for an Apple laptop. Alice is appalled that for a man who has been sleeping in the museum for a very long time, he sure knows how to use laptops and such. Roman retorts that he only needs a month to learn the ways of modern society, unlike her who is already 28 years old and still oblivious. Alice scoffs at his audacity to reveal her age and calls him an ageless monster. Roman insists that he is not a monster, only a man with special abilities.
Alice then laughs at the thought of her idiotic exes who believe that the dormant body is stolen when in truth, it just ran off. Before she goes, she warns Roman not to appear and disappear like he used to because it��s scaring her to death.
With the help of the trusty internet, Alice tries to drive out the beautiful monster. First, she reeks her breath with onion. But it backfired when he did the same and blew his stinky breath at her. Second, she tries piercing his heart with a wooden dagger while he sleeps. But because she clumsily trips, he wakes up and breaks the dagger in two. Third, she attempts to drench him with water. But she trips again and the basin fell over her head instead. It��s clearly game over for her.
Few days later, Richard (the Assistant Director) is fired from work and he badly needs a replacement job to pay rent. He applies as Alice personal assistant but the latter snubs because he said that the salary is not enough to raise a dog, no one can put up with her attitude and she��s too stingy. Richard retracts his words and Alice agrees to hire him if he answers two questions correctly. First, if she and his mom fall into sea, who will he save first? Richard answers it��ll be her because it��s his Dad��s responsibility to save his mom. Second, if she and his dad fall into sea, who will he save first? Richard however, is confused as to why will Alice be there with his dad in the first place. Alice is impressed and she hires him spot on. For someone having second thoughts, she sure is ready with the contract.
Meanwhile, at one of the scientist��s house, evidence trails of Roman's case. Unlike Bill, he arrives at the conclusion that the body is alive and not stolen.