I second the curse that makes you believe the item is not cursed, but let's pair it up with a curse that makes everyone else believe the item is horribly cursed to hell and back.
- "I don't get what you don't like about it, that is clearly a regular ring"
-"Dude, put that wretched thing away...
There is a big difference between creatively bending the rules and not bothering to even learn them.
When "creative freedom" is someone's excuse for being sloppy, they are akin to a drunk thug spraying a wall randomly, calling themselves the next Picasso.
I once had this idea about a dude in a typical chinesium cultivation setting hunting young masters known for commiting sexual assault in order to give them a taste of love their own medicine, in public. 'There is always a bigger fish' kinda deal.