Losing a channel, or having divination fail at a critical moment, could be fatal.
"Then... the key is Liu Bai. As long as I refuse, Liu Bai won't force me... but Liu Bai..."
In those divinations, because of the positions and sensations involved, Fu Xuan had not clearly seen Liu Bai's circumstances.
But after thinking it over, Liu Bai's situation was probably not much better.
Fu Xuan could usually see futures where she was fed the Elixir of Love... Mm, all sorts of people fed it to her, but Kafka and Ruan Mei appeared most often.
But it usually ended with her being thrown into a cold pool.
—Liu Bai wasn't stupid. If he saw someone had clearly been drugged and lacked the strength to pin him down, of course he would throw them into a pool to sober up.
This wasn't one of those books where, no matter how low someone's affection was, a few rounds would make them surrender body and soul.
"But does a drug that works on Liu Bai... even exist?"
Fu Xuan took a deep breath.
Stay calm. She had to observe Liu Bai's situation first.
The strange part about an unconventional tactic was that, even if one was on guard, one could not defend against it without knowing exactly how it worked.
...Which meant she had no choice but to divine again.
"Guh—!"
"Ah... how many times has that been?"
Qingque, who was playing with bubbles in the bathtub, listened to the faint sounds from next door and sighed helplessly.
"Surely the Master Diviner isn't doing something inappropriate for children, is she?"
Yeah, right.
"You can tell she's resonating with her future self... Well, it's none of my business anyway."
Qingque squeezed the little duck she had brought along.
"But even the Master