"Are you really fortune-telling? And who on earth are you!" Regarding Tian Yan's claim, Ge Xiaolun did not agree at all.
"Want to know?" Tian Yan gave a faint smile. "As long as you go in and look, you will get the answer you want."
"How much?" Ge Xiaolun's curiosity was indeed hooked by Tian Yan.
"Ten thousand." Tian Yan raised an index finger.
"Goodbye!" Ge Xiaolun immediately turned and walked away after speaking. Ten thousand yuan? Why didn't you just go rob someone?
What's more, Tian Yan's background was unknown, and he didn't want to have any intersection with Tian Yan. Besides, for the sake of safety, it was better to hurry back and tell his parents.
"Stop! Don't go, I'll give you a discount..." Tian Yan sighed inwardly. After waiting for years, he finally waited for such a fat sheep as Ge Xiaolun, so how could he let him go just like that?
"What discount?" Ge Xiaolun turned around.
"Cut it in half, five thousand!" Tian Yan said as if it pained him quite a bit.
"Never see you again!" Five thousand yuan? In Ge Xiaolun's eyes, it was still no different from daylight robbery, and it would practically snatch away almost all of his New Year's money accumulated over so many years. There was no way he could agree to this no matter what!
"Ge Xiaolun, could it be that you don't want to know about your future? Think about it, if you knew everything about your future, wouldn't it be as easy as turning over your hand to get first place on the next exam?"
Tian Yan could guess just by looking at the bruised and swollen face of Ge Xiaolun that this fellow had probably been beaten by his parents, and he believed this fellow would also be attracted by his words.
Sure enough, Ge Xiaolun stopped. Thinking of his parents' mixed doubles and the classmates' disdain, he stopped.
Even though he was still just a kid who didn't understand anything at this time, Ge Xiaolun was also a person with self-esteem. Having made a fool of himself at school this time, of course he wanted to win back his face.
"You can help me?" Ge Xiaolun was completely tempted.
"WeChat or Alipay." Tian Yan took out two pictures from behind his back; one was the payment QR code for WeChat, and the other was for Alipay.
"You aren't scamming me, are you?" Five thousand yuan still caused Ge Xiaolun some heartache, but he had quite a bit of New Year's money saved up over the years, and he did have this little bit of money.
"My person is right here, are you still afraid I'll run?" Tian Yan curled his lips speechlessly.
"Fine, you'd better not fool me, or don't blame me for tearing down your shop!" Ge Xiaolun pulled out his mobile phone, scanned the QR code, entered the five thousand big ones amidst struggle, and finally clicked payment.
"Alipay received, five thousand yuan!"
"Can you do it now?" Ge Xiaolun felt incomparable heartache; it was practically taking half his life.
"You can." Tian Yan turned around and pushed open the old wooden door.
As soon as he stepped through the door, Ge Xiaolun had a feeling of being conned.
The wooden door pushed open, carrying a bit of aged dust drifting in the air. The room was not very large, and inside there were only a few dilapidated chairs.
However, although a bit ruined, it was very clean.
Could such a dilapidated place give him any ghostly help? He estimated he was probably the very first customer here, and he had been tricked into coming. Thinking of this, Ge Xiaolun had the urge in his heart to turn around and leave.
Yet considering that his money was already given, no matter what he had to harvest a few things, right?
"I said, can you start now? I'm still in a rush to go back!"
The longer he stayed here, the more anxious Ge Xiaolun became. The moment he thought about how he had actually believed the swindler in front of him just now, he wanted nothing more than to leave this place immediately.
Right now Ge Xiaolun just wanted to let him divine something casually as a form of comfort. After all, the five thousand had already been spent; he couldn't just leave without doing anything!
"Alright, I'm a fortune teller, any time is fine. I wonder what you want to divine?"
Tian Yan sat on a chair, raised his eyes to look toward Ge Xiaolun, and his eyes still carried a trace of the gleam of seeing money.
Ge Xiaolun's eyes rolled, and he smiled slightly, saying, "Can you really divine anything?"
Tian Yan immediately bragged without modesty, telling Ge Xiaolun, "As long as you want to divine it, there is nothing I cannot calculate."
Ge Xiaolun smiled and nodded repeatedly. "Hehe, then calculate my career line for me!"
"Pfft—"
Tian Yan, who was drinking water at the time, instantly spat out a mouthful of water!
At the same time, he cursed inwardly, this kid is too cunning.
Even if he were the number-one fortune teller in the world, how old were you, damn it?
To call you a teenager was already a huge exaggeration!
To put it crudely, whether you could even grow up safely wasn't yet certain, and you want to divine your career? Do you want any shameless face?
Sigh, Tian Yan had been too relaxed these years, and now he had actually fallen for this little fox's trap!
Just when Ge Xiaolun thought Tian Yan would renege, the latter recomposed his mood and agreed in one breath: "Fine, then I will calculate your career for you."
As he spoke, he extended his right hand to pinch his fingers and calculate. In an instant, countless scenes he had never seen before appeared in Tian Yan's mind.
These scenes were all about Ge Xiaolun, and more importantly, they were all things that would happen in the future!
A moment later, after learning about Ge Xiaolun's "career" situation, he almost laughed right out loud.
After putting on an act and calculating for half a minute, he spoke up: "Little Ge, open your clothes a bit wider."
Ge Xiaolun was somewhat puzzled. A proper fortune-telling, why are you making me open my clothes?
Yet to avoid Tian Yan finding an excuse to say he was uncooperative, he still pulled his clothes apart a bit to both sides.
Tian Yan looked closely and frowned, saying, "Little Ge, this career line of yours doesn't seem very deep!"
Holy shit!
Is there any fortune-telling done the way you do it?
Where the hell are you looking!
What's more, I'm still just a child!
Ge Xiaolun felt that the damned swindler opposite him was definitely fooling him.
"Cut the crap, hurry up and tell me how my career is. Can you not calculate it, and that's why you're here spouting nonsense?"
"Hey, I'm telling you, Little Ge, you are judging the heart of a gentleman with the belly of a villain here."
"I had you pull your clothes open a bit to look at your TanZhong acupoint."
"The TanZhong acupoint is close to the heart, and it is one of the major acupoints of the human body. Right now your TanZhong acupoint is somewhat protruding and slightly darkened, which shows that your fortune and destiny are ominous."
"And just as I calculated with my fingers, your career is indeed ominous."
Ge Xiaolun wore a face full of disdain. Why did these words sound somewhat familiar? Did you also want to say I'm about to have a bloody disaster? The usual routine of a swindler.
Tian Yan's baseless words might fool someone else, but how could they possibly deceive someone as extraordinarily intelligent as him?
"Spare me with these random things. Just tell me directly, how is my career?"
Tian Yan let out a long sigh: "Sigh, Little Ge, your future career is probably hopeless! No, you won't have a career at all; in the future you'll just be a loser!"
"Absurd!"
Ge Xiaolun slapped his thigh fiercely. "I'm telling you, don't even think about scamming me. I happen to be the school hunk of our school; with my looks, what can't I accomplish in the future?"