[Here we go! Front-row spectators, get your popcorn!]
[Open the betting pool! Is she a beauty or a technical streamer?]
[Give us something brutal! Make the streamer crash and burn!]
[Charge! Charge! Charge!]
The matching roulette spun rapidly as millions of viewers waited with bated breath. The screen suddenly split in two.
But the image on the other side made the entire livestream room fall silent for a moment.
There was no sultry dance, nor any game interface. What appeared before their eyes was a study deliberately designed to look "ancient and refined," with even a hint of eerie mystery.
A large bagua diagram hung on the wall, while a calligraphy scroll bearing the words "The Dao follows nature" looked somewhat contrived.
At the center of the screen sat a middle-aged man wearing an imitation antique Tang-style robe. His hair was combed neatly backward, and he sported a carefully groomed goatee and gold-rimmed glasses perched on the bridge of his nose.
His livestream title read: "Mystical Arts Master 'Qing Feng Zi' Answers Your Questions Online, Offers Guidance, and Defies Fate to Change Your Fortune!"
This "Master Qing Feng Zi" was speaking eloquently into the camera:
"...Thus, this patron, you are fated to fall victim to petty people. Your career is blocked because fiendish energy is colliding with the southwest corner of your home! All you need is a 'Nine Revolutions Universe Fiend Dispelling Talisman' personally activated and blessed by this humble Daoist for forty-nine days. Post it at the afflicted location, and I guarantee your fortunes will turn around, benefactors will appear, and wealth will pour in! Special promotion today, only 8,888 yuan per talisman. Let us form a bond of virtue..."
The pop-up indicating that the connection had gone through, along with the terrifying number of over one hundred