"My grandma is perfectly healthy! How could anything happen to her?"
Xia Xinyu's eyes widened. Pointing at Lin Fan's nose, he demanded, "Are you making this up?"
Hearing that,
Lin Fan wasn't angry. He said coldly, "Since your grandfather died, you've spent every day drowning yourself in nightlife. A week from now, those friends of yours will drug you and get you hooked."
"You'll even start transporting drugs for them just for the thrill!"
"In half a month, Uncle Cop will arrest you, and everyone in Jiangzhou will hear about it."
"When your grandmother finds out, she'll be so upset that she'll die."
As soon as he finished speaking,
a voice rang out in Lin Fan's mind.
[Ding! Congratulations, host! New quest triggered: Change Xia Xinyu's fate, guide him onto the right path, expose his friends, and uncover the truth. Complete the quest to obtain Six-Line Divination.]
Six-Line Divination!
Lin Fan's pupils contracted. That cost two thousand points in the shop.
He swallowed. He had originally planned to leave after saving the young man's grandmother.
Now it seemed things had gotten complicated.
To complete the quest, he had to guide Xia Xinyu onto the right path.
"That's bullshit! My friends are all good buddies. They've always looked after me. Why would they get me hooked on drugs?"
"And transporting drugs is even more ridiculous. I have absolutely no interest in that stuff."
Xia Xinyu argued back. His friends always treated him well.
He didn't believe his brothers would lead him astray.
"Your friends are already drug addicts."
Lin Fan remained calm. He turned toward the phone Xiao Tuantuan was holding and said, "There should be some Uncle Cops watching the stream, right?"
"Sorry for the trouble, but please go to room 103 at the Jiangzhou Hotel. There's a surprise waiting for you."
[Jiangzhou Uncle Cop: We'll send someone over right away.]
Uncle Cops had been keeping an eye on Lin Fan's every move all along.
The Uncle Cops acted swiftly, arriving at the Jiangzhou Hotel in under ten minutes.
About fifteen minutes passed.
[Jiangzhou Uncle Cop: Thank you, Master Lin. We caught three young punks using drugs, and one of them is also a dealer.]
"Master, Uncle Cop sent a message. They arrested three people."
"Zheng Huan, Tu Jiabao, and Huang Xing. Those are their names."
Xiao Tuantuan glanced at the chat and hurriedly relayed the message from Uncle Cop.
Upon hearing those three names,
Xia Xinyu's eyes widened. Those three were his best friends. The four of them often went out together, but he had never seen his friends touch that stuff.
"So what if they use drugs? They still wouldn't hurt me."
Xia Xinyu stubbornly refused to budge. He trusted his brothers. They wouldn't hurt him!
"Uncle Cops, sorry for the trouble, but please call us discreetly, then ask Huang Xing whether he's plotting to get Xia Xinyu hooked on drugs," Lin Fan said evenly.
The Uncle Cops watching the stream acted quickly.
A call came through moments later. Lin Fan deliberately put it on speaker so Xia Xinyu could hear the voices on the other end.
"Huang Xing! Come clean! Resist, and you'll be punished severely. Confess, and you'll receive leniency!"
"We already have evidence that you're plotting to lead someone named Xia Xinyu down a path of no return. Is that true?"
"Xia Xinyu? Did he report us? That bastard! Yeah, we were planning it, but we weren't going to invite him out and slip him drugs until a few days from now!"
Hearing that,
Xia Xinyu went ashen. He recognized Huang Xing's voice.
He couldn't understand why his closest brothers would want to lead him down a path of no return.
[Boss Xiu: Awesome! The master's getting more creative by the day. He came to save someone and still managed to help Uncle Cop catch three drug dealers along the way!]
[Ragdoll Cat: What do I do? I've already fallen for Master Lin!]
[Ninety Below Zero: This young punk is still too naive. It's not that there aren't good brothers out there, but most are just drinking buddies!]
[Chicken: These days, so many people only care about what they can gain. Genuine brotherhood is rare. You can't find bonds like the one between me and Chen Haonan anymore.]
[Chen Haonan: Chicken up there, it's me, Chen Haonan. I'm in LA. Send me three hundred bucks, quick!]
Xia Xinyu looked up and asked through choked sobs, "Master, if I cut ties with them, will my grandma be okay?"
Lin Fan shook his head. "That's not enough. You have to get back on the right path and return to school to study properly."
"You took a leave of absence right after starting your freshman year. If you don't go back to school, six months from now, you'll hit someone while driving drunk, and your grandmother will die from the shock."
Study?
Xia Xinyu froze for a moment. He had been away from campus for a long time, but he was still enrolled, so he could return whenever he wanted.
Thinking of his grandmother,
he nodded and said, "Then I'll go back and study hard."
Hearing that,
Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed he had guided Xia Xinyu onto the right path. He quietly waited for the system's voice.
But even after waiting quite a while, no quest completion notification appeared.
Seriously? He's going to study hard and better himself, and that still doesn't complete the quest?
Lin Fan couldn't figure it out. He used his divination technique again, calculating on his fingers.
A moment later, he sighed. "Xia Xinyu, you're beyond saving."
[Apple Flavor That Likes Eating Tuantuan: Holy shit! Why is he suddenly beyond saving?]
[Boss Xiu: I'm suddenly realizing how miserable Xia Xinyu is. His grandpa died, his grandma nearly died, and now he's going to die.]
[Ninety Below Zero: Did the master foresee something else? Does Xia Xinyu have a terminal illness?]
"Master, I'm beyond saving?" Xia Xinyu asked blankly.
Lin Fan took a deep breath, trying to calm himself before continuing. "Do you have a girlfriend named Zheng Dan?"
Xia Xinyu nodded.
Lin Fan continued, "She's cheating on you. When you're a college senior, you'll discover she's with someone else."
"So you'll go up and attack her lover, accidentally beating him to death."
"Then you'll be arrested, and your grandmother will die from the shock again."
He had changed Xia Xinyu's fate twice in a row, yet neither attempt had completely rid him of his bad luck.
"I'm being cheated on?"
Xia Xinyu stood stunned. His girlfriend was secretly seeing someone else!
Chapter 45: I'll help you catch her cheating!
"Character determines everything."
Lin Fan remained calm. This was the first time he had encountered such a complicated quest.
He had changed Xia Xinyu's fate again and again, yet in the end, his grandmother still couldn't escape death.
If she were simply dying of old age, he wouldn't interfere.
But Xia Xinyu's grandmother kept being driven to her death by Xia Xinyu.
Lin Fan couldn't accept that outcome.
"Master, my girlfriend and I grew up together. We've been together through middle school, high school, and college. She would never cheat on me!"
Xia Xinyu refused to believe it. His brothers plotting against him was bad enough.
Now his first love, whom he had loved for seven years, would cheat on him four years from now?
[Sheep a Sheep: Who can say for sure what'll happen four years from now?]
[Winter Melon Juice Lover: The master is amazing, but so much can happen in four years. I think his prediction might be off this time.]
[Boss Xiu: Four years! If he can really know what'll happen four years from now, that's terrifying.]
Many viewers began wondering whether Lin Fan had miscalculated.
If it concerned something a day or two away, or even a month or two, they would all believe him.
Four years was simply too long.
Seeing the flood of comments, Xiao Tuantuan gathered her courage and said quietly, "Master, lots of viewers are asking whether four years is too far into the future and might have caused an error in your divination."
As though clutching a lifeline, Xia Xinyu nodded and said hoarsely, "That's right! You must have gotten it wrong, Master!"
Hearing that,
Lin Fan looked surprised. Whether it was Xiao Tuantuan or the viewers, he felt their doubts weren't unreasonable.
Many people believed that the farther into the future a prediction reached, the more its result would differ from reality.
That was indeed the case.
But he had already reached the first layer of Qi Refining. Predicting events four years into the future wasn't particularly difficult.
"Actually, you've misunderstood. I didn't mean Xia Xinyu would be cheated on four years from now."
"I meant she's cheating on him right now. He won't discover it until four years from now, and that's when he'll do something he'll regret for the rest of his life."
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