Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan revealed that Benefactor Wan had spent fifty years doing charity to atone for letting his younger brother drown when they were teenagers. He also warned that Wan’s health would sharply decline in two years, then explained that Wan’s wealth came from his skill as a stock market god.

• Benefactor Wan challenged Lin Fan to reveal a secret, and Lin Fan said Wan’s charitable work was driven by guilt over a life.
• Lin Fan described how Wan had watched his younger brother drown during a swimming contest instead of helping him.
• Benefactor Wan admitted his regret, while Wan Lili connected the tragedy to their great-grandfather’s harsh treatment of him.
• Lin Fan said Wan’s bodily functions would deteriorate in two years and that help would then be too late.
• After viewers wondered how Wan had funded decades of charity, Lin Fan said Wan’s companies earned little because Wan was a stock market god.

Lin Fan revealed how Wan Shანren had been swindled by his caregiver after becoming involved with her, and explained that the unborn child was indeed his. Wan Shანren remained ashamed over losing money intended for a school, while Lin Fan said he shared blame for the affair.

• Lin Fan described Wan Shანren's past lives and warned that he would lose his good name in old age.
• Wan Lili explained that her grandfather's young wife had swindled him out of ten million, putting his planned school project at risk.
• Lin Fan revealed that Wan Shანren's caregiver had seduced him, obtained two homes worth five million, and taken more money from him.
• Wan Shანren admitted he had not registered a marriage with the caregiver and had put only her name on the property deeds.
• Lin Fan said the caregiver's unborn baby was Wan Shანren's, then told him not to blame her alone because he had also been interested in her.

Lin Fan explained Wan Shანren’s limited legal options for recovering the money the caregiver took and revealed that livestream viewers were willing to donate toward finishing the school. He warned that the caregiver was being haunted and that Wan Shანren might be tempted into another affair, leaving Wan Lili determined to watch over him.

• Lin Fan said Wan Shანren could not recover the two homes but could seek compulsory enforcement to reclaim valuables, since the caregiver had already had an abortion.
• Wan Lili explained that the stolen ten million had been intended to build a school, and livestream viewers offered to donate so construction could continue.
• Lin Fan revealed that someone climbed onto the caregiver’s bed at night and that she had gone to Qingfeng Daoist Temple for help.
• Lin Fan said the caregiver had left no evidence of fraud and was neglecting Wan Shანren, and he predicted that a young man would eventually swindle her out of both homes.
• Lin Fan warned Wan Shანren not to pursue another relationship, then cautioned Wan Lili that her grandfather might still fall for a beautiful woman if she seduced him.
• Wan Lili thanked Lin Fan and the viewers, then decided she needed to spend more time with her grandfather.

Wan Lili learned that her coldness could cost her a future relationship, while Lin Fan changed her and Wan Shanren’s fates. He then connected with detective Ke Bei, whose urgent difficult case triggered a mission for Lin Fan to find the real culprit.

• Wan Lili decided to hire a male caregiver for her grandfather, and Lin Fan warned her not to act aloof when she met a future partner.
• Lin Fan explained that Wan Lili would misunderstand the man, ignore him for six months, and regret losing him after he left Dongzhou.
• Wan Lili took Lin Fan’s warning to heart, and Lin Fan received two thousand Heavenly Secrets Points for changing her and Wan Shanren’s fates.
• Lin Fan randomly connected with Detective Ke Bei, who revealed he urgently needed help with a difficult case.
• Lin Fan received a mission to find the real culprit, while Han Bing and the livestream viewers recognized Ke Bei and greeted him.

Ke Bei asked Lin Fan to help solve the murder of pianist Ding Lang, while his girlfriend and assistant Gao Li doubted fortune-telling and insisted the pianist’s assistant was the killer. Lin Fan identified Ding Lang as the subject of the case, leaving Gao Li skeptical as the investigation was about to be discussed.

• Ke Bei introduced his assistant Gao Li, and Lin Fan revealed that she was Ke Bei’s girlfriend despite their age difference.
• Ke Bei explained that he kept their relationship private because criminals he had helped convict often sought revenge.
• Gao Li dismissed fortune-tellers and claimed Ding Lang’s assistant was definitely the killer, prompting Ke Bei to defend Lin Fan.
• Ke Bei asked Lin Fan for help with the pianist’s murder case, and Lin Fan identified Ding Lang as the victim.
• Gao Li was unimpressed by Lin Fan’s identification, while viewers recognized Ding Lang as a famous pianist whose murder remained under investigation.

Lin Fan explained why Ding Lang’s assistant had confessed to the murder despite suffering from memory disorder, and revealed that Ding Lang’s choices had caused the assistant’s accident. Gao Li remained convinced Lin Fan and Ke Bei were staging the revelations, while the real killer remained unknown.

• Ke Bei said he suspected Ding Lang’s assistant had been framed, despite the evidence and confession against him.
• Lin Fan explained that the assistant had memory disorder and mistook the blood and knife for proof that he had killed Ding Lang.
• Ke Bei confirmed that the assistant had lost his memory of the studio and confessed because he believed himself guilty.
• Lin Fan revealed that the assistant’s accident had happened after Ding Lang kept him driving while exhausted, and Ke Bei praised Lin Fan’s insight.
• Gao Li decided Lin Fan and Ke Bei were putting on an act, while Lin Fan focused on finding Ding Lang’s real killer.

Lin Fan identified Xu Tingting as Ding Lang’s killer and revealed that Ding Lang had coerced and abused her, prompting the Northern Continent cops to arrest her. Xu Tingting denied the murder and challenged Lin Fan to provide proof, while the cops began recovering her deleted messages with Ding Lang.

• Lin Fan named Xu Tingting as Ding Lang’s killer and told the cops that threatening her with Xu Ming’s possible life sentence would make her confess.
• The Northern Continent cops arrested Xu Tingting and brought her into an interrogation room, where she denied being the killer or implicating her brother.
• Lin Fan revealed that Ding Lang had forced Xu Tingting to become his lover and had tried to assault her in front of Xu Ming.
• Lin Fan said Ding Lang’s deleted chat history with Xu Tingting could be recovered, and Captain Uncle Cop sent officers to retrieve Ding Lang’s phone.
• Xu Tingting admitted she had been Ding Lang’s lover but denied killing him, while Ding Lang’s fans continued to doubt Lin Fan’s claims.

Lin Fan exposed Gao Li’s painful childhood and won her belief in his fortune-telling, while police recovered messages showing Xu Tingting’s abusive relationship with Ding Lang. Xu Tingting admitted the relationship but denied killing him, then recognized Lin Fan when Captain Uncle Cop showed her the livestream.

• Lin Fan told Gao Li that a fortune-teller had caused her family to foster her and fall into decline, and Gao Li confirmed his account.
• Ke Bei explained that he had never known the details of Gao Li’s childhood, and Gao Li began to believe Lin Fan was genuine.
• Lin Fan warned Gao Li not to trust every fortune-teller and said he wanted to avoid causing conflict between her and Ke Bei.
• The police recovered Xu Tingting and Ding Lang’s chat history, including videos showing Ding Lang abusing her, and Captain Uncle Cop questioned Xu Tingting about their relationship and a possible motive.
• Xu Tingting admitted that she and Ding Lang had been lovers and that he abused her, but insisted the police could not prove she killed him.
• Captain Uncle Cop showed Xu Tingting Lin Fan’s livestream, and she recognized Master Lin.

Lin Fan exposed Xu Tingting as Ding Lang’s killer and persuaded her to confess, revealing that she had killed him while resisting his assault. The police ended the call to investigate, and Lin Fan told Xu Tingting she could seek cultivation after her release.

• Lin Fan questioned Xu Tingting about whether her brother should bear responsibility if his memory returned, while she recounted how Ding Lang had abused and threatened her.
• Lin Fan described how Xu Tingting killed Ding Lang as he tried to assault her, while Xu Ming lost consciousness and later forgot what happened.
• Lin Fan urged Xu Tingting to confess, warning that Xu Ming could become dangerous if his memories returned and he received treatment.
• Xu Tingting admitted killing Ding Lang and revealed that a bloodstained handkerchief was at her home.
• Lin Fan told Xu Tingting she might be imprisoned for only two years and could pursue cultivation after her release, then Captain Uncle Cop ended the call.

Lin Fan connected with longtime viewer Ning Dawei, gave him a basic fortune-telling book, and warned him not to tell fortunes. He then revealed that Ning Dawei’s unresolved family trouble involved his daughter, who was about to arrive seeking an explanation.

• Gao Li thanked Lin Fan for his help, and she and Ke Bei disconnected from the livestream.
• Lin Fan continued streaming and connected with Ning Dawei, a sixty-eight-year-old fan who had recently received demolition compensation.
• Lin Fan identified Ning Dawei’s interest in fortune-telling and offered him a basic book, warning that he should never tell anyone’s fortune.
• Ning Dawei said he did not want to know how long he would live, but Lin Fan stopped him from disconnecting and brought up his family affairs.
• Lin Fan said Ning Dawei’s daughter was coming to demand an explanation, and an elderly woman beside Ning Dawei asked whether she was on her way.

Ning Dawei’s dispute with his daughter Ning Jingjing drew Bai Xiaobai and a television crew to his home, where Lin Fan joined the discussion by livestream. As viewers blamed Ning Dawei for withholding demolition compensation, Ning Jingjing’s side of the story remained unresolved.

• Lin Fan told Ning Dawei that Ning Jingjing was arriving with Bai Xiaobai to pressure him publicly into paying her a share of the demolition compensation.
• Ning Jingjing arrived with Bai Xiaobai and a cameraman, saying her father had promised her money but had not paid it.
• Ning Dawei explained that he had given the first installment to his son for a marital home and planned to divide the remaining compensation among the family once it arrived.
• Bai Xiaobai recognized Lin Fan on Ning Dawei’s livestream, greeted him, and asked him to help with the program; Lin Fan promised to send her carved jade trinkets.
• Ning Jingjing said she did not know Lin Fan, while Bai Xiaobai and livestream viewers continued to question Ning Dawei’s decision to prioritize his son’s home.

Lin Fan explained why Ning Dawei was angry with Ning Jingjing and revealed the family conflict behind their dispute over the demolition compensation. The chapter ended after Ning Dawei remembered slapping Ning Jingjing when she was fifteen, while she continued to accuse him of never treating her as his daughter.

• Bai Xiaobai asked Ning Dawei why he had not helped Ning Jingjing, and Lin Fan said Ning Dawei had promised to share the compensation once it arrived.
• Ning Jingjing claimed Ning Dawei had favored his son, hit her, and driven her out ten years earlier; Ning Dawei denied most of her accusations.
• Lin Fan revealed that Ning Jingjing had become pregnant as a student and planned to leave the baby with her parents while she searched for her boyfriend.
• Ning Jingjing said the slap Lin Fan mentioned had caused lasting trauma, and Ning Dawei and his wife initially could not remember it.
• Ning Jingjing recalled that Ning Dawei slapped her when she was fifteen, sending her to the hospital and nearly leaving her deaf; Ning Dawei then remembered the incident.

Lin Fan revealed that Ning Jingjing had once behaved badly and that Ning Dawei had slapped her to correct her, while Ning Jingjing argued that her parents had favored her brother. Lin Fan then claimed Ning Jingjing would still be in an orphanage without her parents, leaving the reason for that claim unrevealed.

• Lin Fan recounted how Ning Jingjing had stolen food and hit another girl when she was fifteen, prompting Ning Dawei to slap her after she refused to apologize.
• Ning Dawei explained that he had hit Ning Jingjing to stop her from becoming arrogant, and Bai Xiaobai said he could not be blamed for the slap.
• Ning Jingjing snatched Ning Dawei's phone and dropped it into a water vat, cutting off Lin Fan's connection.
• Lin Fan reconnected through Bai Xiaobai and insisted his account was true, while Ning Jingjing accused her parents of favoring her younger brother.
• Ning Dawei admitted that he had treated Ning Jingjing less favorably, and Lin Fan claimed she would still be in an orphanage without her parents.

Ning Jingjing accused her adoptive parents of favoring her younger brother and claimed her adoption had enabled them to have a son. Lin Fan explained that she had misunderstood Ning Dawei’s fortune-telling remarks and challenged her claim that her parents had mistreated her.

• Ning Jingjing revealed that she had been left at an orphanage as a baby and adopted by Ning Dawei and his wife when she was three.
• Ning Jingjing accused her adoptive parents of favoring her younger brother and said they had not supported her after she married.
• Ning Dawei and his wife explained that they had adopted Ning Jingjing after years of infertility, and Ning Dawei said he had jokingly called her lucky for bringing the family a son.
• Ning Jingjing insisted that Ning Dawei’s belief in fortune-telling had led him to adopt her to change his fate, and Bai Xiaobai asked Lin Fan to clarify the truth.
• Lin Fan said Ning Dawei and his wife had conceived after their circumstances and mental state improved, and that Ning Jingjing had misunderstood his fortune-telling remarks.
• Lin Fan acknowledged that Ning Dawei might have favored his son but questioned whether Ning Jingjing had actually been treated badly while growing up.

Lin Fan exposed Ning Jingjing’s misunderstandings and repeated demands for money, while Ning Dawei and his wife broke down under the strain. Lin Fan urged Ning Dawei to give her part of the demolition compensation but warned that keeping ties would bring more trouble.

• Ning Dawei slapped himself to repay Ning Jingjing for the one time he had hit her, while his wife begged Ning Jingjing to leave them alone.
• Lin Fan explained that Ning Jingjing had misunderstood her parents’ past actions and had repeatedly visited to demand money.
• Ning Jingjing blamed her parents for her unhappy marriages and financial hardship, while Bai Xiaobai questioned why she expected help after ten years without contact.
• Ning Dawei revealed that he had secretly sent Ning Jingjing small sums through her brother, but she had dismissed the help as inadequate.
• Lin Fan guaranteed Ning Dawei would give Ning Jingjing one or two million yuan from the demolition compensation and advised him to cut ties with her.

Ning Dawei agreed to give Ning Jingjing part of the demolition compensation in exchange for ending their relationship, and they signed an agreement before she left. Lin Fan predicted that Ning Jingjing would squander the money and praised Ning Dawei’s son; after the program ended, Lin Fan answered Ning Dawei’s Feng Shui questions, then sensed that Four Seasons Daoist had entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

• Ning Dawei agreed to give Ning Jingjing part of the demolition compensation and said they would have nothing more to do with each other.
• Bai Xiaobai arranged for an agreement to be drafted, and Ning Dawei and Ning Jingjing signed it before Ning Jingjing left.
• Lin Fan said Ning Jingjing had come for money, predicted she would squander it, and comforted Ning Dawei by praising his son and daughter-in-law.
• Bai Xiaobai recounted the incident on camera, and the program ended.
• Lin Fan spent two hours answering Ning Dawei’s Feng Shui questions and promised to mail him the Fortune-Telling Basics Codex.
• Lin Fan sensed that Four Seasons Daoist had entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Lin Fan connected with Ma Fangfang and her son, whose daughter-in-law Sun Yao had left six months earlier, and arranged a livestream conversation with her. Sun Yao refused to return, and Lin Fan revealed that she had not cheated, leaving the cause of her departure to be explained.

• After eating, Lin Fan connected with Ma Fangfang and her son, who asked him to find Sun Yao, their missing daughter-in-law.
• Lin Fan told Ma Fangfang that Sun Yao would not want to return and offered to contact her without persuading her to come back.
• Lin Fan called Sun Yao, explained who he was, and invited her to join the livestream.
• Ma Fangfang's son eagerly asked Sun Yao to return, but Sun Yao refused and said he would not change.
• Lin Fan told the viewers that Sun Yao had not cheated and had not found another man during the six months away.

Lin Fan explained that Ma Fangfang’s overprotective parenting had left Ma Feifei unable to make decisions, and Sun Yao said she wanted to end the marriage. Ma Fangfang still struggled to accept that her treatment of Sun Yao could not make up for Ma Feifei’s behavior, though the viewers’ criticism began to make her question herself.

• Ma Fangfang defended her family by showing that the household was full of things she had bought for Sun Yao.
• Sun Yao revealed that Ma Fangfang had installed a camera in the couple’s bedroom and that Ma Feifei needed his mother’s approval before they could sleep together.
• Sun Yao described Ma Feifei as a giant baby who needed his mother to feed, bathe, and dress him, and said she could no longer tolerate their marriage.
• Lin Fan said Ma Fangfang had overprotected Ma Feifei and taught him to ask her before making any decision.
• Sun Yao told Ma Fangfang she had married Ma Feifei, not her, and said she would send him a separation agreement.
• Ma Fangfang continued to insist she had done nothing wrong, but the viewers’ comments left her confused.

Lin Fan explained how Ma Fangfang’s overprotectiveness had left Ma Feifei dependent, and she agreed to let Sun Yao leave. After Sun Yao ended the call, Ma Fangfang accepted that she needed to change how she raised her son.

• Lin Fan told Ma Fangfang that her controlling protection had prevented Ma Feifei from learning to live independently and recalled the experiences that had shaped her behavior.
• Sun Yao explained that she could not remain with Ma Feifei, who still acted like a small child and would need money and support to live on his own.
• Ma Fangfang reconsidered her actions and agreed to let Sun Yao leave by having her mail the agreement.
• Sun Yao thanked Ma Fangfang and ended the call, while Lin Fan divined that Ma Fangfang would gradually help Ma Feifei become more independent.
• Ma Fangfang told Lin Fan that she had expected help winning Sun Yao back, but accepted his advice and resolved to change.

Lin Fan waited for the Village Doctor Spirit Body to test Xiao Tuantuan on the medical codices she had studied. Xiao Tuantuan correctly answered the first question and challenged the spirit body’s questions, but the test was still underway.

• Lin Fan told Xiao Tuantuan to rest before the Village Doctor Spirit Body arrived at midnight.
• The Village Doctor Spirit Body arrived and began testing Xiao Tuantuan, who claimed she had memorized all thirty foundational codices in two days.
• The Village Doctor Spirit Body asked about the 101st spell in Three Thousand Medical Cultivator Spells, and Xiao Tuantuan correctly described the Life-Giving Spirit Tree Technique.
• The Village Doctor Spirit Body checked the codex and confirmed Xiao Tuantuan’s answer was word for word correct.
• Xiao Tuantuan called the question too easy, and the Village Doctor Spirit Body asked what was on page thirty-six of Complete Compendium of Medical Cultivation Knowledge.