A Surge in Fans

Xiao Yu: "Miss Xia Mo, what would you like me to divine?"

Xia Mo rubbed her arm and bit her lip.

By now, she actually had complete faith in Xiao Yu's miraculous fortune-telling abilities and wanted to ask him about other things.

But with her fans egging her on, she still decided to play her trump card.

Xia Mo: "Hey, handsome, I actually brought my fans here today to challenge you! Everyone suspected you were a fraud, so they sent me to expose you! Personally, though, I already have complete faith in your abilities. I've even followed you and become your fan!"

Xia Mo: "I just wrote something on a slip of paper. No one but me knows what it says. If you can divine it, I'll apologize and send you Rockets as your fortune-telling fee! If you can't, that means you're a fraud."

Xiao Yu's chat erupted with cheers and jeers.

"Master Xiao, put her in her place!"

"Master Xiao, this girl is a huge influencer with a million fans! Over a hundred thousand people watch every stream! If you completely humiliate her, our stream will blow up!"

"Hahaha, I love watching girls get put in their place. So satisfying!"

"I'm so excited! I'm going to witness our stream take off and Master Xiao become a huge star!"

"Put her in her place! Put her in her place!"

"Star streamer Xia Mo leads a raid, only to get humiliated by Master Xiao! I've already got the trending headline ready!!!"

Xiao Yu chuckled and gazed intently at her. "Miss Xia Mo, are you sure you want me to say it?"

Xia Mo grew a little flustered, her eyes darting away.

She felt as though she stood naked before this man, unable to keep any secrets at all.

She already regretted it.

She regretted coming here to challenge him.

Yet she still clung to a little hope.

She figured that however incredible Xiao Yu was, he couldn't possibly get it that precisely, without missing a single word!

Xia Mo braced herself and said, "I'd like to admit defeat, but my viewers won't let me! They want to see us face off. They're either waiting for Master Xiao to be exposed or for me to get humiliated. I'm in too deep to back out now!"

Xiao Yu said leisurely, "I want to become the world's number one streamer. I want to earn ten billion a year. I want everyone in the world to become my fan. There's an emoticon at the end, too. Miss Xia Mo, you also drew a victory sign."

"..."

"..."

Both Xiao Yu's and Xia Mo's streams fell briefly silent at the same time!

Everyone watched Xia Mo's expression intently.

Her alarm turned to embarrassment, and her entire face flushed crimson!

The blush spread down her neck and all the way to her ears!

Even the beauty filter's skin-lightening effect couldn't hide it!

"That's so cringey!"

"So Xia Mo's actually a girl with delusions of grandeur?"

"There goes her image! Hahaha!"

"Social suicide! She actually wrote that on paper! Girl, you've got guts!!"

Xia Mo stammered, "I-I-I-I... I d-d-didn't write anything that embarrassing! I deny it... That's what I'd like to say, b-but... Master Xiao, you win. You really got it right! I'm so embarrassed right now I want to jump straight off the building, but I'm also so excited, because you're seriously, seriously amazing!"

As Xia Mo sprang up in excitement, she even tripped over her own feet. She cried out, rubbed her backside, and held up the slip of paper.

"Every single word! Look, everyone! Master Xiao really got every single word right! I didn't cheat or arrange anything with him beforehand. You all watched me write it!"

"Actually, even I couldn't recite it from memory, much less get every word right. I just wrote whatever came to mind! No one saw it, and there was no cheating. Master Xiao really divined it!!!!"

Xia Mo sent Super Rocket ×10

"He got it! Master Xiao got it right! Master Xiao is fucking awesome!!!!!"

"Master Xiao successfully put Xia Mo in her place! I'm so excited!! Our stream is going to blow up!"

"Tears are streaming down my face, because I've made a decision that goes against my ancestors: I'm going to send Master Xiao a gift! Mom won't have to worry about me being a freeloader anymore!!!"

"Hubby, you're so handsome!!! Hubby, I love you!!"

"Hubby is so handsome!!"

"Hubby is so handsome!!"

Fans flooded the chat with reactions and sent gifts.

In Xia Mo's stream.

"Oh my god, I've got goosebumps all over! That's insane! This fortune-telling streamer is incredible! I'm going to register an alt on the Yanjing Live-Streaming Platform right now!"

"Mo Mo got put in her place, but somehow I don't think it's embarrassing at all. This Master Xiao is fucking phenomenal!"

"Awesome's dad opened the door for Awesome—now that's awesome coming home! Mo Mo, don't blame me for being fickle. I'm switching sides!!"

"I'm going to check out the Yanjing Live-Streaming Platform too!"

"He's so damn amazing, I want to experience it for myself!"

"Mo Mo, sorry, I don't love you anymore. A girl really should be with a guy after all. I'm off to find a new hubby!!"

Xia Mo was beside herself with excitement, too. She hadn't even realized that unless she found a way to keep them, a huge number of her fans would soon become someone else's die-hard followers.

"I'm going to register too!"

"Me too! Let's all go together!"

"Holy shit, is this for real? Registration is overloaded!? Damn it, looks like I'll have to stay here and watch."

Sensing their enthusiasm, Xia Mo finally realized the danger. "Don't leave, everyone!! You can register, but please don't unfollow me! Also, you can watch both streams at once. Don't abandon me!! Otherwise, I'll cry!"

"Mo Mo, we only have one phone each. We can't watch both. How about giving away some phones to keep us around?"

"Give away phones!"

"Yeah, yeah! Give away phones!"

Xia Mo looked thoroughly aggrieved. "Fine, fine, I'll give away phones. Ten basic phones worth a thousand yuan each. Happy now? Everyone can enter the giveaway for free. I'm really bleeding money today, so no unfollowing!"

"Ten? That's stingy. A hundred sounds about right!"

Xia Mo panicked, her voice taking on a tearful edge. "A hundred? Are you robbing me? Twenty, and not one more! Otherwise, you might as well just unfollow me!"

"She's panicking! Mo Mo's panicking! Mo Mo's crying!"

"Hahaha, stop teasing her, everyone!"

"Scam successful! Twenty free phones! Bwahaha!"

Xia Mo's popularity was staggering.

In a short time, the audience in Xiao Yu's stream skyrocketed from a thousand to over fifty thousand!

And that number kept soaring with every passing moment.

Xiao Yu became an instant hit!

Although he still couldn't compare to the top-tier streamers, everyone could see that becoming a major influencer was only a matter of time!

"I'm screwed! Completely screwed! I didn't win a fortune-telling slot just now, and it'll be even harder from now on. I want to die!"

"Same here! Master Xiao, save me! Give me a chance!!!"

"Master Xiao, please change the rules! Us broke folks want our fortunes told too! We want Defying Heaven and Changing Fate too!"

"Master Xiao, I'm on my knees!"

"Hubby, your wives haven't had their fortunes told yet!! Boohoo!"

Xiao Yu rubbed his chin. "I do need to change the rules. Those who supported me from the start share a destined connection with me, so of course they deserve a few special privileges. The current fan group won't accept any new members, and I'll draw one free fortune-telling slot from it every day."

"As for new fans, the rules will stay the same. I'll also create another fan group to announce stream times. There will still be three paid slots drawn each day, plus one free slot."

"That means five more Livestream Viewers getting their fortunes told each day. Please don't think that's too few slots. I really can't do any more. As time goes on, the numbers will keep adding up, and I won't be able to keep up with all the readings."