A perfect partnership

"A woman? She took the little girl away? That... that doesn't seem very useful?"

"Can you divine who that woman was?"

"Don't be ridiculous. If he could, Master Xiao would have told us already. He clearly divined Mr. Cao's daughter through him, then the scene at the time through his daughter. Don't be so hard on Master Xiao! He's a man, not a god!"

"But none of this helps!"

Yi Shuihan: "Who says it doesn't help?! Master Xiao! You don't need to apologize. That's a huge amount of information! It's more than enough! Let me join the call and ask a few questions!"

Xiao Yu hurriedly connected her video feed.

Liu Shan's pretty face was grave.

"You've already done an amazing job, handsome! Leave the rest to me! I'm no great talent, but everything I've studied over the years can finally be put to real use! Mr. Cao, let me ask you a few questions!"

Cao Yuan didn't know who she was yet, but since she had joined the call, he assumed she was a kindhearted viewer and would naturally answer whatever she asked.

"All right. Go ahead."

"Based on what Master Xiao divined, we can establish one thing very clearly: your eldest daughter knew that woman. When she was abducted, she followed her willingly, eating a lollipop and even smiling. At the same time, the woman knew your daughter too, or she couldn't have called her 'Xiao Ya.'"

"So that brings us to the key point, Mr. Cao: you must have known that woman!"

"Twenty years ago, your daughter was five, you were in your twenties, and that woman was thirty. She was a little older than you. Think carefully!"

"A married man in his twenties with a daughter couldn't have known that many women who happened to be a few years older than him. Besides, the internet wasn't nearly as developed back then! You would have had even fewer female friends!"

"I can also say with confidence that the woman intended to abduct a child from the very beginning, so she couldn't have known you for long. Maybe she tried to seduce you? She might have gained your trust by saying things like 'I like you' or 'I admire you'!"

With every sentence Liu Shan spoke, Cao Yuan's expression grew uglier.

He frowned deeply and knocked on his own head, as though desperately trying to remember.

Everyone in the livestream held their breath.

The chat was full of messages telling him to "think carefully."

"No, I can't... My memories of that time are a complete mess. All I remember is searching for my daughter like a madman every day. A woman? I honestly don't remember anything like that... Aaargh!"

"Liang Xianghui."

Suddenly.

A woman's name fell coldly from Xiao Yu's lips, leaving Cao Yuan stunned. Liu Shan's big, sparkling, mascara-ad eyes widened, her face lit up with delighted surprise, and her heart raced!

"Handsome, you divined it?"

Xiao Yu nodded. "Liang Xianghui was the woman Mr. Cao knew back then. She approached his wife as an 'early childhood teacher at a preschool tutoring center.' Then his wife brought her home and introduced her to Cao Yuan."

"But here's the problem: I'm not that all-powerful. Through someone else's memories-especially memories from twenty years ago that even he barely remembers-I can't divine the complete details of a woman who was practically a stranger to him. I'm very sorry!"

Liu Shan: "Don't apologize, handsome! Right now, I wish I could rush over and kiss your face to pieces. You're just so outstanding, so incredible! So handsome!"

"This is enough, really! With this information, we can put our police resources to work! I can't promise anything else, but finding a photograph of an actual person is a piece of cake!"

"Once I come back with a photograph, you can divine more for us. Working together, we'll definitely find that damned child trafficker!"

"No, not just this one trafficker. We're a match made in heaven, a perfect partnership! Together, we can catch every villain in the world!!! Handsome, I've made up my mind. I'm seeing this through to the end!!!"

"Ohhh! Master Xiao and Officer Liu, two swords united, invincible under heaven! Catch every villain in the world!! I ship them!!"

"I'm loving the Xiao-Liu ship! Guys, boost this!! Leave the bad guys nowhere to hide!!"

"Hubby, sob sob sob, can you include me in your ship? I want in too. The three of us together!"

"Four works too!"

"How about five? Strength in numbers! We could even get a mahjong game going!"

"Mahjong needs a referee. Count me in! Let's make it a six-person ship!"

"..."

"Waiting for Master Xiao to start a harem wives' group!"

"Come on, even if Master Xiao doesn't start one, we can make our own wives' group! Lord Purple, Goddess Luo, Xiaoxiao, our lovely police officer, and all the other girls-aren't you tempted??"

"Fuck, don't just make a wives' group. How about a husbands' group too? Does Master Xiao need a husband?"

"Hahahaha! I just cracked up. The person above is a genius! You absolutely have to add me to the husbands' group!"

Xiao Yu was rather speechless.

Compared with his previous thousand viewers, the audience had now shot up to a full 120,000 all at once. The chat had become a madhouse, so lively it gave him a headache.

They were all Xia Mo's fans. Her livestream had been shut down, so they had all flocked to Xiao Yu's.

Meanwhile, Cao Yuan kept bowing in gratitude.

"Thank you, Master Xiao! Thank you, kind young lady! I've never been this excited in my life. I feel as though I'll be seeing my eldest daughter very soon! Thank you so much!"

"Can you imagine the despair I felt when I lost my daughter? Can you imagine a father's despair after searching for his daughter for twenty years, finding nothing, and finally having no choice but to give up? Can you imagine the joy of finally seeing hope now?"

Faced with Cao Yuan's excitement, Liu Shan had no choice but to raise a more practical question.

"Can you confirm that the girl is still alive? I'm worried we might get his hopes up for nothing."

In the midst of his elation, Cao Yuan froze, then stared anxiously at Xiao Yu. He had completely overlooked that possibility.

"Don't worry. She's alive."

Those few simple words sent the atmosphere in the livestream soaring to its highest peak!

"OHHH! Let the whole world celebrate!"

"Today really is a good day. The background music was spot-on, hahaha!"

"Mr. Cao, you'll be reunited with your eldest daughter soon! With Master Xiao and his infallible divination around, parents will never have to worry about traffickers stealing their children again!"

"Send some gifts! If you don't send gifts now, how can you do justice to all the effort Master Xiao put in, sweating like that??"

"Everyone, send Master Xiao some gifts!"

"Master Xiao is the GOAT! Fall in line, girls and gay guys. Promise me you'll keep the formation just this once, okay?"

"Master Xiao is the GOAT!"

"Master Xiao is the GOAT!"

"Master Xiao is the GOAT!"

Just then, Xiao Yu felt waves of vast, mysterious energy surging into him.

This was merit!

Rich, abundant merit!

Compared with the simple good deeds he had done through fortune-telling before, the merit he gained this time was several times greater!

Merit was harder to obtain than cultivation. Not only could it dispel the heavenly punishment caused by revealing heaven's secrets, it could also suppress evil and ward off disaster!

Its benefits were boundless!

If he encountered evil entities such as monsters, demons, or ghosts in the future, then with enough merit, he would only need to stand there to send every ghost fleeing!