Xiao Yu had deliberately left another part unsaid.
This time, Cao Xiaoya had not been so lucky. The family abroad had beaten her often.
Not only had they beaten her, but they had also left her hungry and cold.
Her life had been utterly miserable, filled with unbearable suffering.
Picking through garbage, working as a child laborer, gathering coal along railroad tracks, walking two hours to fetch water-that had been her daily life as a child.
Xiao Yu was afraid the Cao family would not be able to bear hearing too much detail.
"After surviving an impoverished childhood and growing up, she married a man of Chinese descent, started a family, and had three daughters and a son. But after returning to China, they divorced over incompatible personalities, and she got custody of all the children."
In truth, her marriage had been fraught with hardships too. Domestic violence had once again been the reason for the divorce, and the children had been dumped on her as unwanted burdens.
But Xiao Yu saw no need to go into detail, because those hardships could not compare with what she had suffered as a child.
Xiao Yu paused, then summed it up. "Although Cao Xiaoya suffered terribly in the past, she's actually been doing quite well lately!"
Hearing Xiao Yu say that, Cao Yuan's strained expression eased considerably.
With the livestream viewers offering their goofy words of comfort, the atmosphere did not become too heavy either.
"Uncle Cao, even without me, you would have reunited sooner or later. Your eldest daughter, Cao Xiaoya, has been trying to find you too."
Cao Yuan hurriedly said, "Thank you, Master Xiao. I'll go bring her home right now! Where is she? Can you divine that?"
"She currently lives in Shengsi County and works at a breakfast shop on Third-Crossing Road. The owner is a good man, and he's very fond of her. He provides room and board for her and all four children, and pays her above the local average. She's practically family already. She just hasn't decided whether to get together with him yet, since that would affect her search for her parents."
Tears filled Cao Yuan's eyes as he choked out, "I'll get my wife and younger daughter right now. We'll all go together and bring her home! Thank you, Master Xiao. Thank you so much. Once our family is reunited, we'll definitely come to Magic City and present you with a plaque! I'll kneel and kowtow to thank you in person!"
Xiao Yu was deeply moved.
"Mr. Cao, if you'd like, I can give you the owner's phone number. Through him, you can contact the daughter you've been separated from for so many years right now. With a video call, you could even see her immediately."
"R-really? Really?! Yes, I want the number! Master Xiao, please give it to me!"
"I'll send it in a private message so we don't expose his personal information."
"Thank you, Master Xiao, thank you! I'll call right now to confirm! Honey! Honey!"
What followed next...
The 120,000 people in the livestream witnessed a real-life happy reunion unfold.
Cao Yuan had never told his wife that he was consulting a fortune-teller online to find their daughter.
So when his wife heard about it, her first reaction was to roll her eyes and snap, "You believe the bullshit some fortune-telling scammer tells you? Did a donkey kick you in the head? Got so much money you need to throw it away? How many years has Xiao Ya been missing? Stop bringing this up!"
"Master Xiao, someone's calling you a scammer again! Hahaha!"
"Master Xiao says: I'm used to it by now."
"LOL."
"Waiting for the turnaround!"
"Here for the show!"
Cao Yuan said urgently, "You foolish woman, I won't let you insult Master Xiao! He hasn't just divined where our Xiao Ya is-he's even worked out the phone number! If you don't believe it, we'll call right now! We'll know immediately whether it's true!"
"The phone number?? He even worked out the phone number?? How could that be? That's impossible. Nothing in this world could be that miraculous! Impossible!"
Although she kept saying it was impossible and that she did not believe it...
The middle-aged woman's eyes were already brimming with tears, and her entire body was trembling violently.
Even a blind person could have seen the longing and hope in her eyes.
Just then, a young woman ran into view. She had ordinary features and was not especially beautiful, but she brimmed with youthful energy and was certainly not unattractive. She looked like any girl next door.
"Dad, you said you found my sister? Is that really true?"
"It's true, it's true! I even have a phone number. I'm calling right now!"
At that moment...
Cao Yuan's wife and daughter held their breath, anxious and hopeful.
The 120,000 viewers in the livestream were all watching too.
They could see that Cao Yuan's hand was shaking terribly as he held his phone.
With almost every digit he dialed, he had to take a deep breath, his hand trembling several times.
Finally, as he entered the last digit, the phone began to ring.
Ring-
"Hello?"
The call connected!
Trembling and stumbling over his words, Cao Yuan spoke in his far-from-standard Mandarin. "H-hello, I'm Cao Yuan. No, I mean, I'm Cao Xiaoya's father. Is Cao Xiaoya there? Wait, sorry-is this the breakfast shop on Third-Crossing Road in Shengsi County? Do you have a twenty-five-year-old female employee with three daughters and a son?!"
"..."
There was a brief silence.
Everyone's heart leaped into their throat.
Everyone was tense.
They were terrified that the man on the phone would say, "You have the wrong number."
But then...
He answered.
"Yes, I have an employee named Cao Xiaoya, with three daughters and a son... You're the father she's been separated from all these years?? I can hardly believe it. How on earth did you find my phone number? Never mind that. I'll take the phone to her right now so you two can talk!"
"Hahaha, hahahaha!! Honey, Xiao Qian, did you hear that?! I found her! I found her! I found Xiao Ya! Hahaha, I really found Xiao Ya!! Master Xiao, thank you!!"
The livestream erupted!
A few seconds later...
A woman's voice came through Cao Yuan's phone, filled with excitement and disbelief.
"Dad? Is that you, Dad? It's Xiao Ya, Cao Xiaoya!"
Her voice was laden with endless sorrow and choked with tears.
The moment she called out, "It's Xiao Ya, Cao Xiaoya"...
The livestream chat exploded!
"Everyone, on your feet!!"
"Ohhhhh!!"
"Ohhhhh!!"
"Ohhhhh!!"
"Ohhhhh!!"
At that very moment, in that single instant...
An astonishing barrage of over a hundred thousand comments erupted at once!
Xiao Yu saw his computer screen freeze for a moment before a dense flood of colorful "ohhhh" comments swept across it!
Along with the comments came a bombardment of gifts of every kind!
From the most expensive Super Rockets, worth 2,000 yuan each, to the cheapest free gifts, they poured in at an unimaginably frenzied rate.
It was a celebration, a cheer, and an outpouring of everyone's most heartfelt blessings and joy.
In that instant, the livestream's popularity multiplied more than a hundredfold, rocketing from somewhere in the teens to first place across the entire platform!
Xiao Yu's fortune-telling livestream had reached number one in popularity!!
First in popularity, first in gifts, first in engagement!
Right on its heels came a frenzy of system announcements!
Whenever someone sent a Super Rocket, a system announcement went out across the entire platform.
Each announcement took about five seconds from appearing on-screen to disappearing.
One Super Rocket meant five seconds; a hundred still meant five seconds.
But...
Never before had any streamer...
Made that announcement refresh nonstop!!
That meant many people were sending gifts at the same time! It also meant Xiao Yu had deeply moved countless people and given them an incredible rush!
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