This Uncanny Streamer Was Fucking Amazing

With people sending Rockets one after another and the livestream buzzing with chat messages everywhere,

Xiao Yu's stream had become extremely popular despite having only a little over a hundred viewers.

Passing viewers found it strange. These days, fortune-telling was practically synonymous with scamming, so why were people still sending gifts?

Most dismissed it, assuming the streamer was sending himself gifts to lure people into his scam.

But a small number joined out of curiosity.

"This is so fake. It's obviously a staged double act."

"This script's been done to death."

"Hey, gorgeous, with looks like yours, you could do anything. Why become a scammer?"

"Tomorrow, huh? Is that so you can keep rehearsing?"

The newcomers only had a vague idea of what had happened, so naturally, they didn't believe a word of it.

Only the hundred or so viewers who had been there from the beginning and seen everything unfold believed it wasn't scripted.

This time, though, Xiao Yu didn't need to prove himself again. Zhao Yan already revered him like a god!

Career, love, family, the future-she wanted him to read it all!

Zhao Yan sneered. "You newcomers should shut the hell up if you don't know anything. If you think this is staged, ask the streamer for a reading yourselves. If he gets it wrong, you don't pay. But if he gets it right, you have to send a Rocket."

After saying that, she suddenly froze.

Hadn't she been exactly the same before coming here? Yet now she was defending the streamer and mocking other people for their ignorance.

"Well, well, this scammer's pretty cocky! Any big shots want to step in?"

"Waiting for someone to expose this fortune-telling scam!"

"Me! Me! Streamer, I'm not doubting you. I genuinely want a reading! Please don't get the wrong idea!"

As he spoke, the viewer sent a Rocket up front to show his sincerity.

Zhao Yan added, "This 'No Filter' is also one of Xiaoxiao's fans. He watched the whole thing, so he probably isn't here to cause trouble."

Xiao Yu didn't care whether someone was trying to cause trouble, much less get angry about it.

"Bro, let's connect over video."

"Sure thing! Thanks, Xiao Yu!"

The connection went through, the video flickered, and a university dorm room appeared.

Four young men were gathered around a computer.

"Xiao Yu, my name's Liu Bo. These three are my roommates, and they're all watching. They'll come support your stream another day, but right now, I want to know-we're brothers for life, so can we actually stay best buddies forever? We're about to graduate from our senior year, so..."

Xiao Yu looked at his expectant face and sighed. "Forget forever. You've only got a few years at most. Next year, you'll rush into marriage with a girl, and after that, you'll start seeing less of your buddies."

"But... Xiao Yu, is there really no way? Marriage is marriage, and brothers are brothers..."

"Master, help them out, won't you? Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei swore brotherhood in the Peach Garden back in the day. Why can't people do that now?"

"Streamer, since you've figured it out, shouldn't you offer a solution?"

Perhaps readings about brotherhood were relatively rare, or perhaps they could relate, but quite a few viewers chimed in to support him.

Xiao Yu scratched his head. People who valued friends more than romance or their own prospects really were rare.

He'd thought Liu Bo would at least ask who his future bride was.

"It's not completely hopeless. After you get married, your friends won't be doing as well as you, and they'll often ask to borrow money. Your future wife won't like that... Forced to choose between your family and your friends, you'll choose the former."

"But now I've told you all this in advance. Whether you can keep both depends on all of you... If they know it'll ruin your marriage, will they still ask you for money? If you know they'll ask you for money regardless of what happens to your marriage, will you still lend it to them?"

Liu Bo was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected it to come down to such a simple, perfectly understandable issue of money.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up. "Master, then all I have to do is earn more money, right? In that case, I'd like another reading..."

"Once a day. Don't get greedy."

"Sorry, Master! I'll come back tomorrow! Oh, my buddy wants a reading too. Is that okay?"

As he spoke, he sent another Rocket and pushed one of the young men beside him in front of the computer.

"Hmm, I was going to call it a day... All right, since you've already sent the Rocket, this will be the last reading."

"Thank you, Master!"

Xiao Yu glanced at the slightly shy young man and said casually, "You don't need to say anything. Zhang Ye, male, twenty-one. You want to ask about love, right? Sorry, that girl isn't right for you. I suggest you stop pursuing her. You can win her over, but she'll dump you two years later, saying you're too poor. In fact, she'll get a new boyfriend a year into your relationship... Your 'love' won't come until you're forty-five, when you pay for a girlfriend..."

"Wait, Master... I haven't even said anything yet! But you're incredible! You even figured out my name!" Zhang Ye looked like he wanted to cry but couldn't. "I don't want to be all alone until I'm forty-five! And what the hell does buying a girlfriend mean?? I could at least understand buying a wife..."

"Pfft, hahahaha! A bought girlfriend? Obviously, it's a robot!!! Haven't they already made those? How do you not get it?"

"Buying a robot girlfriend at forty-five, hahahaha! Fuck, I laughed so hard I started crying. I feel like I might not even be able to afford one by then!"

"To the guy above, I suggest getting into anime and marrying a two-dimensional waifu!"

"Awesome. This streamer really seems amazing. It doesn't feel like an act, but if it's real, that's seriously uncanny. Anyway, I'm following him!"

"Is that it for today? I'll be back tomorrow. After watching for a few more days, I'll know whether he's really that good. There's actually something I want a reading about too!"

"Who doesn't have something they want a reading about these days? This uncanny streamer is fucking amazing. I'm getting in line-give me a reading tomorrow! I want to experience it myself!"

Xiao Yu played with the dense clumps of white mist in his hand.

These were the heavenly fortune he had stolen through Defying Heaven and Changing Fate-the power of cause and effect!

He smiled leisurely. "Everything supposedly destined to happen is nothing more than a joke Heaven plays on you, shackles it forces upon you. That's all. If you want a reading, want to change your future, want to defy Heaven and change your fate, remember to come support the stream tomorrow."

"Streamer, what time tomorrow?"

"Xiao Yu, do you have a Penguin Group? Make a fan group!"

"Master, will it still cost one Rocket tomorrow? Looks like loads of people want readings. How can I get a turn? Will you start limiting the number tomorrow?"

"There'll be a limit tomorrow too, but I'll work out the exact rules after I go offline and announce them tomorrow... As for the starting time, let's stick with five in the afternoon. I haven't created a chat group yet. If you're interested, make one yourselves and invite me later. Anyway, that's it for today's stream. See you tomorrow."

With that, he breezily ended the stream.

He had now gained over a hundred followers.

It was an insignificant little number, but it was still a good start.

Those Rockets and Super Rockets amounted to a decent bit of income too.

But after doing the calculations, he discovered that the amount he could withdraw was less than half the gifts' value!

This platform really was a rip-off.

He contacted his landlord, transferred the money to pay off his overdue rent, and went out for a meal. After that, there was barely anything left in his account.