Xiao Yu said, "Mr. Zhao Jun, you secretly embezzled two million yuan from your company to gamble. Thanks to the cheating skills you'd spent years honing, you won a fortune, then used that money to quit your job and become your own boss. Now you've bought a house and a car. You haven't found a wife yet, but you do keep two mistresses."
"You've had your fun with them but don't want to marry them, because you're hoping to find someone better. I have to admit, you've certainly got plenty of nerve, luck, and ambition."
"Oh, right. What do you think would happen if the casino you cheated back then found out about this?"
Those casually spoken words made Zhao Jun's expression change dramatically! He was so frightened that he even took a small step back!
Terror filled his eyes!
How was this possible?!
No one but him should have known that secret!!
The unknown was often the most frightening thing. At that moment, Zhao Jun felt a bone-chilling terror.
Tang Xiaoxiao burst out laughing and said scornfully, "So you're a fraud, yet you have the nerve to call yourself a self-made elite? You're nothing but a swindler through and through. You cheat people out of their money and get women into bed under false pretenses. You keep two mistresses, yet you have the gall to claim you're single and go on blind dates? And you even dared to call Master Xiao a fraud. Well? Isn't it shocking to hear Master Xiao expose a secret only you knew? How's that slap in the face? Does it hurt?"
Zhao Jun stopped cursing and kept muttering under his breath, "How is this possible? How does he know?"
Finally, looking as though he'd seen a ghost, his expression utterly miserable, he turned and ran!
Watching him flee in panic, Tang Xiaoxiao laughed so hard that she rocked back and forth, looking absolutely delighted.
"Master Xiao, you saved me again! If it weren't for you, I might have started dating him."
"I wouldn't call this saving you. At most, I helped you get rid of a minor nuisance."
"That's not how it works. If you hadn't shown up, I wouldn't have casually mentioned your name, and I certainly wouldn't have fallen out with him over you. In the end, he probably would've tricked me into dating him."
Xiao Yu smiled and gave her a long, meaningful look.
This girl's love life would be full of setbacks, just as his earlier divination had shown.
"Miss Tang, what made you decide to go on blind dates? With everything you have going for you, surely plenty of men are pursuing you? Your die-hard fan group alone has over eighty members."
Tang Xiaoxiao said glumly, "I'd been telling my family that I had a boyfriend, but then the guy I'd had a crush on for years turned out to be a scumbag gigolo. So I told my family we'd broken up. They got anxious and insisted I had to get married before the end of this year. What else could I do? That's why I started going on blind dates. I figured meeting someone in real life would be more practical and reliable than finding someone online! At least the guys are looking to get married too, right?"
For a moment, Xiao Yu didn't know what to say.
Tang Xiaoxiao stole a glance at Xiao Yu, then looked at Su Yunyi and Yuan Yu.
In the end, she lowered her head, still unable to bring herself to say what was on her mind.
With so many exceptional beauties lining up to pursue him, what chance did an ordinary girl like her have?
So she buried all those feelings.
"Miss Tang, what would you like to eat? Go ahead and order."
They ate and drank their fill.
Xiao Yu didn't think there was anything particularly special about the meal.
He wasn't a gourmet, either. Once the food was in his mouth, his verdict was simple: it tasted good.
But he wouldn't call it value for money. At best, it was decent, barely living up to the astronomical prices on the menu.
It cost more than a hundred times as much as an ordinary little restaurant, but the flavor certainly wasn't a hundred times better.
If he had to describe it, he would call it "the taste of money."
Every bite felt like eating bright red banknotes.
As for whether it was incomparably delicious and unforgettable, not necessarily.
Maybe I'm just not used to rich people's tastes, Xiao Yu thought.
Coming to a place like this once in a while was enough.
"Magic City has the highest cost of living in Huaxia, and the Night Banquet is the most expensive Chinese restaurant in Magic City. That means I just had the most expensive Chinese meal in all of Huaxia! Hehe, my life is complete. I'm perfectly satisfied!"
Only Su Yunyi, beautiful and alluring yet somehow a little stingy, could have made such a remark.
Given her means, even if she didn't eat here every day, coming every few days would have been no problem at all.
"This braised pork tastes pretty much the same as what I make myself. It works out to a hundred yuan per little piece of pork here. Does that mean I could sell mine for fifty yuan?"
That was Yuan Yu speaking. Xiao Yu hadn't expected her to be so confident in her cooking.
After dinner, they went shopping and bought clothes, then dropped Tang Xiaoxiao off. By the time Xiao Yu got home, it was past one in the morning.
That evening, Xiao Yu spent over five hundred thousand yuan.
After experiencing the lavish spending of the filthy rich, he had only one reaction.
That's it?
A fifty-thousand-yuan handmade suit from Europe, an eighty-thousand-yuan watch, shoes costing over ten thousand yuan-he bought bag after bag, and almost nothing was cheap.
Yet after buying it all, Xiao Yu simply couldn't get comfortable wearing it. He changed back into his street-stall clothes and casually stuffed the expensive outfit into a bag.
If Su Yunyi hadn't winced at the sight and carefully packed it away again for him, the clothes probably would have been a mess by the time he got home.
He'd spent the money and experienced the daily life of the rich. There was nothing special about it. It was downright boring.
He hadn't even felt much joy in spending money. Instead, he'd received several disdainful looks from people who thought he was living off a woman.
Visit the mall, buy clothes, pay, go home. That was all.
After unwinding, Xiao Yu returned to his busy routine over the next few days.
He cultivated at night and made protective jade charms during the day.
But without livestreaming fortune-telling or stealing heavenly fortune, his cultivation made no progress whatsoever. Apart from cultivating on the first night, he simply went straight to sleep on the nights that followed.
A week passed in the blink of an eye.
The renovation of his shop was complete, and all the protective jade charms had been finished and shipped out. He had received nearly all the payments, too.
During that time, the talismans from President Qi, Qi Zihong, arrived as well. After confirming they were genuine, Xiao Yu asked him to buy them all on his behalf.
Exactly one hundred talismans were delivered. Xiao Yu performed a quick divination on his fingers, made a phone call, and secured a long-term business arrangement.
With that, Xiao Yu could obtain a total of one hundred and thirty talismans each month from the two shops.
He turned all one hundred of these talismans into Heart-Clearing Talismans.
He had come to realize that, these days, serious illness was what ordinary people feared most.
Besides, the protective jade charms could serve as substitutes for Evil-Repelling Talismans.
As thanks, Xiao Yu drew five Heart-Clearing Talismans and mailed them to President Qi as a free gift.
He'd had his fun and gotten his rest.
So, after a week away, Xiao Yu turned on his computer again.
"Welcome to my livestream, everyone! Ah, I was banned for a whole week. I've really missed you, my dear viewers!"
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