Recaps

Xiao Yu addressed the online backlash stirred up by Kim Jeong-tae and defended Liu Shan’s fortune-telling, while Wei Zhuo’s platform crackdown silenced abusive commenters. Xiao Yu then announced he would reveal the truth live using his phone.

• Xiao Yu explained how Kim Jeong-tae’s accusations had turned the dispute into a controversy about whether Liu Shan scammed people, and Qi Zihong urged viewers to watch the fortune-reading recordings.
• Xiao Yu’s supporters backed him as moderators muted trolls who kept posting abuse.
• Wei Zhuo announced that abusive users would be treated as paid trolls and banned their accounts, then published a list of banned commenters and their personal information.
• The exposed trolls’ phones went offline, and the insulting comments about Xiao Yu disappeared.
• Xiao Yu said he would settle the matter fairly in front of the internet and took out his phone.

Kim Jeong-tae staged a public confrontation with Xiao Yu, using fabricated messages to rile up his fans and attract gifts. When he called President Park on stream, he learned the company had abandoned their plan and ordered him to apologize to Master Xiao or risk being blacklisted.

• Kim Jeong-tae dismissed warnings about Xiao Yu’s stream and accused Xiao Yu of trying to bully and bribe him.
• Kim Jeong-tae displayed fake private messages that he had sent to himself, prompting his fans to send gifts and urge him to fight Xiao Yu.
• Kim Jeong-tae called President Park on speakerphone, expecting the company to publicly support him.
• President Park told Kim Jeong-tae that the chairman had canceled their plan and ordered him to disavow Kim Jeong-tae’s actions.
• President Park warned Kim Jeong-tae to apologize to Master Xiao and stop bringing the company bad publicity, or the company would blacklist him.

Kim Jeong-tae’s live phone call exposed his scheme to deceive fans and maliciously claim a refund, prompting his viewers to revolt and the company to permanently ban him and offer gift refunds. As Kim Jeong-tae feared the financial and reputational fallout, Xiao Yu’s fans celebrated and sent gifts to increase his losses.

• Kim Jeong-tae realized his call with the company president had been broadcast live and fainted as fans confronted him over the revealed plan.
• Kim Jeong-tae’s viewers accused him of deceiving them, called for unfollows and refunds, and flooded the stream with “RNM Refund.”
• The company permanently banned Kim Jeong-tae and announced that deceived fans could request refunds for gifts sent that day.
• Kim Jeong-tae learned that refunds could cost him far more than his share of the gifts, especially after people sent more expensive gifts following the announcement.
• Xiao Yu’s fans celebrated Kim Jeong-tae’s ban and sent large gifts, believing he would have to cover much of their value.

After Kim Jeong-tae’s defeat, Xiao Yu resumed his livestream by offering free fortune-telling and a charitable gift drive. The donations overwhelmed Yanjing Live Network Company’s servers, but Wei Zhuo got the stream running again and celebrated the platform’s sudden international fame.

• Song Qingrong urged Xiao Yu to tell fortunes live, and Xiao Yu offered three one-yuan cash packets for viewers who won the slots.
• Song Qingrong joked that Xiao Yu had broken the internet’s livestream record but lost three yuan, and viewers joined in laughing.
• Wei Zhuo opened a gift channel that sent all proceeds to the Red Cross Society and awarded donors double Fan Badge Experience Points.
• Viewers, celebrities, and wealthy donors sent so many gifts that Yanjing Live Network Company’s servers crashed.
• Wei Zhuo spent more than a million yuan on extra servers, and the livestream returned after being down for over ten minutes.
• The data department reported that donations had topped a billion yuan, and Wei Zhuo celebrated the company’s newfound fame while praising Xiao Yu.

Song Qingrong and Tan Ling urged Master Xiao to expose the online troll Wind Rises, Clouds Surge during a record-breaking livestream. As Master Xiao began his divination, the story revealed that the troll was Li Qifeng, a resentful former university classmate of Xiao Yu watching from a factory dormitory.

• Song Qingrong failed to win a fortune-telling slot but hoped Master Xiao could identify Wind Rises, Clouds Surge.
• Tan Ling used her chance to ask Master Xiao to reveal the troll’s true circumstances and make him answer for his online abuse.
• Livestream viewers, including Song Qingrong, tagged Wind Rises, Clouds Surge and challenged him to appear.
• Master Xiao warned Tan Ling that she was using a rare opportunity, but she insisted that exposing the troll was worth it.
• Master Xiao closed his eyes and began his divination as Song Qingrong anticipated the troll’s public exposure.
• Li Qifeng watched from a factory dormitory and sneered at the idea that Master Xiao could find him, resenting Xiao Yu’s success as their former classmate.

Li Qifeng refused Xiao Yu’s call and denied being the online critic “Wind Rises, Clouds Surge,” even after Xiao Yu identified him and exposed his workplace on livestream. When his employer brought him another call from Xiao Yu and threatened to fire him, Li Qifeng still refused to answer.

• Li Qifeng rejected an unknown call, blocked the number, and convinced himself Xiao Yu had called by coincidence.
• A roommate suspected Li Qifeng was “Wind Rises, Clouds Surge,” and Xiao Yu identified Li Qifeng, his university, and his job at Perfect Canned Fruit during the livestream.
• Li Qifeng changed his Bilibili username to “ds5567,” but Xiao Yu immediately announced the new name, prompting his roommate to seize his phone and the two to fight.
• The factory owner, manager, and supervisor arrived with Li Qifeng’s coworkers and told him Xiao Yu wanted to speak to him.
• The owner threatened to fire Li Qifeng if he refused to take the call, but Li Qifeng denied being the online critic and refused again.

Xiao Yu’s livestream exposed Li Qifeng as the online abuser Wind Rises, Clouds Surge, and Li apologized to protect his year-end bonus. After viewers celebrated and sent gifts, Xiao Yu began a new fortune-telling session with Red Sleeve Adds Fragrance, who challenged him to prove his abilities again.

• Li Qifeng’s roommate revealed his Bilibili username, and the boss seized his phone and confirmed his abusive comments to Master Xiao.
• The boss pressured Li Qifeng to call Xiao Yu and apologize under his comments or lose his year-end bonus, and Li reluctantly agreed.
• Li Qifeng apologized, then deleted his account as livestream viewers mocked him and sent gifts to support Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu thanked Tan Ling, ended her fortune-telling session, and welcomed the next lucky winner, Red Sleeve Adds Fragrance.
• Red Sleeve Adds Fragrance praised Xiao Yu but said the incident did not prove fortune-telling was real and asked him to demonstrate his ability again.

Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to test a forbidden art that could alter present reality and affect the future, choosing Ishikawa Nanami as his test subject. The chapter ended with the consequences of his experiment still unknown.

• Ishikawa Nanami challenged Xiao Yu to reveal one of her secrets and offered to become a major fan if he succeeded.
• Xiao Yu entered his fortune-telling moment, where his thoughts accelerated while time seemed to stop outside.
• Xiao Yu decided to test the forbidden art of reversing reality on Ishikawa Nanami, reasoning that she was Japanese.
• Xiao Yu discovered that Ishikawa Nanami was about to be forced into a marriage alliance her family had not yet announced.
• Xiao Yu considered how altering established facts could change future outcomes, potentially creating false evidence, wrongful convictions, or unsolved crimes.

Xiao Yu used the forbidden art Reversal of Reality to change Ishikawa Nanami’s settled marriage alliance into a cancellation, then predicted she would receive confirmation within minutes. As Ishikawa waited for the call, Xiao Yu remained silent about whether he had intervened to help her, and her phone suddenly rang.

• Xiao Yu cast Reversal of Reality to force the marriage alliance to be canceled, spending nearly one percent of his accumulated merit.
• Xiao Yu told Ishikawa Nanami that the marriage alliance would be canceled and that she would receive notice in about five minutes.
• Ishikawa Nanami doubted the prediction but grew excited as she waited for the promised notice.
• When Ishikawa asked whether Xiao Yu had intervened to save her happiness, he shook his head without explaining.
• Ishikawa Nanami’s phone suddenly rang.

Ishikawa Nanami learned that the Maeda Family had engineered her family’s downfall, and she begged Xiao Yu to save the Ishikawa Family. Xiao Yu agreed to visit Japan the next day, then ended the call to welcome the livestream’s final guest.

• Ishikawa Nanami’s father called off her marriage and told her that the Maeda Family was trying to take over the Ishikawa Family’s assets.
• Ishikawa Nanami told her father that Xiao Yu had predicted the call and promised to ask him for help; her father made the family’s future her responsibility and offered her the position of family head if she succeeded.
• Ishikawa Nanami knelt before Xiao Yu on the livestream and offered to serve him or marry him in exchange for his help.
• Xiao Yu rejected her offer to repay him that way, then considered how his forbidden technique had brought the Ishikawa Family’s crisis forward and decided he had to help clean up the consequences.
• Xiao Yu told Ishikawa Nanami that he would visit her in Japan the next day, then ended the call and welcomed the livestream’s final guest.

Kim Jeong-tae pretended to be ruined by Master Xiao to win sympathy and sell counterfeit Azur Lane Mystery cosmetics to his remaining fans. After his girlfriend warned him that someone had threatened legal action unless he recalled the products, he blamed Master Xiao and continued selling.

• Kim Jeong-tae falsely claimed that Master Xiao and the Company had ruined his life, though he still lived in a villa with his girlfriend and drove a luxury car.
• Kim Jeong-tae used his sob story to persuade his remaining fans to buy expensive Azur Lane Mystery cosmetics, which he knew were counterfeit.
• Kim Jeong-tae celebrated as hundreds of sets sold, then planned to build a single-father persona to keep profiting from sympathy.
• Kim Jeong-tae's girlfriend returned from a phone call and warned him to recall the cosmetics and stop selling or face a lawsuit.
• Kim Jeong-tae dismissed the warning, blamed Master Xiao, and continued his livestream sales.

Kim Jeong-tae profited from selling counterfeit goods on livestream, but Song Qingrong sued him in South Korea after documenting the fraud. Convinced he could win with a top lawyer, Kim Jeong-tae went with Choi Su-jin to meet one she found online.

• Kim Jeong-tae made a large profit selling counterfeit goods during his livestream.
• Song Qingrong bought counterfeit goods, obtained a professional appraisal, and sued Kim Jeong-tae in a South Korean court.
• Kim Jeong-tae received the court summons and blamed Xiao, while Choi Su-jin urged him to find a lawyer.
• Choi Su-jin found an online legal team claiming to have a leader's personal lawyer and a perfect win rate, and arranged a consultation.
• Kim Jeong-tae praised Choi Su-jin and went with her to meet the supposed lawyer.

Kim Jeong-tae and Choi Su-jin visited Jiang Yulin, a lawyer who used flashy advertising and a fabricated hundred percent win rate to scam clients. After Kim described his case one-sidedly, Jiang called out his evasions and made him promise to tell the full story.

• Kim Jeong-tae and Choi Su-jin arrived at Jiang Yulin's lavishly furnished rented storefront, believing her online claims of a hundred percent win rate.
• Jiang charged ten million per hour for consultations and explained that she excluded unwinnable cases from her claimed record.
• Kim accepted Jiang's explanation, then described his online harassment, product livestreaming, malicious reports, and court summons as though everyone else had wronged him.
• Jiang challenged Kim's account, pointed out that a summons implied evidence, and told him to stop hiding facts if he wanted to win.
• Choi Su-jin tugged Kim's sleeve, and Kim admitted he had made himself look better before agreeing to start over and tell the story accurately.

Kim Jeong-tae misled Jiang Yulin about his counterfeit sales and hired her to pursue a publicity-seeking case against Xiao Yu, while his own civil trial over the counterfeit goods began. The judge grew impatient with Kim’s unsupported attacks on Xiao Yu and leaned toward Song Qingrong.

• Kim Jeong-tae gave Jiang Yulin a distorted account that blamed Xiao Yu and the platform for his situation, leading her to devise a misguided legal strategy.
• Jiang Yulin advised Kim that he could drag out compensation payments and suggested suing Xiao Yu for defamation or promoting superstition.
• Kim agreed to pay Jiang five hundred million for two cases, hoping a lawsuit against Xiao Yu would restore his reputation and bring him traffic.
• At the hearing, Song Qingrong and her lawyer presented evidence about Kim’s counterfeit goods while Kim disparaged Xiao Yu without evidence.
• The judge became fed up with Kim’s irrelevant accusations and began leaning toward Song Qingrong.

Kim Jeong-tae lost his counterfeit-goods lawsuit and then won a separate case against Xiao Yu for promoting superstition, using the verdict to revive his career and slander Xiao Yu. When Xiao Yu learned that Song Qingrong had gone to South Korea to sue Kim Jeong-tae for defamation, he discovered she was likely to lose because the judge had been bribed and decided to go support her.

• Kim Jeong-tae lost Song Qingrong’s lawsuit, receiving an order to refund the money and pay compensation and a fine that ruined his prospects as a streamer.
• Jiang Yulin falsely claimed her court strategy had saved Kim Jeong-tae from a fraud conviction, and Kim Jeong-tae and Choi Su-jin thanked her with a cash gift.
• Kim Jeong-tae and Choi Su-jin sued Xiao Yu for promoting superstition, won without Xiao Yu ever receiving a summons, and used the verdict to attack his reputation in South Korea.
• Liu Shan told Xiao Yu that Song Qingrong had returned to South Korea to sue Kim Jeong-tae for defamation after his paid trolls targeted her online.
• Xiao Yu calculated that Song Qingrong would lose because the South Korean judge had been bribed, then decided to travel to South Korea with Liu Shan to support her.

Xiao Yu and Liu Shan met Song Qingrong and Li Ruzhi, who planned to expose Kim Jeong-tae’s lawyer and her associates, but Xiao Yu warned that the case looked unfavorable. At the hotel, Xiao Yu watched Kim Jeong-tae’s viral video portraying himself as a victim, and Song Qingrong vowed to destroy his reputation in court.

• Song Qingrong introduced Li Ruzhi, known as Li Si, who said he intended to win the case and expose lawyer Jiang Yulin as a fraud.
• Xiao Yu warned Li Ruzhi that the lawsuit’s outlook might be poor, leading Li to suspect the judge had fixed the outcome and rush off to find evidence.
• Liu Shan reasoned that Xiao Yu’s warning could only mean the judge had taken bribes.
• Xiao Yu followed Song Qingrong to a hotel, where she showed him Kim Jeong-tae’s video accusing him of cyberbullying and driving Kim toward suicide.
• Song Qingrong said Li Ruzhi was investigating Kim’s claims and the girl in the video, and she vowed to ruin Kim’s reputation in court.

After Kim Jeong-tae’s video sparked a wave of abuse against Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu decided to retaliate by helping lawyer Li Ruzhi prepare for the trial. As Kim Jeong-tae livestreamed ahead of the hearing, police arrived at his villa to investigate allegations against him.

• Xiao Yu watched Kim Jeong-tae’s video and, angered by the online abuse, decided to stop holding back and destroy him.
• Xiao Yu gave Li Ruzhi an address connected to the little girl and promised to provide evidence of the judge taking bribes before the trial.
• Xiao Yu warned Li Ruzhi that someone would attack him after the trial and urged him to prepare a surprise for the attacker.
• Xiao Yu told Li Ruzhi several damaging stories about Kim Jeong-tae, and Li Ruzhi vowed to win the case or quit law.
• Kim Jeong-tae livestreamed from his villa with his daughter as he continued playing the victim ahead of the trial.
• Police entered Kim Jeong-tae’s villa and said they were investigating reports that he had pressured female fans to drink with him and used bedroom photos to threaten them.

Police arrested Kim Jeong-tae during his livestream over allegations that he had coerced female fans, and they took away the little girl he had presented as his daughter. As Choi Su-jin ended the stream, viewers exposed his fabricated sob story and his public image collapsed.

• Police officers confronted Kim Jeong-tae with allegations that he had forced female fans to entertain people and used intimate photos to threaten them.
• Choi Su-jin challenged the officers, but they warned Kim Jeong-tae against resisting and took him into custody.
• The officers took the little girl from Kim Jeong-tae, saying they would return her to her real parents and question her parents about using her as a swindler.
• Kim Jeong-tae told Choi Su-jin to end the livestream and reassure viewers before he followed the officers, leaving him unable to attend the next day's court hearing.
• Viewers connected the arrest to the girl's false identity, Kim Jeong-tae's villa, and his history of exploiting women, and his public persona collapsed.

Kim Jeong-tae’s livestream account was permanently banned, and Song Qingrong mocked South Korean internet users online over his arrest. As Xiao Yu’s group gathered for the defamation hearing, Li Ruzhi revealed evidence linking the presiding judge to a bribe, while Jiang Yulin arrived confident that the case was already decided.

• The platform permanently banned Kim Jeong-tae’s account and channel after the livestream exposed his fraud and crimes.
• Song Qingrong celebrated Kim Jeong-tae’s downfall, then posted a provocative video mocking South Korean internet users and challenging them to await the court’s decision.
• At the courthouse, Xiao Yu gave Li Ruzhi a judge’s phone containing chat records and payment receipts, and Li Ruzhi explained how the evidence could expose the judge without appearing to have been planted.
• Choi Su-jin and Jiang Yulin arrived for the defendant’s side; Choi Su-jin avoided the others’ eyes, while Jiang Yulin confidently expected to win the hearing.

At pretrial mediation, Jiang Yulin rejected a settlement on behalf of Kim Jeong-tae, persuading Choi Su-jin that fighting the case would save her money. The sides proceeded to a formal trial, where the judge opened court.

• The mediator urged Song Qingrong to settle, while Choi Su-jin considered accepting mediation to avoid further trouble for Kim Jeong-tae.
• Jiang Yulin rejected mediation and accused Song Qingrong of defaming Kim Jeong-tae and trying to profit from his traffic.
• Song Qingrong persuaded Choi Su-jin that a trial could be a guaranteed win and save her legal fees, and Choi Su-jin agreed to proceed.
• Li Ruzhi welcomed the refusal to mediate, and the mediator announced that the case would go to trial.
• The parties took their places in the courtroom, and the judge opened the session.

Song Qingrong and Li Ruzhi presented evidence in their defamation case against Kim Jeong-tae, but the judge rejected their arguments and openly sided with the defendants. Li Ruzhi realized the case could not be won fairly, while Master Xiao’s presence offered a way to overcome the opposing side’s advantages.

• Song Qingrong and Li Ruzhi submitted videos, screenshots, and a medical report alleging that Kim Jeong-tae had incited online abuse and caused Song Qingrong and Xiao Yu severe depression.
• The judge rejected the evidence, disputing the medical report’s validity and saying Li Ruzhi had not proved that Kim Jeong-tae caused or directed the cyberbullying.
• Li Ruzhi recognized that the judge was taking sides and using word games to undermine the case.
• Li Ruzhi understood why Master Xiao had predicted they could not win, but recalled that Master Xiao could use his cultivation to destroy the opposition’s advantages.

Li Ruzhi set aside Kim Jeong-tae’s case and accused Jiang Yulin and her law firm of organized fraud, then presented evidence that implicated the judge in bribery. The judge and Jiang Yulin were left facing police investigation as the hearing spiraled into a series of accusations.

• Li Ruzhi asked the judge to set aside Kim Jeong-tae’s case and submitted evidence accusing Jiang Yulin and six other law firm members of organized fraud.
• The judge reviewed the evidence, discovered Jiang Yulin’s phone matched the contact information, and ordered police to take her for questioning.
• After bailiffs took Jiang Yulin away, Li Ruzhi submitted a phone and accused the judge of accepting bribes.
• Li Ruzhi challenged the judge to summon the bailiffs or let him call the police, and the judge realized he was in serious trouble.

Li Ruzhi won the overseas defamation case, leading to the arrest of Kim Jeong-tae’s lawyer and the judge, while Choi Su-jin also faced a bribery charge. After police foiled Kim Jeong-tae’s planned attack on Li Ruzhi and Song Qingrong, Xiao Yu and the others returned to Huaxia, where Li Ruzhi and Song Qingrong thanked him.

• Li Ruzhi exposed bribery in court, and the judge and Kim Jeong-tae’s lawyer were taken into custody.
• Li Ruzhi warned Choi Su-jin that she would face charges over the bribery and declared victory in the case.
• Song Qingrong reported the outcome to Huaxia, where online fans celebrated Li Ruzhi’s win and Kim Jeong-tae’s downfall.
• Police arrested the thugs Kim Jeong-tae had hired to attack Song Qingrong and Li Ruzhi, adding assault charges to his case.
• Xiao Yu and the others returned to Huaxia, and Li Ruzhi and Song Qingrong thanked Xiao Yu for helping protect them and win the case.

After the court case, Xiao Yu invited Li Ruzhi and Song Qingrong to his shop for readings. He asked Li Ruzhi to choose between revenge and finding love, then began telling him about Lan Yuqing’s future to explain the choice.

• Song Qingrong and Li Ruzhi thanked Xiao Yu, and he invited them to his shop for fortune-telling.
• At the shop, Xiao Yu read Li Ruzhi’s past and learned that his pursuit of law had been driven by a desire to avenge his mother against his father and the mistress who broke up his family.
• Xiao Yu asked Li Ruzhi to choose between punishing the woman and finding perfect love, warning that choosing one would cost him the other.
• Li Ruzhi said he would rather find love but asked Xiao Yu to explain why the two choices were connected before he decided.
• Xiao Yu began recounting the future story of Lan Yuqing, a twenty-five-year-old doctoral student whose turning point would come four years later.

The chapter described a future in which Lan Yuqing persuaded her secretary Feng Jing to sleep with a lawyer for help with her stepmother’s lawsuit, but opposing lawyer Li Si exposed them and got them all convicted. It left Lan Yuqing consumed by anger and hatred toward the person who had caused this future.

• Feng Jing feared her volatile boss, Lan Yuqing, who asked her to meet someone after work and explained that her stepmother faced a lawsuit threatening the family company.
• Lan Yuqing offered Feng Jing increasing sums of money to sleep with the family’s hired lawyer, and Feng Jing eventually agreed.
• Feng Jing slept with the lawyer, received promotions and pay raises, and later accompanied Lan Yuqing to court as her chief secretary general.
• Li Si represented the opposing side, overwhelmed the Demon Lawyer, and sued Lan Yuqing, Feng Jing, their lawyer, and the company during the trial.
• The court convicted Feng Jing of prostitution, Lan Yuqing of inciting and forcing prostitution, the Demon Lawyer of multiple crimes, and Lan Yuqing’s mother lost her case; they were all detained.
• Feng Jing blamed Lan Yuqing for ruining her life, and the two cried together as Lan Yuqing silently grew furious and resolved to hate the person responsible for this future.