Chapter Summaries

Liu Ze, a fake Taoist who had swindled Liu Zheng out of two million yuan, learned that Xiao Yu had uncovered his scam and ordered him to return the money and turn himself in. He gave up on fleeing and set out to recover the funds, lamenting that scamming was too dangerous.

• Liu Ze recalled how he had begun posing as Master Liu and used staged supernatural tricks to cheat villagers before targeting Liu Zheng with help from a fellow townsman.
• Liu Ze received a call from Xiao Yu, who identified himself and unnerved Liu Ze by revealing what he was eating.
• Xiao Yu demanded that Liu Ze recover the million yuan given to Zhang Hai, return Liu Zheng's two million yuan, and turn himself in.
• Liu Ze admitted he was wrong but worried he could not get Zhang Hai's money back, and Xiao Yu gave him half an hour to return the funds.
• Liu Ze decided he had nowhere to run, cried over the money he had spent, and left to recover the million yuan.

Liu Ze returned the money he still had and agreed to turn himself in after Zhang Hai refused to give up his share. Xiao Yu then asked Liu Shan to handle Zhang Hai, while Mu Ya prepared to return to Yanjing and wait for the rest of her money.

• Liu Ze asked Zhang Hai to return their stolen money and turn himself in, but Zhang Hai refused and threw him out.
• Liu Ze called Xiao Yu, who told him to return the money he had and explain everything to the police; Xiao Yu said he would handle the rest.
• Liu Ze returned over 995,000 to Mu Ya and promised to repay the remaining amount as he earned wages.
• Mu Ya praised Xiao Yu for making Liu Ze thank him, and Xiao Yu explained that he hoped Liu Ze would change his ways.
• Xiao Yu called Liu Shan and asked her to deal with Zhang Hai, and she agreed to help recover the money.
• Xiao Yu told Mu Ya to return to Yanjing and wait for the rest of her money to be transferred.

Mu Ya returned to Yanjing and convinced Liu Zheng that he had been fooled by Liu Ze, while Zhang Hai was sentenced to seven years after his hidden money was recovered. Back with Xiao Yu, Qi Zihong invited him to Hu Feifei’s maid café, and Xiao Yu agreed after hearing about its themed uniforms.

• Mu Ya told Liu Zheng that Master Xiao had said buying the feng shui item would not cause a loss, but Liu Zheng only accepted that Liu Ze was a fraud after visiting him in detention and hearing his confession.
• Liu Zheng received the remaining million, became grateful to Xiao Yu, and began watching Xiao Yu’s livestreams with Mu Ya.
• Liu Shan arrested Zhang Hai, who was sentenced to seven years in prison; after his trial, Zhang Hai learned that his hidden money had already been returned to the victim.
• Qi Zihong visited Xiao Yu and learned how Little Apple had been abandoned after becoming sick, before Feifei rescued him.
• Qi Zihong invited Xiao Yu to Hu Feifei’s maid café, and Xiao Yu agreed after hearing about the pretty staff and their themed outfits.
• Liu Wei stopped Fan Baixing from joining them, and Qi Zihong led Xiao Yu away.

Xiao Yu discovered that Shi Xuanyi was a minor working at Hu Feifei’s maid café under her older sister’s identity, and Hu Feifei arranged to help her with tuition while she waited for her ID. The chapter ended as Xiao Yu began telling the girls a story about two sisters whose father abandoned them in debt.

• Hu Feifei welcomed Xiao Yu to the café, where he looked over the girls in their festival uniforms and asked about the bunny-costumed worker.
• Xiao Yu realized the bunny girl, Shi Xuanyi, was sixteen and had used her older sister’s ID to get hired, so he warned Hu Feifei that keeping her could get the café reported and shut down.
• Hu Feifei told Shi Xuanyi she had to leave, but offered to lend her five thousand yuan for tuition and let her return once her own ID was ready.
• After Shi Xuanyi left, Xiao Yu offered to tell Hu Feifei, Yu Ningling, and Zhu Xiao Xue a story about two sisters whose father lost everything speculating in stocks and abandoned them with debts.

Xiao Yu learned how poverty had forced Shi Xuanyi to postpone her education, and Hu Feifei decided to visit Shi Xuanyi's family and help them. After giving Hu Feifei a Heart-Clearing Talisman for Shi Xuanyi's ill mother, Xiao Yu heard that she had one more request.

• Xiao Yu heard Xiao Yu's account of Xu Qinyu's debts and illness, and Shi Xuanyi's plan to work so she could afford high school.
• Hu Feifei was moved by Shi Xuanyi's hardships and decided to visit her family, with Zhu Xiao Xue and Yu Ningling joining her.
• Xiao Yu stayed at the maid café with Qi Zihong until Pang Juan dragged Qi Zihong away, then left because he felt lonely among the customers.
• Hu Feifei returned to Xiao Yu's shop, asked for a Heart-Clearing Talisman for Shi Xuanyi's mother, and Xiao Yu told her to take one from the inner room.
• Hu Feifei thanked Xiao Yu and said she had one more thing to ask of him.

Xiao Yu sent Hu Feifei to confront a man who had abandoned his wife and daughter, then skipped his usual fortune readings after finding only frivolous requests. He eventually read Dong Taoming’s fortune and revealed that the fiancée he had known for five years was his long-lost biological sister.

• Xiao Yu told Hu Feifei that the man who abandoned his family had become rich, and Hu Feifei went with Zhong Qi to confront him.
• Xiao Yu browsed Weibo comments, dismissed the users making exaggerated fortune requests, and decided to skip the day’s readings.
• Xiao Yu found Dong Taoming’s request and warned him that his situation warranted condolences, frightening him and the watching commenters.
• Xiao Yu told Dong Taoming that he was about to marry the woman he had known for five years, then revealed that they were long-lost biological siblings.
• Dong Taoming turned pale and trembled as Weibo users reacted with shock and laughter.

Xiao Yu revealed that Dong Taoming and Zheng Xiao were siblings and advised them to reconsider their relationship, leaving the decision in their hands. He then went to help Hu Feifei confront Meng Qing and contacted Meng Qing’s wealthy wife, Shi Xia, to tell her about his secret family.

• Xiao Yu told Dong Taoming that Zheng Xiao was his long-lost sister, and Dong considered whether they could remain together without having children.
• Xiao Yu advised Dong Taoming and Zheng Xiao to decide for themselves, suggesting they separate or adopt if they stayed together.
• Hu Feifei told Xiao Yu that Meng Qing had denied abandoning his wife and daughters, cursed her through the doorbell intercom, and had security guards remove her from his community.
• Xiao Yu arrived to help Hu Feifei and called Shi Xia, saying that her husband, Meng Qing, had married ten years earlier and had two daughters.

Xiao Yu exposed Meng Qing’s past to Shi Xia, revealing that he had abandoned his wife and daughters under the name Meng Jun before marrying her. Shi Xia ordered him out of the villa, and Xiao Yu prepared to leave after the truth came out.

• Xiao Yu confronted Shi Xia with her hidden marriage history and persuaded her to let him into the villa.
• Xiao Yu told Shi Xia that Meng Qing had used the name Meng Jun, had a wife and two daughters, and had abandoned them over debt.
• Shi Xia called her driver to verify Meng Qing’s identity, while Hu Feifei described how his first family had suffered.
• Meng Qing admitted he had a wife, so Shi Xia told him to leave the villa and never return.
• Xiao Yu said his purpose was to punish Meng Qing, and he and Hu Feifei prepared to leave.

Shi Xuanyi’s family discovered that her wages and chance to return to school came from Hu Feifei’s kindness, while Xiao Yu had also helped them by exposing the fate of their deadbeat father. After the family thanked Xiao Yu, he and Hu Feifei joked about his growing fan club and the sisters’ romantic futures.

• Xu Qinyu suspected Shi Xuanyi had become someone’s kept woman when she came home with money and said she could return to school.
• Shi Xuanyi took Xu Qinyu and Shi Zi to the maid café, where the female bosses confirmed her story and Hu Feifei returned with news about their father.
• Hu Feifei told the family their father had been cast out by the wealthy woman he ran away with, and credited Xiao Yu with helping them.
• Xu Qinyu, Shi Xuanyi, and Shi Zi visited Xiao Yu’s shop to thank him tearfully, becoming his devoted fans.
• Hu Feifei teased Xiao Yu about the family’s interest in him, and Xiao Yu joked about his charm while warning that Shi Zi might misunderstand his intentions.

Kamela, a skeptical overseas content creator, grew jealous of Xiao Yu’s fortune-telling livestream and spent 200,000 on an eligible account to expose him. When she finally requested a reading, Xiao Yu rejected her, leaving her terrified by what Xia Mo told her.

• Xia Mo hosted Xiao Yu’s livestream as viewers compared her unfavorably with Hu Feifei and showered the stream with gifts.
• Kamela watched Xiao Yu’s popular fortune-telling stream and concluded that he was a fraud who was making money from gullible viewers.
• Kamela tried to borrow a follower’s eligible account, but the follower refused and blocked her after she dismissed Xiao Yu’s abilities.
• Kamela bought a fortune-telling-eligible account for 200,000, entered the stream, and sent gifts while waiting for a reading.
• When Kamela asked to have her fortune told, Xiao Yu shook his head, and Xia Mo’s reply left Kamela leaping from her bed in terror.

After losing 200,000 yuan trying to challenge Master Xiao, Kamela went viral with a self-mocking video and then gained a million followers by posting authorized clips of his readings. She decided to settle in Huaxia and work as Master Xiao’s video editor, and the chapter ended with her meeting him at his shop to discuss the proposal.

• Kamela failed to get a refund for the 200,000 yuan she spent on a fortune-telling account and posted a video about the experience.
• Her self-mocking video went viral, bringing her 100,000 followers, and she became a devoted fan of Master Xiao.
• After obtaining permission from Xia Mo and Master Xiao, Kamela posted an authorized highlight compilation and gained a million followers.
• Kamela decided to move to Huaxia and become Master Xiao’s designated video editor.
• Xia Mo told Kamela that Master Xiao wanted to meet her, and she went to Xiao Yu's Fortune-Telling Shop.
• Kamela introduced herself to Xiao Yu and began nervously explaining that she wanted to work with him.

Xiao Yu partnered with Kamela to produce authorized fortune-telling videos, and viewers celebrated the launch of his video content. During the livestream, Xiao Yu told guest Shi Guobin to break up with his girlfriend and began explaining why.

• Xiao Yu agreed to partner with Kamela, who would edit his fortune-telling videos and film his livestreams in person.
• Xia Mo worried that Kamela would become another rival for Xiao Yu's attention.
• Xia Mo announced the upcoming videos during Xiao Yu's livestream, and viewers enthusiastically welcomed them.
• Xia Mo introduced Shi Guobin as the first guest, and he asked Xiao Yu for a romantic fortune reading.
• Xiao Yu advised Shi Guobin to break up with his girlfriend and asked whether he knew about scam marriage or marital exploitation.

Xiao Yu explained that Shi Guobin’s girlfriend viewed relationships and marriage as ways to exploit men, and Shi Guobin recognized how his own ideas about love had been distorted. Though Xiao Yu warned that changing her worldview would be extremely difficult, he agreed to speak with her after Shi Guobin asked for help.

• Xiao Yu told Shi Guobin that his girlfriend had been testing his boundaries and expected him to pay for everything while giving nothing in return.
• Xiao Yu described her attitude toward marriage as marital exploitation, and Shi Guobin struggled to believe anyone could think that way.
• Xiao Yu explained how constant exposure to toxic rhetoric could brainwash people, and Shi Guobin realized his own assumptions about love had also been shaped by it.
• Shi Guobin recalled his girlfriend’s unequal spending and how she criticized his small expenses while readily accepting costly food and gifts.
• Shi Guobin asked whether he should end the relationship and whether her worldview could change, and Xiao Yu said it would be extremely difficult but agreed to talk with her.

Xiao Yu revealed that Luo Xin had saved only 175,882 yuan from the money Shi Guobin had earned and entrusted to her over their four-year relationship. Shi Guobin confronted her and ended the relationship, demanding his money back.

• Shi Guobin brought Luo Xin onto the livestream, where she complained that he had tipped Xiao Yu and ordered him to live on 200 yuan a month.
• Xiao Yu told Luo Xin that she and Shi Guobin had known each other for four years, three months, and fifteen days, then asked how much of his income she had saved.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Luo Xin had only 175,882 yuan in her accounts, despite Shi Guobin having given her about 1.6 million yuan.
• Luo Xin defended her spending and insulted Xiao Yu, while Shi Guobin realized that the savings were far smaller than he had expected.
• Shi Guobin demanded his money back and told Luo Xin they should break up.

Xiao Yu exposed Luo Xin’s entitlement and poor circumstances during a livestream, helping Shi Guobin see that their relationship was over. After Luo Xin left, Xiao Yu predicted that hardship would soon make her beg Shi Guobin to take her back.

• Luo Xin reacted to Shi Guobin’s breakup by demanding that he apologize and claiming she deserved a richer, more handsome man.
• Xiao Yu described Luo Xin’s family situation and lack of work, while livestream viewers mocked her demands and self-image.
• Shi Guobin ended the relationship, and Luo Xin left without showing regret, tossing down his bank card.
• Shi Guobin admitted that Xiao Yu had been right about Luo Xin, and Xiao Yu advised him to move on and refuse to support her again.
• Xiao Yu predicted that Luo Xin would soon struggle and beg Shi Guobin to take her back within a week.

Xiao Yu advised Shi Guobin to pursue his coworker Zhang Xiaojuan, whom he said was Shi’s true romantic match, and Shi rushed off to confess to her. After Luo Xin tried to find another man to support her, several disappointing dates left her facing men who expected sex in return for dinner and a room.

• Xiao Yu told Shi Guobin that Zhang Xiaojuan loved him and would be a better match than Luo Xin, and Shi decided to spend nearly all his income on her.
• Luo Xin left Shi Guobin’s home and posted a self-pitying message in Moments to attract a man who would take her in and buy her food.
• Luo Xin accepted a man’s invitation, but he took her to a night-market food stall and a budget hotel instead of the upscale places she expected.
• When Luo Xin rejected the man’s attempt to kiss her, he demanded sex in exchange for dinner and the room, and she left after insulting him.
• Luo Xin went out with two more men, but both also expected sex and turned hostile when she refused.

After a week of failed dates and matchmaking, Luo Xin returned to Shi Guobin expecting him to take her back, but he rejected her and introduced Zhang Xiaojuan as his girlfriend. Luo Xin was left with her father and no easy way back to her former lifestyle, while Shi Guobin devoted himself to Zhang Xiaojuan.

• Luo Xin exhausted her backup dating options and was thrown out of several matchmaking agencies after demanding a wealthy, handsome young husband.
• After a week of rejection, Luo Xin went to Shi Guobin and offered to forgive him if he apologized and resumed giving her money.
• Shi Guobin introduced Zhang Xiaojuan as his girlfriend, told Luo Xin to leave, and demanded repayment of the million-plus yuan he had spent on her.
• Luo Xin accused Shi Guobin of betraying her, but he revealed he knew about her dates and matchmaking visits and refused to take her back.
• Shi Guobin called the police after Luo Xin harassed him, and the police made her leave.
• Shi Guobin cherished Zhang Xiaojuan, who had spent thousands on her appearance and brought over two hundred thousand yuan in savings as her dowry.

Peng Yan sought out Celestial Master Zhang after her wonton shop lost customers to a rival that had bought a feng shui talisman from Master Xiao. Zhang claimed he could explain the rival’s sudden success, then revealed that Xiao had charged a million yuan for the talisman.

• Shi Guobin and Zhang Xiaojuan thanked Xiao Yu after getting together, and Xiao Yu moved on to the next livestream caller.
• Peng Yan’s long-established wonton shop suffered as customers flocked to the neighboring shop after its business suddenly took off.
• Peng Yan learned that her rival had spent a million yuan on a feng shui talisman from Master Xiao and decided to consult the rival’s supposed master.
• Peng Yan visited Celestial Master Zhang with gifts, and he claimed he had already divined that Xiao’s talisman had affected her business.
• Zhang said the talisman should cost only a hundred thousand yuan, and Peng Yan corrected him that Xiao had charged a million.

Peng Yan discovered that the Gold Talisman Board she bought from a fake Celestial Master Zhang was a scam, and her family asked Xiao Yu for help. Xiao Yu recognized the fraudster as someone from the former fortune-telling building and called him, introducing himself as Zhang Feng’s “castoff disciple.”

• Zhang Feng convinced Peng Yan to pay three hundred thousand for a fake Gold Talisman Board and promised it would improve her shop’s business.
• After two weeks with no improvement, Peng Yan and her family uncovered the board’s iron beneath its fading gold coating, and Ping Jin slapped her during their argument over the lost money.
• Ping Jiang contacted Xiao Yu during his livestream, and Xiao Yu agreed to hear the family’s story while viewers mocked them for trusting the scammer.
• Xiao Yu realized the fraudster was using his name despite his earlier warning to the former fortune-telling building and decided to confront him.
• Xiao Yu called Zhang Feng and identified himself as his “castoff disciple.”

Xiao Yu confronted Zhang Feng for defrauding Peng Yan and five others, and Zhang Feng returned Peng Yan’s money but still planned to flee. The police arrested him moments later, while Peng Yan thanked Xiao Yu and asked how to compete with the neighboring wonton shop.

• Xiao Yu called Zhang Feng and demanded that he repay 1.1 million yuan to six victims and turn himself in.
• Zhang Feng transferred Peng Yan’s 300,000 yuan back, then packed his belongings and prepared to move instead of surrendering.
• Two police officers arrived and arrested Zhang Feng on suspicion of six counts of fraud after Xiao Yu reported him.
• Peng Yan thanked Xiao Yu for recovering her money, and Xiao Yu warned her that fortune-telling services on the market were scams.
• Peng Yan asked how to revive her wonton shop, and Xiao Yu suggested cooperating with the neighboring shop or buying a Gold Talisman Board to compete.