Chapter Summaries

During a livestream, Xiao Yu revealed how Wang Dandan’s wanted-criminal boyfriend would have exploited her and caused her parents’ deaths, but Dandan struggled to accept the truth. Sun Luo’s sharp rebuke made Dandan focus on her mother’s health, while Xiao Yu defended her as a victim of He Lei’s manipulation.

• Wang Dandan accused Xiao Yu of being a fraud and demanded that He Lei be returned to her, while Sun Luo explained that the police had confirmed he was a wanted criminal.
• Xiao Yu described how Dandan’s future with He Lei would have led to financial ruin, abduction, HIV, and the deaths of her parents.
• Dandan rejected Xiao Yu’s prediction, and Sun Luo slapped her before urging her to get her seriously ill mother checked at a hospital.
• Dandan stopped sobbing and asked Xiao Yu to identify her mother’s illness, saying she would believe He Lei was a murderer if Xiao Yu was right.
• Xiao Yu told viewers that Dandan cared about her parents and was deceiving herself because she could not accept He Lei’s betrayal.

Xiao Yu gave Wang Dandan a Heart-Clearing Talisman for her mother’s stomach cancer and urged her to seek medical care. He then revealed that he had only a few talismans left, sparking a fierce bidding war among the stream’s wealthy viewers.

• Xiao Yu told Wang Dandan that her mother might have stomach cancer and offered her a Heart-Clearing Talisman for free.
• Xiao Yu urged Wang Dandan to take her mother to the hospital, and Wang Dandan apologized and promised to do so the next day.
• Sun Luo offered to accompany Wang Dandan to the hospital and report the test results to the viewers.
• A Lifetime Together, Lord Purple, and Tang Xiaoxiao competed to buy Xiao Yu’s remaining Heart-Clearing Talismans.
• Yi Shuihan appeared in the stream, threatened to take the other viewers to the police station, and demanded all seven talismans.

Xiao Yu sold four Heart-Clearing Talismans through a livestream draw, gave away three imperfect ones, and explained how viewers could help him find genuine talisman paper. After introducing the Evil-Repelling Talisman and offering eleven for sale, his stream was abruptly suspended for thirty days over alleged superstition and fraud.

• Xiao Yu set the Heart-Clearing Talismans at one hundred thousand each, gave three imperfect talismans to Miss Zhao, Mr. Qi, and Miss Liu, and held a draw for the four remaining ones.
• Goddess Luo, A Lifetime Together, Xiao Momo, and Bandit King won the draw, and Xiao Yu said he would contact them to arrange payment.
• Xiao Yu reserved two Heart-Clearing Talismans for emergencies and explained that genuine talisman paper was scarce, asking viewers to help him find more.
• Xiao Yu introduced the Evil-Repelling Talisman, described its ability to save a life three times, and offered eleven for one hundred thousand each.
• The platform suspended Xiao Yu's account for thirty days, cutting off the stream and prompting viewers to curse the platform.

After Xiao Yu’s stream was mistakenly banned, his wealthy viewers pressured the broadcasting company to reverse the decision. The company lifted the ban, apologized, and offered him an unusually favorable contract, while Xiao Yu advanced to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

• Liu Shan threatened Wei Zhuo over Xiao Yu’s ban, and Wei Zhuo ordered the company to lift it and apologize.
• Xiao Yu arranged sales of four Heart-Clearing Talismans, earning enough to rent a storefront, then cultivated through the night.
• Xiao Yu reached the fourth level of Qi Refining and woke to a call from the broadcasting company’s chief secretary.
• The chief secretary apologized for the mistaken ban and offered Xiao Yu a special contract with promotional support and up to an eighty-percent share of gift revenue.
• Xiao Yu accepted the contract, calling the ban a blessing in disguise.

Xiao Yu secured a storefront and arranged to rent an apartment from Su Yunyi after proving his fortune-telling abilities to her. Back at his shared apartment, he sensed danger around Yuan Yu, gave her an Evil-Repelling Talisman, and warned her to stay home and be careful whom she befriended.

• Xiao Yu mailed out Heart-Clearing Talismans and gave the police officer who helped lift his ban an extra Evil-Repelling Talisman.
• Xiao Yu rented a storefront from Su Yunyi, revealed personal details about her to prove his abilities, and arranged to rent her furnished apartment as well.
• Xiao Yu returned to his shared apartment and declined Tao Ran's invitation to eat hot pot because he was preparing to livestream.
• Xiao Yu realized something might happen that night, gave Yuan Yu an Evil-Repelling Talisman, and warned her not to go out or trust her friends.
• Tao Ran dismissed Xiao Yu as a scammer and took Yuan Yu's phone while the group prepared to go out.

Xiao Yu resumed his livestream readings and helped Jin Hong plan to find the wanted criminal who had killed Jiang Qing. He declared that Chang Ningming’s fate had changed and that he would die by suicide in a detention center five days later, while Jin Hong set out to bring him to justice.

• Xiao Yu told viewers that his physical shop was still being renovated and that he would save the fortune-telling draw for last.
• Jin Hong showed Xiao Yu a photo of the man he believed had killed Jiang Qing, and Xiao Yu revealed that the wanted man’s real name was Chang Ningming, now using Lei Hua, and that he was near Lirui.
• Yi Shuihan offered police help, but Jin Hong proposed posing as a tourist to locate the fugitive, and Xiao Yu supported his plan.
• Xiao Yu said Chang Ningming had five days left and would die by suicide in a detention center.
• Jin Hong vowed to deliver Chang Ningming to the police and avenge Jiang Qing.

During Xiao Yu’s livestream, Wang Dandan and Sun Luo showed the scans that confirmed an abnormal mass in Wang Dandan’s mother’s abdomen, while Xiao Yu reassured them and said the Heart-Clearing Talisman would help. He then warned Sun Luo of a life-or-death crisis in five years and promised to send her a jade pendant to avert it, leaving her flustered after she shouted her love for him and disconnected.

• Zhao Yan asked Xiao Yu about her and her mother’s health, and he said they were both healthy.
• Wang Dandan’s mother accused Xiao Yu of frightening her with a false stomach-cancer prediction, while Wang Dandan apologized on her behalf.
• Sun Luo showed the scans, which revealed an abnormal mass in Wang Dandan’s mother’s upper abdomen, and Wang Dandan urged her mother to get a gastroscopy.
• Sun Luo thanked Xiao Yu for helping her friend and asked for a reading about her family’s health, but Xiao Yu said he could read for only one person at a time.
• Xiao Yu warned Sun Luo she would face a life-or-death crisis in about five years and said a jade pendant he would send could avert it.
• Sun Luo shouted that she loved Xiao Yu, thanked him, and disconnected as the viewers teased her.

During his livestream, Xiao Yu warned Liu Shan that joining a police operation could leave her permanently injured, then learned Yuan Yu had survived an attack thanks to his talisman and discovered that her housemate Tao Ran had betrayed her. He began the day's fortune-telling draw, where eager viewers competed for six paid slots and two free ones.

• Xiao Yu warned Liu Shan that taking part in her precinct's operation could be a fatal ordeal or leave her disabled, and she said she would think it over.
• Yuan Yu arrived in tears and thanked Xiao Yu for the talisman that had saved her from Tao Ran, her housemate and former trusted friend.
• Yuan Yu returned to her room and watched the livestream as viewers teased her and Xiao Yu about being a couple, leaving her bashful and happy.
• Xiao Yu announced a draw for six paid fortune-telling slots and two free ones, and the winning bids were higher than viewers had expected.
• Viewers called winning a slot their lucky moment and urged the selected winners to connect by video.

Xiao Yu impressed platform owner Wei Zhuo with an accurate reading, then began reading top streamer Xia Mo’s past and personal secrets. Xia Mo was left shaken, while her fans urged her to test him with a hidden message written on paper.

• Wei Zhuo doubted Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu accurately recounted his life and predicted he would dominate the streaming industry in about three years.
• Wei Zhuo praised Xiao Yu, gifted him Super Rockets, and decided to compete for fourth place in the rankings.
• Xia Mo joined Xiao Yu’s stream intending to expose him, and secretly wrote a message for him to divine.
• Xiao Yu read Xia Mo’s background and revealed private details, including her grandparents, her conservative nature, and the blind man who had predicted she would bring prosperity to her husband.
• Xia Mo grew frightened by Xiao Yu’s accuracy, while her fans urged her to use the hidden message as their final test.

Xia Mo challenged Xiao Yu to divine the secret message she had written, and he recited it perfectly, turning her viewers into his fans. As his audience surged, Xiao Yu announced new daily fortune-telling slots for both longtime supporters and new fans.

• Xia Mo challenged Xiao Yu to reveal the words she had written privately, offering an apology and Rockets if he succeeded.
• Xiao Yu recited Xia Mo’s message exactly, and she confirmed he had guessed every word before sending him ten Super Rockets.
• Many of Xia Mo’s viewers switched their allegiance to Xiao Yu and tried to register on the Yanjing Live-Streaming Platform, while Xia Mo offered a giveaway to keep them.
• Xiao Yu’s audience grew from a thousand to more than fifty thousand viewers.
• Xiao Yu announced one free daily fortune-telling slot for his existing fan group and three paid slots plus one free slot for new fans.

Xiao Yu told Xia Mo that her boyfriend was about to cheat on her, prompting her to livestream a visit to his home. She and five fans caught him in bed with her former roommate, Dong Fei.

• Xiao Yu told Xia Mo she would soon be single and urged her to visit her boyfriend's home.
• Xia Mo went live, traveled to her boyfriend's building, and waited for five fans to join her.
• Xia Mo and the fans quietly entered the apartment with her key and heard moaning inside.
• The group rushed in and found Xia Mo's boyfriend naked with Dong Fei.
• Xia Mo recognized Dong Fei as the woman with her boyfriend and screamed at her.

Xiao Yu’s livestream reading helped Xia Mo expose her cheating boyfriend, then he attempted to locate Cao Yuan’s daughter, who had been abducted twenty years earlier. He identified her as Cao Xiaoya and glimpsed her with a woman, but could not determine what happened after that.

• Xia Mo’s fans attacked her cheating boyfriend, while Xiao Yu urged her to end the livestream and keep the incident private.
• Xiao Yu moved on to readings for other viewers and welcomed Cao Yuan as the sixth caller.
• Cao Yuan asked Xiao Yu to find his first child, a daughter abducted by human traffickers twenty years earlier.
• Xiao Yu struggled to read Cao Yuan’s past and initially said he had found no crucial information.
• Xiao Yu revealed that the missing girl was five-year-old Cao Xiaoya and described seeing her happily eating a lollipop beside a young woman who called her by name.

Xiao Yu and Liu Shan identified Liang Xianghui as the woman who had taken Cao Yuan’s eldest daughter, and Xiao Yu confirmed that the girl was still alive. Liu Shan planned to use police resources to find Liang Xianghui, while the livestream’s surge of viewers and support brought Xiao Yu a large amount of merit.

• Liu Shan questioned Cao Yuan about women he had known twenty years earlier and reasoned that his daughter had willingly followed a woman she recognized.
• Xiao Yu named Liang Xianghui as the woman who had approached Cao Yuan’s wife while posing as a preschool early childhood teacher, though he could not divine further details from Cao Yuan’s memories.
• Liu Shan said she could use police resources to find Liang Xianghui’s photograph and promised to continue working with Xiao Yu to catch child traffickers.
• Cao Yuan thanked Xiao Yu and Liu Shan, and Xiao Yu confirmed that Cao Yuan’s missing daughter was alive.
• Xiao Yu’s livestream audience swelled to 120,000 as viewers celebrated, and he absorbed a surge of merit.

Xiao Yu moved into Su Yunyi’s luxurious duplex and hired Yuan Yu as his full-time maid. Yuan Yu arrived in a maid outfit and began settling into her new role, while Xiao Yu left her to set up his computer.

• After ending his livestream, Xiao Yu warned Su Yunyi that she would face danger the next day and offered her an Evil-Repelling Talisman for one hundred thousand yuan, but she refused.
• Xiao Yu packed his belongings, cultivated, and moved out early the next morning without telling Yuan Yu.
• Yuan Yu found Xiao Yu’s room empty, ate the breakfast she had bought him, and decided to move out because Tao Ran was her only remaining roommate.
• Xiao Yu moved into Su Yunyi’s spacious duplex and asked her to find maids, then agreed to hire her to clean the home.
• Xiao Yu called Yuan Yu and offered her room, board, and twenty thousand yuan a month to work as his full-time maid, and she accepted.
• Yuan Yu arrived in a maid outfit, and Xiao Yu asked her to set up his computer and choose one of the downstairs bedrooms.

Xiao Yu bought jade to make protective magical artifacts, gave Su Yunyi an Evil-Repelling Talisman after she injured herself, and started making jade defenses. His livestream drew a huge audience, and Xia Mo discussed joining him for future streams.

• Xiao Yu agreed to a fast storefront renovation for 300,000 yuan and bought several grades of jade for making artifacts.
• Xiao Yu found Su Yunyi bleeding from a knife wound and gave her a perfect-quality Evil-Repelling Talisman after she refused to buy one herself.
• Xiao Yu made more than two hundred protective jade pieces and received a message from A Lifetime Together about a potentially genuine source of talisman paper.
• Xiao Yu went live, attracted 120,000 viewers, and agreed to joint streams with Xia Mo.
• Wei Zhuo offered Xia Mo a place at his Yanjing streaming company if her current platform refused to approve joint streams.

Xiao Yu used Liang Xianghui’s photo to locate the human trafficker and trace Cao Xiaoya’s past, but warned Cao Yuan to prepare himself before revealing what happened to his daughter. He began recounting Cao Xiaoya’s life after her abduction, ending with her second disappearance and sale abroad.

• Zhao Yan told Xiao Yu she hoped to win him over and become his girlfriend, but he said he could not see himself in her future.
• Cao Yuan and Liu Shan showed Xiao Yu a photo of Liang Xianghui, and Xiao Yu discovered that she was in a vegetative state at home.
• Xiao Yu gave the police Liang Xianghui’s address and said he had found Cao Xiaoya’s location and phone number through the reading.
• Xiao Yu told Cao Yuan that Cao Xiaoya had been abducted at five and sold to a family in a mountainous region.
• Xiao Yu said Cao Xiaoya went missing again at eight and was sold abroad to work for a family in an underdeveloped area.

Xiao Yu helped Cao Yuan locate his missing daughter, Cao Xiaoya, and the family reunited over a phone call during the livestream. The emotional reunion sent the livestream to the top of the platform in popularity, gifts, and engagement.

• Xiao Yu told Cao Yuan that Cao Xiaoya had endured a difficult childhood, lived in Shengsi County, and worked at a breakfast shop on Third-Crossing Road.
• Cao Yuan asked Xiao Yu for the shop owner's phone number so he could contact Cao Xiaoya, and Xiao Yu sent it privately.
• Cao Yuan's wife initially dismissed Xiao Yu's claims, but grew hopeful as Cao Yuan called the shop and confirmed Cao Xiaoya worked there.
• The shop owner brought the phone to Cao Xiaoya, and she tearfully recognized Cao Yuan as her father.
• Livestream viewers celebrated the reunion with a flood of comments and gifts, propelling Xiao Yu's stream to number one on the platform.

Xiao Yu’s fortune-telling reunited Cao Xiaoya with her father after twenty years, sending his livestream to the top of the platform and making the story trend across the internet. As viewers proposed a fundraiser for Cao’s family, Xiao Yu pledged two hundred thousand yuan to help support the four children.

• Xiao Yu’s stream drew a flood of viewers and gifts, overtaking the platform’s most popular stream and straining its servers.
• Viewers across the platform celebrated the reunion, while news of Xiao Yu’s fortune-telling session spread across social media and trending searches.
• Xiao Yu’s stream reached two hundred thousand viewers, and fans praised him for helping Cao Xiaoya reunite with her father.
• Viewers suggested raising money for Cao’s family, and Xiao Yu pledged two hundred thousand yuan toward the four children’s needs.

Xiao Yu’s offer to donate money to Cao Xiaoya’s family sparked a flood of gifts and a contest between Lord Purple and Yi Shuihan. After the donation drive, he prepared to help Liu Shan join an arrest operation and gave her protective jade.

• Xiao Yu explained that he was passing viewers’ donations to Cao Yuan’s family, and A Lifetime Together and Today's Lucky Winner added large gifts while the platform waived its cut.
• Lord Purple and Yi Shuihan competed by sending Super Rockets, with Lord Purple conceding first place to Yi Shuihan.
• Su Yunyi admired Xiao Yu’s popularity, while the landlady considered competing for his affection and Yuan Yu resigned herself to being his maid.
• Xiao Yu asked Liu Shan what she wanted him to divine, and she chose to join the arrest operation despite the risk.
• Xiao Yu promised to send Liu Shan intelligence that could help her join the operation and offered her protective jade, with more pieces promised to Miss Zhao Yan and Boss Qi.

Xiao Yu read Su Yunyi’s family situation and revealed that her parents planned to divorce and divide their property, leaving her devastated. He then read Xia Mo’s romantic future and warned that her high standards and aversion to physical contact would lead to repeated breakups and disappointment.

• Xiao Yu invited Su Yunyi onto the livestream and read her family situation, telling her that her parents planned to divorce and start new families.
• Su Yunyi asked whether her parents could reconcile, but Xiao Yu said their relationships had ended and they would divide the family’s properties before separating.
• Su Yunyi disconnected in tears, while Xiao Yu reflected that her parents would leave her the cheapest properties and sell the others.
• The viewers welcomed Xia Mo as the next contestant and teased her about being unlucky after her ex-boyfriend cheated on her.
• Xiao Yu predicted that Xia Mo would soon enter an exhausting cycle of breaking up and reconciling before giving up on love and marrying a random man.
• Xiao Yu explained that Xia Mo’s strict expectations and discomfort with even hand-touching would make it difficult for any man to satisfy her.