Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu told Xi Linghua that her boyfriend Fan Hui had terminal cancer and had broken up with her to spare her from supporting him, though he had originally pursued her for money. After seeing Fan Hui’s possible futures, Xiao Yu concluded that the man was still a scumbag who would abandon Xi Linghua if he survived.

• Xiao Yu provisionally agreed to collaborate with popular street-interview streamer He Ya, making Xia Mo feel increasingly sidelined.
• Xi Linghua asked Xiao Yu to read her fortune, explaining that she wanted the scumbag who had deceived her to disappear and die.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Xi Linghua’s boyfriend had terminal cancer and had broken up with her because he believed he could not be saved and did not want to remain a burden.
• Xiao Yu clarified that Fan Hui had first pursued Xi Linghua for her money, though he had developed some affection for her and eventually chose to leave.
• Xiao Yu examined Fan Hui’s possible futures and saw that he might seek out another wealthy woman, leading Xiao Yu to conclude that Fan Hui would abandon Xi Linghua if he recovered.

Xiao Yu told Xi Linghua that Fan Hui was using her and would almost certainly betray her if she saved him, then called Fan Hui so she could hear the truth directly. After Fan Hui admitted he had pursued her for her money and treatment, Xi Linghua said she had made her decision, though she did not reveal what it was.

• Xiao Yu warned Xi Linghua that saving Fan Hui would cost at least one million and could leave her vulnerable to his betrayal.
• Xi Linghua asked Xiao Yu to call Fan Hui and find out whether he would stay with her if she lost her money and he were healthy.
• Fan Hui hesitated, then admitted he did not love Xi Linghua and had been with her for her money and to treat his illness.
• Xi Linghua recognized that Fan Hui's final answer was sincere and told Xiao Yu she had made her decision.

Xi Linghua asked Xiao Yu to save Fan Hui and change the future in which he would mistreat her, staking her hopes on Xiao Yu despite everyone warning her. Xiao Yu accepted, said he needed a few days to prepare for treating Fan Hui’s terminal cancer, and moved on to the next livestream viewer.

• Xi Linghua said she would seek money from her parents to save Fan Hui, and explained that she trusted Xiao Yu to change her fate.
• Xi Linghua said she could not imagine starting another relationship and wanted to remain with Fan Hui, despite the livestream viewers trying to dissuade her.
• Xiao Yu accepted Xi Linghua’s request to save Fan Hui and help her future relationship, though he privately doubted how he could make Fan Hui cherish her for life.
• Xiao Yu said he needed a few days to prepare to treat Fan Hui’s terminal cancer, and Xi Linghua disconnected.
• The next livestream viewer connected and begged Xiao Yu to save them.

Xiao Yu discovered that Jia Xu had enraged his wife by sabotaging a work proposal she spent a month preparing, costing her company a partnership and putting her job at risk. Xiao Yu tried to mediate, but Jia Xu’s wife opened the door and began beating him with a rolling pin.

• Jia Xu appeared on Xiao Yu’s livestream, begging for help while his furious wife pounded on the door.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Jia Xu had swapped out his wife’s proposal as a prank, causing the partnership to collapse and jeopardizing her promotion and job.
• Xiao Yu told Jia Xu to let his wife in so they could discuss how to fix the damage.
• Jia Xu repeatedly delayed opening the door as his wife demanded he hurry up.
• Jia Xu’s wife struck him with a rolling pin, insisting she was calmly beating him while Jia Xu shouted for help.

Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to find a path for Kang Man to recover from the career damage caused by Jia Xu’s prank. Kang Man recognized a promising way forward and left to act on his advice.

• Jia Xu and Kang Man appeared on Xiao Yu’s livestream after their argument, and Kang Man explained that the prank had cost her a promotion opportunity.
• Kang Man worried that losing the promotion would stall her career, while Jia Xu offered to support her if she quit her job.
• Xiao Yu consulted the Heavenly Mechanism Canon and saw that Kang Man could still resolve the crisis and eventually become a director.
• Xiao Yu advised Kang Man to secure the contract, avoid further mistakes, watch for coworkers’ schemes, and consider how the partner company’s needs could be addressed.
• Kang Man grasped an idea for solving her problem, thanked Xiao Yu, and left; Jia Xu followed her to try to make amends.

Jia Xu reconciled with Kang Man after kneeling on a washboard, then proposed a bold plan to help her at work. The chapter left Kang Man questioning how they could afford his scheme to promise a large purchase of villas.

• Jia Xu knelt on a washboard to prove his remorse, and Kang Man forgave him.
• Jia Xu offered to help Kang Man earn a promotion and raise by using his workplace reputation and strategic skill.
• Jia Xu researched the property developer and concluded that its main problem was a shortage of cash.
• Jia Xu proposed promising to buy many of the developer’s villas to persuade its boss to speak to Kang Man’s boss.
• Kang Man protested that they had nowhere near enough money to make such a purchase.

Kang Man followed Jia Xu’s plan to repair her business relationship and regain her boss’s favor, crediting Master Xiao for saving her career. In the livestream, Xiao Yu told seventeen-year-old Wei Junqing he would never win over his dream girl, then refused to explain how unless he returned for another reading.

• Jia Xu explained how Kang Man could offer the real estate manager a red envelope and help sell apartments in exchange for a favorable word to her boss.
• Kang Man apologized to the manager, arranged to renew their contract, and a week later received praise and renewed promotion prospects from her superior.
• A small business owner consulted Xiao Yu, resolved a company crisis, and helped send an embezzler to jail.
• Wei Junqing won the free livestream slot but said he did not believe in fortune-telling and asked when he would win over his dream girl.
• Xiao Yu challenged Wei Junqing to consider whether he understood the girl or had what it took to win her over, then said he would never succeed.
• Wei Junqing demanded to know how he could win her over, but Xiao Yu ended the reading and disconnected him, telling him to return tomorrow.

Wei Junqing reluctantly agreed to pay for another consultation with Master Xiao after Zou Yang warned him about heavenly retribution. Xiao Yu mastered Samadhi True Fire, tested its heat and medicinal extraction, and prepared a costly pill for Xi Linghua, leaving her grateful that it would cost 1.5 million yuan.

• Zou Yang urged Wei Junqing to send Master Xiao a Rocket and seek help with Qiu Yisi, and Wei Junqing grudgingly agreed to try again the next day.
• Xiao Yu broke through to the second level of the Core Formation Stage and mastered Samadhi True Fire.
• Xiao Yu tested the fire on diamonds and extracted a tiny amount of concentrated spiritual essence from wild ginseng.
• Xiao Yu calculated that the ingredients for one Low-Grade Disease-Curing Pill would cost about 1.5 million yuan.
• Xiao Yu told Xi Linghua the medicine could suppress her cancer and prolong her life, and she tearfully agreed to pay 1.5 million yuan.

Xi Linghua gave Fan Hui the costly pill Xiao Yu claimed could cure his terminal cancer, despite worrying about the future Xiao Yu had predicted for their relationship. Fan Hui questioned whether the pill could work but decided to take it rather than waste it.

• Outside Fan Hui’s hospital room, Xi Linghua and Xiao Yu discussed how to make Fan Hui grateful to her, but she chose to give him the pill without trying to bind him to her.
• Xiao Yu waited outside, planning to see what happened to Fan Hui without his interference and wondering whether his prediction was correct.
• Xi Linghua visited Fan Hui and asked how long he would love her if she saved him; Fan Hui said he thought he would love her forever.
• Xi Linghua told Fan Hui the pill came from Xiao Yu, cost 1.5 million, and was supposed to save him.
• Fan Hui doubted that a fortune-teller could cure terminal cancer, but reasoned that since the pill had already been bought, he might as well take it.

Fan Hui took Xiao Yu’s Low-Grade Disease-Curing Pill, and examinations showed his cancer was reversing. Xiao Yu told Xi Linghua that Fan Hui had only three years left and would need to earn merit to extend his life, leaving her hopeful that the threat would keep him faithful.

• Fan Hui took the pill and quickly felt his strength and pain improve.
• A doctor’s scan showed Fan Hui’s cancer cells were reversing, and further tests confirmed the change.
• The hospital director ordered a news blackout so the doctors could investigate the apparent medical miracle.
• Xiao Yu saw that Fan Hui would eventually leave Xi Linghua for a rich woman despite being saved.
• Xiao Yu told Xi Linghua that Fan Hui had three years to live and that he would refuse to extend his life if Fan Hui did anything bad.
• Xi Linghua agreed to keep the pill secret and believed the threat would stop Fan Hui from betraying her.

After Xiao Yu saved Fan Hui’s life, Xi Linghua warned him that the medicine only bought him three years and that he had to do good deeds and stay faithful to earn Xiao Yu’s help again. Xiao Yu then joined He Ya’s livestream interview team, and his fans flooded the room before filming began.

• Xi Linghua told Fan Hui the medicine would extend his life by three years and that Xiao Yu might help him again if he accumulated merit and did not cheat on her.
• Fan Hui promised Xi Linghua he would change and said he would thank Xiao Yu during his livestream that night.
• Doctors questioned Xi Linghua about Xiao Yu and the medicine, but she refused to reveal anything.
• He Ya met Xiao Yu at his shop and invited him to join her street-interview livestream with her team.
• He Ya explained that Xiao Yu would co-host and comment on interviewees’ answers, while the team hoped his popularity would grow their audience.
• Xiao Yu posted the livestream room number, and large numbers of viewers arrived before the camera was turned on.

He Ya’s collaboration with Xiao Yu sent her livestream to the top of Yanjing Live, and the pair began interviewing women at a shopping plaza about relationships and money. Xiao Yu recognized flaws in their approach but kept quiet for the stream, which ended with them approaching a cosmetics shopper for an interview.

• He Ya’s livestream surged past five hundred thousand viewers after news of her collaboration with Xiao Yu spread, prompting other streamers to complain about losing viewers.
• Tao Hongzhen drove He Ya and Xiao Yu to a shopping plaza, where He Ya planned to interview women she suspected of being manipulative and later target scumbag men.
• Xiao Yu noticed that selecting only a few supposedly scheming people could fuel anxiety, but he decided to cooperate and raise his concerns after the livestream.
• He Ya explained that she and Tao Hongzhen had been beaten during a previous interview, and Xiao Yu agreed to wear a mask as they approached a girl in a cosmetics shop.
• The girl agreed to answer He Ya’s questions but said her time was limited.

He Ya questioned a woman who earned three to five thousand yuan a month about her expensive lifestyle and relationship. The woman defended her belief that men should earn far more than women, while the livestream audience mocked her reasoning.

• He Ya complimented the woman’s clothes and asked how she could afford shopping on a modest salary.
• The woman said her boyfriend gave her ten thousand yuan a month and advised He Ya to seek a wealthy man rather than settle for a “junk stock” like Xiao Yu.
• He Ya asked why a man earning tens of thousands would date a woman earning only a few thousand, and the woman claimed men naturally married down while women should aim higher.
• The woman declared that a man earning thirty thousand yuan matched a woman earning three thousand, but that a woman earning thirty thousand deserved a man earning three hundred thousand.
• The woman said her boyfriend earned about forty thousand yuan, while He Ya and the livestream viewers reacted with disbelief and jokes.

Xiao Yu challenged Chen Ling over her expectations for a wealthy boyfriend and promised to introduce her to men willing to give her 20,000 a month. After Chen Ling broke up with her boyfriend to take him up on the offer, Xiao Yu sent her photos to Wang Qin and asked whether she would fetch that amount at the Auction.

• He Ya signaled Xiao Yu to confront Chen Ling about what she contributed to her relationship with her boyfriend, who earned 40,000 a month.
• Xiao Yu offered to introduce Chen Ling to ten men willing to give her 20,000 a month in spending money and put his credit card up as a guarantee.
• After the saleswoman confirmed the card had no spending limit, Chen Ling agreed and immediately broke up with Dong Fan.
• Xiao Yu photographed Chen Ling, sent the pictures to Wang Qin, and asked whether she would fetch 20,000 a month at the Auction.

Xiao Yu mocked Chen Ling by arranging supposed boyfriends who would pay to date her, then offered her seven hundred yuan to become his girlfriend for a day. Chen Ling accepted the money, and Xiao Yu told her to spend up to twelve hours copying the names of his livestream viewers.

• Xiao Yu called his friend at an auction house and asked him to find men willing to pay to date Chen Ling.
• Xiao Yu taunted Chen Ling with the offer, while Zhong Qi restrained her when she tried to attack him.
• Chen Ling demanded that Xiao Yu find one boyfriend who would pay her twenty thousand yuan a month or cover her shopping costs.
• Xiao Yu asked livestream viewers to pay seven hundred yuan to date Chen Ling for a day, and viewers offered money without wanting to sleep with her.
• Chen Ling demanded payment, and Xiao Yu gave her seven hundred yuan to copy his fans' names for up to twelve hours.

Xiao Yu publicly humiliated Chen Ling after condemning her views, and she fled after learning his identity and threatening to expose him. He Ya then agreed to reshape their interview show to highlight good people and positive examples, and Xiao Yu spotted something ahead as they prepared to choose their next subject.

• He Ya, the crowd, and the livestream viewers laughed at Xiao Yu’s offer for Chen Ling to earn money by copying names for twelve hours a day.
• Chen Ling cried and accused Xiao Yu of bullying her, so he removed his mask, gave his name, and invited her to seek revenge.
• Chen Ling recognized Xiao Yu, took photos of him, and ran off while he let her go without claiming the money.
• Shop assistants and passersby crowded around Xiao Yu for autographs and photos, and he escaped the mall with He Ya after signing for them.
• He Ya praised Xiao Yu’s actions, and he suggested that their show feature good people and uplifting stories instead of focusing on avoiding toxic men and women.
• He Ya agreed to let Xiao Yu choose their next interview subject, and Xiao Yu suddenly looked toward the roadside ahead.

Xiao Yu and He Ya interviewed Ji Ruo, a financially struggling woman who had given up on dating because she feared she could not afford a relationship or marriage. After secretly learning her circumstances through fortune-telling, Xiao Yu asked whether she believed in fate, and Ji Ruo demanded to know how he knew her name.

• Xiao Yu offered Ji Ruo help and water, but she refused both and stayed wary of him.
• He Ya interviewed Ji Ruo, who revealed that she was twenty-six, earned under five thousand a month, and had saved only a hundred thousand after years of work.
• Ji Ruo explained that she stayed single because dating, marriage, housing, and finding a suitable partner all seemed beyond her means.
• Xiao Yu joked that being ordinary was fine when other people made you look good, then told Ji Ruo about the previous interviewee who had dumped her boyfriend for the promise of more spending money.
• Xiao Yu addressed Ji Ruo by name and asked whether she believed in fate, prompting her to demand how he had learned her name and to insist that he remove his mask.

Xiao Yu’s attempt to ask Ji Ruo about fate went awry when she recognized him as Master Xiao, so he abandoned his questions and revealed the painful truth about her past relationship. Ji Ruo broke down in tears after he exposed her lingering love and despair over their financial circumstances.

• Xiao Yu removed his mask, and Ji Ruo recognized him as Master Xiao while trying to hide that she had mistaken him for someone else.
• He Ya and the Livestream Viewers laughed at Xiao Yu’s awkward reaction and Ji Ruo’s unexpected response.
• Xiao Yu described Ji Ruo’s first love, their shared dreams of building a life in Magic City, and the financial obstacles that had driven her boyfriend back home.
• Xiao Yu told Ji Ruo that she still loved her former boyfriend but did not dare tell him she wanted him to return.
• Ji Ruo stopped pushing her electric scooter and sobbed as Xiao Yu’s words laid bare her feelings.

Xiao Yu helped Ji Ruo understand that she and her boyfriend had never truly given up on their relationship, and that their finances could support a future together. Ji Ruo joyfully confirmed they were still a couple after learning he earned around ten thousand a month.

• Ji Ruo asked whether Xiao Yu’s accurate fortune-telling meant fate was real, and he explained that their meeting suited the show’s goal of spreading hope about love.
• After Ji Ruo misunderstood Xiao Yu’s hint as an offer to find her a boyfriend, he explained that she and her boyfriend had both kept working toward a shared future.
• Xiao Yu pointed out that Ji Ruo’s current five-thousand salary could cover her daily expenses while her boyfriend’s income could go toward marriage.
• Ji Ruo asked her boyfriend about his salary, and he replied that he earned around ten thousand a month and offered to send her money if she needed it.
• Ji Ruo told him she earned five thousand and asked if they could keep going; he said they had never broken up and described plans to earn more through ride-hailing.
• Ji Ruo cried with happiness and thanked Xiao Yu, accepting that she still had a boyfriend.

After helping He Ya and her crew finish their interviews, Xiao Yu returned to his Fortune-Telling Shop, where Liu Shan asked him to pose as her boyfriend to stop her parents from arranging her marriage. Xiao Yu refused, and Liu Shan left angrily while he resolved to focus on cultivation until he could safely choose a partner.

• He Ya dropped Xiao Yu off at his Fortune-Telling Shop after he helped her crew interview Ji Ruo, and they agreed to meet for weekly outings.
• Xiao Yu found Zhao Yan, Tang Xiaoxiao, and Liu Shan waiting at the shop, and Zhao Yan explained that Liu Shan's parents wanted her to marry a man from a similar family background.
• Xiao Yu offered to find someone to pretend to be Liu Shan's boyfriend, but Tang Xiaoxiao clarified that Liu Shan wanted Xiao Yu himself to play the role.
• Xiao Yu refused Liu Shan's request, saying their relationship would become difficult to explain, and offered instead to call her parents.
• Liu Shan angrily left the shop, followed by Zhao Yan and Tang Xiaoxiao, while Xiao Yu decided to keep cultivating before pursuing a relationship.