Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu exposed Xu Jie’s childhood pranks, pushing him to admit the stories were true while still accusing Xiao Yu of being a fraud. Xu Jie then demanded Xiao Yu calculate how much he had spent on Liang Jia and how to recover it, before deciding to break up with her.

• Xiao Yu recounted more of Xu Jie’s childhood pranks, and Xu Jie’s girlfriend, Liang Jia, and the viewers reacted with shock and laughter.
• Xu Jie denied Xiao Yu’s claims, but Liang Jia demanded that he admit the truth and apologize or she would break up with him.
• Xu Jie admitted that Xiao Yu had accurately described his childhood, but continued to call him a fraud and demanded one final test.
• Xu Jie asked Xiao Yu to calculate how much money he had spent on Liang Jia and explain how he could get it back.
• Xu Jie told Liang Jia he wanted to break up, saying her calling someone else her husband crossed his line and that he hated her frequent breakup threats.

Xiao Yu helped Xu Jie and Liang Jia reconcile during his livestream, then ended the stream and attempted Foundation Establishment for the first time. After failing to preserve the spiritual energy he condensed, he went to an underground casino to meet a man who had visited his shop twice.

• Xiao Yu asked Liang Jia and Xu Jie to apologize to each other, and Liang Jia apologized for calling him her husband.
• Xu Jie apologized to Xiao Yu and Liang Jia, and the couple made up as the viewers celebrated.
• Xiao Yu ended the livestream, shared pizza with the beauties at home, and began cultivating.
• Xiao Yu condensed a drop of liquid spiritual energy but stopped before attacking the bottleneck, and the drop broke apart.
• Xiao Yu went to an underground casino and watched a suited man win repeatedly at big or small.
• Xiao Yu patted the suited man on the shoulder and remarked that he had won quite a bit.

Xiao Yu stopped Fang Jing from gambling by taking his chips and bank cards, warning him that his addiction would destroy his family. Back at his shop, he met the arrogant star Liu Ying, who had come for a fortune reading, and told Xia Mo to show her out.

• Xiao Yu demonstrated to Fang Jing that he could predict the dice rolls, then warned him that continued gambling would leave him bankrupt and tear his family apart.
• Xiao Yu demanded Fang Jing hand over his chips and bank cards, and Fang Jing agreed to stop gambling and go home.
• Xiao Yu exchanged Fang Jing’s chips for cash and left the casino, believing he had helped protect Fang Jing’s family.
• Xia Mo arrived at Xiao Yu’s shop with a fortune-telling client, and Xiao Yu recognized her as the star Liu Ying, whose necklace had been stolen.
• Liu Ying spoke rudely to Xiao Yu and dismissed his questions, so he told Xia Mo to show her out.

Liu Ying dismissed Xiao Yu as a fraud and left without getting her fortune told, unaware that her grandfather had hoped Xiao Yu could help save her career. At home, she learned that sponsors were terminating their partnerships, and her grandfather began playing a voice message after deciding she needed to hear the truth.

• Xiao Yu refused to entertain Liu Ying and told Xia Mo not to bring her to the shop again.
• Liu Ying returned home and told her grandfather that Xiao Yu could not tell fortunes.
• Liu Ying's grandfather revealed that her career as a star was nearly over and showed her a stack of partnership termination notices.
• Liu Ying's agent called to report that Tumao Department Store had also ended its partnership with her.
• Liu Ying's grandfather decided to play her a voice message after she continued to dismiss the warnings.

After Liu Ying’s company threatened to dismiss her over the necklace scandal, she and Liu Yunfeng went to beg Master Xiao for help. When Xiao Yu returned to his shop, he found Liu Ying and her grandfather kneeling in a crowd, and Liu Ying pleaded for another chance.

• Liu Ying learned that her company planned to dismiss or shelve her because of the damaging online controversy.
• Liu Yunfeng urged Liu Ying to seek Master Xiao’s help, and they brought the jade pendant she had bought as his birthday gift.
• Xia Mo refused to let Liu Yunfeng and Liu Ying enter the shop, saying Master Xiao would not tell Liu Ying’s fortune again.
• Liu Yunfeng knelt in the street outside the shop, and Liu Ying knelt beside him as passersby gathered, filmed them, and spread the news online.
• Xiao Yu returned to find the shop surrounded by onlookers, and Liu Ying stumbled toward him and begged him for another chance.

Liu Ying sought Xiao Yu’s help to save her career, and after he exposed her likely future and accepted her jade pendant, he cast a spell to change her fate. She returned home to learn her company had reversed its decision and was giving her another chance.

• After Liu Ying apologized and begged, Xiao Yu let her into the shop while Liu Yunfeng remained outside.
• Liu Ying asked about her career, and Xiao Yu said her stardom was ending and advised her to resign, change her conduct, and improve her skills.
• Liu Ying offered Xiao Yu her jade pendant, a cultivation-assisting magic artifact, and he agreed to rewrite her fate.
• After Xiao Yu cast a spell, Liu Ying asked whether she could go home and wait for the result, and he said she could.
• Liu Ying told Liu Yunfeng that Xiao Yu had changed her fate and accepted the pendant, then said the company would give her another chance.
• Boss Lin called Liu Ying at home to reverse the contract decision and offer her a concert, and she resolved to improve her conduct and professional skills.

Xiao Yu attended a high school reunion with Teng Yuanxue, where he overheard Luo Wei and another classmate insulting them and plotting to take advantage of Teng Yuanxue. At Dragon Group, the staff recognized Xiao Yu as Master Xiao and enthusiastically welcomed him, leaving Teng Yuanxue stunned.

• Xiao Yu agreed to attend the reunion after Teng Yuanxue invited him, and he offered to cover her share of the meal.
• Teng Yuanxue and Xiao Yu met Luo Wei, who invited them to private room 320 at Dragon Group.
• Xiao Yu overheard Luo Wei and another man mock him and scheme to pursue Teng Yuanxue.
• Several Dragon Group employees recognized Xiao Yu as Master Xiao and offered him free food and special treatment.
• Zhang Meng arranged wine for the reunion room while the staff competed to treat Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu attended his high school reunion with Teng Yuanxue, whose classmates mistook him for a fraud and kept their distance. When the Longqun Hotel sent wine for its honored guest, the class learned that the hotel had been treating Xiao Yu, and Liu Lei identified him as the infamous Celestial Master Xiao.

• Teng Yuanxue asked Xiao Yu about his fortune-telling and called him a professional fraud as they entered Private Room 320.
• Zhu Hui welcomed Teng Yuanxue and Xiao Yu, then Luo Wei arrived with Kong Xiang, who claimed Luo Wei was paying for the reunion.
• Luo Wei accepted his classmates’ praise and sat between two beauties, while Xiao Yu told Teng Yuanxue that their old friends now considered him a fraud.
• Zhang Meng delivered three bottles of wine from the hotel and said the guests were honored because they were Master Xiao’s classmates.
• Liu Lei announced that Xiao Yu was the online-famous fraud grandmaster Celestial Master Xiao.

At the class reunion, Xiao Yu’s former classmates recognized him as a notorious online scammer and ostracized him, despite Teng Yuanxue staying by his side. As Xiao Yu prepared to leave, hotel manager Zhang Meng arrived with the food and realized why he and Teng Yuanxue were sitting alone.

• Liu Lei’s remark led the classmates to recognize Xiao Yu as the famed scam streamer, and they guarded their belongings and accused him of targeting them.
• Luo Wei told Xiao Yu not to pull any tricks and urged him to eat quietly, prompting the classmates to openly shun him.
• The classmates moved away from Xiao Yu’s table and pressured Li Tong, Zhao Ru, and Teng Yuanxue to leave him.
• Li Tong pulled Zhao Ru away, while Teng Yuanxue stayed beside Xiao Yu despite the pressure.
• Xiao Yu stood to leave, but Zhang Meng entered with the food and understood the situation after hearing Luo Wei tell Teng Yuanxue to avoid Xiao Yu.

Zhang Meng and the hotel waitresses moved Xiao Yu to a better private room and took the food with them, leaving his classmates to pay for their meal. Luo Wei admitted he had rented his luxury car and could not afford to treat everyone, while the classmates argued over who would cover the bill.

• Zhang Meng offered to move Xiao Yu to Dragon Group No. 1 after Teng Yuanxue pointed out that his classmates were rejecting him.
• The waitresses enthusiastically invited Xiao Yu to dine with them, and Zhang Meng promised to bring more beauties to make the reunion memorable.
• Zhang Meng and the waitresses took Xiao Yu and all the food to the new room, telling the classmates they would have to pay for what they ordered.
• Zhu Hui and the other classmates blamed Luo Wei when they learned the meal was no longer being covered by the hotel.
• Luo Wei tried to cancel the extra dishes and make everyone split the original bill, but the classmates refused to pay or demanded the expensive additions be removed.
• Luo Wei admitted he had rented his luxury car and could not afford the bill, while Kong Xiang denied having money and Zhu Hui proposed splitting the cost after canceling the extra dishes.

At the Dragon Group, Xiao Yu reassured Teng Yuanxue that he was a genuine fortune-teller and showed her a prediction written on a note. The prediction came true when Luo Wei approached her and asked her to come to his private room, warning that he would drug and assault her if she agreed.

• Ten classmates left Luo Wei’s reunion after he admitted they would have to pay extra, leaving the remaining guests to cover the cost of the dishes.
• Luo Wei failed to cancel most of the order and returned to his private room looking miserable.
• At the Dragon Group, Xiao Yu sent away the waitresses who had crowded around him, and Teng Yuanxue asked if he was a swindler or a real fortune-teller.
• Xiao Yu wrote a prediction on a note and told Teng Yuanxue to open it after ten minutes.
• After taking a call from her father, Teng Yuanxue read the note and saw that it predicted Luo Wei would approach her and warned her to refuse his request.
• Luo Wei appeared and asked Teng Yuanxue to come to his private room.

Teng Yuanxue believed Xiao Yu’s fortune-telling and stayed with him after he warned her she would lose her virginity that night. Meanwhile, Luo Wei and Kong Xiang planned to kidnap Xiao Yu and extort him, but Xiao Yu calmly offered them twenty million yuan to listen to him talk.

• Teng Yuanxue turned down Luo Wei, returned to Dragon Group Private Room 1, and paid Xiao Yu five hundred yuan to tell her fortune.
• Xiao Yu warned Teng Yuanxue that she would lose her virginity that night and told her to stay and watch what happened.
• Luo Wei decided to kidnap Xiao Yu and extort money, and Kong Xiang agreed to help him demand twenty million yuan.
• Luo Wei and Kong Xiang entered Dragon Group Private Room 1, where Xiao Yu had prepared two chairs for them.
• Xiao Yu agreed to give Luo Wei and Kong Xiang twenty million yuan if they played a game called “I talk, you listen.”

Xiao Yu used his knowledge of Kong Xiang’s past and thefts to expose his character while Luo Wei and Kong Xiang listened for the promise of a hundred million. Luo Wei began doubting his longtime lackey, while Kong Xiang insisted Xiao Yu must have investigated him.

• Xiao Yu showed Luo Wei and Kong Xiang a hundred-million balance and asked whether they were ready to listen.
• Xiao Yu recounted how Kong Xiang’s family sacrificed for his education and how Kong Xiang later cut them off when they asked for help.
• Xiao Yu accused Kong Xiang of petty theft and of treating people as either useful or worthless.
• Luo Wei confronted Kong Xiang about the things he had lost, and Kong Xiang admitted stealing before promising to repay him.
• Kong Xiang privately convinced himself that Xiao Yu had investigated him and was not telling his fortune.

Xiao Yu proved his fortune-telling ability by recounting Luo Wei’s past, then warned him and Kong Xiang that they would die if they took his money. Kong Xiang transferred the money anyway and ran off, while Xiao Yu predicted that Kong Xiang would be struck and killed by a car within ten minutes.

• Xiao Yu accurately described Luo Wei’s childhood pretense of being rich and his secret relationships, convincing him he could tell fortunes.
• Xiao Yu warned Luo Wei and Kong Xiang that they would die that day, then offered them one hundred million yuan and said the money would return to his account.
• Luo Wei hesitated over whether to take the money, fearing Xiao Yu’s prediction might be true.
• Kong Xiang took Xiao Yu’s phone, transferred the money with Xiao Yu’s help, and left without sharing it with Luo Wei.
• Xiao Yu told Luo Wei that Kong Xiang would be hit by a car and killed within ten minutes, and advised him to keep at least twenty meters away.

Luo Wei watched Kong Xiang die in an apparent accident and returned to Dragon Group Restaurant terrified, promising never to oppose Xiao Yu again. As Xiao Yu left, Liu Zhen confronted him and threatened him over a claimed debt, and Xiao Yu warned Liu Zhen and Pan Xi that they were about to have bad luck.

• Luo Wei followed Kong Xiang from the restaurant and saw a bus overturn and crush him, while no one else was hurt.
• Luo Wei realized Xiao Yu had foreseen the danger and that Kong Xiang's money could not be transferred, then rushed back to ask about his own life.
• Teng Yuanxue told Luo Wei that Xiao Yu warned him not to harbor bad intentions toward him, and Luo Wei begged her to pass on his apology.
• As Xiao Yu left Dragon Group Restaurant, Zhang Meng went to get her car to drive him home, and he encountered Liu Zhen with Pan Xi.
• Liu Zhen accused Xiao Yu of cheating his family out of ten million and threatened to beat him, while Pan Xi recognized Xiao Yu as the famous fortune-teller streamer.
• Xiao Yu warned Liu Zhen and Pan Xi to leave him alone or face bad luck.

After Zhang Meng and Longqun’s employees chased Liu Zhen and Pan Xi away, Xiao Yu helped rescue a trafficked girl and cultivated until he successfully reached the Foundation Establishment Stage. His new powers let him change Tang Xiaoxiao’s fate and directly witness people’s memories of the past.

• Zhang Meng rallied Longqun’s employees to protect Xiao Yu, and they beat and chased Liu Zhen and Pan Xi for several streets.
• Xiao Yu thanked Manager Zhang, then helped a man find his daughter after human traffickers abducted and sold her.
• Xiao Yu completed his second foundation-establishment attempt with the aid of his jade pendant and broke through by the next morning.
• Xiao Yu discovered that Foundation Establishment greatly expanded his fortune-telling abilities and opened the way to artifact refining, alchemy, and immortal arts.
• Xiao Yu easily changed Tang Xiaoxiao’s fate and gained the ability to enter another person’s memories of the past.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Xiao Yu visited Old Man Wang to borrow the Peachwood Sword for his planned attempt to dispel the baleful energy at Chunjiang Garden. He also bought a cursed hairpin, then followed Old Man Wang to help when a young woman asked him to catch a ghost.

• Xiao Yu offered Old Man Wang his Jade Pendant in exchange for the Peachwood Sword, and Old Man Wang agreed to try the pendant and lend him the sword for a week.
• Old Man Wang showed Xiao Yu an antique hairpin from a robbed tomb, and Xiao Yu bought it after recognizing it as a powerful curse-type magic artifact.
• A young woman asked Old Man Wang to investigate a ghost, and Old Man Wang agreed to go with her despite Xiao Yu's warning that the trip was dangerous.
• Xiao Yu followed them to save Old Man Wang, telling him he was there to save his life.

Wei Han asked Old Man Wang to investigate the ghost haunting her family’s villa, but Xiao Yu warned that Wang’s charms and ritual items were useless. When Wang ignored Xiao Yu and began provoking the ghost, the bedroom door slammed shut, leaving Wei Han terrified as the ghost confronted Zhong Qi.

• Wei Han told Old Man Wang about the deaths, strange disturbances, and her family’s disbelief after moving into Rose Villa Estate.
• Xiao Yu recognized that Wei Han was telling the truth, while Zhong Qi worried that the ghost might be too powerful to confront.
• At Wei Han’s villa, Old Man Wang prepared salt, cinnabar, and talismans, but Xiao Yu warned that they would not work.
• Wei Han dismissed Xiao Yu’s warnings, and Wang continued his ritual to provoke the ghost.
• Xiao Yu warned Wang that the ghost was already angered, then stopped intervening after they ignored him.
• An icy wind swept through the bedroom and the door slammed shut as Wang braced himself and Wei Han screamed; the female ghost stared down Zhong Qi.

Xiao Yu stopped the female ghost from killing Old Man Wang and explained that she had been protecting Wei Han and wanted to be her friend. As Xiao Yu prepared to leave with Wei Han and Old Man Wang, Wei Han’s father arrived, called them scammers, and threatened to send her to a psychiatric hospital.

• The female ghost destroyed Old Man Wang’s talismans and lifted him toward the balcony, but Xiao Yu rebuked her and she set Old Man Wang down before vanishing.
• Wei Han apologized to Xiao Yu and begged him to help her, but he said he was a fortune-teller and offered to leave.
• Xiao Yu explained that the female ghost wanted to befriend Wei Han, could be seen by her in mirrors, and had actually saved her; Wei Han decided not to have her exorcised.
• Xiao Yu warned Old Man Wang to stop trying to catch ghosts, and Wei Han offered to drive Xiao Yu and Old Man Wang home.
• Wei Han’s father returned, accused Xiao Yu and Old Man Wang of being scammers, and said he would discuss sending Wei Han to a psychiatric hospital; Xiao Yu challenged him about abandoning her despite not being her biological daughter.

Xiao Yu warned Wei Liang to stay home and avoid KTV clubs, but Wei Liang dismissed the warning and went to a gathering where Liu Kai drew him into a smuggling scheme. Wei Liang agreed to invest ten million in Liu Kai’s next shipment.

• Xiao Yu warned Wei Liang to stay home that night and avoid KTV clubs, then left with Old Man Wang.
• Wei Liang dismissed Xiao Yu’s warning, forgot it after sleeping, and went to a luxurious KTV gathering with old business friends.
• Liu Kai boasted about his wealth and revealed to Wei Liang that he made money through smuggling.
• Liu Kai invited Wei Liang to invest at least ten million in a shipment of smuggled cars, and Wei Liang accepted.