Chapter Summaries

Wei Liang realized Liu Kai had scammed him out of ten million and sought help from Xiao Yu, while Xiao Yu prepared gold talisman boards and started a livestream to raise money for an auction. The livestream opened with a huge gift from superstar Liu Ying, whom Xiao Yu said had come to thank him.

• Wei Liang transferred ten million to Liu Kai, then discovered the man, his villa, and his car had all been borrowed, and reported the scam to the police.
• Wei Liang asked his daughter for information and hoped to meet Xiao Yu, while Xiao Yu explained that Wei Liang would lose his company and face debt and divorce.
• Xiao Yu bought gold for a thousand talisman boards, collected about a hundred, and planned to sell talismans during his livestream to fund the next day's auction.
• Liu Ying gifted Xiao Yu one hundred Super Rockets as soon as the livestream began, and Xiao Yu confirmed she was the superstar and had come to thank him.

Liu Ying thanked Xiao Yu for his earlier guidance, invited him to her concert, and asked him to read her career prospects again. Xiao Yu sold her a Fortune Talisman Board that he engraved live, leaving the livestream viewers stunned as the finished gold plate began to glow.

• Liu Ying invited Xiao Yu to her concert, and viewers rushed to buy tickets until they sold out.
• Liu Ying proposed a special fan event for Xiao Yu’s livestream followers and asked Xiao Yu to assess her career prospects.
• Xiao Yu told Liu Ying her career was secure if she avoided repeating past mistakes, then offered her a Fortune Talisman Board for one million yuan.
• Liu Ying bought the board and prostrated herself before Xiao Yu in gratitude.
• Xiao Yu engraved the talisman into a gold plate with his fingernail, and the completed board lit up.

Xiao Yu finished making a hundred Talisman Boards and then heard Lin He’s story about his father-in-law’s late-stage bowel cancer. Though he said a cure was unrealistic, Xiao Yu offered a chance to extend the elderly man’s life by three to five years if Lin He could obtain century-old wild ginseng.

• Xiao Yu offered to customize Talisman Boards for viewers and warned them not to use the talismans for immoral purposes.
• Xiao Yu completed a hundred Talisman Boards, most of them Heart-Clearing Talismans, while telling viewers’ fortunes.
• Lin He told Xiao Yu that his father-in-law had late-stage bowel cancer and had been given at most a month to live.
• Xiao Yu said he might be able to extend Lin He’s father-in-law’s life by three to five years, but required century-old wild ginseng as a powerful tonic.
• Lin He agreed to seek the ginseng and said he would try to buy some at an auction the next day.

Xiao Yu used his new ability to investigate Lü Jingdong’s past and began describing a wealthy family and birthday that Lü and Wu Qing said were wrong. The livestream viewers argued over whether Xiao Yu had made a mistake, while Xiao Yu had yet to explain what he had discovered.

• Wu Qing asked Xiao Yu to read her boyfriend Lü Jingdong’s fortune because Lü did not believe in him.
• Xiao Yu discovered a problem involving Lü Jingdong’s family and used his new ability to observe the past beyond Lü’s own memories.
• Xiao Yu recalled that Lü Jingdong had been stolen by the man who raised him, who had originally intended to traffic him.
• Xiao Yu gave Lü a different birthday and described him as the son of a wealthy businessman and a minor celebrity.
• Lü Jingdong and Wu Qing said Xiao Yu had gotten the details wrong, and the livestream viewers argued over whether the reading was a mistake or a setup.

During Xiao Yu’s livestream, Lü Jingdong learned that his father had adopted him after stealing him as a baby and had raised him as his own son. Lü Jingdong confronted Lü Liang and received confirmation, while Wu Qing left to support him.

• Viewers and trolls accused Xiao Yu of being a scammer after Lü Jingdong and Wu Qing appeared to disprove his reading.
• Xiao Yu explained that Lü Jingdong’s supposed birthday and single-parent background were based on false information: Lü Liang had adopted him on May 12 after stealing him as a baby.
• Xiao Yu said Lü Liang had once considered trafficking Lü Jingdong but had grown attached to him and raised him instead.
• Lü Jingdong rushed to confront Lü Liang, who admitted the truth; Wu Qing told Xiao Yu that Lü Jingdong was shaken and left to be with him.
• Xiao Yu ended the livestream after reminding viewers how to arrange pickup of Gold Talismans.

After worrying that his long life would leave a girlfriend to age without him, Xiao Yu continued selling Talisman Boards and went to an auction in Magic City. He was initially barred from entering, but Wang Qin recognized him as her honored guest and ordered Liu Bai and Liu Zhen thrown out.

• Xiao Yu told Xia Mo that he avoided dating because he feared outliving a girlfriend, and Xia Mo offered to be his temporary girlfriend.
• Xiao Yu discovered that viewers had paid in advance for 630 Talisman Boards, made boards through the morning, and sent Yuan Yu and Su Yunyi to deliver them.
• Xiao Yu arrived at the Heaven on Earth auction without an invitation and was stopped by the guards.
• Liu Bai and Liu Zhen accused Xiao Yu of scamming them and tried to keep him out, while Liu Zhen threatened to seize him.
• Wang Qin arrived, identified Xiao Yu as her honored guest, and made the guards apologize to him.
• Wang Qin ordered Liu Zhen barred from the auction and had Liu Bai forcibly ejected, warning the guards not to let either man back inside.

At the auction, Xiao Yu agreed to trade protective treasures and an array formation for Wang Qin’s 200-year-old ginseng, then helped Lin He buy century-old ginseng to save his father-in-law. Lin He won the ginseng for 7.5 million, funded in part by Xiao Yu, whose generosity astonished the other bidders.

• Xiao Yu sat in the auction’s front row with Wang Qin and his companions after the father and son who had confronted him were thrown out.
• Xiao Yu spotted the century-old ginseng in the catalogue and decided not to bid because Lin He needed it to save his father-in-law.
• Wang Qin offered to exchange her 200-year-old ginseng for Xiao Yu’s array formation and accepted his promise to provide additional protective treasures.
• Lin He found Xiao Yu at the auction and asked to borrow money after reaching his bidding limit; Xiao Yu told him to bid freely and covered the shortfall.
• Lin He won the half-root of ginseng for 7.5 million, while the surrounding bidders praised Xiao Yu’s generosity.

Xiao Yu was criticized as a con artist after bidding against Young Master Long for ginseng, while Wang Qin defended him. Young Master Long’s associates learned Xiao Yu had made the competing bid, and Qian Xiaoman tried to pressure Xiao Yu into surrendering the ginseng before Wang Qin cut him off.

• People at the event mocked Xiao Yu as a con artist, and Wang Qin angrily told them to stop.
• Young Master Long’s companions realized that Xiao Yu had prompted Lin He to keep bidding on the ginseng and identified him as Master Xiao.
• Young Master Long sent Qian Xiaoman to demand the ginseng, but Lin He refused to give it up.
• Qian Xiaoman approached Xiao Yu, stared lecherously at the women with him, and demanded that he surrender the ginseng.
• Liu Shan rebuked Qian Xiaoman, who then bragged about his father and Young Master Long’s status.
• Wang Qin told Qian Xiaoman to shut up and condemned spoiled rich kids who relied on their fathers.

Xie Long confronted Wang Qin and Xiao Yu at the auction hall, using threats and insults to demand Xiao Yu’s ginseng. Xiao Yu refused to hand it over because it was meant to save a life, and Xie Long began threatening his family.

• Qian Xiaoman argued with Wang Qin, who defended Xiao Yu and ordered him to leave.
• Xie Long arrived with several rich young men and challenged Wang Qin for opposing him.
• Wang Qin called security to remove Xie Long, but the guards refused and quit rather than risk angering him.
• Xie Long repeatedly insulted Xiao Yu, while his girlfriends restrained Wang Qin when she tried to slap him.
• Xie Long demanded Xiao Yu hand over the ginseng, and Xiao Yu refused because it was meant to save a life.
• Xie Long offered Xiao Yu five million and threatened to kill his whole family if he did not surrender the ginseng.

Xiao Yu confronted Xie Long and used fortune-telling to expose his cruel treatment of the butler’s daughter and other people throughout his life. Xie Long panicked and denied the accusations as the people around them began to see that Xiao Yu’s revelations were accurate.

• Xie Long threatened Xiao Yu, while the onlookers and the women with Xiao Yu feared for him and waited for him to respond.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Xie Long had accidentally suffocated the butler’s daughter’s kitten as a child and showed no remorse afterward.
• Xiao Yu described how Xie Long bullied the girl for years, sabotaging her education, relationships, and career until she nearly jumped from a building.
• Xiao Yu accused Xie Long of tormenting everyone who had ever offended him, and Xie Long panicked before angrily calling the accusations lies.

Xiao Yu exposed the Xie Family’s alleged assassin headquarters and drove Xie Long to panic, while Liu Shan contacted her colleagues. After the crowd hailed Xiao Yu, he admitted he had invented the claim about evidence and returned his attention to the auction.

• Xiao Yu told Xie Long that the Xie Family supported an assassin organization and identified the Red Moon Private Club as its headquarters.
• Xiao Yu urged Liu Shan to report the club, and Liu Shan immediately contacted her colleagues.
• Xiao Yu mocked Xie Long and told him to warn his family and their associates to flee; Xie Long hurried away to call them.
• The wealthy attendees praised Xiao Yu and crowded around him, while Xie Long’s companions returned to their seats in fear.
• Liu Shan worried that the criminals might destroy evidence, and Xiao Yu admitted he had made up the claim about evidence to make Xie Long leave.
• Xiao Yu asked the crowd to let him continue bidding at the auction.

Xiao Yu won a violet jadeite concealing a Spirit Stone for 15 million after the auction hall stopped bidding out of fear of offending him. Liu Bai learned the sale price, realized he had lost money he could not afford to lose, and collapsed while Liu Zhen called an ambulance.

• Bidders drove the price of the final jadeite lot above ten million before Xiao Yu bid 15 million for the Spirit Stone hidden at its center.
• The auction hall fell silent, and the Master of Ceremonies quickly closed the sale after the manager ordered her to honor Xiao Yu’s bid.
• Xiao Yu won the jadeite, and the other attendees congratulated him on a windfall estimated at 30 to 40 million.
• The auction manager told Liu Bai that his jadeite had sold for 15 million, not the 51 million he initially thought he heard.
• Liu Bai learned he had mortgaged everything for the jadeite and passed out after spitting blood, so Liu Zhen called an ambulance.

After gaining a new, tangible reserve of merit, Xiao Yu left the auction to prepare for dealing with the baleful energy at Spring River Garden. At his shop, he met Hu Feifei, a high-school student with an extraordinary constitution who was being haunted by a ghost, and told her to stay in the shop overnight before he began his livestream.

• Xiao Yu gained a large amount of merit from the criminals being caught, and it condensed into golden mist in his middle dantian as a power he could use actively.
• Xiao Yu left the auction early, stopped at his shop, and met Hu Feifei, who could enter despite the Heavenly Secret Array and see Zhong Qi, a ghost.
• Hu Feifei told Xiao Yu that a ghost had been haunting her and making her unlucky, so Xiao Yu divined her situation and discovered she had an Innate Spirit Body and was protected by destiny.
• Xiao Yu told Hu Feifei to stay in the shop for four hours so its array could keep the ghost away temporarily, then asked Yuan Yu to keep her company while he went home.
• Xiao Yu began his livestream with Mo Mo, and viewers greeted him and joked in the chat.

Xiao Yu began the day's livestream readings and promised to visit Lin He's father-in-law at the hospital the next morning. At Lin He's request, Xiao Yu exposed Xu Rou's childhood embarrassment, and Xu Rou desperately tried to stop him from revealing what happened when she was fifteen.

• Lin He introduced his wife, Xu Rou, and thanked Xiao Yu for contributing money toward the ginseng intended to save her father.
• Lin He asked Xiao Yu to reveal embarrassing secrets about Xu Rou before reading her fortune.
• Xiao Yu recounted how ten-year-old Xu Rou got separated from her mother at an amusement park, wet herself, and followed an elderly candied hawthorn seller.
• Xu Rou kicked Lin He in the backside, then begged Xiao Yu not to tell the embarrassing story from when she was fifteen.

Xiao Yu reassured Xu Rou that she would be promoted rather than laid off, then Zhu Tao sought his help with a difficult murder case during the livestream. As Xiao Yu began divining, two officers objected to involving a fortune-teller, but Zhu Tao insisted he had no other options.

• Xiao Yu told Xu Rou that rumors of her dismissal were false and that she would become a department manager with a raise.
• Xu Rou thanked Xiao Yu and invited him to her home after he had tried to save her father.
• Zhao Yan joined the livestream, expressed her desire to pursue Xiao Yu, and disconnected without getting a reading.
• Liu Shan introduced Zhu Tao, who had asked her to seek Xiao Yu's help with a difficult murder case.
• Xiao Yu began casting his divination, while two officers criticized Zhu Tao for asking a fortune-teller to help solve the case.
• Zhu Tao silenced the officers and insisted he had no other options.

Xiao Yu used divination to reveal that the suspected killer was a girl who had ended her gravely ill elderly relative’s suffering, and Zhu Tao decided to protect her by stopping the investigation. His colleagues then found fingerprints and moved to preserve and test them, despite Zhu Tao trying to wipe them away.

• Xiao Yu divined through Zhu Tao’s memories and told him that a long illness had given the suspected girl a motive to kill the elderly deceased.
• Xiao Yu reminded Zhu Tao that his choice was whether to pursue justice through the law, and Zhu Tao resolved that there was not enough evidence to investigate further.
• Zhu Tao’s colleagues excitedly announced that they had found the killer’s fingerprints.
• Zhu Tao tried to wipe away the fingerprints, but one colleague revealed he had preserved another set and threatened to report Zhu Tao and test the evidence.
• Unable to stop his colleagues, Zhu Tao sighed and gave up as they prepared to take the fingerprints back to the station.

Zhu Tao learned that fingerprints linked Tao Qian to her elderly mother's murder, confirming Xiao Yu's prediction and leaving the case to the law. As viewers argued over Tao Qian's guilt, their jokes turned the livestream's somber mood into comedy.

• Lao Liu received word that Tao Qian's fingerprints were found on the windowsill, identifying her as the person who fled the scene.
• Zhu Tao asked Xiao Yu what to do, and Xiao Yu told him the evidence was conclusive and the next steps could no longer be stopped.
• Zhu Tao thanked Xiao Yu and apologized for his colleagues' insults, while Lao Liu questioned whether fortune-telling could be real.
• Livestream viewers argued over whether Tao Qian's devotion and circumstances excused her crime or whether she deserved punishment.
• Viewers joked that the tragedy was Master Xiao's fault, making Xia Mo and Xiao Yu struggle not to laugh.

Xiao Yu read Linghu Yan’s grim romantic future after she refused his warnings to ask about her love life. He then urged her to leave her room immediately, and a sudden explosion interrupted her question.

• Xiao Yu revealed that Tender Grass Eats Old Ox was actually the twenty-seven-year-old Linghu Yan, a highly accomplished researcher.
• Linghu Yan asked Xiao Yu to read her love life, but he warned that her future would be difficult and urged her to ask about her good and bad fortune instead.
• After Linghu Yan insisted, Xiao Yu predicted an unhappy marriage, years of unsuccessful searching for a partner, and eventual adoption of a child as a single mother.
• Xiao Yu told Linghu Yan to leave her room immediately, and she hurried out after the viewers echoed his warning.
• Linghu Yan asked Xiao Yu why he had told her to leave, but an explosion interrupted her.

Xiao Yu saved Linghu Yan from an apartment explosion and warned her to have her friend seek a reading before tomorrow night. During the free drawing, orphanage teacher Liu Xiaoyue won a slot and asked whether she could prevent the orphanage’s demolition, but Xiao Yu foresaw a more serious problem.

• Linghu Yan survived an explosion caused by dangerous chemicals she had brought home, and Xiao Yu advised her to be more careful and to invite her close friend for a fortune reading.
• Xiao Yu let Linghu Yan return for another reading without entering the paid drawing, then gave brief career advice to two viewers.
• At an orphanage in Magic City, Liu Xiaoyue won the free fortune-reading slot and chose not to sell it despite the money she could have received.
• Liu Xiaoyue asked Xiao Yu how to stop the orphanage from being demolished so the children would not lose their home.
• Xiao Yu divined that the orphanage faced a problem more serious than demolition that would cause endless trouble if left unresolved.

Xiao Yu agreed to visit Liu Xiaoyue’s orphanage to investigate its harmful feng shui, then went to Magic City General Hospital to treat Lin He and Xu Rou’s critically ill father. The chapter ended with Doctor Zhang watching in horror as Xiao Yu forced a large piece of century-old wild ginseng into the elderly man’s mouth.

• Xiao Yu agreed to visit the orphanage after learning the children did not want to move, despite its serious feng shui problem.
• Xiao Yu arrived at the hospital, where Lin He and Xu Rou were waiting with their elderly father, who had intestinal cancer and severe pain.
• Xiao Yu stopped a nurse from giving the patient a saline drip, and Lin He and Xu Rou drove the nurses from the ward.
• The nurses told Doctor Zhang that the family had brought in a fraud and refused the hospital’s treatment, so Doctor Zhang rushed to the ward.
• Doctor Zhang saw Xiao Yu force a large chunk of century-old wild ginseng into the patient’s mouth and shouted for the ward door to be opened.