Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu visited Liu Xiaoyue’s orphanage and learned that a demolition company was trying to force its closure. After exposing Liu Xiaoyue’s boyfriend Qu Bing for accepting money to persuade her to agree, Xiao Yu watched the confrontation escalate as Qu Bing turned his anger toward him.

• Xiao Yu cured Zheng Xiuzhu’s hereditary disease, then went to the orphanage to address its problems.
• Xiao Yu overheard Manager Han and another man discuss offering Qu Bing 100,000 to persuade Liu Xiaoyue to accept the demolition.
• Liu Xiaoyue showed Xiao Yu the children and explained that Director Lin tutored them because the orphanage could not afford outside teachers.
• Qu Bing tried to convince Liu Xiaoyue to agree to the demolition, claiming it would help the children move somewhere better.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Qu Bing had accepted 100,000, and Liu Xiaoyue angrily accused her boyfriend of betraying her.
• Qu Bing threatened Xiao Yu, and Liu Xiaoyue stepped in to protect him.

Xiao Yu defended Liu Xiaoyue from Qu Bing, then exposed Qu Bing’s hidden scams and private sexual secrets to prove he was the real fraud. Qu Bing was left humiliated as Xiao Yu began revealing his secrets, with the second revelation leaving Liu Xiaoyue sickened.

• Liu Xiaoyue slapped Qu Bing after he insulted Xiao Yu, and Qu Bing threatened to hit her when she refused to move.
• Xiao Yu stepped in front of Liu Xiaoyue, caught Qu Bing’s wrist, and warned him to leave, but Qu Bing continued to insult him.
• Xiao Yu exposed how Qu Bing had posed as a woman online to scam men, including one who had sent him more than a hundred thousand yuan.
• Qu Bing lunged at Xiao Yu, who sent him flying with a wave of his hand.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Qu Bing cross-dressed and secretly sought male escorts, causing Liu Xiaoyue to dry-heave until Xiao Yu calmed her with spiritual energy.

Xiao Yu exposed Qu Bing’s desire to pursue wife swapping and multiple men with one woman, prompting him to flee and leaving Liu Xiaoyue devastated. After comforting her and clearing up a misunderstanding with the children, Xiao Yu asked her to prepare an empty room so he could adjust the orphanage’s feng shui.

• Xiao Yu revealed that Qu Bing wanted to marry Liu Xiaoyue partly to pursue wife swapping and multiple men with one woman, and Qu Bing fled in humiliation.
• Liu Xiaoyue cried over discovering Qu Bing’s secret, and Xiao Yu apologized for shattering her hopes for their relationship.
• The children saw Liu Xiaoyue crying and accused Xiao Yu of bullying her, but she explained that he had comforted her.
• A little girl teased Liu Xiaoyue about secretly watching adult anime on her phone, embarrassing her in front of Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu asked Liu Xiaoyue to prepare a large empty room for his feng shui work, and she offered to clear out the orphanage’s disused gym.

Xiao Yu resolved the orphanage’s feng shui problem, donated gold talismans for its children, and persuaded Le Xiu to give up the orphanage’s land. After returning home, he agreed to expand his livestream audience by creating a Weibo account.

• Xiao Yu gave Liu Xiaoyue gold talismans for every room in the orphanage and agreed to become its honorary teacher.
• Liu Xiaoyue thanked Xiao Yu and offered to introduce him to Director Lin and cook him a meal.
• Xiao Yu convinced Le Xiu to abandon plans for the orphanage’s land after Le Xiu’s prospective business partner insisted on it.
• Xiao Yu returned to the orphanage for lunch and photos with Director Lin and the children before taking a taxi home.
• Xia Mo told Xiao Yu that Boss Wei wanted to use Weibo to expand the streaming platform’s audience, and Xiao Yu agreed to create an account.

Xiao Yu discovered that impostors using his name and a post from Tianyuan Entertainment’s verified account were damaging his reputation, so he used Weibo to target the company. His detailed comment about general manager Che Zhengmin went viral, leaving readers waiting to see whether its claims would be confirmed.

• Xiao Yu explored Weibo and realized he could offer fortune-telling there without livestreaming for hours.
• Xia Mo showed Xiao Yu a scammer impersonating him, and Xiao Yu found numerous fake disciples and masters using his name.
• Xiao Yu spotted an anti-scam post naming him on the TYF Idol Group’s verified account and decided to make Tianyuan Entertainment his target on Weibo.
• Che Zhengmin learned that Xiao Yu had posted a viral comment accusing him of embezzling 80 million yuan and detailing his affairs and health problems.
• Weibo users debated whether Xiao Yu had truly divined Che Zhengmin’s secrets and waited for news to verify the accusations.

After Xiao Yu accused Che Zhengmin of embezzling money and misconduct, Che resigned, leading online users to take Xiao Yu’s fortune-telling more seriously. Xiao Yu began offering text-only readings on Weibo, while Xia Mo livestreamed his unexpectedly casual approach and drew a flood of new followers.

• The verified account responded to Xiao Yu’s accusations with a legal threat, and Weibo users debated whether its wording avoided denying Che Zhengmin’s alleged embezzlement.
• Sister Zhou investigated and reported that Che Zhengmin had resigned as Tianyuan Entertainment’s general manager, though she could not independently verify Xiao Yu’s claims.
• Weibo users argued that Che’s resignation made Xiao Yu’s predictions seem credible and discovered his new offer of text-only fortune-telling without upfront payment.
• Xiao Yu gave his first text-only reading on Weibo while lying in bed under the covers, astonishing Xia Mo with his casual manner.
• Xia Mo started a livestream showing Xiao Yu’s daily life and told viewers he was telling fortunes through text, prompting many to follow his Weibo account.

Xiao Yu used his Weibo post, “One fortune a day,” to publicly read the fortune of cyber police officer Jiang Qihao and prove his abilities. Jiang Qihao acknowledged Xiao Yu as genuine and promised to watch his livestream and send gifts, while commenters became convinced.

• Xiao Yu selected the Weibo user “Prelude to Water Melody” for a public fortune-telling, and identified him as Jiang Qihao, a thirty-four-year-old cyber police officer.
• Jiang Qihao suspected Xiao Yu had used hacking or personal connections to uncover his information and challenged him to provide more proof.
• Commenters urged Xiao Yu to reveal Jiang Qihao’s badge number, while viewers in Xia Mo’s livestream discussed his growing popularity.
• Xiao Yu posted Jiang Qihao’s badge number and recounted details of his life, including a childhood burn on the sole of his foot.
• Jiang Qihao confirmed the badge number and the private childhood detail, acknowledged Xiao Yu’s abilities, and promised to attend his livestream and send gifts.
• Commenters celebrated Xiao Yu’s success, with one declaring that Master Xiao had turned her into a simp.

After finishing his first successful fortune-telling session on Weibo, Xiao Yu secretly crafted a spatial storage bracelet from violet spirit stone and Thousand-Year Blood Jade. He then resumed his livestream, where viewers noticed the bracelet, but he said it was not for sale.

• Xiao Yu ended his Weibo fortune-telling session and decided future readings would go to netizens with unusual identities or circumstances.
• Xiao Yu locked himself in his room and began refining a spatial storage treasure, asking Xia Mo and Zhong Qi not to disturb him.
• Xiao Yu fused the Thousand-Year Blood Jade into the violet spirit stone and inscribed the spell, completing the Violet Spirit Bracelet after several hours.
• Xiao Yu found the bracelet could store only one cubic meter of items, but was pleased that his first artifact-refining attempt had succeeded.
• Xia Mo welcomed Xiao Yu back to the livestream, and he resumed broadcasting after viewers admired his bracelet and he clarified that it was not for sale.

Xiao Yu began a new livestream, and Yin Hai thanked him for helping him get revenge before asking for advice about finding work. Xiao Yu recommended Yin Hai to viewers, and business owners quickly offered him jobs.

• Xiao Yu started streaming and reminded viewers that each person could receive only one reading per day.
• Yin Hai joined the stream, thanked Xiao Yu, and kowtowed to him twice.
• Yin Hai said his revenge had cost him his savings and job, and he asked Xiao Yu for help with his career prospects.
• Xiao Yu vouched for Yin Hai's advertising-planning skills and character, prompting viewers to offer him work.
• Yin Hai thanked Xiao Yu and the viewers as several business owners expressed interest in hiring him.

Xiao Yu reunited with Linghu Yan and Yang Xuan on his livestream after both girls had forgotten the previous day’s events. When Yang Xuan challenged him to reveal her secrets, he exposed an old rejection and a painful high-school romance, leaving her humiliated.

• Xiao Yu finished reading viewers’ fortunes, including one viewer who claimed to be poor while living in a luxury villa and running an upscale restaurant.
• Linghu Yan appeared with Yang Xuan, and the viewers realized both girls had forgotten the previous day’s events involving Xiao Yu and the bar.
• Xia Mo explained their memory loss, and Linghu Yan recognized that she and Yang Xuan had both forgotten what happened.
• Yang Xuan insisted Xiao Yu read her fortune so she could expose him as a fraud, despite Linghu Yan defending him.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Yang Xuan had written a love letter to a boy in middle school and been rejected, then described how a handsome, poorly behaved boy had conned her during her first romance in high school.

Xiao Yu exposed Yang Xuan’s secret from college, revealing that she had sabotaged Linghu Yan’s chances with Zhang Shuai because she wanted him herself. Yang Xuan admitted Xiao Yu’s reading was accurate and fled before apologizing, while Linghu Yan remained with him.

• Yang Xuan denied that she could be fooled as an adult, though Xiao Yu and the viewers could see she was panicking about what they said had happened to her.
• Xiao Yu brought up Yang Xuan’s senior year of college and revealed that she had pursued Zhang Shuai and interfered with his relationship with Linghu Yan.
• Linghu Yan confronted Yang Xuan, who claimed she had pursued Zhang Shuai only to expose his bad character; Xiao Yu confirmed she had made that excuse after seducing him.
• Linghu Yan sided with Xiao Yu, and he reassured her that Yang Xuan’s friendship mattered more to her than a man.
• When Linghu Yan asked Yang Xuan to apologize, Yang Xuan faltered, admitted Xiao Yu’s reading was accurate, and ran away in embarrassment.

Xiao Yu refused to help Wei Han's family after her father, Wei Liang, insulted him and cut off the call. When the hacker group Hive attacked Yanjing Live and demanded a hundred million, Xiao Yu agreed to help the platform and contacted cyber police officer Jiang Qihao for assistance.

• Xiao Yu told Linghu Yan to return the next day and allowed Wei Han to join the fortune-telling queue.
• Xiao Yu refused Wei Han's request to divine how her family could recover from its financial crisis, and Wei Liang angrily seized her phone and disconnected the call.
• Wei Zhuo celebrated Xiao Yu's success on Yanjing Live as the stream drew hundreds of thousands of viewers and the prize draw raised fifteen million.
• Hive hacked Yanjing Live's systems and demanded a hundred million in ransom.
• Xiao Yu agreed to resolve the attack without asking for payment and sought help by divining Jiang Qihao's private phone number.

Xiao Yu learned about Hive from Jiang Qihao and received a file that gave him enough clues to pursue the hackers. In Magic City, Hive’s members dismissed Xiao Yu as a fraud and celebrated their extortion scheme, unaware that someone had just rung their doorbell.

• Xiao Yu called Jiang Qihao to ask about Hive, and Jiang eagerly went to the bureau to search its files.
• Jiang sent Xiao Yu a sparse file containing Hive members’ online handles and extortion records, and Xiao Yu told him to wait for promotion and fortune.
• Huang Yiming and the other Hive members ate and joked in their Magic City villa, confident Xiao Yu could not expose them.
• Luo Ting warned that targeting Yanjing Live-Streaming Platform was risky, but Huang Yiming persuaded her that Xiao Yu was a fraud and the attack was safe.
• Someone rang the doorbell while the Hive members were eating fried chicken.

Huang Yiming and the other members of Hive were arrested after Xiao Yu revealed their location to the police. The police brought Xiao Yu a commemorative banner, but he avoided the ceremony by leaving Xia Mo to receive them.

• Jiang Qihao confronted Huang Yiming through the villa intercom and identified him and fifteen accomplices as members of Hive.
• The Yanjing Live staff celebrated Hive’s arrest, and Wei Zhuo proposed making Xiao Yu a shareholder in the company.
• The next morning, Jiang Qihao and other officers arrived at Xiao Yu’s residence with a commemorative banner.
• Xia Mo explained that Xiao Yu had gone out to avoid the fuss, and Jiang Qihao delivered the banner before the officers left.

Xiao Yu refused Xie Tiande’s offer to spare the Xie Family in exchange for the ginseng, then gave Zhu Qian a deliberately mischievous love reading. Zhu Qian left furious after discovering the man Xiao Yu predicted she would meet at the cinema already had a girlfriend.

• Xie Tiande asked Xiao Yu to spare the Xie Family and Xie Long and give him the ginseng, offering money and influence in return, but Xiao Yu refused and sent him out of the shop.
• Hu Feifei and Zhu Qian visited Xiao Yu, and Zhu Qian asked him to read her romantic fortune after thanking him for helping her.
• Xiao Yu teased Zhu Qian about her demanding standards and told her she would meet her match at a horror movie near her home.
• Zhu Qian went to the cinema and found only herself and a couple there, then returned to ask whether the man in the couple was her destined partner.
• Xiao Yu said Zhu Qian could wait for the man to break up with his girlfriend but warned her not to interfere, and Zhu Qian paid for the reading before leaving with Hu Feifei.

Xiao Yu selected Huang Yan for a fortune reading after learning that Huang had discovered his ex-wife’s child was not his and was now facing criminal charges for seriously injuring her. Xiao Yu asked Huang to join his livestream that night, then began an early stream with Xia Mo.

• Xiao Yu reviewed Weibo comments and replied to Neither Close nor Distant, identifying him as Huang Yan and asking what he wanted to know.
• Huang Yan explained that he had paid child support for five years before learning the child was not his, and that his ex-wife’s associates had harassed him until he injured her in a fight.
• Huang Yan said he feared prison and compensation, especially because his ex-wife’s lover was a prominent Magic City lawyer.
• Xiao Yu told Huang Yan to join his livestream that evening so he could read the situation involving Huang’s ex-wife and the lawyer.
• After lunch, Xiao Yu started streaming early with Xia Mo, and viewers gathered in the livestream room.

Xiao Yu connected with Huang Yan and called lawyer Zhu Tao on livestream, exposing his role in a murder case and warning him that the police would soon investigate. Zhu Tao protested that he had never called Xiao Yu a fraud, while viewers laughed at Xiao Yu’s preemptive attempt to prove himself.

• Xiao Yu spoke with Huang Yan and said he had already divined the events involving Huang Yan’s ex-wife, Guo Xin, and lawyer Zhu Tao.
• Xiao Yu called Zhu Tao at work and reminded him that he had helped a wealthy man named Zhang reduce an intentional homicide charge seven years earlier.
• Xiao Yu told Zhu Tao that police had obtained evidence against Zhang and that Zhang could reveal Zhu Tao’s coaching and million-yuan bribe.
• Xiao Yu introduced himself as Celestial Master Xiao and said he had raised the case to prove he was not a fraud.
• Zhu Tao angrily insisted that he had never doubted Xiao Yu, while livestream viewers laughed at the confrontation.

Xiao Yu used his fortune-telling knowledge to make Zhu Tao take his warning seriously and agree to leave Huang Yan alone and compensate him. After warning Zhu Tao to stop doing evil, Xiao Yu ended the call, leaving Zhu Tao shaken and the livestream viewers cheering.

• Xia Mo laughed at Xiao Yu’s approach, while Zhu Tao demanded that Xiao Yu speak seriously.
• Xiao Yu told Zhu Tao to stop harassing Huang Yan, compensate him for his losses, and prevent Guo Xin from troubling him again.
• Zhu Tao agreed, and Xiao Yu said he would withhold further evidence as long as Zhu Tao kept his word.
• Xiao Yu warned Zhu Tao to use his legal skills for good and cautioned that continuing to do evil would destroy him.
• Zhu Tao ended the call drenched in cold sweat as the livestream viewers praised Xiao Yu and celebrated his warning.

Xiao Yu assured Xia Mo that his warning would turn an unscrupulous lawyer toward justice, then continued his livestream fortune readings. Linghu Yan asked Xiao Yu to help find her a partner, leaving viewers clamoring for him to choose them.

• Xiao Yu told Xia Mo that the lawyer would reform and use his talents to fight for the people.
• Xia Mo introduced Linghu Yan as the next livestream viewer, and Xiao Yu asked why Yang Xuan had not come for a fortune reading.
• Xiao Yu explained to Linghu Yan what had happened during the past two days, including how Yang Xuan had been rescued from a bar.
• Linghu Yan asked Xiao Yu to use Defying Heaven and Changing Fate to help her find a partner like him, then clarified that she wanted a man with his qualities rather than Xiao Yu himself.
• Linghu Yan said she trusted Xiao Yu to choose a suitable man for her, and viewers flooded the chat asking him to pick them.

Xiao Yu advised Linghu Yan to pursue a shy admirer, then heard Ji Lin’s account of a violent dispute with her upstairs neighbors. He reassured Ji Lin that she had grounds to defend herself and offered to call a lawyer, leaving her hopeful about the coming legal fight.

• Xiao Yu told Linghu Yan that her same-aged student neighbor had a long-standing crush on her and urged her to ask him to dinner, so she chased after him.
• Xia Mo introduced raffle winner Ji Lin, who explained that her husband was often away and that she had joined the livestream hoping to learn whether he was cheating.
• Ji Lin said an upstairs child poured chicken and duck blood on her, repeatedly pounded on her door, and insulted her after his parents refused to apologize.
• Ji Lin said the child threatened to snatch her baby and pull him out a window, so she kicked him in the stomach; he fell down the stairs and broke his leg.
• Xiao Yu told Ji Lin that she had no reason to fear the neighbors legally or personally and said he would call the lawyer from earlier.