Half an hour passed, and the livestream's viewer count dropped to 130,000.
Someone clicked in by accident, saw the viewer count and the gifts constantly floating across the screen, and asked what was going on in this stream. The host didn't seem to be performing anything.
Then viewers would reply that he was the handsome guy who had saved someone, the one who had just gone viral today. He was telling fortunes!
[Fortune-telling? Can someone this young actually get it right?]
[Just watch for fun. You can try it if you want, too. Three thousand per reading.]
[Three thousand!? Never mind, never mind. Bye.]
After Chen Xun disconnected, the stream fell into a strange silence again. The viewers chatted among themselves, while a few people on the leaderboard sent gifts from time to time, some big, some small.
Meanwhile, the host, Qu Nanzhu, simply kept his head down and worked on his own things.
[So boring. Isn't the host going to say something?]
[Do you think that guy earlier really got cheated on?]
[More than cheated on. He was going to raise someone else's kid.]
[Believe it if you want. I don't.]
[If you don't believe it, why are you here talking?]
[What's it to you what I say?]
The comments kept arguing and arguing, Qu Nanzhu kept writing and writing, and Huo Sili kept gifting and gifting.
This strange peace lasted a little over ten minutes before a call request popped up on the screen.
Qu Nanzhu finished his last stroke, lifted his pen, and accepted.
This time, the caller was a young woman with short hair and an unruly style. Holding her phone in one hand with dark woods behind her, she called out loudly, "Hello, hello! Can you see me, Master?"
"Yes. What would you like a reading on?"
The young woman's voice burned with exasperated anger. "Find out where my friend is. She said she'd had a breakup in the middle of the night yesterday, and after she ran out, she disappeared. She won't answer her phone or reply to messages. We still haven't heard anything from her."
Qu Nanzhu asked, "Have you called the police?"
"The police found out that she was last seen entering these woods, but they've been searching for over two hours and haven't found so much as a trace of her!!"
[You can tell she's furious. If it were my friend, I'd want to drag her out and give her a good scolding too.]
[You're still too kind.]
[She's so badass.]
Qu Nanzhu nodded in understanding. "The reading fee is three thousand. To locate her, I'll need her birth date and time for her eight characters. You can ask her parents."
The young woman paid the fee with a sweep of her hand, her tone no less heated. "No need to ask. Our moms are best friends. She was born just ten minutes after me."
[Wow, childhood sweethearts, girl edition.]
[No wonder she paid three thousand without blinking. She's practically her own little sister, right?]
[No wonder she's this angry...]
Qin Siyi was indeed about to explode with anger, but she was also worried sick that her little sister might take her own life. As she thought about it, the corners of her eyes reddened.
Qu Nanzhu had intended to offer some comfort, but after reading the birth details she sent over, his expression grew grave.
He chose his words carefully. "Don't worry. Her life isn't in danger for now."
Qin Siyi keenly picked out the key words. "What do you mean, for now?"
[Uh, for now means... for now.]
[Bravo, even Zhuang Zhou brought Purify.]
[Is this real? Don't tell me it's another script.]
[A life is at stake. Don't joke around.]
Qin Siyi stared fixedly at the screen, determined to get an answer from Qu Nanzhu.
Qu Nanzhu could only continue, "Someone has tampered with your little sister's fate. This calamity wasn't in her destiny, but now it is. If left alone, it could eventually threaten her life."
Qin Siyi watched him silently, clearly unconvinced. That was why Qu Nanzhu hadn't wanted to say it. Even if he did, she wouldn't believe him.
He sighed softly. "Let me help you find her first."
Qin Siyi gave a grunt of assent. "Give me directions."
Qu Nanzhu said, "Leave this place first. She isn't here."
Qin Siyi immediately frowned. "The surveillance footage showed her entering the woods, and she never came out."
Qu Nanzhu said, "Then the footage must have been tampered with. The Kan water trigram is in flux, pointing northwest. Search near water-a riverbank, a reservoir, or an abandoned swimming pool, somewhere closely connected to water."
Meeting Qin Siyi's suspicious gaze, Qu Nanzhu said frankly, "As I just said, she's only safe for now. If you arrive too late, I can't guarantee what will happen."
Qin Siyi's expression didn't change, but she had already turned, opened her car door, and climbed in. She set her phone in its holder and said decisively, "Tell me where to go."
"There should be an abandoned factory to the northwest, near water, somewhere few people go."
"All right."
Qin Siyi opened her map and found it, just as he'd said. She turned the steering wheel, and her bright red Ferrari cut through the night toward the deserted old factory.
[She's seriously badass, and seriously rich.]
[Is it really okay to send someone off on random directions like this? A life is at stake.]
[I can't with you. Didn't you hear her say the police were searching the woods?]
Half an hour later, Qin Siyi reached the abandoned factory Qu Nanzhu had mentioned.
While she was still a short distance away, Qin Siyi clearly spotted something, and a hint of ruthlessness entered her expression.
[Holy shit, did she see something?]
[That expression is vicious. Has something really happened!?]
[Say something, girl!!!]
Qin Siyi parked, briskly switched off the engine and grabbed her phone, then strode in a clear direction in her high heels.
A familiar car was parked in front of the abandoned factory.
Qin Siyi walked over and glanced inside. No one was in the car, so she headed straight into the factory.
It was very dark, and her phone could only illuminate a limited area. Fortunately, the other party hadn't tried to hide any deeper inside. With Qu Nanzhu's guidance as well, she soon found the two people inside.
When Qin Siyi pushed open the half-closed warehouse door, an unusual scent mingled with the heavy smell of dust. Her gaze swept over the room, and her heart stopped-
Su Youqin lay slumped on a pile of discarded burlap sacks, her cheeks abnormally flushed and her eyes unfocused. Her jacket had been roughly pulled off and tossed aside, exposing the thin shirt underneath.
And Zhao Donghao, the spineless coward who normally trailed behind them so meekly, was frantically undoing his belt. Several buttons on his shirt had already popped open.
"Zhao Donghao!" Qin Siyi's roar exploded like thunder out of a clear sky, filled with incredulous fury. "You motherfucker!"
That sudden roar scared Zhao Donghao out of his wits. He could neither pull his belt free nor buckle it back up.
He looked up in panic and met Qin Siyi's nearly fire-spitting eyes. His legs instantly went weak, and he stammered, "S-Sister Yi?! How... how did you... Let me explain! Let me explain!!"
"Explain my ass!" Qin Siyi's reason had long since burned away. She lunged forward, twisted her body, and delivered a clean side kick that whistled through the air and slammed into Zhao Donghao's forehead!
"Aaargh-!" Zhao Donghao's excuses instantly became a scream. Like a tattered sack kicked through the air, he flew backward and crashed heavily into a pile of old cardboard boxes three or four meters away. Amid a clattering crash, he curled up and groaned, without even the strength to struggle to his feet.
The livestream viewers couldn't see what had happened. They only heard Qin Siyi roar, followed by a timid male voice. The image swung wildly, and then a flesh-colored blur flew out of frame.
An abandoned factory warehouse, a man and a woman alone in the dead of night-the comments erupted with speculation.
[Holy shit, what happened?]
[I can guess, but I hope that's not it...]
[That guy still had his pants on just now. He probably didn't get to do it.]
[Fucking scumbag!! Thank goodness she listened to our precious Qu and rushed over. Otherwise, her little sister's life would have been ruined!!!]
[Why are you so sure it's the man's fault? If the woman didn't want it, why didn't she scream for help? Nobody heard anything just now.]
[Does being cishet mean you shit your brain straight out through your rectum?]
The comments kept arguing, but Qin Siyi only cared about Su Youqin's condition.
Seeing her burning up and moaning, Qin Siyi felt the fire in her belly flare up again. "You fucking bastard, Zhao! You even dared to drug her!"
As she spoke, she went over and kicked Zhao Donghao twice more. Then, remembering something, she hurriedly raised her phone and turned the camera toward him. The viewers immediately saw the man trembling on the floor and begging for mercy.
Naturally, they also saw that, aside from his shirt, his trousers were still properly on. Even his belt hadn't been pulled off.
While doing this, Qin Siyi deliberately pointed at Zhao Donghao and said venomously, "Just you wait, Zhao Donghao. Your whole Zhao Family had better fucking wait!"
Sure enough, the viewers angrily cursed Zhao Donghao as inhuman, thankful that the young woman had arrived in time to stop this scumbag from succeeding.
Afterward, she tossed her head to flick aside her disheveled hair, raised the phone to face herself, and thanked Qu Nanzhu. "Master, thank you. I'll visit you in person another day to express my gratitude. My little sister isn't well right now, so I need to take her to the hospital. I'll disconnect now."
She had barely finished when Qu Nanzhu, who had been quietly waiting for her to handle the situation, stopped her. "Wait. She appears to have been cursed. Taking her to the hospital won't solve it."
After what had just happened, Qin Siyi already trusted Qu Nanzhu completely.
Hearing the master's words, she immediately ran over to check Su Youqin's condition.
Judging by appearances alone, she did seem drugged, but when someone touched her, she instinctively tried to push them away. That didn't look like the effects of an aphrodisiac.
She held up her phone screen toward herself. "Master, please tell me what to do."
On the other side of the screen, Qu Nanzhu rubbed between his brows with a troubled look. Thinking the situation was difficult, Qin Siyi's heart leaped into her throat. She said gravely, "Master, whatever you need, just say it. Both the Su and Qin families will do everything in their power to satisfy you, as long as you save..."
Before she could finish, Qu Nanzhu waved a hand and interrupted her. "There's no need for that. It's just a peach blossom sha. It just needs me there in person to resolve it... I just don't have a car."
Qin Siyi: "...?"
The comments: [...?]
[Should I laugh? Will laughing right now cost me merit?]
[Go ahead and laugh. I'm already dying here, hahahahahaha.]
[She's completely stunned, hahahahaha.]