9.
[Room owner, no matter what, he’s still a patient. That was way too harsh!]
[This streamer is so cruel. I’m about to block her!]
“+1”
I ignored these furious comments. Instead, I looked at Old Kim Fights Cancer, who seemed bewildered on-screen, and spoke calmly.
“There’s no light in your eyes, and the three yin areas are cold and dark. Your life is nearly over; there’s no saving you.”
“There’s a deep, needle-thin line between your brows. It means you’ve done something truly vile. A line that deep can only mean you have blood on your hands.”
My words left Old Kim’s face pale with fear. “Y-you can’t just make things up!”
“You have round, beady eyes, large pupils, and a vacant stare—all signs that you’ve been a thief. There’s even the smell of money clinging to that line between your brows. You must have stolen money and gotten someone killed, and not just one person.”
Old Kim’s hands trembled, and fear showed in his eyes. “You’re making things up and framing me!”
“Fine. I’ll make you admit it today!”
I silently recited to myself, “Heavenly eye, open!”
When I opened my eyes again, I saw Old Kim carrying an “old man” on his back.
The “old man” clung tightly to Old Kim and kept “licking” the back of his head with his long tongue.
The “old man” seemed to sense my gaze and slowly turned his head toward me…
In an instant, the “old man” began to tremble, dropped to his knees, and confessed everything.
9.
Suddenly, I spoke again in the livestream.
“When you were in middle school, one of your classmates’ fathers had cancer. The whole school raised money for his family, but you stole your classmate’s donation during lunch break!”
“A week later, your classmate’s father died. Your classmate thought they’d accidentally lost the money that could have saved their father, and that it was their fault he died. Grief-stricken, they jumped into a river and killed themselves!”
“And you used that money to buy the latest cell phone.”
In the livestream, Old Kim was exhausted, but he stubbornly insisted, “You’re a liar! I’m suing you for slander! You have no proof!”
“Proof?”
I gave a cold laugh. “Isn’t it right there in your clenched hand?”
“Back then, your classmate wrapped that lifesaving money in the handkerchief you’re holding. After they died, you kept carrying the handkerchief around with you.”
“It’s a good thing you’ve kept it with you all this time… Otherwise, how could the father of the classmate you got killed have kept following you?”
Old Kim’s face instantly went pale. He tossed the handkerchief away. “What are you talking about?”
Comments continued streaming through the livestream.
[???]
[So that classmate’s father latched onto the handkerchief and followed Old Kim for all these years?]
[Maybe the handkerchief originally belonged to the classmate’s father… That’s why the wronged spirit could follow him…]
[Streamer, don’t scare me. I sleep alone every night…]
[+1]
I looked at Old Kim, utterly terrified. “You killed the son he loved most. He hasn’t gone to be reincarnated—he’s stayed behind to bring you bad luck!”
Old Kim seemed to realize something. He clasped his hands together, knelt before the camera, and sobbed, “Master, if you’re as powerful as they say, you must be able to save me!”
“Heaven’s justice is mighty; retribution follows like a shadow! What you’re suffering now is the consequence of your own actions!”
“I forgot to mention: that day, the thief spent all your savings on an electric scooter for his girlfriend.”
With that, I ended the video call with him.
“Dear friends, I’ll see you again in three days…”
10.
As soon as the livestream ended, Li Chengyi sent me a message.
[Let’s have dinner together tonight. I haven’t had a chance to properly welcome you since you arrived.]
[Sure.]
[Then come wait for me at the police station. There’s a really good restaurant nearby.]
When I got to the police station, the officer I’d met before was there too, taking a report.
Li Chengyi stood behind the officer, listening closely to the complainant’s account.
However, the complainant seemed to be hiding something and kept hesitating.
The officer looked a little worried as he watched him.
“You’re being so secretive that we can’t find any leads. You came here to report this, so you have to tell us the truth!”
The complainant sighed. “My name is Chen Fei. I’m here to report that I suspect my wife killed my lover.”
The young officer and Li Chengyi exchanged glances, their expressions turning serious. “Tell us exactly what happened.”
“I’m a senior executive at a company. I met Xiaowan at a dinner party. She was gentle and thoughtful. After we’d been seeing each other for a while, we became lovers. Before long, Xiaowan got pregnant, and I was overjoyed! My wife had always been against having children, even after all these years together, but I’ve always loved kids!”
“That night, I confessed everything to my wife. She was furious and couldn’t accept it! From the beginning, she’d made it clear she didn’t want children. I agreed, and that’s why we got married. But now I have to divorce her because of my child.”
Chen Fei explained to the officers with an aggrieved expression. “But I had no other choice. My parents are old, and they really want a grandchild! I loved her so much back then that I had no choice but to agree to marry without having children.”
Seeing that neither the young officer nor Li Chengyi intended to respond, Chen Fei continued indifferently.
“My wife and I filed for divorce, and she agreed. After that, Xiaowan had severe morning sickness, so I brought her home to take care of her. My wife still hadn’t found a suitable place to live, so she had to stay at my house.”
“I’d thought that if Xiaowan moved in, the two of them would definitely fight. But to my surprise, they got along really well…”
Chen Fei thought for a moment, then said hesitantly, “But looking back now, maybe my wife was deliberately putting on an act for me.”
“Then my company sent me overseas for training for half a year. My wife said she’d take good care of Xiaowan, so I went away on my business trip without a worry.”
“For the past six months, I video-called them almost every day, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But just a week ago, I couldn’t get through to either of them anymore!”
“I quickly booked a flight home and asked all our friends and relatives, but they all said they didn’t know where the two of them had gone.”
“I thought it over again and again. Could my wife have turned her love into hatred, killed Xiaowan, and then run away…”
11.
Grrr… grrr… grrr…
I pressed a hand to my growling stomach.
“Your ex-wife and your lover are both alive and well.”
Chen Fei looked at me in confusion. “Who are you? How do you know that?”
“In your Spouse Palace, the Sun Star and Moon Star—one bright, one dark—clearly show that you have a wife and a lover. But the marriage lines connecting them to you have been severed, which means they have nothing to do with you anymore.”
“And there’s more…”
“What else?” Chen Fei asked urgently.
I looked at the three pairs of curious eyes. “And the marriage bond between the two of them has been tied back together…”
The officer drew a deep breath, while Chen Fei stared at me wide-eyed and skeptical.
“Your Sun Star and Moon Star are both very far from you, so they’ve gone abroad.”
The officer took the information Chen Fei provided and checked his ex-wife’s and Xiaowan’s travel records.
Sure enough, the two of them had gone to Denmark together.
When Chen Fei left the police station in despair, Li Chengyi and I walked out together, too.
By then, the streetlights had come on. I found a stroll through the cool night air very relaxing.
Li Chengyi narrowed his eyes. “You’re impressive.”
“Yeah, I know.”
12.
Time flew by…
In the blink of an eye, I’d taken on the fortune-telling gig, and I had only one reading left.
At the same time, I calculated that this reading would bring disaster upon me!
When I started streaming today, I turned off the tipping feature.
After nearly a month of building an audience, my livestream had become popular. As soon as I went online, there were sixty thousand viewers.
[Streamer, open a giveaway already!]
[Open it already! +1]
[I want a reading! Streamer, read my fortune!]
I watched everyone flood the screen with comments and calmly said, “For today’s reading, I’m going to wait for someone fate brings my way.”
Once I’d worked out the timing, I turned on the giveaway feature.
[Dog Killer gifted a treasure map]
I frowned when I saw this username.
Before I could send them a private message to ask what was up, they sent me one first.
[Big sis, hurry! I want to show my face!]
I clicked on the profile picture. It was a little girl.
I started a video call.