Chapter 155: Little Li Daxian

Chapter 155 -151: Little Li Daxian

Inside the room.

Li Ying sat on the platform bed.

Before her burned a bright red candle.

Across from the candle was a woman with an influencer’s face, wearing a designer mink coat.

The woman pressed her palms together and said piously:

“Daxian, can you see for me? How can I get my boyfriend to divorce his wife?”

The woman was a mistress.

She had originally been a salesclerk at a high-end counter.

Some salesclerks are like that. After being around luxury goods and wealthy people for too long, they start to see themselves as wealthy, a luxury item in their own right.

It’s like the string tied around a hairy crab’s claws, which mistakenly thinks it’s as valuable as the crab itself.

She couldn’t accept having an ordinary person as her other half, so she seduced a real estate developer, hoping to usurp the wife’s position.

Hmm… Actually, she’d done her research long ago.

Her boyfriend’s current wife had also been a mistress who’d secured her position.

If she could make it as a mistress, why couldn’t she?

Li Ying glanced at the woman.

“Sincerity is the key to efficacy.”

The woman hurriedly placed a new Gucci bag, with the tag still on, upon the table.

“Daxian, I’m begging you, please help me. I just want to find true love so badly.”

Li Ying’s eyes flickered to the Gucci bag.

It was worth a pretty penny.

More importantly, the bag was full of cash.

A satisfied smile crept onto Li Ying’s lips.

“Tonight at eleven, go to the Pangu Commercial Building and call for a ride-share.”

The woman looked at Li Ying, confused.

“That’s it? What does this have to do with my boyfriend—”

Li Ying said meaningfully:

“If his wife gets hit and killed by a car, won’t you get to take her place?”

Realization dawned on the woman. When she looked at Li Ying again, a deep-seated fear had taken root in her eyes.

She collected herself and said, respectfully and cautiously:

“Thank you, Daxian!”

After saying her thanks, the woman quickly left.

…..

After the woman left, Li Ying picked up the Gucci bag.

The bag was worth over a hundred thousand yuan, and it held another two hundred thousand in cash.

Three hundred thousand, banked just like that.

Li Ying stretched, a smug smile on her face as she recalled the woman’s awestruck gaze.

In the past, women like that would have looked down their noses at her.

But now?

‘They call me Daxian. Not only do they give me money, but they have to treat me with respect!’

Li Ying’s thoughts drifted back ten years.

Back then, her father was a famous Daxian, known throughout the surrounding villages.

When her father performed ‘readings’ for people, he didn’t light cigarettes or incense. He lit a candle!

That candle… Li Ying remembered it.

Ever since her father brought that candle home, it was as if an Immortal had possessed him; his predictions were never wrong.

But her father was strange, one might even say foolish!

He only charged two hundred yuan for a reading. If someone insisted on giving more, he would accept at most another hundred, saying that an Immortal’s house does good deeds and isn’t greedy.

Their family had been very poor, and it was only thanks to her father’s abilities that they managed to build a large courtyard home.

And what about Li Ying herself?

Just as the trend of social media selling was dying down, she was brainwashed by a manufacturer and resolutely became a social media merchant herself.

Her father had warned her never to get involved in such things, saying she didn’t have the fate to become rich.

If she ever did strike it rich, she would surely meet a violent end.

Li Ying refused to believe in such superstitions.

A lack of education wasn’t scary; a lack of awareness was.

Every day, when she wasn’t being brainwashed and pumped full of hype, she was posting on her social media feed to sell products.

The outcome was simple. The social media merchant business was cracked down on by the authorities, and she was left with a pile of shoddy cosmetics she couldn’t sell.

In the end, it was her father who had to dip into his life savings to pay off her debts.

Li Ying resented her father.

‘He was clearly so capable, so why didn’t he charge more money?’

‘Don’t you have a daughter? Don’t you know you should provide a better life for her?’

Three years ago, on the night her father died from illness, he pointed at the strange candle and told her:

“In a few years, the candle’s master will come to take it back.

You must never touch this candle. Not even if you’re reduced to begging for food.

Otherwise, not even the Five Immortals will be able to save you!”

Li Ying believed her father’s predictions were never wrong, but she refused to believe he was the smartest person in the family.

In the end, she picked up the candle.

The moment she did, Profound Mysteries flooded her mind.

She finally understood where her father’s heaven-defying abilities had come from.

Inside this candle were the actual Five Immortals of the Northeast!

Li Ying also learned the price of using the Five Immortals to perform readings.

Bearing the karmic consequences!

This karma could either be shouldered by herself or by the client.

Of course, Li Ying wasn’t foolish enough to choose to bear the karma herself.

She looked toward the door.

“Next, come in!”

…..

The one who entered was a man.

He wore a black suit with a trench coat draped over it.

He had the air of a gangster in a suit, yet also the scholarly grace of a literatus in a long gown.

The combination of these two auras gave him an incredibly noble air.

Li Ying knew a big fish had arrived.

She pointed to the head of the platform bed.

“Sit.”

Jiang Chaosheng said:

“I’m fine standing.”

Li Ying revealed a satisfied smile.

“You’re not bad. You know your place and how to respect an Immortal.”

Once a humble person of low awareness who was easily swindled, Li Ying’s vanity swelled immensely at the sight of a noble figure acting so respectfully toward her.

A playful look flickered in Jiang Chaosheng’s eyes.

“You’re an Immortal?”

Li Ying frowned.

“Of course.”

She was a little annoyed.

This man was starting to overstep.

Li Ying sneered internally.

‘I’ll have to teach you a lesson today.’

The things these rich people ask for are always major.

The bigger the request, the heavier the karma, making it easy to encounter a Life and Death Pass.

At best, they suffer serious injuries; at worst, they die.

‘Taking your money and bringing disaster upon you… just thinking about it is thrilling.’

A smile appeared on Li Ying’s face.

“Go on, what do you want to know?”

Jiang Chaosheng pondered for a moment, then his thin lips parted slightly.

“I’d like to see my fortune.”

Li Ying was stunned.

She thought this man wanted to win a lawsuit or ask for wealth.

He came all this way just to have his fortune read?

Li Ying shot Jiang Chaosheng a sidelong glance.

“I can, but… sincerity is the key to efficacy!”

Jiang Chaosheng took a handful of something from his pocket and placed it on the table.

When Li Ying saw the sparkling, translucent objects, her eyes went wide.

Diamonds!

So many diamonds!

Li Ying re-evaluated the man before her.

‘Is he really this much of a tycoon?’

Of course Jiang Chaosheng was a tycoon.

Besides, who doesn’t travel well-provisioned when they’re far from home?

Of course, this particular journey had bankrupted the Evil Crow.

The Evil Crow had a particular fondness for diamonds.

Especially the one on its chest, a priceless Blood Diamond.

Jiang Chaosheng had grabbed the Evil Crow by its feet and given it a good shake.

Quite a few diamonds had tumbled out.

And just like that, Jiang Chaosheng’s journey was well-funded.

Li Ying suppressed her excitement, looked at Jiang Chaosheng, and said with a sagely shake of her head:

“Fortune, you see, is a matter of one’s fate.

The scope of your fate is preordained by the heavens.

If you have a meager fate, don’t try to force it. You won’t get what you’re not destined for.”

Having been in contact with the Five Immortals for so long, Li Ying had gained a superficial understanding of transcendent civilization—in other words, metaphysics.

How should one put it?

It was this superficial knowledge, this time spent with the Five Immortals, that made her feel as if she were an existence on par with them.

Just like the string on a hairy crab’s claw, she had vastly overestimated her own worth and enjoyed lecturing others from the position of an enlightened master.

Jiang Chaosheng said:

“Then let’s see just how meager my fate is.”

Li Ying pursed her lips.

“Fine, I’ll take a look for you.”

She didn’t forget to add with a sigh:

“Ah, mortals. You all think you’re the one person in the world with a grand destiny, that you’re the special one.”

Her words were laced with sarcasm and ridicule.

Li Ying covered her left eye and stared directly at Jiang Chaosheng with her right.

“In truth, whether it’s the fate of a tycoon or a beggar, it all amounts to the same thing.

Let me give you a piece of advice: don’t think too highly of yourself. Don’t overestimate your own worth.”

She was saying this because the diamonds had put her in a good mood, and she felt like bestowing a bit of extra guidance upon Jiang Chaosheng.

Li Ying’s right eye transformed into a vertical slit, like that of some kind of animal!

Suddenly…

“AHHH!!!”

Li Ying let out a bloodcurdling scream as blood flowed from her right eye.

She clutched her right eye, grimacing in pain, her left eye staring at Jiang Chaosheng in terror.

His fate… just a single glance at it was like staring directly into a raging sun at close range!

A piercing pain assaulted her mind.

Her right eye… was blind!