The Villain's Mom Becomes Famous for Fortune-Telling and Gossip Ch. 67

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No other department head had it worse than him!

He exhaled a thick cloud of smoke and reluctantly accepted the file sent by his boss.

The PDF file was the biography of this special consultant. Her profile picture showed a woman with heavy makeup and smoky eyes—one look and you could tell she was no part of the system.

"Tch," Hua Nan muttered, "Really treating this place like a garbage dump, shoving any random person my way!"

He frowned and took another drag from his cigarette. His gaze landed on the name in the file, and he suddenly froze.

"Yu Yuan..."

He closed the software and opened Weibo. Her name was everywhere on the trending list.

Hua Nan mumbled, "So it's her..."

Zhou Yu blinked his eyes open groggily. The clock on the wall showed it was five in the morning. Outside, the sky was a pale gray just starting to glow, and the darkness in the room was laced with dim white and deep blue.

"...Master?"

He jumped a little at the figure sitting by his bed, but relaxed as soon as he saw his master's familiar face.

Yu Yuan opened her eyes from a light doze. "You're awake?"

"Mm..." Zhou Yu looked down at the air conditioner blanket covering him and the familiar models on the table next to him—everything was telling him the same thing: this was his own room. "Wasn't I... in the Underworld?"

After they got separated, his enthusiastic little senior uncle had taken him around to a bunch of places down there. Every time someone walked by, they somehow ended up being connected to their sect, Tianyuanmen. Along the way, his little senior uncle gave him a crash course on the "local customs" of the Underworld, all while collecting gifts from every ghost guard they met. Before Zhou Yu even fully lost consciousness, his hands were already full of those gifts.

Wait a sec... Zhou Yu suddenly panicked and started fumbling around the bed.

Where were his gifts?!

"Looking for this?" Yu Yuan lifted a bag from beside her, stuffed full with talismans and tools practically dripping with underworld energy.

Watching Zhou Yu cradle the bag like treasure, Yu Yuan rubbed her temples. "You stayed in the Underworld too long and passed out. You feeling okay now?"

She was seriously downplaying it.

Truth was, neither she nor her junior brother had expected this kid's body to be so weak—he'd straight-up fainted from all the yin energy. When they finally made it out through that twisty mountain path past the Ghost Gate, it had been Yu Yuan who carried him the whole way.

Zhou Yu instinctively rolled his shoulders like she said. Limbs felt strong, stomach a little hungry. Honestly, he felt like he could eat a whole cow.

"Glad you're alright." Yu Yuan pressed at her throbbing temples and stood up. "I didn't sleep all night, feeling a bit off. You should get some more rest too—make sure you're up before nine."

As soon as she said that, Zhou Yu let out a big yawn, eyelids starting to droop. He forced himself upright. "Master, let me walk you out."

"No need." Yu Yuan shook her head. "I'm just in the next room over, in Liang Liang's place. You go back to bed."

Sleep hit him like a wave. Zhou Yu yawned again and flopped back into bed, and his breathing slowed into a steady rhythm almost instantly.

[Host! Host!]

Gua Gua had taken Liang Liang out for breakfast and walked her to the school bus with her little backpack. When it saw the time approaching nine, it came to wake Yu Yuan.

[Host! It's time to get up!]

Yu Yuan had been so drained from last night that she actually crashed on the bed instead of meditating in front of the ancestor's tablet like usual. When she heard Gua Gua's baby voice, she rolled over and opened her eyes, staring blankly at the ceiling. "It's nine already?"

[Yep yep!] Gua Gua put its front paws up on the bed, panting with its tongue out. [Liang Liang's already finished his first class at school!]

Yu Yuan wanted to explain that kindergarten was basically just supervised playtime and not real classes, but her dry, sore throat made her swallow the words.

Gua Gua, quick to catch on, dragged over her water cup. After downing it, Yu Yuan put on her shoes and walked out. "Zhou Yu's awake, right?"

Zhou Yu had actually woken up early and was feeling great.

He was happily sorting through all the gifts he'd gotten and couldn't help calling his sister.

As soon as the call connected, he jumped in, "Sister, guess what happened yesterday—"

"Zhou Yu! Zhou Yu! I got promoted! Liang Ling got taken in for investigation, and I took her spot!"

Before he could finish, his sister's excited voice blasted through the phone.

Zhou Xi shouted, "And there's something else you'd never guess!"

Her voice rose with glee. "After Liang Ling got taken away, the company assigned Master Yu to me! I'm Master Yu's manager now! Can you believe it, you little brat? I'm Master Yu's manager now!"

Zhou Yu couldn't help the smile creeping up his face. He cleared his throat, about to announce that he'd officially become Master Yu's disciple—when suddenly, there were two knocks on the window by his bed. His master's voice came from outside.

"Tell your sister I'm joining a metaphysics variety show in a couple days. Everything's already been finalized."

Once again, his moment was interrupted. Zhou Yu: "..."

He slipped on his shoes and walked out. "Master, you're doing a variety show?"

On the other end of the phone, Zhou Xi—currently chilling with a face mask—froze. "Master? What master? Don't tell me you've picked up that game again?"

Zhou Yu didn't respond, but she heard a familiar voice coming from his side.

"Yeah, your grandmaster arranged it. It's a metaphysics variety show. A lot of masters will be there. You should come with me and see what it's like."

"..."

Zhou Xi blinked. Her face mask slid off with a wet plop before she snapped back to her senses.

Wait a sec...

Did her dumb little brother just call that master... Master?

Hearing that his master was bringing him to explore a whole new world of metaphysics, Zhou Yu got so hyped he straight-up tossed his phone aside. "For real, Master?! When are we leaving? Where are we going? Are they sending someone to pick us up or are we driving ourselves? If we're driving, I should rent an RV or something..."

He excitedly started running through all the logistics—until his stomach growled. Twice.

The two of them went quiet for a second. Yu Yuan cleared her throat. "I'm starving. You want anything? I'll order delivery."

"No, no, no, I'll go buy something!" He remembered how much Master liked those grilled potato slices at the food street yesterday. It was time to show some disciple-level appreciation!

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