The Villain's Mom Becomes Famous for Fortune-Telling and Gossip Ch. 88

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"That might sound a bit abstract, so let me break it down," Yu Yuan said with a half-smile toward President Xiang. "In general, a deep blue aura in a house represents the male head of the household. Pink represents the female. Two pink auras in one house usually means—you remarried after your first wife died, right?"

[Wait, what? I thought he only had one wife?]

[Your wife literally died for you and you remarried??]

[Okay, some of you in this chat need to chill. His wife died, yeah, but does that mean he has to live in grief forever? I respect people who can heal and move on.]

[Heal? Dude probably got a bag from her death and celebrated. Look at him.]

President Xiang: "..."

His facial muscles twitched—twice—before he finally nodded with a grim face after a long thirty seconds.

"That's right. I remarried after my first wife passed. The kids weren't in good health back then, and they were still young, so..."

"Hold on!" Yu Yuan cut him off.

The moment she opened her mouth again, President Xiang's barely held civility snapped. His disgust was written all over his face, and his voice dripped with irritation. "What now?"

"What now? Nothing," Yu Yuan said mildly. "Just wanted to remind you that you've got your timeline mixed up."

"Are you sure you didn't meet your second wife until after your first passed away? Because the color of the aura around you tells a different story."

"In fact," she added slowly, her voice like a blade sliding out of its sheath, "based on what I'm seeing, you and your second wife were already involved before your first wife died—"

"No, to be more precise, you two were already together when you were planning to become a live-in son-in-law."

[WTF?! For real?!]

[This is insane! I always thought President Xiang was one of the good guys who loved his wife. I remember reading about him back in college—those articles talked about how loyal he was to his wife in the psych hospital! Turns out it's just another capitalist scam! Pfft!]

[Holy crap! Hold up—if that's the case, the first wife died tragically, the second one has a mental illness... is President Xiang cursed to doom his wives or something?!]

[Honestly, I'm getting m*rder vibes more than cursed vibes...]

[Wow, people really do anything for clout these days? Y'all not even scared of getting sued?!]

[President Xiang: You better shut your mouth before you get a lawyer letter.]

[Tsk tsk, as expected—wherever Yu Yuan is, there's always drama! I, the nosy raccoon, officially declare I'm following Yu Yuan everywhere from now on!]

The empty mountains behind them suddenly fell into silence.

President Xiang's facial muscles twitched nonstop. With the cameras rolling and the livestream still going, his chest heaved a few times before he managed to calm down.

"I admit it, I did marry a second wife..."

Back when his first wife was still alive, he hadn't made it big yet—just a small-town nobody. As long as he kept quiet, with his current power, he could've buried this secret forever.

The wild wind blew past, carrying the heat from his body away. Cold sweat soaked his back, chilling to the bone.

For a second, he really regretted coming on this show...

"Miss Yu was right. Back when I married my first wife, I was indeed a live-in son-in-law."

As he brought up this memory he'd avoided for so long, the shame from those years came flooding back, twisting his voice along with the hatred he felt toward Yu Yuan.

He wanted so badly to spill all the bitterness of being a live-in son-in-law, but after so many years of navigating the business world, he knew—if people found out his ex-wife's whole family died while he went on to get rich, no matter whether he had anything to do with it or not, rumors would spiral out of control.

The one thing he absolutely couldn't do was trash his ex-wife's family now that they were gone and couldn't defend themselves. That would only tank his image further.

The persona he needed to build now was that of a grateful, mourning gentleman who held deep respect and longing for his late wife. Only that could help him salvage his public reputation, at least for now.

"My first wife's family were all wonderful people." President Xiang's eyes went blank, like he was lost in memories from twenty years ago.

"Back then, I was just a poor kid from the countryside. Pure dumb luck landed me in a situation where I saved a rich young lady from the city. She liked me, and we started dating. Her parents were top-tier—college professors, well-off. They raised their daughter like a precious jewel. Afraid she'd be mistreated in marriage, they made me a live-in son-in-law."

"From the moment I married her, that was when I first understood what life meant. Whether it was her or her parents, they were all the greatest blessings I'd ever received."

[Aw, his eyes literally lit up when he talked about her...]

["Young lady" sounds kinda cringe at first, but thinking about how twenty years have passed... it's kinda heartbreaking.]

[From the way President Xiang looked when he said that, they must've truly loved each other back then.]

[Ughhh if she hadn't died, they'd probably still be happy now...]

...

Yu Yuan lowered her eyes. After he finished painting his perfect image, she finally asked, "What about your second wife then? You were already with her before your first wife even died."

President Xiang took a deep breath, eyes slightly red. He only shook his head in response to Yu Yuan's words. "Master Yu, you must be mistaken. I didn't meet my current wife until years after my first wife passed."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Yu Yuan's tone wasn't loud or sharp, but it made President Xiang's heart suddenly lurch. Afraid she'd drop something else he couldn't recover from, he quickly nodded.

"Oh, then let's talk about your current wife."

Seeing that Yu Yuan wasn't going to dig into things from years ago, President Xiang let out a sigh of relief. "Alright, Master Yu, please go ahead and ask."

"Your wife..." Yu Yuan turned around, facing the huge villa in the distance, hidden under layers of tree shade. Her voice was carried away by the wind, making it sound a little distant, "Can she see ghosts?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Before President Xiang could speak, the silver-haired butler nodded vigorously. "Madam does often say that there's something unclean in this villa."

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