The Villain's Mom Becomes Famous for Fortune-Telling and Gossip Ch. 99

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Yu Yuan nodded to indicate she understood. "Then tell me about the second half of the month, the things you remember."

"..." As she thought about the strange and bizarre events from the past two weeks, Magpie's face turned pale.

"Nannan..." Her sister-in-law grabbed her cold hand, silently looking at her.

"I'm fine, sister-in-law." Magpie grabbed her hand back, their tightly clasped hands turning pale from the pressure. Her eyes filled with fear as she began to recount the experiences of the past two weeks.

"The first time things got weird was on my daughter's birthday. I clearly remember that day. That morning, my daughter said she wanted to invite her friends from school to celebrate her birthday with her, but I was worried the other parents wouldn't agree. I also worried that something might happen to the children in my house—if one of them bumped into something or got hurt, I didn't want to risk it, so I didn't agree."

"My daughter was a bit sulky about my refusal, but she was very understanding and didn't bring it up again. To make it up to her, my husband and I bought a huge cake and invited some family friends with children over. That evening, the children smeared cake frosting on each other's faces and had a great time playing."

"But, strange things started happening around that time." Magpie's shoulders suddenly shuddered, her pupils constricting as she recalled the terror from that night. "That evening, the adults were sitting around drinking and chatting, and the children were off to the side eating cake, also smearing frosting on us. I went to the sink to wash my face..."

"My sink is next to the living room. The lighting there is a bit dim, but it doesn't affect washing my face, so I didn't turn on the light. But when I wet my face and was about to put on some facial cleanser, I saw a little girl in a red dress standing behind me in the mirror, someone I had never seen before."

The terrifying memory flooded back. Magpie subconsciously bit her nails. Even though it was a hot summer night, she felt a chill run down her spine, completely dispelling the annoying summer heat around her.

There were a lot of children at the house that day—at least eight or nine, if not ten—ranging in age from eight or nine to eleven or twelve. But she could immediately tell that the little girl in the red dress was someone she had never seen before. It wasn't because she wasn't familiar with the other children, but because the girl's red dress was a thick knitted one.

No mother would dress her child in such thick clothes in weather like this.

"I was completely blank at that moment, and I panicked." Magpie furrowed her brows tightly. "I'm sure I've never seen that child before, but she was standing in my house, right behind me. I even made eye contact with the little girl in the mirror."

"But the moment we made eye contact, I don't know where I got the courage, but I just turned around..."

[And then? What happened next!]

[Ahhh! Don't stop the ghost story halfway! I'm scared!]

[My back's cold. I'm going to sleep with my mom tonight! Sob sob sob...]

[This is such a cliché scene from a horror movie, but why is it still so scary when someone tells it like this?!]

"Then, you saw your daughter," Yu Yuan filled in the rest of the story.

Magpie's eyes lit up. "Yes, yes! That's right! I saw my daughter behind me."

Her daughter was just standing there, and when she turned around, the little girl smiled at her, reaching out her sticky little hand, saying she wanted to wash her hands.

"At the time, I didn't immediately wash my daughter's hands. I looked in the mirror again, and yes, it was just me and my daughter. But at that time, I didn't think of ghosts or anything supernatural. I just thought maybe the lighting by the sink was too dim, or maybe I had drunk too much, and it was just a hallucination..."

"But now, thinking back on it, I feel like what I saw that day was real. If it was just a fleeting hallucination, how could I have clearly remembered that the girl's dress was knitted?"

Magpie looked at her for help. "Master, that's the entire experience of my first ghost encounter."

"Mm, I understand the situation now." Yu Yuan nodded and took a blank talisman paper from the side. She casually stirred the cinnabar in the small bowl while asking, "Was your daughter born on the 15th day of the 7th month in the lunar calendar?"

Magpie nodded. "My daughter's birthday is on the 15th of the 7th month in the lunar calendar, exactly on the Ghost Festival. When she was born, my brother said she had too much yin energy in her birth chart, so he specially went to the temple to get a peace talisman for her when she was a month old."

From her words, it was clear that she had a good relationship with her brother and sister-in-law.

Yu Yuan folded the drawn yellow talisman into a triangle and placed it aside. She then looked seriously at the camera, as if staring into Magpie's eyes. "I think I have an idea of what's attached to your daughter, but I'm not sure. I need you to answer one more question."

"Master, please ask."

Yu Yuan's gaze became deep as she looked at her. "Think carefully, was there really nothing strange about your house, especially with your daughter, in the first half of the month?"

"My daughter..." As a mother, Magpie was highly sensitive to anything related to her child. As soon as Yu Yuan mentioned her daughter, she immediately remembered something. "If I'm to think of something strange, there is one thing, but it's so small I'm not sure if it counts as what you mean by 'strange.'"

"Just tell me, let me hear it."

Magpie thought back. "It was around the middle of last month. One day, my daughter came home from school and said that a new student had transferred into her kindergarten. She was very pretty, and they became best friends. My daughter is a more introverted child, and she rarely talks about her classmates, so when she mentioned it, I remembered it. Then, during dinner that night, my daughter ate a lot of carrots."

She worried that Yu Yuan and the livestream audience wouldn't understand, so she explained. "My daughter has never eaten even a little bit of carrot since she was small. She'd even lose her appetite just from smelling it. But her dad loves them, so every time we have dinner, she would complain that the carrots on the table smelled too strong. But that night, not only did she not complain, she even fought with her dad over the carrots..."

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