The Villain's Mom Becomes Famous for Fortune-Telling and Gossip Ch. 107

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Zhou Yu's eyes instantly brightened. "Really? Then Master, you eat slowly. I'll drive out to buy some talisman paper and cinnabar!"

"Hey—"

Yu Yuan wanted to say that all the talisman paper and cinnabar outside were monopolized by the Celestial Master Hall, and for practice stuff, it was fine to just order online. But Zhou Yu was too fast; before she could say a word, the guy was already rushing out.

"Such an impatient guy..." she looked up at the moon.

It was already past eleven, almost midnight. Most shops outside were probably closed. She wondered if that silly kid could even get what he wanted.

Yu Yuan put the chopsticks and bowls into the kitchen, sent a message reminding Zhou Yu to come back and wash them, then stretched and went to rest.

At the same time, in the Lu family mansion—

Lu Yan stared expressionlessly at the darkened TV, his long curled lashes casting faint shadows on the other side of his face.

The elderly Madam Lu, in her seventies or eighties, held a cushion on the sofa, watching the livestream with bright eyes. Although a part of it was a bit scary, she still felt somewhat reluctant to stop after it ended.

"Yanyan," the old lady yawned and stood up satisfied, "tell the housekeeper later to call me every time there's a livestream. This livestream is so interesting. Grandma will watch it every day from now on!"

She wobbled up, and Lu Yan lifted his head, pressing his lips tight, frowning at the shaky figure of his grandmother. "Grandma, you're going to watch Yu Yuan's livestream all the time now?"

"The master is called Yu Yuan?" Grandma Lu was surprised, turning back to him. Her old face scrunched up in confusion, then she nodded with delight. "That name's good, that name's good! No wonder she's a master. That's a great name..."

"...." Lu Yan took a deep breath, pushing down all kinds of emotions welling up inside.

Not long ago, when he found out his sister and Yu Yuan had been switched at birth, Grandma had even scolded Yu Yuan, saying just from her name, she wasn't blessed.

And now, because of a livestream, Grandma thought the name was lucky...

Was it the name that was lucky, or was it that the person had value that made the name seem lucky?

He scratched his head hard, grabbed a bottle of cola from the fridge, and gulped it down.

The sound of a car came from the front door. Thinking it was his parents returning from a banquet, he didn't even turn his head. "Mom, Dad... second brother?"

He froze on the spot, staring blankly at the young man carrying a suitcase as he walked in.

Standing at the door, the young man held his suitcase; his gray Taoist robe was soaked from the rain and stuck to his body, outlining a lean but not gaunt figure.

"Xiao Yan, still not asleep?" The young man shook his slightly long hair. A gentle smile appeared on his face, which was unusually pleasant, his whole body damp and misty, but his voice was like a warm, dry birch forest in winter. "Has grandma already gone to rest?"

Lu Yan soaked in the joy of his second brother's return for a moment before shaking his head blankly and walking over with light steps to help him carry the luggage. "Grandma just went upstairs. Second brother, why didn't you say you were coming back?"

His tone mixed happiness with frustration. "If you had told us earlier, Mom and Dad would definitely have waited for you and wouldn't have gone to some banquet!"

Lu Yan's second brother, Lu You, took off his wet robe jacket. His face was gentle like jade, smiling as he replied, "I was worried if I told them I was coming back, Mom, Dad, and Grandma would keep waiting, so I didn't tell you guys."

As he spoke, he crouched down and took out a yellow talisman from his suitcase. "I heard from Dad that a few days ago you went on some adventure and ran into a ghost?"

"This is a safety talisman I drew. Tie it around your neck with a string."

Lu Yan took it and pulled out the protective charm Master Fang had given him from his collar. "Master Fang gave this to me when he came to help me before."

"Master Fang gave it?" Lu You stood up and pulled off the charm around his neck, warning him, "If anyone at home still has stuff given by Master Fang, throw it away as soon as possible. Don't keep using it."

"Why?" Seeing his brother's serious face, he guessed, "Could it be that Master Fang did something wrong?"

Lu You didn't say "yes" or "no." "Anyway, just do as I say."

"Oh, okay then." Lu Yan had no objection. He obediently put the charm in his pocket and headed upstairs, taking two steps at a time. "Second brother, wait a moment. I'll go tell Grandma you're back!"

"Okay." Lu You took out some things prepared for the family and reminded him, "If Grandma is asleep, don't disturb her."

"Got it! Don't worry, brother. I know!"

West City, Hu Lingshan

A few college students who had come to camp out looked miserable, huddling into their tents and staring anxiously at the rain outside.

"What's going on? The weather forecast didn't say it was going to rain. How did it suddenly start raining?" A girl in a pink dress complained, "If I'd known, we should have postponed the plan for two days."

Behind her, under the warm yellow light of a tent, two guys and a girl were playing Landlord.

Hearing her complaint, a boy in a black T-shirt turned his head to comfort her, "Babe, don't worry too much. Other people wish they could enjoy a rainy mountain view like us."

The girl in the pink dress gave her boyfriend a side-eye. "Enjoying a rainy view is fine if you're lucky. But now is the high-risk season for mudslides and geological disasters. What if we get unlucky..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" The high ponytail girl playing Landlord immediately interrupted, raising her pretty eyebrows and pouting. "Why say that so late at night? You might jinx us!"

"Yeah, good things don't work, bad things do. We absolutely can't say stuff like that." The single-eyelid guy cuddling with the high ponytail girl agreed, smiling as he asked the pink dress girl, "Weren't you watching some fortune-telling livestream just now? Finished it?"

The pink dress girl bent over and leaned into her boyfriend's arms, looking listless as she nodded. "Yeah, finished. Sigh, today's lucky person wasn't me again..."

The light inside the tent flickered and swayed, occasionally flashing because of unstable power.

The high ponytail girl threw down a pair of 3's, chewing on candy as she chatted, "A female celebrity turned fortune teller? What a ridiculous combo. Haha, selling stuff probably makes more money than fortune telling!"

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