The Fortune Teller Comes to the City: I Became a Top-Tier Star by Bluffing

Before reading this book, please check your brain at the door.

If you take things too seriously, this book isn’t for you...

Liu Xiao was the village rascal of Liu Family Village, infamous for stealing chickens and peeking over walls. Only his master Liu Banxian’s reputation for “predicting where pigs had wandered off to and fixing door curtains” saved him from being beaten to a pulp by the villagers. Then his master got drunk, turned a fake deathbed illness into a real one, and passed away, leaving a will that told Liu Xiao to go make his way in the city. After a young villager sweet-talked him with tales of scantily clad city girls and easy money, he packed a woven-plastic sack, took his master’s bronze compass, and squeezed aboard a train. Along the way, he dumped every seasoning packet into his instant noodles and mistook an old lady’s dentures for something else, among other mishaps.

He was robbed as soon as he reached the city. Blood from his forehead dripped onto the compass, unexpectedly binding him to the “Heavenly Secrets Compass” and unlocking spiritual cultivation techniques. Penniless, he set up a fortune-telling stall on Antiques Street, using the “qi” he could vaguely see through the compass to bluff his way along. He went from earning five yuan for steamed buns to talking a gullible uncle out of a bad deal and putting a fake master in his place, gradually finding his footing.

Later, he followed the livestreaming trend, dropped his aloof persona, and told fortune-telling jokes in his village dialect. His down-to-earth style unexpectedly won him fans. In a desperate moment, he unlocked X-ray vision and helped a fan find a diamond ring wedged in a sofa, shooting straight to the trending charts as a “fortune-teller with a million followers.” A beautiful CEO, a campus belle, married women, and fashionable young women flocked around him. He weathered provocations from veteran masters in the metaphysical world and attempts by rogue cultivators to frame him. He even became a consultant recognized by the municipal government, worth over a hundred million, thanks to feng shui that was “half bluff, half genuinely useful.”

From the village deadbeat to top-tier star “Liu the Immortal,” Liu Xiao held the Heavenly Secrets Compass and confessed, “I only wanted to make enough to get by. I never thought my ‘bluffing’ could actually help people. Looks like this compass really did choose the right person!”