Su Xiaoli is a 21st-century enthusiast of metaphysics who transmigrates into a cultivation world, where she becomes a street fortune-teller in a remote little town. On the surface, she’s an amateur fortune-telling girl; in truth, she has the unusual ability to see the true nature of people’s “fate threads.” Quirky and unbeatable in an argument, she lives by the professional motto: “Better to tear down ten temples than to break up a marriage? No, a doomed relationship must be broken up!” Her goal is to live freely and earn a living with her skills, while using her modern perspective to mock this cultivation world full of melodramatic, coercive romances. Her ability lets her see the color and entanglement of people’s fate threads: red for a good match, black for a doomed relationship, and gray for a bond based on mutual gain. With special “untying” techniques, which are really psychological tactics and information asymmetry, she can sever doomed relationships. She’ll tell fortunes no more than three times a day, and not one more.
