I Can Hear What People Will Say to Me in the Future

Xia He is a downtrodden office worker. After enduring a new boss who suddenly parachuted in and did nothing but issue clueless orders and make life harder for the staff, two straight months of overtime, and colleagues who dumped the blame on her when a project failed, she finally decides to quit.

Her resignation letter is ready. Just as she's about to send it, she hears a colleague at the next desk say regretfully, "What a shame. If you'd handed in your resignation one day later, you would've gotten severance pay."

"What did you say?"

Her colleague looks confused. "I didn't say anything."

Is she so tired that she's imagining things?

But no matter what, she can't bring herself to click the send button on her resignation letter.

What if that voice was telling the truth? Wouldn't she be throwing away the dream severance package every worker longs for?

The next day, when her boss calls her into the office and tells her she's been let go, Xia He is stunned. It seems she can hear what people will say to her the following day!

And as time passes and her ability grows, she can hear what people will say to her five days, ten days, or even a month from now.

A college classmate she hasn't seen in ages suddenly invites her out for a meal. Since they'd gotten along well before, Xia He agrees to meet. But then she hears her future self, five days later, shouting hysterically, "Why won't you co-sign for me? It's just a signature! I'll pay the money back myself later. It won't have anything to do with you, I promise."

So the classmate was trying to trick her into an AB loan scam. No way! Forget whatever history they shared. Xia He goes home and blocks her on every platform.

Xia He hears her stock-loving uncle sighing ten days from now: "If only I'd held on to that stock a month ago. I'd be rich now!"

Xia He invests eighty percent of her savings in that stock and makes a fortune!

With no job but a steadily growing bank balance, Xia He is in a great mood as she meets up for a meal with a good friend from her former company. During dinner, she hears what that friend will say a month from now: "Yesterday, the president of ER Tech got into a car accident while on an inspection visit. The place was so remote there were hardly any cars around. Luckily, a villager passed by and rescued him and his driver. When the president woke up, he gave the villager ten million in thanks!"

Ten million in thanks? Xia He finds the place her friend mentioned five days in advance, planning to play the heroine who saves a man and earn the ten-million-yuan reward.

With the ten-million-yuan reward in hand, Xia He uses her advance knowledge of the future to invest in a short-form drama that nobody expects to succeed. When it airs, it goes viral and makes her a fortune.

At the height of her success, Xia He visits her mother and hears what her mother will say a month later: "Xiao He, hurry to the hotel. Don't stay in the residential complex. I saw on the news that there's a serial killer in City S who's breaking into homes and murdering entire families. Then I took a closer look at the address. Isn't that the building you're living in now? It scared me so badly my heart was pounding!"

A serial killer?

Xia He thinks she may have just unlocked another use for her golden finger.

Theme: Live life well