I Went Viral Online Through Fortune-Telling

[Upcoming: Haunted House Sleepover Livestream. See my author page. Lost in the Woods, Searching for Him, by Chi Ru Sheng: Being ordinary isn't scary. What's scary is having no courage to change.] The night popular star Lu Zhao was exposed for sleeping with fans and evading taxes, Weibo crashed. Fans wailed that the wind was strong on the rooftop, and they shed more tears than Yi Ping cried on the day she went to ask for money. After the scandal died down, a screenshot suddenly went viral. Someone asked on a Q&A forum: What is Lu Zhao like? I want to be a fan. A user named "Diviner Extraordinaire" replied: Don't. He contacts fans privately and breaks the law. Let go of your crush and come back from the brink. Question: How do you know? Answer: I divined it. The answer was posted a month before the news broke. * After Ying Yuan was diagnosed with a terminal illness, she acquired a fortune-telling System. If she could earn ten million fan points, she could save her life. For every certain number of fan points she gained, she could divine someone's fate in this life or exchange them for fortune-telling tools. To stay alive, every time she used her powers, she caused a sensation. As the trending topics exploded, her fan points soared. Whenever she had a spare moment, she would make a new fortune-telling tool. Today, she would launch a zodiac fortune forecast. Tomorrow, she'd come up with a good-or-bad-luck test. If it wasn't accurate, she'd get down on her knees and call everyone Daddy. One user collected the fortunes "Diviner Extraordinaire" had predicted over the years. They were astonishingly accurate, and she had never been wrong: A couple who had tried for a child for five years finally had one. The pampered only son of the Yan family, now in his twenties, was not their biological child. He had been switched at birth, and the culprit turned out to be his biological father. A relationship blogger famous for sharing her daily life with her boyfriend was actually a player, dating eight people at once. Her sea had not a drop of water in it, only fish. A media mogul who had spent years cultivating the image of a devoted husband had actually risen to prominence by marrying into money. He had driven his first wife to her death, then married his new love. "Diviner Extraordinaire" went viral, and netizens all cried, "You're my god!" She received over 99 private messages a day from people asking for fortunes. Ying Yuan was fed up. She changed her automated reply to: "Paid fortunes, starting at one million." She thought this would scare everyone off, but instead... Netizens: Where's your conscience? Where's your sense of decency? Where's your account information?! * When Mu Wenjing first came to Ying Yuan for a fortune, she asked for five million. Later, Mu Wenjing: I want to be with you. Ying Yuan: That'll cost extra. * I started writing this on a whim, and now that it's nearing its end, here's a warning. * The male lead is practically like someone who paid to get a role. The romance is virtually nonexistent. * This is a gossip story. The focus is on gossip. Everyone's here for the fun of it. * It's set in a fictional world, so fictional it might as well be floating in empty space. Basically, it's a silly, illogical story with an overpowered golden finger. --------Upcoming-------- Haunted House Sleepover Livestream The brand-new reality show Haunted House Sleepover went viral as soon as it launched. The show is broadcast live, and participants must spend three nights in various haunted houses. Whoever lasts the longest wins a million. Le Yu is a haunted-house sleepover tester. In this world, where ghosts and monsters are everywhere, people in her line of work need the most expensive insurance. Fortune favors the bold, so she signs up for the show. The Chou family estate lies deep in the mountains. Its grand traditional buildings have been unoccupied for fifty years. Nothing happens to the other guests, but as soon as Le Yu arrives, she stirs up a nest of ghosts and brings out three female spirits. The audience is terrified. Le Yu slaps her forehead. "Mahjong! Do you know how to play mahjong? The losing ghosts have to leave this estate." The Tongshan Villa is in the suburbs. The mistress of the house once killed a family of four with an axe, and the place is full of crime scenes. When Le Yu arrives, she discovers the family has become ghosts and is still fighting. The other guests flee in terror, but after learning the truth behind the murders, Le Yu points the camera at the husband. "Come on, everyone, take a look. This ghost is a scumbag. He had designs on his stepdaughter. Are there any other ghosts watching the livestream? If you can't stand it, come help us out." Husband: ? Later, a whole crowd of ghosts actually shows up and beats the husband until his soul is obliterated. Audience: Nice. Eight people have died in Chaohui Apartments. The entire building is haunted, and all the residents have moved out. The other guests cower behind the door, too afraid to come out. Le Yu puts on a midnight horror show inside, but she's not even a little nervous. She even dares to try things out. "Bosses, send me a rocket and I'll take you to see a handsome male ghost. I just got a glimpse, and he's got an eight-pack!" The screen fills with rockets. Male ghost: ... What a bunch of perverts. They won't even leave ghosts alone. At first, the audience says: These guests are all useless. Later, the audience says: Sister Le, I'm a ghost too! I'm a horny ghost, come catch me, come on! You can't spend all your time by the river without getting your shoes wet. One day, a ghost falls in love with Le Yu at first sight and traps her inside a house, refusing to let her leave. The production team calls in a celestial master to rescue her. Le Yu doesn't know this. While she's washing her hair, the celestial master bursts through the door. She jumps, thinking he's another ghost. "You ghosts are into some pretty wild stuff. You like rough sex?" Yan Xueshi, hailed as the strongest of his generation, falls silent for a moment. "Yeah. Want to try something different?" Fifteen minutes later, Le Yu has learned a new skill: Drawing talismans. Theme: Life isn't easy, so keep working hard