I Teach Probability Theory on Metaphysics Livestreams

*Also known as The Materialist Heroine Gets Rich by Fortune-Telling on Livestreams with Her Love-Brain

*Please add my upcoming novels to your favorites: I Pretend to Be a Local in Front of My Husband Every Day and My Ex-Boyfriend Seems to Have Something Wrong with Him.

Blurb:

A female research student who can only tell fortunes about "small things" x a male folklore PhD who can only tell fortunes about big things

By day, Xia Kexin is a second-year graduate student, rushing around the institute to borrow instruments and working in the lab on experiments. By night, she is a master fortune-teller and astrologer, running two livestream accounts.

She was born with the ability to tell fortunes. Even using a counterfeit set of six hexagram coins that cost just 6.6 yuan with free shipping on Pinduoduo doesn't affect her accuracy.

One of her metaphysics accounts focuses on Eastern practices, finding lost items and predicting luck. The other focuses on Western practices, with tarot readings especially popular among hopeless romantics.

That night, Xia Kexin logged into her Starry Divination account and started streaming as usual.

[Starry, have you seen the recent disappearance case?! Want to do a reading?]

[Master, you're the only big sister I've got! I found my student ID!]

[Starry, I love you! I got in! Aaaah, I'm back to fulfill my promise.]

[Sis, you're incredible, you're my goddess! My boyfriend and I got back together, sob.]

When she saw that comment, Xia Kexin patted her head. "Both people need to work together on relationship problems, okay? And don't rely too much on divination. There's a probability factor involved, too. How should I put it, this whole thing..."

Before she could finish, a fan sent her a gift worth 520 yuan.

Heh. Love-brained people are so easy to make money from.

*

For her last reading of the night, Xia Kexin connected with a fan on the mic.

"Master, I want to know whether someone and I are destined to be together." A man's clear, mellow voice came through the phone.

Xia Kexin nodded. "Sure. Send me your Four Pillars through the private message system."

When she switched back to her messages, the Four Pillars the client had sent made her freeze. "Geng Chen, Bing Xu, Ding... Isn't this my own Four Pillars?!"

At that moment, she had no idea that she had been mistaken for a criminal suspect and would be dragged into the case from then on.

*

As the string of disappearances was about to be solved, the suspect she'd once doubted was fast asleep, sprawled across her desk.

The talisman on the desktop was still twitching violently in response.

Song Yu frowned at the talisman. "I shouldn't have trusted you completely while investigating the case."

Until the talisman spirit entered his dream.

"Bro, I seriously can't with you. I was so excited when I saw your destined partner that the talisman reacted whenever you got close to Xia Kexin! Stop going on and on about suspects, Old Song. Do you want a wife or not?"

After hearing what the talisman spirit had said in his dream, Song Yu suddenly opened his eyes. The person in front of him was still sleeping peacefully. He brushed the loose hair from her forehead.

Looking at the talisman, he asked, "What do you think the odds are that I'll succeed if I propose this year?"

[Metaphysics + mystery + science + sweet romance, all in equal parts.]

Notes and content warnings:

① Both leads are virgins, HE.

② Life and death count as big things, and the male lead can only predict life and death. Everything else counts as a small thing, so the heroine can predict anything except life and death.

③ This story involves the Four Pillars, the Book of Changes, and tarot. The author's knowledge is limited, so the details may not be entirely rigorous.

The information about talisman paper and symbols is partly researched and partly made up. The supernatural elements are just for fun.

④ The variety show portions take inspiration from The Battle of the Psychics and There's Always a Spirit Nearby, but most of it is made up.

⑤ Some place names are based on real locations to support the research into the leads' Four Pillars charts. The characters are not based on real people.

⑥ Thanks to @Si Mian Bu Hui Chang Chu Ge for the character art used on the cover.

First version of the blurb posted 2023.04.17 / revised 05.15

Weibo: @Men Men Jiu Le

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Blurb:

Heroine's perspective:

The moment Fu Qingyun opened her eyes, she found herself beneath a red bridal veil. At first, she thought she'd been kidnapped again, but then it dawned on her that she had transmigrated.

Other transmigrators learn math, science, and technology so they can thrive anywhere, build up the country, seize power, and become life's winners.

She learned math and science, too, but as a computer science major, those skills were useless in ancient times.

With the mindset of making the best of things, Fu Qingyun decided to focus on staying alive in this world.

Her bargain husband seemed polite and kind. Neither of them had feelings for the other, so they agreed to keep their distance and be a married couple in name only. Life went on as usual.

Everything about her husband was great, except that he was part of the imperial family. The current emperor and the entire royal clan hated transmigrators with a passion.

Before Fu Qingyun had a chance to meet another transmigrator and weep tears of joy at finding a fellow countryman, she had to hide her identity to save her life. She started pretending to be an ancient person, quoting classical phrases every day.

But her bargain husband was the Vice Minister of Justice, and he was very clever. He secretly tested her now and then, using confessions from the Ministry of Justice to try and draw her out.

Luckily, Fu Qingyun thought she was pretty clever, because she knew how to act.

Though life pretending to be an ancient person was a little tough, they still lived peacefully for a year or so.

Until one day, after nearly being robbed while out, she was so shaken that she clung to her martial-arts-trained bargain husband and begged him to teach her some self-defense moves.

"My lord, just teach me a few moves." Fu Qingyun fluttered her big eyes, though inside she was rubbing her hands together: Let me see the power of Chinese kung fu!

Her husband nodded gently in agreement, then... then taught her a set of military calisthenics.

Fu Qingyun: Don't act like I never went to college or did military training.

Male lead's perspective:

He Heqiu had inexplicably transmigrated to this world two years ago and had been forced to marry. Unable to defy the imperial decree, he reluctantly married his current wife.

According to his investigation, his wife had a childhood sweetheart she'd been very close to. He Heqiu thought, So I broke up a pair of star-crossed lovers. I'm a terrible person.

Fortunately, she was a sensible woman. They made a pact and became a married couple in name only.

But as they went on, He Heqiu realized she seemed a little different.

It turned out she had transmigrated, too.

But why does my wife pretend to be an ancient person in front of me every day?

Excerpt [1]

He Heqiu: "I remember there's a saying in arithmetic: 'When odd changes, even stays the same.' Have you heard of it, my lady?"

Fu Qingyun: "I didn't know you had such insight into arithmetic, my lord. The Book of Changes says, 'Odd numbers are yang, even numbers are yin.' Yin and yang cannot merge, so when odd changes, even remains unchanged. Brilliant, truly brilliant."

Excerpt [2]

He Heqiu: "The northern landscape, sealed in ice for a thousand miles."

Fu Qingyun: "My lord, are you thinking of winter? Your ancestral home is in Yingzhou, far to the north. Last winter, the northern wind was cold, and the rain and snow came down in sheets. We saw the snow falling heavily, too."

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