Luan Jingyun was the greatest national preceptor of the Tiansheng Kingdom, able to foresee the future. But because the emperor was suspicious, she died unjustly in prison.
Unexpectedly, after transmigrating, she became a fortune-teller with no fixed home. To get by in the world, she relied on one thing: swindling people.
Having lived once already, she knew that revealing heavenly secrets would only bring disaster upon her. And since everyone loved hearing good things, she decided to tell them only what they wanted to hear.
As time went by, she made plenty of money, and her conscience stopped bothering her!
But one day, the expressions of the people who came to have their fortunes told grew stranger and stranger.
"Master, I've had so many bad things happen lately. Can you tell me when things will turn around?"
"Oh, don't worry. Just wear this pendant, and your bad luck will soon disappear." Taking the opportunity, she sold him a pendant she'd just restocked.
[Heh, this uncle must be pretty pleased with himself, keeping a mistress on the side. Little does he know that this unlucky mistress is the one bringing him bad luck~]
The next day, Luan Jingyun heard that Wang, a wealthy landowner in town, had kicked out his "little niece," who had been living in his villa. She could only shake her head and sigh.
"Master, I'm already twenty, but I don't know when I'll ever get married. My family is so worried!"
"Don't worry, miss. Your destined match will appear very soon!"
[So what if she's twenty? Just look at how beautiful this girl is. She's destined to become an imperial consort!]
Less than five days later, word came that the Crown Prince had fallen in love at first sight with the young lady of the Suning Earl's family during his tour of the south. She later entered the palace and became the Crown Princess!
Everyone: Had they really run into a genuine fortune-teller?!
From then on, Luan Jingyun's reputation as an "ignorant" fortune-teller spread far and wide. Everyone, from the emperor in disguise to ordinary folk, wanted her to read their fortunes.
Luan Jingyun chuckled. Want your fortune told? Find her first!
And so, a craze for buying and selling information about the "ignorant" fortune-teller's whereabouts swept through the martial world...
Fame attracts trouble, and now she had caught someone's attention again.
"Young master, what would you like your fortune told about?"
"Ahem..." The young man opposite her looked troubled, and Luan Jingyun understood.
"Oh? Ohhh? Tsk, tsk..." She nodded, then shook her head. "Nothing wrong with you at all. You'll have a child very soon!"
"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Baili Xi slammed the table and stood up.
He had just left the Cangshan Sect to gain experience, and didn't even have a partner. How could he possibly have a child? He swore he would expose this fortune-teller for the fraud she was!
Note:
1. The female lead is a genuine fortune-teller, but to avoid revealing heavenly secrets and to make money, she only tells people what they want to hear. Later, people begin hearing her thoughts.
2. The female lead doesn't know that anyone can hear her thoughts.
3. There is a male lead!! That's right, it's Baili Xi!
2023.11.11
Theme: Fortune-telling, for real.
