A Judge Streams His Defiance of Fate

"Fortune-Telling in Showbiz, and Everyone Hears My Thoughts" is available for pre-save. The blurb is at the end.

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Blurb:

Luo Ze has been having a rough time lately. He was doing just fine as a judge in the Underworld, until some shameless person in the mortal realm donated ten billion merit points to him.

Those merits surround him like auspicious clouds, making him shine in the cold, gloomy Underworld like a ten-billion-watt light bulb. The living souls who used to kneel before him would confess their sins and plead their grievances. Now they come to make wishes instead...

"Please bless me with great wealth in my next life, so I can make a million a day..."

"May I find someone who loves me, and stay with them until our hair turns white."

"I want to be reborn as a panda in my next life. I won't have to do anything, and everyone will spoil me..."

Luo Ze feels more and more like the turtle in a wishing pond.

With the worst performance record, Luo Ze earns the King of Hell's scorn and gets tossed into the mortal realm. "Don't come back until you've spent all your merits."

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In the mortal realm, Luo Ze suddenly awakens to his spiritual nature during his senior year of college, realizing he's the reincarnation of a judge.

Getting back to the Underworld is simple: he just has to spend all ten billion merit points he's carrying.

There are plenty of ways to spend merit: murder, arson, robbing a bank...

Unfortunately, Luo Ze is a good person. He can't bring himself to do any of those things.

What can he do to lose merit without doing anything bad? Luo Ze comes up with a brilliant idea: reveal heavenly secrets.

To reveal as many secrets as possible, Luo Ze starts livestreaming, changing people's fates against the will of Heaven.

"You're going to go bald."

"You're sick."

"You... are going to get canceled."

But no matter how many merits he spends, they keep coming back. Huh? How are they increasing again?

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Romance:

Bi Changhuai has been having a rough time lately. His Daoist partner went to the Underworld to be reborn, but didn't return on schedule.

After asking a little ghost, he learns that his partner was so outstanding that, after drinking Granny Meng's soup, the King of Hell tricked him into becoming a judge.

So Bi Changhuai angrily throws ten billion merit points at him. Let's see how you can keep being a judge now!

The good news: His partner is back.

The bad news: His partner still wants to return to the Underworld. He's started livestreaming fortune-telling so he can spend all his merits.

So Bi Changhuai pulls out all the stops to help him avert disasters and solve problems.

His partner: Hey! Which blind fool dares to block my road to the Yellow Springs?

A little scene

-But I'll forget you every time I'm reborn.

-That's all right. I'll remember us.

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This story is pure fabrication. The characters exist only to serve the plot. Please don't take it seriously.

Pre-save "Fortune-Telling in Showbiz, and Everyone Hears My Thoughts"

The obscure actor Xia Chi awakens his bloodline overnight and discovers that he can tell fortunes.

He reads his own fortune and learns that his friends will betray him, his parents will stab him in the back, and his investments will collapse. He'll be ruined, imprisoned, and die a miserable death...

Uh...

He decides to change his fate against the will of Heaven.

Xia Chi can tell fortunes, and he keeps seeing other people's misfortunes. He's still debating whether to tell them when they start hearing his thoughts without his knowledge.

[Superstar, you're already pregnant! How can you still be filming fight scenes? Do you want to end up covered in blood?]

[Director, you've got several ghosts riding on your back every day. Doesn't that get tiring?]

[Huh, this role's going to be a hit! A Ran just landed a huge opportunity, even if she's got a bit of a green hat over her head.]

Looking at the turbulent world of showbiz, where everyone seems to have a disaster looming over them, Xia Chi decides he'd rather lie flat and ward off trouble.

But how did he become a huge star while lying around?

Theme: Justice prevails in the world