I Read Your Fortune, So How Did I Become an Internet Sensation?

As a child, Wen Zhiyao was abandoned because she was frail and constantly ill. She traveled far and wide with her charlatan master. Her master said she was the Heaven-appointed one destined to lead the Daoist tradition back to glory. So he passed on all the metaphysical knowledge he had spent years gathering, telling it to Wen Zhiyao as though it were a storybook. Sadly, her master lived to a ripe old age, but she still never managed to cross the threshold into Daoism. Then one day, while carrying her master’s ashes, Wen Zhiyao accidentally bound herself to a Taoist temple in the wilderness. The good news was that the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, which had once seemed as incomprehensible as a heavenly text, suddenly clicked into place. The bad news was that her already short life had become even shorter. Wen Zhiyao slapped her thigh and decided to start a fortune-telling livestream to accumulate merit. Her slogan was: “Choose between going to work, getting ahead, or burning incense.” At first, netizens looked down on her and tuned in hoping to expose her as a fraud. “You have a ghost fetus in your belly. The woman you once wronged refuses to let you go.” “Your son wasn’t born with an intellectual disability. Someone caused it later, and stole one soul and two spirits from him.” “The house you live in is haunted. Five former owners died there.” But when the viewers saw supernatural phenomena on the livestream, they immediately got down on their knees. “Tomorrow, are we going to see the streamer flying on a sword?” … The livestream became a sensation. Powerful people and celebrities came to her temple to burn incense and ask for readings, and the once-quiet temple was soon bustling with worshippers. Even the authorities specially invited her to help solve countless cold cases. As her spiritual power continued to grow, Wen Zhiyao gradually uncovered the shocking secret of her own origins.