I'm an antique shop owner, so it's reasonable for me to know some magic

Chapter 534

For actresses to reach the top of the film and television industry, a pretty face alone is far from enough; their enthusiasm for work and auditions is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Anne is now under 25 years old, her career is booming, and she has none of the terrible reputation she had as an enemy of America in her previous life.

Retiring at the height of her career was never an option in her life.

Since there are no internal factors, then it must be due to drastic changes in the external environment.

Economic reasons can be ruled out first, as people with assets at a certain level will hire professional financial institutions for investment and financial management.

Is this another paranormal event?

Many speculations surfaced in Su Fan's mind, but he eventually cleared them all from his mind.

Blindly speculating will never reveal the truth; it's better to ask her directly.

Has she contacted you?

Speaking of this, Su Fan remembered something else.

"I hope the phone we gave you last time wasn't confiscated by the higher-ups."

No. It's still here.

Theresa took her flip phone out of her pocket and waved it in front of Su Fan.

“You and Anne are close, and you arrived in Britain earlier than her, so you can get in touch and take her for a walk around the neighborhood.”

"She doesn't look well in this photo; she has very dark circles under her eyes. She must have been going through something upsetting lately. Could you please try to cheer her up?"

As Theresa listened, she took the impurities from Su Fan's hand and, sure enough, noticed a slight shadow at the corner of his eye.

"After leaving the house, there's no need to take public transportation; the Mayfair family's car will be waiting nearby."

"Are you worried that I'll run into those thugs I encountered that day?"

Theresa tilted her head.

"You don't need to worry about that. I've already persuaded the teenagers wandering the streets nearby to go home."

"Persuasion?"

Su Fan became somewhat interested.

"Will they listen to your advice?"

Theresa raised her hand, and the white holy power enveloping her answered Su Fan's question for her.

"Simple and brutal, great. You can't imagine what kind of horrifying things these uneducated kids would do by taking advantage of the juvenile protection law."

"You've indirectly saved their lives."

Young people who act recklessly in the city will one day provoke someone they absolutely cannot afford to offend.

For example, the extraordinary individuals who have emerged like mushrooms after rain in recent years.

Another example...

Su Fan shook his head at this thought, but when he turned around, he saw Theresa staring at him expectantly, like a child asking for candy on Halloween night.

"?"

"Aren't there any fun new spells this time?"

Su Fan immediately realized what was happening.

"Are you talking about that 'presence stripping' thing from last time? I'm not going this time, and you won't be able to learn it anyway, but I can give you some paper figures."

Funeral supplies?

The first thing that came to Theresa's mind was those eerie, pale paper dolls that appeared at funerals.

"Wrong answer. You can think of them as miniature versions of killing puppets, with reduced single-target attack power and increased range of controllable movement." "Killing puppets are still too conspicuous, and those things are too ruthless. Paper dolls are enough to deal with ordinary situations."

Even before it had been forged, the killing doll could easily crush the skull of an adult. After being modified by Su Fan, its power became even more astonishing.

Its destructive power is comparable to that of Oliver, who possesses the ability to transform into a beast, as seen in the building.

However, the appearance of such a murder weapon on the streets of London is truly horrifying. To avoid unnecessary trouble, it would be safer for her to use a paper doll.

“You can also share some with Annie to help her with some minor difficulties in life.”

Minor difficulties?
Theresa was confused, but she didn't ask any questions. Instead, she caught the paper figure that appeared out of thin air in front of her and then turned to go to the dressing room inside the villa.

Because Annie had just texted her to arrange a meeting, and there were less than two hours left until the agreed time.

Behind Theresa, who was jogging, Su Fan's gaze lingered on the wall of the manor ahead.

The walls of the manor, which should have been carefully maintained, had a layer of plaster peeling off.

Su Fan used this scene to cast a hexagram and applied the Plum Blossom Divination method to quickly obtain the correct hexagram.

Mountain stripping.

With five yin lines suppressing one yang line, the person in the hexagram is being pressured by the environment (yin lines) layer by layer, with only a sliver of hope remaining (the top yang line).

Upon seeing this, Su Fan couldn't help but frown.

Could it really be this dangerous?

In Su Fan's memory, there were only two kinds of people who could threaten the safety of a movie star like Annie: gangsters and powerful figures.

After the turn of the millennium, the influence of American gangs has shrunk, no longer involved in as many fields as before, and their impact on the entertainment industry is negligible.

The sixth line of the hexagram "Stripping" (剥卦) in the fourth position reads "Stripping the bed to the skin," implying that persecution has already befallen the person who received the hexagram, causing harm to their physical and mental well-being.

The hexagram changing to Wind over Earth (观) originally meant "to observe the glory of the state and to benefit from being a guest of the king," but here it implies that the person seeking the hexagram wants to find a more powerful external force to help them escape their predicament.

Her current situation can only be described in two words.

They were on the verge of death, with no way out.

Su Fan raised his hand, and three coins appeared out of thin air and fell into his palm. With each toss, the Six Lines divination provided him with more detailed information.

The original hexagram is Ze Feng Da Guo (Great Exceeding), and the changing hexagram is Lei Feng Heng (Constancy).

There was no intervention from supernatural beings, nor any evil spirits or demons at work; the querent's predicament stemmed solely from higher-ups who held greater positions and controlled abundant social resources.

Their aim was not merely to target Annie herself, but rather to test, scheme, and even provoke her.

In other words, Xiang Zhuang's sword dance was aimed at Liu Bang.

Their true purpose was not merely to force Anne to join them, but also to test whether they, having been away from America for so long, still had the ability to protect the people and things around them.

"I see."

Su Fan chuckled as he read the divination chart and understood most of the situation.

Before leaving America, he killed a media mogul and used the latter's numerous scandals, which he used to protect himself, to stir up a media storm in the country.

From his perspective, this was a warning, but those powerful and privileged who were used to being high and mighty did not see it that way.

They linked Su Fan's earlier trouble-making with his subsequent departure from Britain, concluding that Su Fan had fled to Europe out of fear.

[They must have been monitoring my every move ever since I appeared here, until...]

Mayfair's family, eager to save their leader, sent all its top officials to London, which made them smell bloodshed. His subsequent long period of seclusion further confirmed the suspicions of those in America.

That powerful superhuman suffered a great loss in Britain.

Since that's the case, now is a good time to take advantage of the situation.

(End of this chapter)