Stop pretending, the fake heiress is actually a master of metaphysics.

"What...what should we do? Should we take him to see a doctor, Master?"

Shen Nian: "...It's nothing, just a little residual poison from the Gu worms. Ordinary medicine won't work. I'll send you an antidote pill later, just take it and you'll be fine."

"Okay, thank you, Master. How much is it? I'll pay you."

"Fortune telling costs 200, medicine costs 300."

"...So cheap?"

Shen Nian: ...

Most of the Shen family's assets are under her name, but she doesn't make money from it.

[Master, do you have any whitening medicine? I'd like some too.]

Are there any drugs that can preserve youth?

Is there a cure-all medicine?

Shen Nian: "...Okay, stop. I'm not some turtle in a wishing well. Even if I had those medicines, they're not for you to take."

Ordinary people can't handle it; eating it won't keep you young forever, it will only kill you suddenly.

[What are you thinking? Do you really believe there are miraculous elixirs in this world? Qin Shi Huang sent so many people, and they still couldn't find them.]

The girl's parents were about to take her home when the old beggar tried to chase after them again. He was kicked by the girl's father and collapsed to the ground, unable to get up for a long time.

One viewer asked in the live chat whether the old beggar would continue to harm people.

Shen Nian sneered and said, "No."

"He wasn't destined for that fate."

"He didn't have much time left to live, and then he used something like Gu worms, which were then broken—and it backfired on him. He won't have many days left to live."

"Besides, the Red Thread Gu can only be used once."

The connection was severed.

Shen Nian said calmly, "Next."

The next person I spoke to was a woman with a capable demeanor, who looked like a successful professional.

"Master, hello, I would like to have my dream interpreted."

Shen Nian: ...

Her business is really expanding.

Can these people even continue to tell fortunes properly?!

What did you dream about?

The woman said calmly, "I'm twenty-eight years old, unmarried, and have been dating a boyfriend for over a year, but we don't plan to get married anytime soon."

"The night before last, I had a dream. I dreamt that I was meeting with a client in a restaurant when suddenly a child, about four years old, who was quite pretty with delicate features, and who inexplicably looked a bit like me and my boyfriend, rushed up from the crowd, hugged my leg, and called me 'Mom.'"

"I told you you've got it wrong, I'm not your mother."

"Then he kept calling me 'Mom,' as if he wanted me to accept that title."

"As he kept shouting, his eyes suddenly turned pure black and bloody tears streamed down his face. But the client next to me seemed not to see anything. He kept impatiently urging me, asking why I hadn't resolved the issue yet, whether it really was my son, and saying that I wasn't fulfilling my responsibilities as a mother, so how could I be responsible for my work?"

"I got so angry that I reached out and twisted the kid's head off. I yelled at him, 'I'm not your mother, get the hell away from me!'"

Shen Nian: ...

Comments: ...

[…What did I just hear? She twisted that brat's head off?]

[How eerie, how scary, sis, what are you?]

[Lü Bu was all courage, and these sisters were all like Lü Bu.]

Could it be that you're about to have a child, and this child is appearing in your dream to give you an early sign?

That's terrifying! What kind of child sends dreams to their future mother like that? It's like forcing her to have a child even if she doesn't intend to.

[This sounds a lot like a weasel begging for a reward. Is this child even human?]

[I heard from the family shaman that with the declining birth rate in recent years, wandering ghosts have nowhere to be reborn, so sometimes they disguise themselves as children and enter your dreams. If you accept their presence, you will soon become pregnant, and the child will be born into your womb.]

[Oh my god, that's terrifying! I've got goosebumps.]

Shen Nian asked, "And then, you dreamed about him again yesterday?"

"right."

The woman replied, "He came to my dream again last night, his face still covered in blood. He asked me why I didn't want to acknowledge him, why I didn't want him, and said he wanted to be my child."

"I slapped him dozens of times and told him what kind of person he was, that he wanted to be my child too."

"I also said, every time you come here, I'll hit you."

Am I being haunted by a ghost?

The woman asked, "I don't plan to get married or have children. My career is on the rise, and if I get pregnant now, I might not be able to get back to this position. Besides, I don't like children at all, and I don't want to go through the pain of pregnancy."

"Furthermore, I had a subdermal implant and used other contraceptive methods very well, so it's impossible for me to get pregnant."

The woman asked, puzzled, "There are so many women in the world who want to have children, why did he specifically choose me?"

"Yes, why?"

Shen Nian glanced at her and said calmly, "You'll have to ask your boyfriend and his mother about that."

The woman was smart and quickly realized what was going on: "You mean, this is something my boyfriend and his mother did? To get me pregnant so I can marry into their family? But we agreed when we started dating that I wouldn't consider marriage for at least five years. He clearly agreed to just date, so how could..."

"A man's words are deceitful; perhaps he thought you were just joking."

"Go check the condoms you bought, see if there are any small holes punctured in them."

The woman hurriedly left the camera's view, only to return a moment later.

"You're right, those condoms were indeed punctured. They wanted me to get pregnant so they could control me."

Women have seen plenty of men like this; there are at least eight or ten, if not ten, so it's not surprising.

However, she never expected that her boyfriend would be the same kind of person.

They made such a good promise back then, but less than two years later, they've started plotting against her.

"Then what does this child have to do with me? Do they possibly have this ability to command ghosts?"

But if they really had that ability, her boyfriend wouldn't still be a lowly office worker.

Why not just send a dream to your boss and ask for a promotion and a raise?

Why would he even care about her house and savings?

"Because that child is related to them by blood."

Shen Nian said, "Your boyfriend had an ex-girlfriend before you."

"The two had already agreed on the bride price and dowry, and were just waiting to hold the wedding and register their marriage. But then the girlfriend suddenly got pregnant, and your boyfriend's mother started delaying the wedding. When the girl's belly was five or six months along and very big, the girlfriend's parents came to demand an explanation, and she immediately changed her attitude. Not only did she refuse to give a single penny of bride price, but she also demanded that the girlfriend's family come up with a dowry of 400,000 yuan. Otherwise, she wouldn't let the two get married. It was clear that she wanted to control the girlfriend."

"Six months pregnant, the fetus was already fully formed, so an abortion was not an option. The girlfriend's parents had no choice but to compromise, and in the end, they arranged for a dowry of 400,000 yuan plus a car to get the two married."

"But during childbirth, the woman suffered an amniotic fluid embolism, resulting in the death of both her and the unborn child. Your boyfriend's mother just lamented that it was a good thing they didn't get married, otherwise it would have delayed his search for another partner."

"This child probably absorbed the mother's resentment. Not only did it not dissipate, but it also became attached to their family. Perhaps they set their sights on you in order to get rid of the entanglement. In this way, they can get rid of the little devil, solve their son's marriage problem, and if she is pregnant out of wedlock, they can also extort a dowry. Killing three birds with one stone, it is really insidious and vicious."