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As soon as the video call connected, Shen Jingshu looked at the middle-aged couple on the other end of the camera. With just a glance at their faces, she could already tell what they wanted to ask.

Shen Jingshu was wearing a mask, so the viewers in the live stream couldn't see her expression. They could only hear her calm and indifferent tone, and no one noticed anything unusual.

The woman in front of the camera is named Li Zhaodi, and next to her is her husband, Zhou Weimin. The couple are both native rural people, and are honest and simple.

A few years ago, Zhou Weimin went out to work with his fellow villagers. Seeing that others were making money in business, he also started his own small business. Now he runs a small shop in town and lives a peaceful and ordinary life, barely making ends meet.

At this moment, Li Zhaodi spoke hesitantly to the camera, her tone tinged with trepidation and anticipation:

"Host, we're here today to ask you to tell us whether I'm having a boy or a girl?"

As soon as the middle-aged couple finished speaking, the once lively live stream room exploded. The screen was filled with a dense barrage of comments from netizens, all expressing dissatisfaction and anger, and public opinion was overwhelmingly against them.

[Don't try to figure out their gender, streamer! These people are clearly sexist!]

[Exactly! Those who seem honest and simple, but whose core is full of outdated and conservative ideas, are terrifying!]

[Don't do the math, streamer! What if you say it's a girl? They'll definitely turn around and get an abortion. This is a living, breathing human life!]

The government has long prohibited non-medical sex determination of fetuses to prevent people from harming female infants due to sexism. They've gone so far as to ask about metaphysics – that's outrageous!

[This is so true! The more seemingly simple rural couples are, the more they're brainwashed by old-fashioned ideas, obsessed with having a boy, completely disregarding the life inside the womb!]

Many netizens empathized and couldn't help but share their own personal experiences, their words filled with helplessness and anger.

[There are people like that in my hometown village. My distant uncle and aunt spent their whole lives trying to have a son. They had five daughters in a row, and the parents didn't care about them at all. They were always hungry and cold. They finally had a son on their sixth pregnancy.]

[The family was dirt poor, living in a dilapidated mud-brick house. The house was a mess, and the children's clothes were all tattered and filthy. But even with such a life, they desperately wanted to have a son, spoiling him rotten. Their daughters suffered and toiled from a young age. It's heartbreaking!]

[It is this deep-rooted preference for sons that has harmed countless female infants. The anchor must not reveal the sex of the unborn child; we cannot condone such behavior!]

The screen was filled with comments from netizens offering advice, expressing anger, and condemning the preference for sons over daughters. Everyone was worried about the unborn child, fearing that if Shen Jingshu revealed the gender, the couple would really be heartless and abort the child.

Zhou Weimin also saw the barrage of comments filling the live stream. A sinister glint flashed across his eyes, but he quickly concealed it and put on an honest, simple, and unassuming expression again.

He spoke to the camera with a hint of stubbornness: "Host, everyone says your fortune telling is incredibly accurate, and we've already given you tips, so you have to do this for us."

Li Zhaodi, standing nearby, quickly chimed in, her face full of earnestness: "Yes, anchor, whether it's a man or a woman, we can't bear to abort the child. We just want to be prepared beforehand. Look how big my belly is, how could I possibly have an abortion? Please help us."

Shen Jingshu's gaze was cold as she quietly looked at the couple in the video, and said in a calm tone, "Do you really just want to know the sex of the fetus? I'm afraid not. What you really want to ask is something else."

Zhou Weimin's face stiffened slightly: "How can the anchor talk like that? We just wanted to calculate the gender."

"No need to pretend." Shen Jingshu's tone was completely calm. "You've already secretly gone to some shady clinic in the countryside and paid to have the gender checked. You already knew this baby was a boy, so why bother coming here to test me?"

Upon hearing this, the couple exchanged a startled glance, their eyes wide with shock. They hadn't expected this young anchor to be so skilled, seeing right through their thoughts.

The live stream chat exploded with comments, the screen filled with questions.

[What's going on? I already checked and it's a boy, why are you asking the streamer?]

"So, they weren't just trying to figure out the gender at all; they were testing the streamer's abilities?"

"This couple looks honest, but they're actually quite cunning."

Li Zhaodi was stunned for a moment, then gently stroked her high, protruding belly, a look of pride and affection on her face, and frankly admitted: "The anchor is indeed an expert, she was absolutely right, we did know it was a boy a long time ago."

"We've come here today to ask the anchor to take a look and see if this child will have a peaceful, smooth, and blessed life ahead."

Shen Jingshu looked at the expectation she deliberately showed and coldly uttered a sentence:

"Unfortunately, this child of yours is destined not to be born."

These words were like a thunderclap out of nowhere, instantly stunning the couple opposite them.

Zhou Weimin's face immediately darkened, his tone agitated and angry: "How dare you spout such nonsense, young lady! My wife is thirty-six weeks pregnant, her due date is approaching, and she'll be in the hospital to give birth soon. How could she possibly not be able to deliver? How can you, at such a young age, casually curse someone's child?"

Li Zhaodi's face also turned pale, her expression full of anger, and her eyes were full of dissatisfaction as she looked at Shen Jingshu.

The live stream chat immediately split into two camps.

[They're panicking! They can't keep up the act anymore, their true colors are showing—they're inherently sexist!]

"He was just pretending to be kind, but as soon as he heard there was a problem with the child, he immediately turned hostile."

"But to be honest, the anchor's words were too harsh. How could she say such things to a pregnant woman who is about to give birth? It's like she's cursing her."

"Yes, any parent would be angry if they heard someone say that about their unborn child."

"But I always feel that the anchor wouldn't say things without reason. She must have figured out something. Let's not rush to take sides and listen to the anchor's explanation."

Shen Jingshu spoke calmly, unaffected by the other party's anger, her tone indifferent:

"You were the ones who approached me for divination, and now that I've given you the truthful result, you refuse to accept it."

Zhou Weimin's face flushed red, both angry and flustered. He shook his head repeatedly, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! We just went to the hospital for a prenatal checkup a couple of days ago, and the baby is perfectly fine in my belly, without a single problem! You're deliberately cursing our child, casting a curse out of thin air!"

Shen Jingshu's eyes suddenly turned cold, her words sharp and forceful, hitting the nail on the head:

"In your insistence on having a boy, you have already caused the deaths of three young lives. You are burdened with resentment and surrounded by yin energy. The child in your womb has already been tainted by this resentment and is destined not to be born, nor to be kept."

"You're talking nonsense!" Li Zhaodi's face turned pale, both shocked and furious. She retorted vehemently, "Murder is a crime! We've been living an honest and law-abiding life, how could we possibly have taken someone's life? Don't slander me out of thin air!"

Shen Jingshu gave a cold scoff, her tone tinged with icy indifference: "If you didn't believe me, why did you come to me in the first place to test me and ask me to tell your fortune?"

"You know best in your hearts. Lately, have you been feeling that the house is inexplicably gloomy and cold? Have you been sleeping restlessly at night and having frequent dreams where you keep seeing those aborted children, their pale little faces staring at you?"