Chapter 54: Bargaining with Lifespan (Part 1)
‘Koi King’s’ smile stiffened when she saw that bullet comment.
It seemed… that was indeed the case. Had there been a single good outcome in Sang Sang’s livestreams?
She thought again, that’s other people. She’s so lucky! How could anything happen to her!
So, ‘Koi King’ smiled again. “Sang Sang, I don’t have anything I want a reading on, just one troubling matter. It’s… it’s that I’ve been single all these years. Can you see when my true love will come? Can you make it a little faster? I’m a little anxious.”
She sent the fee as she spoke.
【Hahahahahaha, asking for a love match. And you still say you’re very lucky. Maybe you’ve traded your luck in love for this luck!】
【Oh my, who is it? Who is it watching the livestream in their girlfriend’s arms? It’s me, ah—my girlfriend is so fragrant and soft.】
【So you don’t have a girlfriend. So pitiful. Hehe, I have one.】
【Koi King~~~ Lucky~~~】
【A girlfriend? Doesn’t everyone have one? What, you don’t? How can you not have one? Everyone has one. Strange, you’re so lucky, how can you not have a girlfriend? So strange.】
The smile on ‘Koi King’s’ face was all transferred to the faces of the netizens outside the screen. At this moment, everyone was on the same side, using all means to provoke this lucky koi.
Sang Jing also smiled as she looked at the bullet comments. Xie Yu saw her smile and remembered how she had been so insistent on sending her away.
Thinking of how she had been so self-deceived for so long, Xie Yu’s first reaction was anger. Seeing Sang Jing made her even angrier.
She, why couldn’t she just raise her? Xie Yu was angry that Sang Jing didn’t like her as much as she had thought.
So, outside the screen, Xie Yu sat beside Sang Jing, resting her chin on her hand and staring at her, her eyes not moving at all.
After ‘Koi King’ sent her Bazi, Sang Jing looked at it and then carefully examined her facial features, chuckling lightly. “You’re quite a universal lover.”
‘Koi King’ was stunned. “Huh?”
What does that mean? A universal lover? But she really doesn’t have a girlfriend.
“You spend all your energy every day on written characters and virtual characters. You have no time or opportunity to meet your true love. Go out and see more. Maybe you’ll meet her soon.”
After Sang Jing finished speaking, ‘Koi King’ instantly reacted and smiled a little sheepishly. So that’s what she meant by a universal lover.
“Sang Sang, you’re so accurate. I really like to write some fanfiction, and I also love to play games and watch anime. I like a lot of characters. They are all my wives,” ‘Koi King’ said with an intoxicated expression, savoring the beauty of her wives.
【I didn’t expect her to be a writer! I’m sorry, writer! I won’t laugh at you for not having a girlfriend anymore. May I ask for your account? I want to worship your works (hiss, hiss).】
【What kind of fanfiction? Can I have a hot meal?】
【Writer, writer! Write something smutty, 313131, you know what I mean!】
【Writer, writer! 13 too! 13131313】
【Writer, don’t think about a girlfriend anymore. That’s not important. The most important thing now is fan! fic! tion!】
“Sang Sang, can you say a little more? Do I have a chance to get into a relationship this month? I like the gentle, older sister type. Of course, a cold and pure, yet seductive older sister is also fine,” ‘Koi King’ began to look forward to it.
Sang Sang said she should go out. Alright! She won’t go home this month!
【…Are you making a wish here? Even the God of Marriage is not so divine.】
【Greedy, too greedy. Sang Sang, I want one too.】
【You’re dreaming.】
【This is really a koi. None of the people who linked up before didn’t have some strange, supernatural incident. She has nothing, and she might even get into a relationship.】
【Receiving】
【Receiving】
【Receiving】
…
“You will meet through words. There will be differences in your thoughts, but it won’t affect your feelings. As for what kind of person she is, you’ll have to see for yourself. She might not be your ideal type, but you’ll still like her after you get to know her,” Sang Jing chuckled lightly. “You are indeed lucky. I wish you well.”
‘Koi King’s’ heart moved. Looking at Sang Jing, the decision in her heart became even firmer.
I’m sorry, Assistant Xiao Xie. I will be a firm 31 party. See you in the fanfiction.
After ending the link-up with ‘Koi King’, many people found her account and sent her private messages.
In a place Sang Jing didn’t know, a “3199” group chat was established, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people had joined.
【She’s so lucky (gritting my teeth).】
【Her true love is coming, and she even received Sang Sang’s blessing. I admit I’m envious. Sang Sang!!!! I was just kidding! I don’t have a girlfriend! Can you help me see too (crying)?】
【Assistant Xiao Xie is so quiet today. She hasn’t said much. She didn’t even curse when the Encounter fans were making a fuss.】
【A couple’s quarrel, I guess. Assistant Xiao Xie has been staring at Sang Sang with a cold face for a long time (13).】
【Quick, quick, quick, let’s welcome the next one. I love watching this kind of thing late at night.】
【Sang Sang, why don’t you and the Little Assistant open a couple’s account? Sell it a little, just for me.】
【I want to see them kiss.】
Sang Jing looked at the numbers in the bullet comments, confused.
What’s 13 and 31? Did she cross into another livestream?
Looking down and seeing a certain shocking bullet comment, Sang Jing’s eyelids twitched as if she had been burned.
How is that possible? These people really dare to think of anything.
Collapsing a portion of the bullet comments, Sang Jing initiated the third link-up.
The link-up was fast, but the other party didn’t have their camera on. The number of viewers in Sang Jing’s livestreaming room was rising very quickly. There were already over ten thousand people watching online.
“Hello, streamer. Is it okay if I don’t turn on my camera?” The voice on the other side was a little hoarse and didn’t sound young, probably in her forties or fifties. She spoke a little cautiously.
“It’s fine,” Sang Jing said. After that, she received a private message from ‘Peace and Safety’ in the background. The other party had sent a group photo and a detailed birth time.
‘Peace and Safety’: “Streamer, the group photo was taken a while ago when I took my daughter back to my hometown. That’s my daughter’s birth time. I want you to help me see if my daughter has been possessed by something evil recently.”
Sang Jing enlarged the group photo and asked as she looked at it, “Mm, you can tell me first. What’s been happening with your daughter recently?”
“My daughter’s name is Ping An. A week ago, an elder in the family passed away. I took her back to handle the funeral. The elder was old and didn’t suffer much before she died, so it was considered a happy funeral. Coincidentally, an elder in the neighbor’s family also passed away around the same time. Thinking that we should all help each other out, we stayed in our hometown for two more days. After arranging for both elders, we came back the day before yesterday. It was from the night before last that Ping An suddenly started to sleepwalk. She had never had this problem before. She would always walk to the living room table in the middle of the night and sit down, then start to say some strange things, as if… as if she were playing cards with someone. She would only go back to her room at five or six in the morning. I know you can’t just wake a sleepwalker, but she was too strange. It was the same for the next two days, and she was always crying. She seemed very unwilling but couldn’t help it. Last night, she cried so hard and even called out ‘Mama, save me’, so I went to wake her…”
‘Peace and Safety’s’ voice was choked and trembling. “Ping An woke up, but the way she looked at me was so scary, so strange. That wasn’t my Ping An. After waking her up, she went back to her room without a word and locked the door. She wouldn’t answer no matter how much I called. I was afraid something would happen to her, so I called a locksmith and a Celestial Master from here. Ping An was sleeping in her room, and her face was very pale. That Celestial Master said that something unclean had latched onto Ping An. She told me to download White Whale Live and find a streamer named ‘Sang Jing’. She said you are very powerful and can definitely save Ping An.”
That was quite a compliment. Sang Jing pursed her lips and glanced at the time.
11:53.
“I can’t tell much from this photo. I need to see her in person.”
In the photo, the girl was hugging her mother and smiling happily. She was still in high school, and her eyes were filled with innocence.
“Alright, alright, I’ll go right now…”
‘Peace and Safety’s’ voice came to an abrupt halt. Then the camera on the other side was turned on. The image was a little shaky, and the perspective was from behind a sofa.
【Peace and Safety: Streamer, Ping An is out. Look.】
‘Peace and Safety’ didn’t dare to speak, afraid of startling the emerging Ping An, so she had to type a bullet comment. In a livestreaming room with tens of thousands of people, the bullet comments were like clouds and rain. ‘Peace and Safety’ was worried that Sang Jing wouldn’t be able to see it, but who knew that less than three seconds after she sent it, her bullet comment had received four or five thousand likes and was pushed to the top.
That way, Sang Jing could see it without having to specifically search for it.
The unlit living room was pitch black. A gust of wind blew, and the camera was aimed at the bedroom door. The girl was walking on her tiptoes, her face ashen, her eyes blank as she walked forward.
The curtains on the balcony were not drawn, and some moonlight leaked in, making the living room even colder and more eerie.
Ping An walked to the living room table and sat down. After a while, her eyes focused, but her body couldn’t move. She suppressed her cries and wanted to struggle, but her hands moved uncontrollably, rubbing back and forth on the table. After a while, she reached out to the empty table again and again, as if she had taken something and placed it in front of her.
The camera began to shake slightly. ‘Peace and Safety’ couldn’t bear to watch her daughter in such pain.
She carefully typed.
【Peace and Safety: Streamer, please save Ping An.】
【Is that mahjong? Or hand-rubbed mahjong?】
【Definitely. I’m so familiar with it!】
【So creepy. It’s making my goosebumps rise.】
【Is Ping An playing mahjong with a ghost?】
【Is this ghost sick? Even if you’re short of one player, you can’t just pull a child to play in the middle of the night.】
【If I saw this scene, I would go crazy.】
【I have a question. Is what Sang Sang is seeing different from what we’re seeing?】
【Here it comes, here it comes. Sang Sang is showing off her skills again!】
【How did this fire start? Every time I see Sang Sang burn a talisman to perform a ritual, I feel like she’s so cool.】
The talisman burned to ashes in her fingertips. Sang Jing opened her Yin Eye.
Xie Yu was still looking at her. She saw her open her Yin Eye and silently turned her head away, even moving a little further away.
Her peripheral vision caught sight of the phone on the table. Xie Yu’s fingers quietly moved over.
So what if there’s a password? Sang Jing had unlocked it in front of her before. She had accidentally memorized it.
Sang Jing looked at the livestream screen and didn’t notice the thief beside her stealing something.
After opening her Yin Eye, what she saw was completely different from just now.
Opposite Ping An sat a sickly, hunched old man. And on both sides were two paper effigies.
On the table was a set of paper mahjong. The old man was clearly an old hand, while Ping An didn’t know how to play at all and could only lose every round.
If there were wins and losses, then there were stakes.
When people played, they played with money. When people played with ghosts, they played with…
Sang Jing squinted her eyes. She saw that this round was already over, and Ping An had lost.
The old man opposite her smiled maliciously. “Ping An, you’ve lost again. You’ve lost four years in this round.”
Lifespan!
