Chapter 2: The Unlucky Jiang Baiyuan

She, Shen Chujin, was the most powerful metaphysics master on the Fengling Continent.

Although young, none of those old-timers could compete with her.

Unexpectedly, due to an accident, her soul drifted into this unfamiliar world, possessing a woman who shared her exact name and even looked the same.

Although she wasn’t completely dead, she was close to death.

Because her life had less than a week left.

Within one week, she had to marry a man possessing the aura of purple-gold energy to extend her life.

But the relationship didn’t need to last long. As long as during this period she continually accumulated merits, and used the energy of merits to prolong her lifespan, then after one year, even if the relationship ended, her life would not be affected.

After calculating roughly where this man with the purple-gold aura was located, she went to find him.

By chance, she saved the man’s grandmother, which led to what happened today.

Knowing that forcing the man into marriage was unfair to him, as compensation, she promised to protect the entire Shi family throughout the year.

After buying some items she needed from a store that specialized in selling yellow paper and cinnabar, Shen Chujin was ready to leave.

“Hey, little sister, are you here for fortune-telling? Judging by your face, I see you may face bloodshed today.”

As she walked, a voice called out to her.

To her left front, there was a fortune-telling stall.

The stall owner wore sunglasses, a gray long robe, and a felt hat, giving off an ethereal, immortal-like aura.

Shen Chujin looked at him with interest.

“Oh, really? But have you calculated that you’re about to get beaten yourself?”

“Hey, you girl, how ungrateful you are! I’m kindly warning you, and you reply with rude words!” The stall owner huffed angrily. “Believe it or not, the unlucky one is…”

Before he could finish speaking, a few big and burly men charged over from not far down the street.

They smashed the stall and beat up the stall owner.

The scene immediately turned chaotic.

He also curled up painfully on the ground, constantly wailing and begging for mercy.

“Who are you? I don’t know you! Don’t hit me, please don’t hit me!”

“You fraud! You said your talisman could make my mother get better, but because of your delay in treatment, she died!”

A burly man with a face full of scars angrily punched the stall owner in the face.

“I’ll beat you to death!”

The commotion attracted many onlookers.

“How pitiful, a life lost just because of a swindler like this.”

“Sigh, who can we blame? Nowadays people still believe in these fake fortune-tellers, it’s just one person wanting to be fooled and another wanting to fool.”

“Everyone, don’t ever trust these kinds of people, they kill without paying the price!”

“I think all these superstitious frauds deserve to die!”

Everyone was talking loudly, cursing the stall owner while also lumping all practitioners of metaphysics and magic into the insult.

Shen Chujin frowned slightly.

Although she knew that in this world spiritual energy was scarce, their practices outdated, and people didn’t believe in metaphysics or magic.

She didn’t expect the situation to be this bad.

Sighing silently in her heart and about to leave, a young man with captivating fox-like eyes suddenly blocked her way.

Jiang Baiyuan pressed his handsome thin lips together and scrutinized Shen Chujin, a flash of admiration crossing his eyes.

“Beautiful lady, how did you know he was going to get beaten?”

He pointed at the stall owner curled up on the ground in pain and wailing.

He had seen everything clearly just now, after she spoke, that group rushed out from an alley.

That meant this woman had no way to see those men coming before she spoke.

So how could she predict that the fortune-teller would get beaten — and it actually happened?

Shen Chujin glanced at Jiang Baiyuan calmly and said, “I calculated it.”

“Can you tell fortunes?” Jiang Baiyuan was surprised.

It wasn’t surprising that he was surprised — Shen Chujin looked too young and beautiful.

She didn’t look like someone who could tell fortunes.

Shen Chujin didn’t answer his question but instead stared at him intently.

Jiang Baiyuan made a fist with one hand, lightly coughed by his lips, and gave Shen Chujin a flirtatious wink.

“Pretty lady, although I really am handsome, looking at me like that makes me feel a bit shy~”

Shen Chujin: …

She was silent for two seconds.

Then, she walked over to the side, pulled out a piece of yellow paper from her pocket, along with a box of cinnabar and a brush.

Dipping the brush in cinnabar, she wrote something on the yellow paper in sweeping, flowing strokes.

Jiang Baiyuan leaned closer but… couldn’t understand it.

“What is this?” he asked, curious.

After finishing, Shen Chujin handed it to him directly.

“This is a peace talisman. Carry it with you, and it will protect you from today’s disasters.”

“You mean I’m in danger today?” Jiang Baiyuan was surprised.

“Yes. At best, serious injury, at worst, life-threatening.”

Jiang Baiyuan: !!!

Before he could recover from Shen Chujin’s words, she suddenly opened her palm toward him.

He asked in confusion, “What for?”

Shen Chujin glanced at him calmly, “Pay up. One hundred.”

Although she needed to accumulate merits, she still had to eat.

Right now, she was a bit short on money…

Also, in the Daoist tradition, cause and effect are important, it’s proper to charge for removing disasters—it benefits both parties.

But she didn’t know how much a talisman was worth in this world.

This price was decided only after seeing the stall owner’s sign.

Jiang Baiyuan: …

Was he encountering a scam or was he encountering a scam?

Actually, he really didn’t believe Shen Chujin could tell fortunes.

Setting aside the fact that he was a ^[1]“Good young man raised under the red flag” refers to someone who grew up in Communist China (the “red flag” symbolizes the Communist Party and China itself). It implies he has … Continue readinggood young man raised under the red flag, just among the masters he had heard of, which one wasn’t gray-bearded and living in some secluded temple or Taoist shrine?

Where was there such a young and beautiful fortune-teller who looked barely over twenty?

However, seeing how good-looking she was…

His captivating fox-like eyes curved slightly, “I don’t have cash on me. Can I add you on WeChat and transfer the money to you?”

Shen Chujin: “Okay.”

Judging from her face alone, this guy was just unlucky and probably about to run into a lot of trouble.

Adding her on WeChat now was basically signing a long-term business deal.

Smart move.

After adding her on WeChat, Shen Chujin left.

Jiang Baiyuan pressed his lips together and headed to his car.

He drove straight to a commercial building.

On the rooftop were large characters:

Shi Group!

He parked the car in the parking lot to the right of the entrance.

Just as he was about to get out, his chest suddenly became scorching hot, making him hurriedly pull back his hand from the door handle.

At the same time, a middle-aged man holding a knife suddenly rushed in front of his car and stabbed a young man in a suit.

Blood immediately sprayed out, with some even splattering onto his windshield.

The stabbed man didn’t even have time to scream, he widened his eyes and fell to the ground, dying instantly on the spot.

But the man who stabbed the victim did not stop, he turned around and charged at another woman walking toward them.

Screams immediately erupted as the woman hurriedly fled backward.

Fortunately, two security guards heard the noise and rushed over, subduing the attacker, allowing the woman to narrowly escape.

However, she was already pale and shaken from fear, her face ashen.

Jiang Baiyuan, who witnessed everything with his own eyes, was completely stunned.

It was clear that the knife-wielding man was killing indiscriminately.

If he had gone out earlier, would he have been the one who died instead of the man in the suit?!

He had been even closer to where the attacker appeared than the man in the suit who was killed!

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something.

Hurriedly, he pulled out a bright yellow talisman paper from a pocket on his chest.

The moment the talisman was taken out, it instantly turned to ashes.

Jiang Baiyuan: !!!