At this moment, An Rugu finally finished adjusting the camera settings, pointed the camera at herself, and her face appeared on the screen.

An Rugu had known that the barrage chat was ongoing, and it was even quite lively, but the video feed had been a bit blurry just now, so she had to change the livestream page to a black screen first while she adjusted the camera settings.

After setting up the camera, An Rugu nodded and looked at the pop-up window on the right side of the screen. Her long eyelashes cast shadows and her heart remained calm. 

“Divination is accurate; you will know once I do the calculations,” she said in a faint voice.

However, there was no reply for a long time in the livestream—the two groups of people who were arguing about whether divinations were accurate or not were completely silent at this moment. If it wasn’t for the fact that the number of people displayed in the background had not decreased, she would have thought that all these people had left.

After a while, someone finally posted a comment.

[Damn, I’m stupid, what does the streamer look like?]

[Oh my god, streamer is simply too good-looking to fit on my big screen.]

[What you said is too exaggerated, the streamer’s looks are just average, average for a fairy.]

When the audience in the livestream saw An Rugu’s face, they immediately lost all thoughts of arguing with others, and their eyes and minds were instantly full of this beautiful and enchanting face on their screen.

Those who had seen that the host hadn’t started streaming and were about to leave, now had their fingers frozen on top of the exit button.

[Go debut, I will vote for you with seven aunts, eight uncles, and three cousins.]

[Teacher, can you teach me, what god-level beauty filter do you use?]

[The slapback is quick ah, I’m concerned about your backhand.]

[Go stream at the Singing section! The old goddess is dead and the new goddess is here. The first rank new sister in Shark is definitely you!]

As the name suggested, the Singing section was for singing. There were many beauties singing live and chatting with the audience. The concentration of beauties in that section was very high. There were many rich people in the livestreaming channels, and the money flowed easily.

An Rugu was not interested in that. Her eyes were moving through the barrage on the screen, and she answered the audience’s question, “Filter? I didn’t turn on any filter.”

[Your skin is so good without the filter, there are no blemishes or pores at all, you’re not lying to me just because I’m young, right?]

[This Meitu Xiuxiu app¹ Level 10 user says that what the host said was true—there is really no trace of adding a filter.]

The audience was both surprised and envious, and even had a feeling of finding an unexpected treasure—such a high-quality streamer was found out of the blue!

While they were thinking this way, they slowly turned their attention back to the matter at hand. The number of followers who were originally zero has become more than one hundred

With the streamer’s appearance, she would be able to attract fans casually. When she became popular, they would be considered her original fans too!

As for the divination… it was probably just a joke.

In their impression, fortune tellers were often middle-aged or elderly people, and the older they were the better. It was best to have a beard and look like an immortal; their divination would be the most accurate.

As for An Rugu, except for looking like an immortal, she didn’t match their stereotypes at all.

They guessed that she perhaps wanted to grab people’s attention with a unique title, and let them click in to accumulate a wave of traffic.

In fact, they were indeed seduced and stayed because of her face.

Alas, she planned it right!

An Rugu didn’t care about what others thought of her appearance—she was neither sad nor happy about it—but she cared that other people’s eyes were all on the state of her skin and ignored the theme of her livestream. So she said, “I won’t go to other sections. I’ve come here to tell fortunes to those who are destined to hear them.”

She raised her hand to pick up the teacup, and the steam was so dense that her face was dreamlike and unreal.

Audience: “!!!”

Was this stream really for divination?

An Rugu waited quietly for the audience to digest her words, and then finally cut to the chase, saying, “Which one of you wants to have their fortunes told? I will only do two divinations today.”

[What’s the meaning of this? Are you saying that after two eight-trigrams² are calculated, there will be no more live broadcasts?]

[Can’t be, can’t be]

An Rugu said, “What I mean is—I will only calculate for two eight-trigrams today, and when the right time comes, I will start a livestream again.”

The audience understood. Although some people didn’t believe that she could calculate accurately, they were moved and started to ask the price.

“A high-energy gun salute,” An Rugu replied.

The high-energy gun salute was a mid-range gift on the Shark Platform. One high-energy gun salute was worth 666 yuan. The Shark platform and the streamer split the accounts 50-50, so the streamer would only get half of it, not computing for taxes.

In fact, private transfers of money could bypass the platform, but the platform didn’t allow this kind of behavior, and the livestream was often blocked when such things were discovered.

A high-energy gun salute was cheap but also expensive. Many people were worried that the host would not be accurate, and they would be cheated out of money, and so no one acted for a while.

However, at this moment, countless high-energy gun salutes suddenly appeared across  the screen, and the crackling gun salutes sounded in the audience’s ears.

This was the animation of receiving a high-energy gun salute in the livestream channel.

[<Time Passes Swiftly Like Flowing Water> rewarded a high-energy gun salute.]

An Rugu’s eyes lit up: the predestined person has come.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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FOOTNOTES:

1. Meitu Xiu Xiu or MeituPic. It’s an image editing software that is very popular in China ↩︎
2. 八卦 ‘Bagua’ are a set of eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology to represent the fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated concepts. Each consists of three lines—each line either ‘broken’ or ‘unbroken’—respectively representing yin or yang. Due to their tripartite structure, they are often referred to as Eight Trigrams in English.
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