An Rugu understood their thoughts and did not persuade them to stop. Since she helped them, it was considered a kindness. But some people don’t like to owe others, and they must pay back matters in order to feel comfortable with themselves.

For them, what they could pay back was money and goods.

That was until she saw that <Time Passes Swiftly Like Flowing Water> and Iger were giving rewards too frequently, on a battle to see who would come out on top, and she immediately stopped them. 

“You just spend rationally. Okay, I will open the lottery now—today I will do three divinations as before.”

In accordance with the previous practice, she would set up a lottery in the background, and three people would be drawn: the prize was a divination for each. After setting it up, she will post the results of the draw in the livestream.

The display immediately showed that many people had participated in the lottery.

In the tenth minute, the display showed that out of the more than 8,000 people in the livestream channel, more than 7,000 people had participated in the lottery.

[You keep saying that people who are predestined are unlucky, but in the end we still join in the raffle. The mouth says no, but the body is still very honest.]

[But who can resist a lottery button? Cry.]

[The most important thing is that I join this lottery. If I win, it can help me solve my problem. If I don’t get it, it means I have no problem. I may make a profit, but I will never lose!]

[Damn, so there is such an explanation? I have learned something today.]

[Strange knowledge has been added!]

An Rugu watched the subtle changes in the mentality of the audience. At first they liked the lottery, but later they resisted it, and now they regard the lottery as a safety detector!

She had to say that the audience was really interesting.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Ten minutes after the start of the lottery, the lottery draw ended, and three names of predestined people were released by the system.

Through a private chat, An Rugu contacted the first predestined person <Warm Up Wine and Make Tea>: [Hello, you won the lottery. Do you want to send a photo for the divination or do a video call?]

<Warm Up Wine and Make Tea>: [Which is more accurate, to send photos or video call?]

An Rugu: [Of course, the video call is more accurate. It provides me with more information, and I can calculate the result faster.]

<Warm Up Wine and Make Tea> seemed to be a person who liked to weigh the pros and cons. After thinking about it, she chose to do a video call.

As soon as the call was connected, the screen in the livestream channel was divided into two halves, with the predestined person on the left half. 

<Warm Up Wine and Make Tea> was a woman in her forties, well-maintained, and it can be seen she was a beauty in her youth. She was exquisitely dressed, elegant in posture, and graceful. She was sitting at her desk, with a calligraphy painting in the background.

[I didn’t win the prize!]

[Congratulations to the victim!]

[Congratulations to this unlucky person!]

An Rugu’s eyes fell on <Warm Up Wine and Make Tea>’s face, pinched her fingers, and calculated. Her eyes suddenly became a little strange, and after recovering, she said, “Hello, please pay the divination fee: a high-powered gun salute.”

<Warm Up Wine and Make Tea> immediately sent a high-powered gun salute.

An Rugu began explaining, “The same old rules will apply. I will talk about your family first. You were born in a well-to-do family. You were born with a Wenchang star, and your academic performance was good. When you were five years old, there was a disaster. You married a husband who is richer than you; the wife relies on the husband, right?”

When <Warm Up Wine and Make Tea> heard the words, deep surprise flashed across her eyes, and her tone became filled with admiration, “Yes, when I was five years old, I went swimming and almost drowned, but was rescued. Later, I met my husband. My husband’s family background is indeed better than mine.”

She had heard that this fortune-telling streamer was very good and thought it was a joke. This time, she just clicked on the lottery at random but she didn’t really expect to win.

She and her husband were well-known, and the streamer may have known about her family situation. But knowing that she had drowned, and that it happened when she was five years old… 

She had to accept it.

“Your child palace shows that you have a son and a daughter.”

“That’s right!” <Warm Up Wine and Make Tea> nodded immediately. “My eldest son is twenty-five, and my youngest daughter just graduated from university this year.”

An Rugu went straight to the point; looking into her eyes, she asked, “What do you wish to happen at this time?”

Hearing the words, <Warm Up Wine and Make Tea> felt like she had a headache. She raised her hands to cover her eyes, as if she was exhausted about something in particular, “I actually have nothing to settle, but I have something I’ve been worrying about recently. Maybe I am being too harsh to say this, but I’ve been really annoyed with my daughter lately.”

She had a particularly bad relationship with her daughter. Since this streamer had been very popular recently, this video would likely be seen by her daughter, but she felt that it didn’t matter because she was truly exhausted.

The words of <Warm Up Wine and Make Tea> surprised the audience.

It was the first time that they heard someone spit out their bitterness directly.

[Little Sunflower, class is starting, what should I do if the child is disobedient? It’s probably growing up useless and just needs a beating.]

[Originally, I wasn’t watching the livestream seriously. The daughter of  predestined person is in her twenties, so it’s not certain who annoys whom.]

<Warm Up Wine and Make Tea> sighed and said, “Actually, I looked forward to it very much when I was pregnant with her. She was very cute when she was little. I tied her hair in pigtails and sent her to school. I loved her very much and I could feel that she loved me too. When she was young, I also understood why others would call daughters their little padded jackets, because her love was really warm.

“I didn’t expect her to be an outstanding young lady, I just hoped she would grow up healthy.

“But ever since she got into college, she has indulged in excesses like crazy. Her boyfriend changed faster than her clothes, she knew everything about drinking and racing, and she spent money lavishly.

“Do you know how much she spent last month? She swiped more than 10 million yuan.

“After graduating from university, she was unwilling to do ordinary work, so her father arranged for her to join the Finance Department of our company.

“Her father originally thought she was not suitable for the position, but she said that she had training in finance and insisted on going. She threatened that if we didn’t allow her to go, she would cry endlessly, make trouble, then hang herself, so her father had no choice but to agree.

“I had thought that she did this because she wanted to change her ways and work hard. But a few days ago, she made a big mistake again and got the decimal point wrong. It caused the company to lose 60 million.”

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

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T/N: The phrase 溫酒煮茶 ‘warm up wine and make tea’ is an invitation to enjoy quality time with a friend or family, with a connotation that it’s the end of the year (and presumably cold?). The jug of the wine referenced here is placed on a ‘pot’ with heated water and this warms up the wine to a perfect drinking temperature.