Yang Yang sent a photo of herself and very politely transferred the divination fee of six hundred and sixty-six yuan.
This was because Yang Yang once heard An Rugu say that one must pay for their fortune to be told. If a person didn’t pay, they would easily suffer backlash from fate.
An Rugu clicked to accept, opened the photo, and looked at it carefully, then she paused.
Yang Yang’s luck with peach blossoms seemed to be very strange.
She has had three romantic relationships this year, all three of them rotten peach blossoms, but the involvement itself was very weak. It seemed to be one-sided, unrequited love—her husband’s palace was not strong, and her fortune did not support it.
It was like having a crush on someone, but at the same time, it didn’t read like a crush.
It was the first time An Rugu encountered this strange marriage line, so she said, [You seem to be in unrequited love with someone. You like three people in total, but they have not responded to you and have very little involvement with you, right?]
Zhang Xia and Jiang Mianmian: [???]
[Yang Yang never told me that she had someone she liked. I didn’t expect that she actually liked three people at the same time. I didn’t expect that Yang Yang is such an unrestrained person!]
[Yang Yang is very courageous and would definitely pursue her crush if she liked them. It is completely unimaginable to me that she has unrequited love on a crush and even three at the same time!]
However, Yang Yang’s reply popped in the chat: [You even figured this out! Hehe, actually, I have three celebrity loves…]
Zhang Xia and Jiang Mianmian: […]
Good grief, it turned out she was chasing stars!
Yang Yang shyly replied: [Because men in real life are such rubbish, I can only chase male celebrities.]
Yang Yang posted photos of the three celebrities she was chasing, two of whom were members of an idol group, and the third was a popular xiaosheng1, Fang Yuan.
[Fang Yuan is so handsome and clean. He is simply the green-flag man of my dreams. He is a clean figure in the entertainment industry. If he is not worthy of love, who else is worthy of love?]
An Rugu looked at the photo sent by Yang Yang; as she carefully looked at his face, her pupils shrank, and she offered her advice: [This Fang Yuan is not worth chasing.]
Yang Yang: [???]
If someone ever slandered Yang Yang’s idol, she would most definitely be angry! But Yang Yang couldn’t possibly be angry at the goddess of her heart, and so the originally stable balance between husband idol and goddess immediately shifted towards An Rugu.
Yang Yang: [I believe in you. What’s wrong with him? Does he already have a girlfriend?]
Yang Yang thought with some heartbreak that it was quite normal for people in the entertainment industry to have a profile that says ‘single’ and yet be married behind their backs. She could also understand Fang Yuan’s behavior. This was, after all, about earning money, and she didn’t really mind.
She understood the truth, but she still felt heartbroken as a fan.
Considering that Yang Yang took the initiative to ask, An Rugu simply answered truthfully: [He doesn’t have a girlfriend.]
Yang Yang breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this reply. She was relieved.
However, before she could type a reply, An Rugu added: [He is married, and the children’s palace shows that he has two children— a son and a daughter. However, he still has many ambiguous relationships with other women and is a very romantic person2.]
Yang Yang: “!!!”
An Rugu added: [His eight characters feature the God of Good Luck, and he has an abnormal seal with food injuries, and his mental state is abnormal. He must be taking drugs.]
Yang Yang: “!!!”
These words exploded in her ears like bombs, one after another. Yang Yang fell into collapse, unable to move on, and began to doubt life.
Who was she, where was she, and what was she doing?
The two other roommates were all shocked when they read An Rugu’s reply, and they reacted wildly in the group chat.
[Is this true?]
[I’m not a fan of Fang Yuan, but I know him as a celebrity. I didn’t expect him to be so playful behind everyone’s back!]
[If your prediction is correct, countless little sisters will have their houses collapse3.]
Yang Yang was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses and accepted the truth of the matter. As if she had made some sort of decision, she said: [It doesn’t matter that he’s secretly married, it’s not illegal. But taking drugs is too much, I… I want to report him.]
Yang Yang was an upright person who pursued stars with true feelings, but she would not cross her own bottom line for them.
Just as Yang Yang wanted to make the call, from An Rugu’s text came: [You don’t need to call the police. After ten days, he will be unlucky and this matter will naturally be exposed.]
[Serves him right!]
… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com
The next day, while An Rugu was eating, she thought of her university roommate’s strange marriage line. She felt emotional and looked at Shang Yue next to her. “The luck of one who chases stars is that of hopeless, bad luck—but this has indeed broadened my knowledge. It turns out that the marriage line can also go like this.”
Shang Yue clenched her phone tightly, her eyes a little erratic; she felt that there was something in An Rugu’s words…
Because she herself has been chasing stars recently!
Shang Yue was a beauty-chaser, there was no doubt about it. Otherwise, she would not have fallen in love with that poor scholar and insisted on marrying him. After her husband died, she still missed him terribly.
The main reason was not that she was full of affection, but that she really liked his face!
A shabby, poor scholar tried his best to show up in front of her. He was handsome, but frail and sickly pale. When he recited poems correctly, there was a sense of freedom and ease.
She had never found anyone else who fit her aesthetics as much as he did.
However, after she went online using the phone An Rugu gave her, Shang Yue realized that the outside world was very big, and that there were online ‘husbands’ who were more gentle, refined, and more to her liking than her previous husband.
There were already more than thirty ancient-style bloggers in her mobile phone list who perfectly match her aesthetics.
<Waters and Seas>, one of the bloggers she followed, often posted photos of himself in ancient costumes, so handsome that she couldn’t help but blush and her poor heart beat fast.
Shang Yue often wished that she could replace the person she married in her previous life with this blogger.
Under the impact of dazzling pictures of beautiful men in the era of information explosion, Wang Lang’s appearance has gradually become blurred in her mind.
Anyway, it was Wang Lang who broke his promise and betrayed her first, so she has nothing to feel guilty about.
Shang Yue gathered her distracted thoughts and said to An Rugu, “Happiness is the most important thing when chasing stars. I think of the handsome men in the past. When they were riding in carriages, the women on the roadside would throw their fruits and vegetables at their carriages, almost destroying them. They could even be seriously injured sometimes. This must be the origin of star chasing.”
An Rugu: “… Indeed.”
I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com
T/N: Ermm, you do understand that the character’s online names are often poetic in Chinese, yes? They are only unwieldy when translated in English, but with soooo many names, it would be easier for us to keep track of who is who if they have English words for names—even if the result is a bit chaotic haha. Waters and Seas is ‘Shan Hai’ 山海.
Btw, from the description, Shang Yue’s preferred aesthetics seem to fit xiaosheng idols 😂 I may or may not have binge-watched all of Yang Yang’s series 🙈
FOOTNOTE:
- xiaosheng is a male role type in Chinese opera. Most xiaosheng characters are young Confucian scholars or, less often, young warriors. They are young, beardless, refined, and delicate. In modern times, it’s a ‘type’ of male celebrity fitting that image. ↩︎
- Whenever An Rugu describes a person as ‘romantic’, she doesn’t necessarily mean someone who sends his wife flowers. There is a connotation that this person engages in flirtatious behavior outside of an established relationship. ↩︎
- ‘house collapsing’—this is netspeak for when a fan’s devotion to an idol/star/celebrity crashes and burns because of a scandal ↩︎
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