An Rugu stood in the temple backyard, watching the golden ginkgo leaves fall as lightly as butterflies.

“The Mysterious Sect of Heaven and Earth, the root of all myriad qi. I have practiced for billions of kalpas to prove my supernatural powers.“

The next second, more than ten flying swords about the size of a human hand appeared behind her.

After a brief pause, they instantly scattered and flew towards the fallen leaves in the air.

“Ding! Ding! Ding!”

The falling ginkgo leaves were pierced into the ground by the golden flying swords, and for a moment, the air was clear.

It was not until a gust of wind blew that the ginkgo tree shook, and more leaves began falling slowly again.

An Rugu murmured, “The speed is not fast enough, I need to practice more.”

Then she retracted her flying swords and went back inside.

There was nothing to do about it: it was time to divine fortune for destined guests.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

“A family that accumulates good deeds will surely be blessed with good fortune.”

An Rugu raised her eyes, looked at the burly man in front of her, and said, “If you do good things for five years, the child who is supposed to come will eventually come.”

“Five years, that’s too long!” the man said in annoyance, scratching his head and cheeks, “Can it be shorter?”

An Rugu’s eyes were slightly cold, “Who told you to be so ruthless in your work before?”

Her eyes were as sharp as swords. When the man looked at her, he instantly felt that he had nowhere to hide from her.

He gritted his teeth, still unwilling to give up, and said, “You are so powerful, there must be a way to change my fate.”

“The solution has already been given to you.”

He opened his mouth, but no words came out. After a long while, he sighed, “Okay, I understand.”

He turned and left, and An Rugu glanced at his back coldly.

The man’s business operated in a gray industry, testing the edge of the law. It was not illegal, and the police would not arrest anyone if someone called them—but indeed it was morally damaging.

He and his wife were already old, but they still have no children. If they didn’t accumulate virtue and do good deeds, they would never have children in their life.

Next, a man in his twenties came in.

He wore a suit and gold-rimmed glasses, and his hair was combed neatly. From head to toe, he exuded an elite aura.

As soon as he came in, he said politely, “Hello, I’m here to ask you for fortune-telling.”

“Alright, six hundred sixty six yuan. Scan the code and pay the divination fee.”

After receiving the money, An Rugu asked casually, “What do you want to calculate about the future? Marriage?”

Businessmen ask about money, officials ask about promotion, the elderly ask about marriage, parents worry about their children, resentful wives ask about mistresses, patients seek medical advice… the things that people ask fortune tellers to calculate were nothing more than these.

As expected, Su Zijian pushed his glasses up and said, “…I want to calculate my marriage fate.”

An Rugu calculated on her fingers and looked up at him, “You already have someone you like, right?”

Su Zijian was embarrassed and but also curious when he heard this, “…You are so powerful, do you know who I like?”

The next second, An Rugu said firmly, “Your younger sister.”

She talked about such an ethically challenging thing as if it was a trivial matter, no different from saying what she had eaten for lunch.

Su Zijian’s ears turned red when his thoughts were exposed, and he said in a somewhat embarrassed tone, “No, that’s not right.”

Then he quickly waved his hands and explained, “She is not my biological sister!”

After he finished speaking, he immediately regretted it. The master even knew that he liked his younger sister, so naturally she must know that there was no blood relationship between them. He didn’t need to explain it himself.

Seeing him so flustered, An Rugu raised her eyebrows slightly and said something that hit the other person’s heart directly, “Do you want to calculate whether you can be with her?”

Su Zijian gritted his teeth and nodded, “Yes.

“To be honest, she is my parent’s adopted daughter. I knew from a young age that she was not my biological sister. She and I get along more like childhood sweethearts. I have liked her for many years.

“I don’t know whether my parents would agree, so I never told them about my feelings and always just protected her silently. But a few days ago, something big happened in my family…”

An Rugu blinked, a little curious, “What’s the matter?”

Su Zijian’s eyes flashed with a deep and complex expression, “My older sister who has been missing for a long time is back.

“My father was a bad boy when he was young. He loved gambling and lost all the money in the family. He owed a lot of loans and couldn’t pay them back. Then those people kidnapped my older sister and sold her off. She was only four years old at the time.

“My father and mother were very sad, but after much reflection, they worked hard to pay off the loan and founded a technology company. The family became more and more wealthy, and they became well-known as philanthropists.”

An Rugu felt a little strange when she heard what he said. “Your parents already had money and was able to find your missing older sister, why did they only find her recently?”

Su Zijian thought of his older sister and younger sister, and felt mixed emotions, “Things are actually very complicated.

“I heard from my paternal aunt that after my sister was kidnapped, my parents were very sad and stopped working. They looked for my older sister everywhere but couldn’t find her. It wasn’t until half a year later when I was born that they returned to normal.

“They adopted my younger sister when I was four.

“My aunt told me that we two children healed them and helped them get over the trauma of their eldest daughter’s disappearance.”

In other words, in the beginning, his parents looked for his older sister for a while, but then they probably gave up and stopped looking.

To everyone’s surprise—willow branches unintendedly planted grows to give shade¹—the family’s eldest daughter has now been found.

An Rugu stared at his face, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes, “Isn’t it a good thing that your older sister who has been missing for many years has returned? Why do I hear you talking as if…”

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

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T/N: Ginkgo trees—with their distinctive fan-shaped leaves—are regarded as living fossils, the order Ginkgoales first appearing 290 million years ago. It is now extinct in the wild but is commonly cultivated in East Asia, and also planted in US and Europe. Some trees are thought to be over 1500 years old. They are disease-resilient, and the wood is fire retardant and slow to decay. 6 trees in Hiroshima withstood the atomic blast in 1945 and although they were charred, they were soon healthy again.

It is the official tree of both Tokyo and Seoul, and the symbol of Tokyo is the ginkgo leaf.

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Chapter 62.3 — Adopted Daughter and Honorable Daughter
Chapter 62.4 — Adopted Daughter and Honorable Daughter
Chapter 62.5 — Adopted Daughter and Honorable Daughter

FOOTNOTE:

1. willow branches unintentionally planted grows to give shade, idiom. Whether something would succeed or not sometimes has no relation to man’s plans and preparations. The idiom refers to man’s helplessness in the face of fate. ↩︎