Chapter 54 Part 1

“Why?” Yu Qingxian heard himself ask.

His ears buzzed at that moment, as if he had split into two people—one questioning Chu Yi, the other even having the leisure to think about this and that.

Chu Yi had better not brush him off with that excuse about not liking men. They had kissed in the car, and even when Chu Yi had helped him… he hadn’t shown the slightest bit of disgust.

As for Chu Yi not liking him, that was even less likely. Yu Qingxian was quite confident in himself. He had been the favored son of heaven since childhood, and his looks weren’t bad either. Although his big brother was above him and he couldn’t inherit the family business, he had money and shares in his hands, plus his own company.

On the surface, Xingyao belonged to the Yu Corporation, but it was really just a protective umbrella. His big brother had long since transferred all the shares to him and rarely interfered in Xingyao’s affairs.

The only thing that might make him unworthy of Chu Yi was that he wasn’t a Xuanmen Cultivator and might hold Chu Yi back… But Chu Yi had wanted to take him as a disciple before, which proved he should have Spiritual Awareness talent, right? If not as a disciple, couldn’t Chu Yi teach him as his partner?

Having been in a position of power for so long, Yu Qingxian’s personality was naturally dominant. He even thought that if Chu Yi tried to fob him off with some ridiculous reason, he would… well, he seemed unable to resort to force. Chu Yi’s talent in Mystical Arts was too high, and among his connections was even Yu Qingxian’s grandfather!

And stepping back ten thousand steps, even if he really used Xingyao’s influence to blacklist Chu Yi, the man could just turn around and return to the Xuan Arts World. Wu He and the others already thought Chu Yi was “not focusing on the right things” by being a little celebrity; they would definitely applaud with both hands and feet if he quit…

Yu Qingxian deeply regretted that the man he fancied was too capable, but if Chu Yi hadn’t been so brilliantly understated, he wouldn’t have fallen for him either.

Chu Yi thought for a moment. “Let me tell you a story?”

“Go ahead.”

“Long ago, there was a little boy. The moment he was born, the village Shaman Woman said he was an ominous person who would bring doom to his entire family, so his parents should abandon him in the deep mountains to fend for himself.”

“Of course, his parents didn’t believe it. Though he wasn’t their only child, he was still born from his mother’s hard labor, and as a boy, he would be family labor once grown.”

“But the next year, when his second sister took him to the river to wash clothes in a wooden bucket, she fell in and drowned. At four years old, his little brother poked a beehive with others for his sake; the others were fine, but his little brother nearly died from bee stings and ended up blind in one eye.”

“At that point, his mother began to harbor doubts. A passing wandering Taoist Priest happened to be recruiting disciples, so she wanted to send him to try. After all, in those times, following the right master could mean a meal ticket. But the wandering Taoist refused to take him and said the same things as the Shaman Woman.”

“His mother wanted to give him away, but everyone within a hundred miles had heard of his reputation, and no one dared take him. Unwilling to send him to his death, she dragged it on until he was five…”

Yu Qingxian couldn’t bear to listen anymore and asked, “Why are you telling me this?”

He felt this story had nothing to do with what they were discussing?

Chu Yi said, “Hear me out… Until that winter when he was five, his father and big brother went hunting in the mountains with others and were both dragged away by a starving Wolf Pack. When the villagers brought back the news, his pregnant sister-in-law fainted on the spot, went into difficult labor, and it ended with one corpse and two lives lost. His mother went mad and, holding him, tried to jump off a cliff. As you might have guessed, his fate was tough—he only broke a few bones—but his mother died on the spot.”

Chu Yi waved away the blood-red scene before his eyes, the image of his mother dying with eyes wide open. He hesitated, then said, “This boy had the same Fate Pattern as me: Six Relations Severed, Lone Ghost Fate.”

“Impossible! You only lost your father early and your mother went missing. If you had Lone Ghost Fate, how come your grandfather and Eldest Uncle’s family are fine?” Yu Qingxian didn’t believe it.

Chu Yi couldn’t explain that it was the original body’s story, not his, so he could only say, “You know my abilities. My master’s judgments on fate are never wrong.”

Yu Qingxian laughed in anger. “You’re just giving up without even trying? You won’t even ask if I dare to?”

Chu Yi gave him a complicated look. “President Yu, you’re not alone. You have your big brother, grandfather, and family. Do you dare risk yourself? Do you dare risk their lives?”

Yu Qingxian fell silent, then asked unwillingly, “Can’t you foresee fortune or misfortune just from physiognomy? Can’t you predict it in advance…?”

“No. The deeper the connection to oneself, the harder it is to divine accurately. Physiognomists are also mortals, not immortals. Otherwise, every physiognomist could soar to success and bring wealth and glory to their descendants.”

“Is there no way to change fate?”

“My master said accumulating Merit can do it, but… it’s very difficult.” Chu Yi shook his head. In his previous life, he had accumulated Merit for over twenty years without sensing any breakthrough. He felt it was a bottomless pit!