Chapter 1

Chapter 1

When the Host asked that question, I was completely stunned.

“How do you know?”

My boyfriend Jiang Man indeed has a tattoo on his back. It’s a very exquisite, narrow-necked round bottle with orchid patterns covering its surface, looking incredibly lifelike.

When I first met him, I thought it was strange too.

Who gets just a bottle tattooed on their body?

But Jiang Man explained that in his hometown, it was the equivalent of tattooing an image of Buddha or Guanyin-it was meant to bless him with safety and peace.

Very few people have ever seen the tattoo on his back, so how did the Host know?

This was just a random livestream I had happened to scroll into.

The Host’s name was Feng Luan, a young girl. Before I joined, the stream had been focused on relationship advice.

She had a world-weary face and a sharp tongue, which had earned her quite a few followers.

At this moment, however, she was frowning deeply, taking several copper coins out of a drawer and fiddling with them on the table.

The comments were just as confused as I was:

[Isn’t she a relationship Host? Why is she casting hexagrams all of a sudden?]

[She looks like she knows what she’s doing. Could she actually be the real deal?]

[Wait, is there actually something wrong with this girl’s boyfriend?]

[Oh my god! Don’t scare me in the middle of the night.]

Feng Luan glanced at the comments and spoke calmly.

“When it comes to ghosts and monsters, if you believe in them, they exist; if you don’t believe in them, they still exist. Sister, there is definitely something wrong with your boyfriend. Do you live in the Changhai District area? There should be water nearby.”

I nodded frantically.

“Yes!”

Feng Luan asked again, “Does your boyfriend have to shower every single day? No matter the circumstances, without exception? Even if he can’t take a full shower, he has to wipe his body down?”

I was completely baffled and nodded again.

By now, there were two thousand people in the livestream.

Someone couldn’t stand it anymore and posted an angry comment:

[This Host is crazy, making up all this nonsense to scare people.]

[It’s late at night, let people sleep!]

Others countered:

[Even so, the Host got everything right!]

[The Host really does have the aura of a hidden master.]

[The Host said before that she’s a Daoist disciple, so she’s probably not a liar.]

The angry guy couldn’t help himself and replied: [Do you guys have any brains? You believe this? This girl has posted so many videos on her homepage, and several of them show her residential complex. One look and you can tell it’s Maple Forest Villa in Changhai District, right next to Cloud Lake.

[Besides, what’s so special about showering every day? I shower every day too.]

Most people were convinced by his logic.

Seeing Feng Luan’s composed demeanor, my mind was in a mess.

Showering every day is indeed normal, but for Jiang Man, it was pathological.

One winter, we got lost while hiking in the mountains.

We hadn’t made it down even by eleven o’clock at night.

I was focused on calling for help, but Jiang Man was neurotically muttering that it was too late.

Then, in sub-zero temperatures, he stripped off his shirt and poured our last half-bottle of mineral water over himself.

I was stunned. We didn’t know when we would be rescued.

He actually used up all the water, showing no regard for whether I lived or died.

Fortunately, we ran into a local later who led us out. Jiang Man explained to me that he had OCD and that his whole body felt unbearable if he didn’t touch water for a day.

I was angry for a long time, but after he spent several days coaxing me, I let it go.

Feng Luan even knew about this. She really wasn’t talking nonsense.

I swallowed hard and asked nervously, “My boyfriend… what exactly is wrong with him?”

Feng Luan lazily lifted her eyelids and said, “He’s raising a Bottle Woman.”