Chapter 3

Chapter 3

[Bai Xi: How am I supposed to take a young girl home with me? What kind of brain-dead System are you?]

Bai Xi gave me a carefree grin. “The hotel is nearby. I’ve already paid.”

“When you check in, just change the registration information to yours. Do you need me to take you there?”

I froze.

I stared at the order page for a long time. “…I don’t have a cent left. I can’t pay you back.”

Bai Xi sucked in a sharp breath.

[Bai Xi: Oh my god, someone is actually poorer than me! System, the Little White Flower heroine is about to starve to death! Hurry up and give me some money!]

[System: No money.]

[Bai Xi: What?? How am I supposed to redeem the heroine without money?]

[Can’t you tell that the thing she lacks most right now is money??]

[System: I already did well enough getting you in here without turning you into an unregistered person.]

[The money you two spent at McDonald’s and on the hotel just now was all paid through Huabei.]

Bai Xi’s expression froze for a second.

[Bai Xi: …Well, that’s awkward.]

-Paid through Huabei???

Now I was stunned too. Weren’t Systems supposed to be omnipotent in novels?

I’d thought I could scam some money out of them!

Turns out the other side was broke too.

I handed the phone back to him and tapped the payment method on the order. “You used Huabei.”

Then I lay back down again.

Bai Xi’s embarrassment didn’t last long.

“But it’s fine.” He snapped his fingers. “I have a way to make money.”

…

Bai Xi took me to the busiest intersection downtown.

Then he set up a little stall and started telling fortunes.

[I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe! I thought it was going to be some actual money-making method. Fortune-telling? What even is this, hahahahaha!]

[Handsome guys really are all a little unhinged. Wei Liang sitting next to him looks so miserable.]

[I just came over from Gu Zhiyan and Wanwan’s side. The male and female leads are holding a birthday party at Amanyangyun Hotel, all top-tier luxury and old money.

Meanwhile, over here, the vicious supporting female lead and an unnamed supporting male lead are feeding mosquitoes at an intersection. The tonal whiplash is insane.]

[I came over from next door too, but something feels really weird. It doesn’t quite feel like the novel I read. Isn’t Gu Zhiyan a little too cold? He keeps checking his phone every so often.]

[That’s normal. His character setting seems to be like that. Besides, they just met. Soon enough, he’ll be changed by our little sunshine Meibao!

It took Wei Liang more than half a year before she could play chess with him, but not long after meeting Wanwan, he was already throwing her a birthday party.]

Expressionless, I finished reading the bullet comments and slapped away the mosquitoes that had landed on me.

Overnight, I was back to square one.

Anyway, I’d tried every trick I could think of. If I couldn’t climb into that social class, what was I supposed to do?

I pulled out my secondhand phone, wanting to check my messages.

-No network. Your phone service has been suspended due to unpaid fees.

Heh.

I glanced at the transmigrator beside me.

Bai Xi sat calmly on a folding stool, radiating an almost supernatural level of relaxation.

I couldn’t help pointing at the sign. “Fifty yuan per reading? Who’s going to pay for that?”

Bai Xi looked utterly composed. “Someone will. I just divined a hexagram. We definitely won’t be sleeping on the street tonight.”

I couldn’t be that calm. I’d already planned to deliver takeout tomorrow.

“A hexagram? You can really tell fortunes?”

Bai Xi said, “I’m decent at it. Look, isn’t someone coming now?”

Our first customer was a fashionable urban woman with both money and free time. Her entire outfit was worth more than both our lives combined.

She had been drawn over by Bai Xi’s looks.

“Well, well, handsome. You tell fortunes?”

Bai Xi only lifted his eyes to glance at her before suddenly saying,

“Lawsuits entangling you, malicious spirits causing trouble. Ma’am.”

“Go home and check as soon as possible whether your father has any other children. Your financial luck becomes murky and uncertain after the age of thirty-five.”

The woman’s expression changed, and she immediately dropped her flirtatious, teasing attitude.

“Master, can you tell me more?”

Bai Xi sat up a little straighter, his expression calm. “Your birth date and time.”