Chapter 74
Chapter 74
Auntie Wang dragged her daughter along to thank Xia Sheng. But when they entered the apartment, they heard Fang Rong say that Xia Sheng had gone out on an errand.
Auntie Wang asked, “Did the Little Celestial Master go out to help someone avert disaster again?”
Fang Rong nodded.
At that, Auntie Wang immediately felt a surge of reverence for Xia Sheng.
As expected, the Little Celestial Master truly had the whole world in her heart.
Thinking back to how she had made snide remarks to Fang Rong that morning and even questioned Xia Sheng’s abilities, only for Xia Sheng to disregard past grievances and help her anyway, Auntie Wang was overwhelmed with shame.
“Little Fang, about this morning… I was in the wrong. You’re the bigger person, so please don’t hold it against me.”
Fang Rong smiled and said, “It’s all right. I didn’t take it to heart. I see both you and Uncle Li as my elders. Just don’t misunderstand our relationship again in the future.”
At the mention of Uncle Li, Auntie Wang nodded somewhat sheepishly. This time, she did not say anything about disliking him.
In truth, she had had her eye on Old Li for quite a while. She had simply been too embarrassed to admit it, worried that Old Li did not like her back and that if she confessed, they might not even be able to stay friends.
Fang Rong said, “Actually, I asked Sheng’er to read a fortune for you and Uncle Li today.”
Auntie Wang hurriedly asked, “And? What was the result?”
Fang Rong smiled. “Uncle Li is waiting for you to speak up, too.”
Hearing that, Auntie Wang understood at once. She immediately stood up and said, “Good, good, good! Please help me thank the Little Celestial Master later. I’m going to find Old Li right now!”
With that, Auntie Wang ran off in high spirits.
Wang Jiajia looked helplessly at her mother’s retreating figure, said goodbye to Fang Rong, and then went after her mom.
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Xia Sheng had just gotten out of school when she received a call from Wu Yuhan. Wu Yuhan said a friend of hers wanted to ask Xia Sheng for a fortune reading and invited her out to meet.
Xia Sheng agreed and took a cab to the café where she and Wu Yuhan had arranged to meet.
When she arrived, she was surprised to see Bai Sha there as well.
“Little Celestial Master, over here!” When Bai Sha saw Xia Sheng, she waved at her warmly.
Xia Sheng walked over and sat down across from Bai Sha.
She glanced at Bai Sha’s radiant face and said, “Looks like life has been going very smoothly for you lately.”
Bai Sha smiled. “It’s all thanks to you, Little Celestial Master. If not for you, I wouldn’t have seen Wang Songjiang for the scumbag he really is.
“After the divorce, I finally let go. I don’t think about getting married anymore. Being single is the most freeing thing.
“Recently, I started keeping a young pretty boy. Broad shoulders, narrow waist, eight-pack abs. Most importantly, he’s well-endowed and great in bed. He knows how to act cute and he can cook, too. Compared to that deadbeat scumbag Wang Songjiang, he’s better by who knows how many times.
“If I’d met you earlier, Little Celestial Master, maybe I would’ve come around sooner and wouldn’t have wasted so many years on that bastard Wang Songjiang for nothing.”
Wu Yuhan said helplessly, “You’ve let yourself go a little too much. I’m worried you’ll get scammed for both your money and your body.”
Bai Sha said, “Don’t worry. After what happened with Wang Songjiang, I’m much more cautious now. Other than two hundred thousand yuan a month in spending money, I won’t give him a single cent more, and I definitely won’t give him any chance to get involved with my company.
“It’s just for fun. If one day he doesn’t want to be with me anymore, we’ll split up. In any case, I’m not bringing him home.”
Wu Yuhan sighed and was just about to offer a few more words of advice when Xia Sheng said, “You may only want to have fun with him, but he might not feel the same.”
Bai Sha froze. “Little Celestial Master, what do you mean by that?”
Xia Sheng, however, did not say anything more.
Bai Sha and the young pretty boy she was currently keeping were each other’s True Fate. Even if Xia Sheng said nothing, the two of them would naturally end up turning their act into something real.
She looked at the third woman sitting beside them and asked, “What is it you want me to read for you?”
The woman was on the plump side, but her Three Courts and Five Eyes were perfectly proportioned. She wasn’t short, either, and her skin was so fair and smooth that not a single pore could be seen. Before she’d put on weight, she must have been quite the beauty.
The woman said, “Kid… Little Celestial Master, hello. My name is Peng Lu. I came to ask if you could help me calculate when my husband and I will be able to have a child. Do we still have any hope?”
Her situation was somewhat similar to Wu Yuhan’s. She and her husband had also been married for several years, but she had never been able to get pregnant.
She and her husband had both gone to the hospital for checkups, and neither of them had any physical issues. For some unknown reason, however, she simply could not conceive.
Her mother-in-law believed that their failure to have a child was entirely her fault, and over the years, she had taken Peng Lu all over the place to see doctors and take medicine.
Most medications used to treat infertility contained hormones, which could easily cause weight gain.
After taking medicine for several years, her weight had gone from her original 105 jin to 160 jin.
Peng Lu had heard from Wu Yuhan that Xia Sheng’s fortune-telling was very accurate, and after hearing that Secretary Zheng’s matter had also been predicted by Xia Sheng, she had come over with the mindset of giving it a try.
Who would have thought that when they met, the master she had imagined would turn out to be such a fair, clean, coolly aloof young girl?
Looking at Xia Sheng’s youthful face, the last sliver of hope in Peng Lu’s heart shattered.
What could a girl this young possibly calculate?
Perhaps she was destined never to have children in this lifetime.
Xia Sheng glanced at the woman’s features and said, “Your Children Palace is full. You are fated to have many children and much good fortune.”
Hearing Xia Sheng say that, Peng Lu basically decided that Xia Sheng was a Charlatan with no real ability.
In the past, when she had been desperate enough to try anything, she had also asked people to tell her fortune. Those fortune-tellers had all said she was fated for many children and much good fortune, too. But she was already thirty-two this year, and she had been married to her husband for four years, yet she still had no children.
If she truly had a fate of many children and much good fortune, how could she still not have a single child by now?
Just as she was thinking this, she heard Xia Sheng continue, “The reason you haven’t had a child all these years is not because you’re infertile. It’s because there’s something wrong with your husband’s body.”
Peng Lu froze for a moment, then said, “But my husband went to the hospital for a checkup before. The hospital said there was nothing wrong with him.”
Xia Sheng said, “Those test reports were all forged by him.”
Peng Lu found it hard to believe. “What would be his purpose in doing that?”
“Has he been trying to persuade you to get artificial insemination these past two years?”
Peng Lu nodded. “There is indeed such a thing.”
When she and her husband had first gotten married, he had always tried to persuade her to undergo artificial insemination, saying that getting pregnant that way was no different.
She had agreed before, but because of her physical condition, both insemination attempts had failed. After that, she had given up.
Later, her husband had tried a few more times to persuade her to give it another shot.
But she was worried it would harm her body, so she never went again.
Even though she did not want to go, her husband still brought it up every so often.
The fact that her husband disregarded her physical condition and wanted her to be forcibly inseminated and become pregnant had actually made her rather unhappy.
It was just that aside from this issue, her husband had treated her very well over the past few years. He also understood what she liked and shared many of her interests and hobbies. He understood her even better than her closest friends did, so she had suppressed that dissatisfaction and even cooperated with her mother-in-law by taking quite a few infertility medications.
Peng Lu asked in confusion, “What does him forging the reports have to do with my artificial insemination?”