Forced to Make a Living: A Fortune Teller’s Daily Life
Original Title: 被迫营业的算命先生日常
Author: 青衣杏林
Description:
【Full text completed.】
【Main shou’s cultivation story, updated daily → 《I Was the Father of Long Ao Tian, Who Died Tragically [Transmigration]》】
Nan Shi, who had been deceived by online motivational chicken soup and ended up crippled in spirit, lost all his fortune to acquire an antique shop. As a result of not understanding the trade, he managed it poorly and almost went bankrupt.
Next month had been the day he would declare bankruptcy and carry debts, so Nan Shi’s goal had been simple: work hard to sell goods! He resolutely refused to go bankrupt! He planned to go to Yiwu tomorrow to purchase inventory!
He never expected that, in the end, his antique shop was preserved, and there were crowds of people streaming in daily, earning him a fortune. It was only that the business he conducted—
“Master Nan, I beg you to read my fortune, okay? I’ll pay seven figures for your handicrafts, oh no, for your antiques!”
Nan Shi should not have run his mouth off to the old man strolling around the store, saying ‘You won’t last much longer.’ As a result, he was thrown into the deep mountains to be taught a lesson.
If he had not spoken out of turn at that time, he would not have met the senior brother who had died seven or eight hundred years ago, would not have followed that senior brother to learn fortune-telling, and would not have inexplicably married that senior brother.
He had only wanted to maintain his antique shop, but in the end, he not only developed his side business into the industry’s top one, he also solved his relationship status.
“If you marry me, you have to perform the wedding ceremony with my skeletal remains, drink cross-cupped wine, tie our hair together as one, and when you enter the bridal chamber, you have to suffer seven mortal nails. Embedded at the golden summit, facing me day and night. Are you afraid?” the senior brother said calmly.
Nan Shi: “Afraid my foot! That nailing thing was for forced marriages only! Couldn’t I just lie down with you?! Senior brother, you’re also some sect master of considerable importance. Don’t tell me you dug your mausoleum hundreds of meters deep, and in the end, two people couldn’t fit into one coffin? …If it couldn’t fit, we could squeeze, right? Getting nailed to the coffin lid meant we couldn’t hug or kiss, so what strange kind of placement play were you getting at?”
Content Tags: Powerful Character, Heaven’s Chosen One, Shuangwen, Metaphysics, Lighthearted
Main characters: Nan Shi’s POV, interactions with Chi You. Supporting cast: 《I Was the Father of Long Ao Tian, Who Died Tragically [Transmigration]》, ancient BL, cultivation, leveling up to fight monsters! Updated daily~
One-sentence summary: The cowardly daily life of reading fortunes for ghosts
Theme: Study well and make progress every day
Chapters: 179
This article contains elements such as niche emotions and is recommended for readers over 18 years old.
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《中国风水全书（珍藏版）》 主编：邵伟华，出版社：线装书局
《China Feng Shui Encyclopedia（Collector’s Edition）》 Editor in Chief：Shao Weihua，Publisher：Thread-Bound Book Bureau
《图解葬书》 原著：（东晋）郭璞，主编：许硕平，出版社：华龄出版社
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《Listening to the Wind, Observing the Water》 Compiled and Written by：Zhang Bo，Publisher：Yanbian People’s Publishing House
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High-profile Statement:
In this text, specialized professional terms and formulas related to astrology and fortune-telling—like Ziwei Doushu—appeared with high-frequency references taken from some books, Baidu Encyclopedia, and compilations of formulas. Some citations had been marked during serialization, some might have been missed. Thus, let it be stated first that all these professional matters had been quoted! Quoted! Quoted!
This story was purely fictional and possessed no real-world reference value. Please do not embrace superstitions; long live socialism!
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This work entered V on February 13, 2021, and there had been three updates upon entering V. Thanks for the support.
In the new year, nothing else needed to be said—wishing everyone to make a fortune!
PS: Don’t ask anymore, I truly didn’t know Feng Shui; I simply borrowed from the classics and then made things up, got it! It was the kind where the book had one sentence, I slapped my head, “Oh oh oh oh!” Then I began using that sentence as the core to start inventing a Feng Shui setup… as long as it could be justified, that was fine.
By the way, I remembered that the biggest difficulty in writing this book was, damn it, how to create that setup. Often, I wrote right up to the setup part yet still hadn’t found which example to use. Then I would frantically flip through books, pick a badass one, and start making it up. Some setups only had a single sentence, no diagram for reference, so I went crazy searching for images on Baidu. In the middle of the night, I even stumbled upon some eerie cemetery pictures that scared the hell out of me.
2021-4-25 Supplement
I suddenly remembered that I wanted to talk about Yu Ning’s character design. Many people felt that a twenty-five- or twenty-six-year-old adult who acted like a giant baby, clinging to his master and grandmaster every day, was unrealistic. Actually… this came from the character’s logical progression. Yu Ning’s setting was that his parents divorced when he was young, and he lived with his grandparents. Later, those two passed away, leaving him alone. Overall, he yearned for familial affection. He wasn’t someone who had never been out in society. He had enough life experience to understand what behavior the people who valued him preferred. People subconsciously presented the side that others wanted to see.
Mr. Mei and Yu Ning had already known each other for nearly a year before the story began. Judging from Mr. Mei’s behavior in the latter half, he also quite enjoyed having a junior who was affectionate. Some people, as they got older, happened to like younger folks being clingy. It was not a particularly rare psychological state. Everyone could think back on whether, in front of very close elders from another generation, we sometimes unconsciously acted spoiled or silly, just to make them smile.
As for why he acted so cool, arrogant, and flamboyant outside, that was actually a result of his personality plus his status. Comparing it to reality, it would be roughly: “You are somewhat of a big shot in your industry, you have savings, people beg you to do work, and unfamiliar HR staff or project managers come knocking every day, practically kneeling to ask, ‘Big shot, do you have time to take this assignment? Big shot, are you job-hunting?’ Would you then show extreme humility in such a situation?”
People naturally had subtle differences in their attitudes toward relatives, colleagues, friends, or strangers, and those could sometimes be huge. A close example was my best friend, who was a minor manager at a state-owned enterprise. Her subordinates secretly complained that she was super strict and difficult. But when she came out with me to eat, she was just a normal crazy woman—she joked around and laughed without missing a beat, looking exhausted while drinking with me and complaining about her subordinates being a real handful. Did that mean she had a split personality?
Whether someone stepped into society or not, people naturally had different faces that changed with the environment, time, events, and the people involved. It was that simple.
Hence, Yu Ning’s attitude and personality showed subtle differences when interacting with various people. That was normal, nothing else.