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Yang Mao brought her to the rest area outside the café and took the cloth bag off his shoulder, placing it beside the seat.
“About an hour.
If you get thirsty, go buy some water.”
Yang Mao was a fairly conscientious apprentice, bending down to remind Qianyang.
“Okay, go.”
Qianyang didn’t even look up.
She was studying the used phone Yang Mao had just repaired, figuring out how to register a Qing Ning Live account.
After downloading the Qing Ning Live app—a pale green icon with a blank background that looked very much like a pirated site—she read through the registration prompts and agreements word by word.
Most of it was inconsequential.
Using her newly obtained phone number to register a new account, Qianyang entered the app.
The app’s overall color scheme matched its name—a fresh, light green.
The homepage was split into two columns of video frames, all filled with young, attractive men and women dressed in cool, revealing clothes.
“So this is livestreaming?”
Qianyang muttered to herself and casually tapped on a frame titled “Youthful & Pretty Female Personal Trainer Solves Your Problems Online.”
“Welcome, new babies in the stream!”
In the video, a girl in a white knit top and short skirt stood before a whiteboard.
The viewership count in the top right corner of the stream was 1,355.
– Teacher teacher, what’s one plus one?
– Teacher, Xiao Ming keeps pulling my hair!
– Teacher, are you married?
– Teacher…
The comments scrolled by quickly.
The streamer pushed up her glasses, furrowed her brows slightly, and said with a hint of playful reproach, “Naughty Xiao Ming, don’t bully your classmates, okay?”
– AHHHH!!!!
– Teacher!!
I’m Xiao Ming!!
– Please punish me!!!
– Teacher, I bullied my classmates too!
Punish me fast!
– …
Qianyang frowned as she watched, feeling an indescribable strangeness.
Were people down the mountain really this eager to learn?
If a simple lesson on one-plus-one could attract over a thousand viewers, then teaching some occult knowledge should be popular too, right?
After spending a few minutes in the stream to understand every function and streaming mode on the interface, Qianyang decided not to waste more time.
She immediately exited and went to the “My” section to start her own stream.
She entered the title “Youthful & Pretty Female Taoist Solves Your Problems Online,” selected the streaming category—Occult Zone, skipped the filters, read the streaming rules and regulations—completed.
[Please do not stream in the wrong category]
[Select whether to start streaming]
Qianyang decisively chose “Yes” and went live.
Her own face appeared on the screen, the crowded, noisy rest area behind her.
To showcase the Qian family’s ethos, she propped the phone on the table and straightened her Daoist robe.
Just then, the viewership count jumped from “0” to “2”.
“Welcome, new babies in the stream,” Qianyang said, imitating that female streamer.
– Not sure.
Let me check the title again.
– Taoist??
For some reason, the viewership number shot up.
In the blink of an eye, it went from “2” to “17”.
– Huh??
– Why can’t I read anymore?
Is that the kind of Taoist I’m thinking of?
– The streamer is really pretty, but… Taoists do this kind of work too?
– The Dao has fallen!
After a few comments scrolled by, Qianyang found one she could answer.
“What’s wrong with this kind of work?
It lets me earn money, and it also lets me promote the occult arts and benefit all living beings.”
– Ah… is the streamer showing off?
– Glamorously bending the rules with pride?
– I was born in the right era.
I get to see a Taoist bending the rules.
– New platform really is different!
– Bros, don’t report!
I want to see how she’s going to bend.
– Don’t report!
I’m just curious, definitely not because she’s good-looking!
– …
Qianyang frowned in confusion.
What did “bending the rules” mean?
She didn’t remember learning that phrase.
The viewership kept rising, quickly approaching one hundred.
Most comments were just people looking for entertainment, wanting to see how she would “bend the rules.”
Never mind.
Just streaming enough hours would earn her money, and she could take the opportunity to promote the occult arts, recruit disciples and followers.
Either way, she wouldn’t leave empty-handed.
– What are you planning to teach, streamer?
Qianyang said, “Some occult techniques.
There are too few people right now.
I’ll wait until there are more before I start teaching.”
– Wow, there’s a condition.
– Can we start with one little apple?
One little apple was a tipping gift on Qing Ning Live, equivalent to about one yuan.
After splitting with the platform, she would only get fifty cents.
What could fifty cents do?
Not even buy the greens in a giant grab-and-go pancake.
Qianyang said reluctantly, “One little apple can’t start a lesson, but you can ask a small question.”
– Any question?
Qianyang said, “Unimportant questions.”
Fifty cents could only buy a question that didn’t affect cause and effect.
It wasn’t that Qianyang couldn’t interfere with such things—it was that… the price needed to be higher.
[AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang tipped streamer Qianyang with a little apple]
Qianyang said, “Brother Wang, what’s your question?”
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: Master, my daughter hasn’t been able to sleep lately.
What’s going on?
Qianyang said, “Be more specific.”
After all, even with her divine foresight, she couldn’t figure it out through the screen alone.
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: A while ago, my daughter’s class organized a trip to a nursing home to visit the elderly.
After she came back, she couldn’t sleep all night.
We’ve taken her to many hospitals.
Medicine didn’t help.
– ???
– Brother Wang, you’re actually asking?
– Aren’t you being sarcastic?
– Wake up.
This is a bending-the-rules streamer.
– …
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: Her mother and I suspect she’s been possessed.
– …Got it.
– The streamer hired a shill.
– People really believe this stuff these days?
– If your kid is sick, go to the hospital.
The comments scrolled fast.
Qianyang didn’t take them to heart.
Qianyang said, “Can you send me a recent photo of your daughter?
Just send it privately.”
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: …You actually believe this?
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: If you’re so amazing, why can’t you tell I’m tricking you?
– …
– Pfft hahaha!
– I told you no one would actually believe it!
– That’s satisfying!
Qianyang paused for two seconds, then gradually realized: the other party was just messing with her.
– If you don’t believe it, fine, but why mess with someone?
– That’s a bit much.
– The streamer seemed really serious.
– Are you sick?
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: If you’re that thin-skinned, don’t stream, okay?
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: I just don’t like bending-the-rules streamers.
– Who forced you to click in?
– Wasn’t the title obvious enough?
The viewers in the stream somehow started arguing with each other.
The viewership kept growing.
Qianyang wasn’t bothered by such a small matter.
She kindly reminded him, “Brother Wang, if you really have a daughter, I suggest you keep something she has used on your person at all times.”
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: Joke’s on you.
I’ve always worn my daughter’s baby tooth.
Qianyang said, “That’s good.”
– Huh??
– Streamer, is there something to that?
– Curious.
– Streamer, streamer, tell us!
Qianyang smiled slightly.
“So that when divine punishment comes, it won’t affect his daughter.”
– Superstitious nonsense.
– Why would divine punishment come?
– We’re almost at two hundred viewers.
There aren’t many viewers on Qing Ning platform to begin with.
This is pretty good for a new streamer.
Start teaching already!
– Start, start!
– …
The viewership was about to break two hundred.
That should be enough.
Qianyang said, “I didn’t expect people down the mountain to be so eager to learn.
Let me first teach you a simple hand seal.
You can use it in daily life.”
Qianyang sat up straight and extended one hand.
“This hand seal is something most ordinary people can’t learn.
I don’t know if you’ve seen it before, but in the occult arts, it’s considered basic.”
– Wait… is it just me?
– Wasn’t there a black cloth bag next to the streamer’s seat at the beginning?
– Right!
I remember too.
It looked like it had a lot of stuff in it.
Where did it go?
– Holy shit?
Streamer, look for it!
Seeing the scrolling comments, Qianyang’s expression shifted.
She immediately looked down beside her.
Sure enough, her cloth bag had vanished!
Inside were the most valuable things she owned—the Daoist robe passed down from her ancestors!
In broad daylight, there was a pickpocket?!
Was the world down the mountain really this chaotic?
“Sorry, pause for a moment.”
Qianyang’s face turned cold.
This place was crowded, and she had put all her attention on her phone, letting her guard down, giving the thief an opening!
– Hahahaha.
– This is such good content!
– Oh man, this is the streamer’s first time, right?
That’s rough.
– No way, no way.
A Taoist actually got something stolen?
– I’m laughing.
Brother Wang, was your one yuan well spent?
– …
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: Spending one yuan for some entertainment?
Totally worth it.
I’d like to see what divine punishment can come to me.
In the stream, Qianyang sat in the bustling rest area, her gaze dark, one hand forming a seal, her lips moving as if reciting some incantation, completely ignoring the strange looks from those around her.
– What’s she doing?
– I know!
The legendary mystical Eastern power.
– Overseas students use this trick to scare Westerners.
– It’s fine to scare foreigners on the internet, but you dare do this at home?
– My secondhand embarrassment is killing me.
My toes have already dug out a three-bedroom apartment.
– …
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: Wow, I’m so scared.
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: Feudal remnant, and bending the rules too.
Reported.
“Ahh!”
Suddenly, a scream sounded through the stream.
In the frame, a man walking hunched on the sidewalk suddenly pitched forward and slammed face-first toward the ground.
Qianyang leaped.
One moment she was right there in the frame, the next she had landed on the sidewalk, separated by a railing.
– Holy shit…
– Holy shit?!
– Flew… flew?!!
– Huh??
– Are my eyes playing tricks on me??
Qianyang landed steady beside the man.
The surrounding passersby all turned to look.
“Whoa!
That’s one cool backflip!”
“No… that’s way too far, isn’t it?”
“Are they filming a movie??”
Qianyang stepped on the man’s shoulder.
Her face was frighteningly cold, her Daoist robe billowing in the wind.
“Give it back!”
Before today, Qianyang had believed no one in the world dared steal from her.
After today, Qianyang believed no one in the world could successfully steal from her.
“Ah!
Here, here!”
The man grimaced in pain and tossed out everything from his arms.
Qianyang grabbed her cloth bag with one hand.
Noticing several other phones, she called out, “Who lost their phones?”
The gawking crowd immediately snapped out of it and patted their pockets.
“No way!
My phone!”
“Damn thief!
When did he take it?”
Qianyang told the passersby to call the police, tied the man up with rope, handed him over to the victims, and then returned to her phone screen.
Qianyang slung her recovered cloth bag across her shoulder, but the dark expression on her face had not yet faded.
“Let’s continue with the lesson,” Qianyang said.
– ???
– ????
– Huh???
– Holy shit?
The stream was flooded with a screen full of question marks.
Qianyang said, “The hand seal you just saw is called the Object-Locating Art.
It carries a curse and attack effect.
His right leg won’t be able to stand for three days.”
– Huh??
This is real?
– There really is power in the mystical East??
– I came here for a bending-the-rules stream.
Where have I been taken?
– …Isn’t this just a trick to fool foreigners?
Qianyang pursed her lips.
“You people down the mountain have no reverence at all for the occult arts.”
– Oh my god.
– She just gracefully flew away like that?
– Okay, the streamer jumped seven or eight meters.
How did she do that?
– Unscientific!
Qianyang said, “By circulating true qi, one can scale walls and walk on roofs.”
Then, with a note of incredulity in her voice, she asked, “Don’t tell me you don’t even know what true qi is?”
– …
– Well, shit.
Looks like we’ve got a real one.
– So here’s the question.
– @AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang.
– @AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang.
– …
– AAA Building Materials Wholesale Brother Wang: …
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