[Pfft, hahaha, I’m actually laughing.]

[The streamer’s got a point.]

[What the hell, "smeared ibuprofen on his fists."]

[I can almost let the ’love stops the pain’ part slide, but the ibuprofen has me dying.]

Xiao Xue froze, momentarily at a loss for words.

After staring blankly for a good while, she finally stammered out an explanation.

"But he only hits me, not anyone else. If that’s not love, what is?"

Her words once again left the viewers dumbfounded.

Su Nian said, "Either way, there is no way I’m giving you those girls’ contact information. If you keep insisting, I’ll just refund your money."

"Huh???"

’To think I came all this way for a fortune-telling session, only to meet someone who’d rather turn down money than do the reading.’

Her fingers trembled with rage.

’All I want is to protect my love. Why won’t anyone cooperate?’

’Everyone is trying to break us up!’

’As a master, isn’t she supposed to help me solve my problems? How can she say something like that!?’

She fired off a series of questions, "Aren’t you a master? Do you have no professional ethics? You took my money, so why won’t you do the reading for me? I refuse to accept that! You have to do it!"

The thought of having traveled so far, full of hope, only to be met with this result, made her furious.

She was unwilling to get angry at her beloved boyfriend, but she felt it was perfectly natural to take it out on others.

Seeing her have such a strong reaction, Su Nian almost laughed.

The chat was also filled with comments expressing displeasure with her.

[What is her problem?!]

[Seriously, is there something wrong with her?]

[You can’t just leak other people’s private information. Instead of complaining here, why don’t you go back to your precious boyfriend and find out the truth?]

[I’m speechless. I guess you can’t even be a proper master these days.]

Su Nian’s tone grew cold.

"If you’re going to keep pestering me, I might as well start talking about your own deeds."

A glint flashed in Xiao Xue’s eyes. She knew full well what she’d done in the past, but ’surely this master couldn’t know about all those minor details, right?’

She pursed her lips. She was a little confused, but her emotions began to stabilize.

"I haven’t done anything wrong. I’m not afraid of you!"

"You’re an orphan. You dropped out before finishing middle school. When you were very young, a girl often helped you, and in return, you stole her boyfriend."

"You did it because you felt everything she did was a handout, so you deliberately stole her boyfriend to get back at her."

Xiao Xue’s face went pale. Having her darkest thoughts exposed so directly was deeply humiliating.

[What a piece of work.]

[Someone helps her, she thinks it’s charity, so she steals their boyfriend.]

[No wonder she didn’t graduate from middle school. All she wanted to do was date. It’d be a miracle if she’d been able to study properly.]

"At first, you were only trying to get back at that girl, but over time, you gradually grew to like him."

A half-smile played on Su Nian’s lips. "Too bad you don’t realize that by doing a good deed, that girl ran into someone like you, who ended up removing the biggest obstacle of her life."

"Her life from now on will be exceptionally smooth, free of any setbacks."

At these words, Xiao Xue’s pupils dilated. It was as if even the geisha tattoo on her body was seething with rage.

"I don’t believe it! You’re lying!"

[Good people really are rewarded!]

[I’m dying! She thought she’d stolen a prize, but it turns out she just stole the other girl’s tribulation.]

[What a living Bodhisattva, you are.]

[Doing a good deed with bad intentions, hahaha!!!]

Xiao Xue’s heart was pounding, her face flushed crimson.

"Impossible! How could that be!"

Seeing the utter disbelief on her face, Su Nian couldn’t help but mock her.

"You idiot. Did you really think your actions were seamless?"

Su Nian’s smile was brazen, and contrasted against Xiao Xue, who was flustered and teary-eyed, she looked just like a villain.

Xiao Xue took a deep breath and forced herself to remain calm, launching into a denial. Unfortunately, her trembling hands and faltering voice betrayed her. "That’s not me. I didn’t do that. You’re reading too much into it. I’m not that kind of dark person. I’m with my boyfriend for love, not to get revenge on someone."

She pretended not to care, but deep down, she cared immensely.

’She knew Su Nian wasn’t wrong at all. Due to her childhood, she was indeed a very dark person. Her brain was just wired differently from other people’s.’

’For instance, no matter how well her friend treated her, even after several years, she still held a prejudice against her, convinced that her friend’s family were bad people.’

’They were just using me as a foil to make her look better.’

’Most people would have been touched by such a kind girl, but she only felt disgusted and uncomfortable, believing it was all just pity.’

’But to keep receiving help, she had to feign happiness and gratitude on the outside while she seethed with hatred on the inside.’

This continued until Xiao Xue was discovered stealing her best friend’s boyfriend. The friend was so heartbroken that her entire family moved away.

’At first, she had been smug, feeling like she had finally won a round in her competition against the other girl. But now, Su Nian had told her...’

’...she had taken on someone else’s disaster.’

She was so angry her face felt swollen, but she still forced herself to pretend that she didn’t care in the slightest.

Su Nian watched her with a faint smile. "Well? Do you have any more questions?"

The woman who had been hell-bent on finding and confronting the "other woman" was now completely bewildered, her mind consumed by one thought: she had taken on someone else’s disaster.

With that thought, her boyfriend suddenly seemed detestable.

"No. I’m going back to break up with him!"

Her tone was firm as she quickly stood up.

’Her mind had never felt so clear. She had always used ’love’ as a fig leaf, but now she understood with perfect clarity—she wanted no part of someone else’s disaster!’

The girl who had just been screaming that love could stop pain now strode away with the determined air of a warrior marching onto the battlefield.

[Didn’t expect her to see the light so quickly.]

[Okay, I give up. Her way of thinking is seriously twisted.]

[So disgusting. Thank god I’ve never met a basket case like her.]

[I can’t shake this weird feeling. I just think something is off about her.]

Su Nian watched her walk off into the distance, then turned to the screen to explain.

"This girl’s mindset is different from most. The truth is, deep down, she was genuinely touched by her friend’s kindness. But due to some twisted emotion, she enjoys snatching away whatever her friend values. Now that she knows the other girl despised this man, she naturally has to follow suit and despise him as well."

"Her childhood experiences likely molded her thinking into what it is today. But at the end of the day, she has still done many things to hurt people."

[So after all this, it comes back to her unhappy childhood.]

[Could it be... that she was actually in love with the girl?]