Master, Your Wife Has Become a Super Star Through Fortune-Telling-Chapter 120 - 121: Life-Buying Money
[Isn’t this just karmic retribution? Serves you right for being greedy over a little cash!]
[If you’re not going to use your mouth for anything nice, you can donate it. Yeah, he was a little greedy, but the person who left the money is way more depraved, okay?]
"Even then, I didn’t think anything was wrong."
"Not until I was hospitalized. My body could barely hold on back then. I still had some of the money I’d found left—several hundred-yuan bills. They were all folded into triangles, but I didn’t have the strength to unfold them. When I tried to use one to buy a meal, the cafeteria lady chewed me out."
"She yelled at me, asking what my intentions were, daring to use ’life-buying money’ to buy things from her!"
As Stay Alive spoke, he became agitated. His face contorted, flushing bright red in agony.
"She told me it was life-buying money! Just as the name implies, whoever picks up this money and uses it will have their life ’borrowed’! I’d already spent nearly two thousand, but I had no idea how much of my life had been taken!"
"I was at a total loss, just holding the money. That same lady was the one who recommended I watch your livestream. But I don’t think I can be saved anymore. This morning, the doctor told me the success rate for my surgery is only twenty-three percent! He suggested I go eat something nice with my family and friends, to get out and see the world!"
"I can’t accept this! I’m only twenty-four!"
[So scary. I’m never picking up money off the street again.]
[Don’t do it. I once picked up over seventy yuan, but then I lost over four hundred. I also lost my ID and bank cards, sprained my ankle walking, and got a toothache from drinking water.]
[If they offered enough money, I’d be willing to sell the rest of my life. But he’s only twenty-four! Buying his life for two thousand yuan... that’s just too depraved!]
Su Nian sighed and took another bite of her peach. "There is always a trade-off. You found money, but you lost your life. However, this person’s methods are too insidious. The writing was deliberately blurred so you couldn’t understand it. And even life-buying money has rules. This person has broken a taboo."
Su Nian continued, "And you really shouldn’t pick up money off the street. Once you pick it up and put it in your pocket, it means all the bad luck of the person who lost it is transferred to you."
In the grand scheme of karma, picking up money is a form of trade-off, a gain and a loss. But it was obvious that Stay Alive had been maliciously set up.
"But I really can’t accept this! I honestly didn’t know it was life-buying money at first! If I had known, I wouldn’t have dared to pick up so much!"
"I’m only twenty-four!"
With that, Stay Alive bowed his head and began to weep bitterly, his eyes turning bloodshot.
However, Su Nian’s gaze flickered. "And that wasn’t ordinary life-buying money. It was meant for an exchange."
"Your body has been inexplicably swapped with his. Haven’t you noticed you don’t look the same as you used to?"
Stay Alive looked up, his face a mask of horror. "I knew it! I was wondering why I had so many spots on my face. My coworker said they were age spots, but I didn’t believe him!"
The livestream viewers: ???
[This isn’t just depraved, it’s on another level!]
[So they swapped out Stay Alive’s healthy body and lifespan... for two thousand yuan?]
[What kind of heartless monster is this? This is just too vicious!]
[What? What? I don’t get it!]
Seeing that some people were confused, Su Nian explained, "If I’m not mistaken, the smaller bills at the beginning were the money for swapping bodies. If a normal person found it and knew what it was, they’d obviously think it was cursed. That’s why this person deliberately blurred the writing."
"Then, the hundred-yuan bills were the life-buying money. You fell for both traps, which is why your life force and physical health are draining away so quickly!"
Stay Alive’s expression froze, and his despair deepened.
’So it’s not just my life... I’m giving up my healthy body too?’
His face was ashen, making the liver spots stand out even more clearly. Combined with the physical pain racking his body, he felt like he was about to pass out from sheer anguish.
With trembling hands, he couldn’t help but unfold a five-yuan bill he hadn’t spent. Sure enough, a small white slip of paper was tucked inside. He had tossed it aside before, not thinking anything of it, but now he held it close to his eyes, trying to make out the words.
Swap bodies...
He could faintly make out the two words. Stay Alive’s vision went black. It all matched up. Everything matched up.
So this wasn’t a stroke of good luck at all. It was someone with malicious intent, someone who wanted his life!
The color drained from his face and he trembled all over. But some deep-seated resilience made him instinctively look toward Su Nian.
"Host, can you save me?!"
His tone was full of desperate pleading, and his eyes welled up with tears.
Su Nian thought for a moment before agreeing.
"I’ve said before that I don’t interfere with karmic retribution; I only help with sudden disasters. But this man was targeted and manipulated. Although it involves an element of karma, it can still be considered a sudden disaster."
Su Nian then raised her eyes and spoke into the microphone, "Put that slip of paper and the bill on the table. I want to take a closer look!"
Immediately, his eyes filled with hope, Stay Alive did as Su Nian instructed and placed them on the table.
Su Nian muted her microphone and carefully examined the bill and the paper, arriving at a strange conclusion.
"The person who bought your life is in this very hospital! And he’s being discharged today!"
Stay Alive froze, the hatred in his eyes now impossible to hide. "I’m in here dying for him, and he gets to be discharged?"
"Where is that person’s room? I’m going to find him and settle the score right now!"
He staggered to his feet, his body like rotted wood, looking as if even taking a few steps would be a struggle.
Su Nian’s eyes flickered as she explained, "Don’t be rash. I have a way!"
After some calculation, Su Nian determined that the life-buyer and Stay Alive did indeed have a connection.
Su Nian paused for a moment; her client was still waiting anxiously.
Her eyes shifted. She took a bite of her peach, her voice cool. "Do you know why you were the one who happened to find the money? Because the other party had been secretly observing you, confirming you were the perfect target."
"Has anyone been asking about your physical condition lately?"
Stay Alive was taken aback. "My boss? But he’s in great health!"
[Not necessarily! Maybe it was for an elderly family member!]
[Yeah, and with the age spots and everything, it must have been done for an old person.]
[That boss is despicable!]
But Su Nian shook her head. "It’s not him."
Stay Alive thought for a moment, his expression gradually stiffening. He forced out a few words, "Could it be... my landlord?"
Su Nian considered this, not confirming it directly. Instead, she asked, "Is your landlord a man who’s a bit pale and heavyset, with a large mole on the bridge of his nose?"
"Yes! That’s him!"
The realization that it was his own landlord made Stay Alive’s eyes go wide, and he trembled all over.
"How could it be him?! How could it?!"
His eyes were wide with fury.
"All the kindness he showed me... it was all just an act!"
Su Nian nodded and took another bite of her peach.
"That’s right. He just wanted your life."
[So disgusting! What kind of landlord is that!]
[He rents his house to a tenant, leaves money for the tenant to find, buys the tenant’s life, and the tenant even dutifully brings the rent money back to him!]
[Yeah, the more you think about it, the more terrifying it is!]
