Master, Your Wife Has Become a Super Star Through Fortune-Telling

Chapter 322 - 324: The Vat in the Middle of the Road

That the girl jumped to her death was an outcome many had expected.

But for them, it was just something to post on social media—a trivial bit of gossip.

Su Nian shook her head, a deep sense of regret in her eyes.

She silently chanted the Rebirth Mantra, praying for the girl.

Then she drove to the Daoist Temple. Su Nian saw that man repenting on the ground, but ’what’s the use now?’

Su Nian left, and she didn’t notice that after she was gone, wisps of black mist began to drift out from the corpse.

The mist began to drift toward the people who had yelled the most viciously that day. The girl’s spirit was unresigned; she wanted to drag those people to their deaths with her!

Su Nian drove all the way to the Daoist Temple and, as usual, sat down in her customary spot.

By now, a long line had already formed at the entrance of the Daoist Temple. Su Nian set up her livestream, rang the bell, and the first client of the day walked in.

[The streamer is live again!]

[Aww, too bad I live so far away. Otherwise, I’d definitely get a reading from the streamer!]

[Honestly, the streamer’s rates are a total steal. For someone this accurate, her readings should cost tens of thousands, at least. Charging so little is practically charity!]

[Man, I’m dying of envy. I wish I lived closer to the streamer so I could get a reading too!]

Just then, a middle-aged man walked in. He looked to be on the older side and was wearing a set of somewhat shabby clothes.

His hair was a mess and he had a beer belly, giving him a travel-worn appearance.

He was extremely anxious the moment he walked in and immediately asked Su Nian.

"Master, can you see if anything is following me?"

Su Nian looked the man over. He seemed completely normal; she couldn’t detect anything strange about him.

She shook her head, and only then did the man let out a sigh of relief and sit down.

"Hello, Master. My name is Ah Kun. You can just call me Ah Kun."

He spoke incoherently, unable to clearly explain his situation, and kept glancing around nervously.

[He’s worried something’s following him? This guy seems a little strange. Maybe he’s hallucinating?]

[Don’t tell me he’s got mental problems?]

[After all we’ve seen on this stream, you’re still saying it’s hallucinations? Let’s be real, nobody who comes here is normal. I guarantee it!]

The man was so cautious, he looked as if he expected danger to leap out at him at any second.

Su Nian shook her head and casually picked up a peach. "Why don’t you tell me what happened."

"My name is Ah Kun. A little while ago, I was out with some friends when someone suggested we go for a cookout. We all agreed. We asked a waiter at our hotel to recommend a spacious spot that would be good for it."

"After we found a place, we all got a bit excited. We’d been drinking, so on a whim, we decided to head over early to scout it out and see if it was really a good spot for a cookout."

"It was already the middle of the night by then, but everything was normal at first, until we drove onto a certain stretch of road."

"The further we drove, the darker the road became. At the time, I just figured it was because it was nighttime, so it seemed normal."

[As soon as I hear ’going out at night,’ I already know how this ends!]

[Isn’t this just asking for it? Just like in those foreign horror movies where they love exploring!]

[I’ve seen this trope a million times. Let me guess, they get to the cookout spot and run into a girl in a white dress, right?]

Ah Kun paused, then continued.

"At first, my friends and I were in two separate cars. My friend was in the lead car, while I and another buddy followed behind."

"But after driving for a while, I realized something was wrong. The car with my friends ahead of me had vanished. No matter how hard I chased, no matter how much I floored it, I couldn’t catch up. I chased for a long, long way, just following the road."

"But suddenly, a large vat appeared in the middle of the road. It was huge—tall and incredibly wide. It must have been almost twice as wide as I am!"

The man gestured with his hands as he spoke.

Ah Kun had a rather stout build. Su Nian narrowed her eyes, glancing at his protruding belly. ’If it’s really as he says...’

’...then that vat must be massive. But why would it suddenly appear in the middle of the road?’

[What kind of setup is this? Never heard this one before. I’m starting to get curious.]

[Our goddess of steel raises an eyebrow with a cold smile. ’Interesting!’]

[Definitely haven’t heard this opening before.]

[A vat appeared? Let me guess, are there bandits hiding inside?]

Ah Kun’s face had turned pale, but he forced himself to continue.

"I couldn’t find the car ahead of us, so I was starting to panic. When I saw the vat, I immediately tried to call them to ask what was going on."

"We were on the same road, so there’s no way I would run into it and they wouldn’t. But strangely, my phone had no signal. Thank god my buddy was with me, but with no signal, the GPS was frozen too."

"So I figured my buddy and I could just move the vat out of the way. But who would’ve thought? The thing was incredibly heavy."

"And I don’t know what kind of asshole would do this, but they’d even filled the damn thing with water!"

"I was furious!"

Ah Kun lowered his head, as if recalling the event. His lips trembled unconsciously, and his eyes darted around in terror before he cautiously continued.

"I was so angry then. I thought my friends in the other car were playing a prank on me, so I just grabbed a rock and cracked the vat open."

[Okay, hearing that, I know something’s wrong!]

[Oh, this is bad. This is really bad. He definitely ran into a ghost!]

[Look at his face. Don’t tell me there was a ghost hiding in that vat!]

The man pursed his lips and continued.

"My buddy and I used rocks to crack it open. Nothing strange happened right away, but a lot of water poured out. And it stank, really bad, like dead fish."

"We didn’t think much of it. We saw the vat was cracked and all that water had poured out, so we figured we could move it to the side."

"But for some reason, the broken pieces were still incredibly heavy. We couldn’t budge them. My buddy and I were getting really desperate, so we just smashed the rest of it to bits. We were so angry, we even kicked the shards a few times... but we didn’t mean anything by it, really."

"After we smashed the vat, we kept driving, but we never caught up to our friends. I started to feel like something was really wrong, so I decided we should just turn back. But you won’t believe it. When we got back to that same spot... the vat was there again. Right in the middle of the road. That time, we were truly scared!"

But Su Nian just raised an eyebrow and gave a cold smirk.

"That’s all it took to scare you? You saw a vat, and you were scared?"

Su Nian’s sarcastic tone made the man’s heart stop, and a flicker of guilt flashed in his eyes.

When he met Su Nian’s warning gaze, he understood instantly.

He confessed, his lips trembling.

"At first, we weren’t scared... But the second time, when we got out to smash the vat, I realized... there was someone inside..."