The three security guards quickly stopped the two.
Aunt Lin was furious, "This is my house, and I haven't rented it out. I have the right to check."
She flipped through the documents and found evidence that the female manager and Old Wang had set up a shell company to transfer funds.
"Very good, very good! You traitors, you'll be waiting to go to jail!" Aunt Lin was shaking with anger.
Old Wang dropped to his knees with a thud, "A-Mei, I was wrong! I'll give you the money back, please don't call the police!"
Although Aunt Lin was angry, she hesitated a little, after all, they had known each other for several years.
Lin Chen's voice came from the phone, "Big sister, don't be indecisive. Several righteous viewers have already called the police for you, and they said not to thank them."
Aunt Lin...
Now it was a criminal case; she couldn't avoid pursuing it.
Old Wang was very puzzled. He never dreamed that all his plans would be ruined by a fortune teller.
He burst out cursing, "Smelly Taoist, meddling in other people's business!"
Lin Chen calmly said, "Old Wang, a friendly reminder: you should make an appointment to get your prostate checked, you're probably going to need surgery."
Old Wang... was stunned, like a wooden chicken. He actually had a vague feeling about it.
The netizens were all amused,
"Taoist, you're too ruthless, not only sending him to jail but also this."
"This scum deserves it!"
"The Daoist's pettiness is truly terrifying!"
Lin Chen had seen Aunt Lin's future. She was swindled out of a lot of money by Old Wang, and her company eventually went bankrupt. Desperate, she ended up jumping off a building. Now, he had saved her.
[Ding, the host has changed A-Mei's tragic fate and gained fifteen Merit Points.] [Merit Points can be used for lottery draws. One draw costs fifty Merit Points, and the prizes are varied.]
The events that followed were straightforward. Old Wang and the female manager were both sent to prison, and Aunt Lin recovered some of the funds they had embezzled.
Originally, Aunt Lin wanted to give Lin Chen a further reward, but he refused. After all, he had already gone against the Heavenly Dao by changing her fate. To earn more money from it might bring down a lightning strike.
However, the viewers in the live stream still gave him some rewards; such a thrilling scene of catching the cheaters was rare.
Lin Chen's room also gained a lot of popularity because of this incident. Now he had six hundred followers, with over four hundred people online.
And these were all real followers, not the kind you buy with money.
"I heard there's a Taoist here who catches demons."
"Above, this is for catching adulterers!"
"I'm different, I'm here to see the handsome guy. Little Daoist is really too handsome, drooling."
Lin Chen greeted everyone with a smile, "Hello everyone, thanks for coming to my room."
"Wow, this young man is simply the ceiling of pure handsomeness!"
"This smile, I'm in love!"
"Heh, dating? I've already thought of my child's name."
"Does the Daoist master need an assistant? One that can be, you know, unofficially employed?"
The reputation of Lin Chen's accurate divination began to spread on a small scale.
Another livestream, called Sacred Stone Divination, was also conducting divination with great enthusiasm. The host was a very burly Indian man.
He knelt on the floor, constantly kowtowing to a stone weighing several hundred kilograms, chanting a mantra that everyone couldn't understand.
The comments in the livestream never stopped.
"Master Pula is very accurate. Not only does he divine, but he also treats terminal illnesses."
"It's all thanks to the Sacred Stone!"
"I was saved by the master's ability to change fate and avoid a disaster." A comment, likely from a shill, appeared.
"Is it really that effective?" Someone still questioned.
"Have you heard? Today a Taoist from Xia Country helped a netizen send her cheating boyfriend to jail."
"I saw it too, he's handsome and amazing!"
Master Pula looked at the comments and sneered, "Those Xia Country people doing fortune-telling are all con artists; they have no real skills."
"Buddhism is something our country has abandoned, yet the people of Xia Country treat it as a treasure. Even local Taoism struggles to survive, which shows how pathetic Taoism is!"
He had been in Gotham City for ten years. Recently, there had been too many bad guys in Gotham City, and many citizens were feeling unsafe, so they began to pray to gods and worship Buddhas.
This increased his popularity, and he now had tens of thousands of fans. He'd also made a decent amount of money through tips and selling talismans.
The newly emerged young Daoist from Xia Country gave him a huge sense of crisis. After all, the other guy was good at marketing (he figured it was just a show, a well-planned show, because he often did the same).
Also, that young Daoist was too handsome, attracting a lot of female fans. And female fans were precisely the ones easily swayed and willing to spend money.
"No, I must suppress him."
He pretended to go to the restroom and contacted his subordinates.
Master Rag returned, smiling amiably. "Everyone, let's go and see how powerful that young Daoist is!"
"Great, Master Rag is going to expose him!"
"Master Rag, this kind of charlatan needs a master like you to expose him!"
Some shills had begun to stir up the crowd, and the atmosphere was getting heated.
Lin Chen was chatting casually with his viewers.
"Auntie, no need to introduce a girlfriend, I want to focus on my career for now."
"Telling me not to go out at night because there are a lot of female perverts? Don't worry, I know kung fu."
Suddenly, he received a PK (Player Kill) invitation from someone called Master Rag.
Lin Chen was taken aback. He knew this guy; or rather, the original host did.
The original host had registered to do live-stream fortune-telling, actually influenced by this charlatan, also wanting to ride the wave of live-streaming.
If those fat Indians could be blown away, there was no reason why he couldn't!