Only five people in the morning, and only five people in the afternoon?
Xu Gui's words immediately brought many lurking netizens to the surface.
"Okay, since everyone doesn't object, then it'll be like this from now on," Xu Gui said seriously, happily making this decision alone.
The netizens who heard this: ?
Wait, you didn't even look at the comments! We've been saying we're against it the whole time!! Look at the comments!
Xu Gui smiled, thinking: Knowing you'd object, I'm not going to look at the comments.
The cameraman did look at the comments, secretly glancing at Xu Gui, thinking: Teacher Xu's skin can be quite thick sometimes; it's rare to see a celebrity so blatantly lying.
Xu Gui glanced at the time and said, "I've already counted five people today, so I can go home now!"
Amidst the angry stares of the viewers in the live stream, she changed her tone, saying, "However, since it's the first day, I'll count one more person as a bonus."
Viewers: You think we'll fall for that?
Some viewers commented:
[We need to show Xu Gui our anger! We need to let her know we can't be treated like this! I suggest that when she draws names, none of us should participate, let her feel our anger!]
[I agree!]
[I agree too! I definitely won't participate!]
[Okay, it's settled then!]
Then, when the pop-up window for drawing names appeared in the live stream, the number of participants skyrocketed, reaching over six million in the blink of an eye.
A group of people: "..." What happened to not participating? What happened to showing your anger to Xu Gui? Where's your anger? The viewer selected for this live stream was a man who wanted a divination about his marriage; more precisely, he wanted to know why his girlfriend didn't want to marry him.
" We've only known each other for two months, but we have a very good relationship. I really like her and want to marry her,"
the man began, describing how wonderful his girlfriend was. In his words, she was beautiful, had a great personality, and was not only gentle but also considerate, so they started dating with marriage in mind after knowing each other for only a week.
"My girlfriend is so good to me!"
the man emphasized.
"At lunchtime, she even cooks lunch for me and brings it over. Her braised pork ribs are especially delicious! She's truly a virtuous wife and loving mother, the selfless type, practically the perfect wife in my eyes."
"Most importantly, she's willing to financially support my house purchase, and she doesn't even insist on having her name on the property deed. You don't know, she's completely different from those extremely materialistic and money-grubbing women in society these days. She's incredibly pure and virtuous. She doesn't want anything from me, never lets me spend money on her, and she often gives me money to spend." The man's tone was full of praise for his girlfriend, but also carried a hint of disdain and contempt for other girls.
The girls in the live stream couldn't help but roll their eyes. One girl commented: "[You can praise your girlfriend, but why put down other girls? Are you sick?]" The man saw these comments and proudly said,
"You guys don't know how good my girlfriend is! Compared to other girls, she's practically an angel! You don't know, she told me that if we get married, she doesn't ask for gold jewelry or a dowry. She just wants me as a person, and she wants me to treat her well!"
"She doesn't like me spending money on her either. She says my money is for buying a wedding house. Between us, she's the one spending money on me. She even bought me a crocodile skin bag before, she's so good to me!"
The man spoke with great pride, clearly feeling very proud. The viewers in the live stream, however, had different feelings. The man thought the other man was incredibly lucky; he must have done something good in his past life to have such a good woman willing to be so devoted to him. Where could you find such a gentle and understanding wife? [These days, there are so many materialistic girls, demanding gold jewelry and a dowry. Is she marrying someone or selling herself?] "Brother, you're lucky to have met such a wonderful girlfriend."
"Who says otherwise? When my ex-girlfriend and I were discussing marriage, her parents insisted on a dowry of 30,000 yuan. Tell me, isn't that selling their daughter?"
"My ex-girlfriend's family also demanded a car and a house, but these days, who buys a house? Buying a house is a loss. But my ex-girlfriend's family just doesn't understand this. When they heard I wasn't buying a house or a car, they dragged my ex-girlfriend to the hospital to have an abortion, making her break up with me. They're absolutely vicious and cruel."
"So, women these days are too materialistic. They only care about whether a man has money. Is money really that important? Shouldn't a person's character be more important?"
The fortune teller, looking at his male companions' comments, couldn't help but feel a sense of superiority. "My girlfriend is different," he said proudly. "Although she also said that we must buy a house when we get married, she offered to contribute money to buy a house with me. I said no, but she insisted."
The man asked,
"Do you know what my girlfriend said? She said that buying a house is so that we can have a home together after we get married, and as a member of that home, it's only right that she supports me!"
[So your girlfriend must have asked you to add her name to the property deed, right? I had a girlfriend like that before. Who did she think she was, wanting to have her name on the property deed just because she was in charge of the renovations? There's no such thing as a free lunch. So I broke up with her!]
The man said, "No, my girlfriend has never mentioned putting her name on the property deed. I did mention it, but she said that I paid for the majority of it, and she was just contributing some money, so she didn't need to put her name on it." Hearing this, the male viewers in the live stream were practically envious of the man.
[Why aren't we so lucky to have such a good girlfriend?]
They couldn't help but say. The man couldn't help but smugly say, "Maybe it's because I'm a good catch that she has good taste, choosing someone as outstanding as me!"
The girls in the live stream, however, felt increasingly uneasy listening to him. They summarized his girlfriend's characteristics: beautiful, gentle, virtuous, and selfless. In his words, she was practically the perfect wife in his eyes. [Haha, this guy's girlfriend is definitely idealized, right? He describes her like a heroine from a romance novel—I don't believe there's really a woman who can be so selfless and devoted.]
[! I finally know what that awkward feeling I've always had is—perfection! This guy's girlfriend, based on his description, is just too perfect. How can anyone in this world be without any flaws?]
[Such women definitely exist; after all, some people might just have a selfless personality and enjoy giving to others.] [Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I have a thought: do you think this guy might have fallen for a honey trap?]
Seeing these comments, the man couldn't help but retort angrily, "What do you women know? Do you think my girlfriend is like you mercenary and calculating women? Humph, she's much better than you women. She knows how to consider her husband, unlike you selfish women."
The girls, suddenly accused of being selfish: ? What?
"So, have you bought the house yet?" Xu Gui suddenly spoke up, breaking the slightly tense atmosphere in the live stream.
The man's tone was still indignant. He said, "Of course I bought it! We need a house to get married! My girlfriend's only requirement is that we have a house when we get married."
Perhaps afraid others would think he was exaggerating, he quickly added, "I completely agree with my girlfriend's idea. After all, we'll definitely have children after we get married, and we'll need a place to live then."
Xu Gui asked with interest, "You've already thought about having children?"
The man replied matter-of-factly, "Of course we'll have children after marriage! Our family has only one son per generation; how can we do without children? I've already decided that we'll have three children after marriage, preferably two sons and one daughter, to have both a son and a daughter."
Hearing this, Xu Gui steered the conversation back, asking, "How did you buy the house? A down payment and a loan?"
"..." The man was silent for a few seconds, then said somewhat awkwardly, "At my age, I can only afford a mortgage. A down payment of 1.5 million is actually quite a lot for me!"
Xu Gui: "How much did your girlfriend give you?"
The man's voice was somewhat reluctant as he said, "Fifty or sixty thousand... Girls don't have much money, so that's all she gave me. But she didn't ask me to pay it back, and she didn't want me to add her name to the property deed. She's practically the most considerate woman in the world."
Xu Gui chuckled softly. Hearing her laughter, the man suddenly felt uncomfortable and said somewhat displeased, "Do your questions have anything to do with what I asked you to do?"
Xu Gui remembered this and said "Oh," then asked, "By the way, what did you want me to do?"
The man said irritably, "I asked you to help me figure out why my girlfriend doesn't want to marry me. I've bought the house, everything's ready, but she's suddenly become cold towards me. She wasn't like this before."
The man's tone became troubled.
Xu Gui asked, "Have you seen her recently?"
The man replied, "...No, I called her, and she always said she was busy. From her voice, she definitely sounded busy with work."
Xu Gui said, "Actually, you've already noticed her attitude towards you has changed; she's become very cold, right?"
The man subconsciously explained, "It's not coldness, I know she's just too busy, too busy to go on dates with me... No, I'm asking you why my girlfriend doesn't want to marry me. Are these questions related to what I want to know?"
Xu Gui said, "Of course they are. Aren't you curious why she doesn't want to marry you? Well, it's because she's already sold the house, so naturally there's no need for her to pay attention to you anymore."
The man: ???
"What do you mean by that?" he couldn't help but ask.
Xu Gui said, "Think carefully, when did your girlfriend start ignoring you? Was it after you bought the house?"
"I said, she didn't ignore me!" the man still didn't want to admit it.
Xu Gui was too lazy to argue with him, and only said, "Since you're concerned about this, then I'll tell you why. Your girlfriend was only after you bought the house from the beginning. All that talk about being your girlfriend and discussing marriage was just a tactic to sell the house. Now that the house is sold, why would she bother with you anymore?"
Hearing this, the man was a little confused. He seemed to think about it for a moment, because there was a few seconds of silence on the microphone. After a few seconds, he said, "That's not right. If she was after the house, why would she have taken out money to help me with the down payment?"
Xu Gui chuckled and said, "She'll get more than 30,000 in commission just from selling that house. She'll take out 30,000 and get 70,000 back. This deal is a win-win situation, isn't it?"
The man bought a large apartment, 150 square meters, which would cost more than 3 million in total. His girlfriend would get nearly 100,000 in commission just from selling the house, making a net profit of 70,000. The initial 30,000 was just to cover the "cost" of the house for the man.
"Impossible!" The man didn't believe Xu Gui's words. "If she was only doing this to sell the house, why would she be so attentive to me? Cooking for me, doing my laundry... and she's the one who said she wanted to marry me!"
Xu Gui sighed, "If she wasn't considerate to you and didn't talk about marriage, why would you buy a house? Did she tell you she was buying a house to be your wedding home?"
Generally, people buy houses for only two reasons: investment or to live in themselves. The latter is mostly for newlyweds to live in as their wedding home.
The man's "girlfriend" had grasped this psychology and successfully persuaded him to buy the house.
For the man, Xu Gui's words were like a bomb, leaving him dizzy and disoriented. He gritted his teeth and said, "Impossible! You must have miscalculated! Who would make such a huge sacrifice to buy a house?"
"Sacrifice?" Xu Gui found it amusing. She retorted, "What sacrifice did she make? She just cooked you a few meals and let you hold her hand, and she made 70,000 in two months. Not to mention, she has more than just you as a customer."
"In two months, using these methods to sell houses, she can earn millions in commissions alone. How can that be considered a sacrifice?"
This is clearly making money, making a lot of money.
The man didn't hear Xu Gui's question. He only heard one sentence.
"She has more than just me as a customer?" the man asked with some difficulty. "What do you mean by that?"
Xu Gui countered, "When you sell houses, do you only sell one?" Of course, he would sell as many as he could.
"Simply put, your real estate agent 'girlfriend,' while she's 'girlfriend,' talking to you about marriage and getting you to buy a house, is also using the same excuse to get other men to buy houses..."
"I calculated that in two months, she probably sold nearly fifty houses, earning commissions ranging from 100,000 to 220,000 per house. Just from commissions alone, she's earned over a million."
Xu Gui praised, "Actually, you have a good eye; at least your 'girlfriend' certainly has a money-making mind." She even came up with this kind of house-selling method.
Hearing the man remain silent, she continued, "To put it more clearly, you've encountered a scammer, but this scammer is special; she's only trying to trick you into buying a house."
The man refused to believe it, saying, "That's absurd..."
Xu Gui said, "If you don't believe me, you can call your girlfriend and see if you can still reach her."
"..." The man didn't speak, but some movement came from his microphone, as if he was making a phone call.
Everyone in the live stream was stunned by what Xu Gui said.
[Is this how you sell a house? Isn't it illegal?]
[Honestly, her behavior is morally questionable, but legally it's not problematic. The smartest thing she did was not to have the man add her name to the property deed!]
[Before, I was saying how could there be such a perfect woman in this world? Now I realize, there is, but she's a fraud.]
[This kind of scam to buy a house has actually been going on for several years, but back then I heard it was men scamming women. This time, the tables have turned, and it's women scamming men?]
[Actually, you should have been wary from the beginning. A beautiful, gentle, and considerate woman says she wants to marry you and will even give you money to buy a house. Think about it carefully, how could there be such a good thing in this world?]
[So, this guy's girlfriend is fake; only the down payment and the mortgage are real?]
[You've hit the nail on the head.]
...
The man didn't hang up the live stream with Xu Gui, so everyone could clearly hear his angry voice and the "The number you dialed is not in service" notification from his phone.
"Damn it!"
The man seemed to curse angrily. There was a crackling sound on his end, as if he had smashed something, followed by violent, angry panting like a water buffalo.
Every breath he exhaled seemed to carry intense anger.
Everyone imagined themselves in this situation… well, they probably wouldn't be able to remain calm either. After all, losing a wife and being burdened with years of mortgage payments—the thought alone made life seem bleak.
"Master, can you help me find this woman?" the man asked through gritted teeth. "If you can help me find her, I'm willing to pay you!"
Xu Gui replied, "She's already abroad. You won't find her in the country."
It was clear she was planning to do this one job and run away last night. While the man felt she was being cold towards him, she had already been preparing to leave the country. The reason he couldn't reach her by phone was because she was already abroad.
Finding her was now virtually impossible.
Hearing this, the man felt dizzy. He cried out in despair, "What am I going to do? I bought this house to get married! Why would I buy a house if I'm not married?"
Xu Gui said, "You really should think about what to do. The house you bought seems to be an unfinished project."
The man: ??
Even without speaking, everyone seemed to clearly sense his breakdown and despair.
The chat: [Show some sympathy.]
*
After seeing off the distraught man, Xu Gui happily announced that her morning's work was finished.
The cameraman, however, was somewhat worried. He glanced at the program's rankings; Xu Gui was currently ranked twelfth. To successfully enter the top ten, she needed to surpass two guests.
But these two guests were a currently popular love song prince and a rising star who had just starred in a hugely successful drama after the New Year. Both were very popular and earned a lot of money; the former had fans offering millions for a single song, and the latter had countless male fans willing to support her.
Compared to the three, only Xu Gui had nothing behind her. Although her daily live stream viewership was considerable, it was difficult to translate into "salary." Therefore, it would be quite difficult for Xu Gui to surpass those two.
The cameraman glanced at the composed Xu Gui and thought: Teacher Xu seems as calm as ever, with an inexplicable confidence.
Could it be that she has already calculated that she will definitely advance?
Just then, Xu Gui's assistant, Yuan Lu, suddenly exclaimed. She looked at Xu Gui and said, "Teacher Xu, someone suddenly showered you with so many gifts in the live stream!"
Xu Gui was taken aback, picked up her phone, and opened her own live stream.
Sure enough, as soon as she entered, she saw dazzling gift effects exploding in the live stream, one after another.
Xu Gui recognized them; these were gift effects costing 10,000 yuan each.
She glanced at the person who threw the gifts: "...Tang Baozhu."
Xu Gui's eyes flickered slightly.
"Miss Tang," she said, "are you trying to thank me? If you are, don't throw gifts, just transfer the money to me!"
As she spoke, she excitedly pulled out a payment QR code from her pocket and held it directly in front of the camera. The huge QR code was immediately visible to everyone in the live stream.
Everyone: "..."
Tang Baozhu: "..."
Tang Baozhu actually transferred the money, because within a few minutes, Xu Gui's phone received a notification that three million yuan had been received.
Xu Gui looked at the cameraman and said, "Miss Tang transferred so much money to me because of Lin Xu's situation. I figured out Lin Xu's situation, so this should count as my earnings, right?"
Her profession was fortune telling, and this was a legitimate thank-you fee earned through fortune telling, money she'd earned.
The cameraman: "...Should count, right?"
Xu Gui: "Then could you please ask the director for me, cameraman?"
The cameraman: "Okay."
Xu Gui's fans belatedly realized that if the three million transferred by Tang Baozhu could be counted as Xu Gui's earnings, wouldn't she definitely be in the top ten?
Xu Gui's eyes lit up, and she said, "Miss Tang, how about I tell your fortune..."
She said seriously, "After all, you gave me so much fortune telling fee, three million! I'll definitely do my best to tell your fortune!"
Tang Baozhu chuckled.
She thought to herself: She's clearly worried that the three million she gave won't count as "work income" according to the program's rules, so she insisted it was a fortune telling fee.
However, she had indeed come to thank Xu Gui, so upon hearing Xu Gui's words, Tang Baozhu readily complied and typed,
"How do you want me to calculate it?"