The secret he'd kept for so many years was suddenly revealed, leaving Hu Kangliang speechless for a moment.
A few seconds later, he looked at Xu Gui strangely and asked, "How do you know all this…?"
Xu Gui replied calmly, "Didn't I say I'm a fortune teller… If I didn't know anything, could I still call myself a fortune teller?"
Hu Kangliang had to admit that Xu Gui was right.
"So, that's why you said it's impossible between you and her?" Hu's mother snapped out of her daze, looking at her son with surprise and heartache.
Hu Kangliang remained silent.
Hu's mother said, "Why didn't you tell me about this?"
Hu Kangliang smiled bitterly and said, "How could I tell you? Tell you I have a girl I like, but that girl is my own sister? How could I have the face to say that?"
Falling in love with his own sister… just thinking about it made him feel ashamed.
Just as Hu's mother said, Hu Kangliang was a very moral person, and therefore found it even more unbearable that he had fallen in love with his own sister.
He murmured, "I never imagined he would be my own sister..."
His mother, heartbroken, asked, "When did you find out?"
Hu Kangliang replied, "In college... In high school, you found out Wenqian and I were dating. Afraid it would affect our grades, you forbade us from continuing. At the time, we seemed to obey you, but secretly, we never broke up."
They were discovered dating in their second year of high school. They outwardly declared their intention to break up to their parents and teachers, but secretly, they never separated until they both got into the
same university .
Then one day, Hu Kangliang went to Wenqian's house to see her, and he saw her father, Hu Wei, frequently visiting the Qi family home—the home of Hu Kangliang's girlfriend, whose surname was Qi.
Seeing this, Hu Kangliang had a bad feeling, so he had someone investigate the Qi family.
Then it was revealed that years ago, Qi Wenqian's mother was her father Hu Kangliang's mistress. After their separation, Qi's mother married her current husband and gave birth to Qi Wenqian six months later.
At this point, Hu Kangliang closed his eyes, seemingly finding it difficult to continue.
Seeing her son in such pain, Hu's mother said, "Even so, it doesn't necessarily prove that the child is your father's illegitimate daughter!"
Hearing this, Hu Kangliang directly said, "I asked my father myself! He admitted it, saying Wenqian is his child… When Wenqian's mother separated from him, she was already pregnant, and it was because of this pregnancy that she hastily married her current husband."
They had been separated for many years, and later, due to Hu Kangliang and Qi Wenqian attending the same high school, they coincidentally reunited, and then their relationship became entangled again. This is why Hu Kangliang later saw Qi's father, Hu Wei, at the Qi family home.
As for Qi Wenqian's father, he had passed away several years earlier.
"So, now you know why I said it's impossible for us to be together again, right?" Hu Kangliang looked at his mother with a bitter smile. "We are half-siblings, sharing the same blood… How can you expect me to be with her again?"
"But you still like her, don't you?" his mother asked.
Hu Kangliang fell silent.
His mother took a breath, then suddenly cursed, "That old bastard Hu Wei, why didn't he just die sooner! He's been living in this world all day, causing trouble for people! Ha! He used to at least know how to harm others, now he's even harming his own son and daughter!"
His mother wanted to hit him.
Meanwhile, Grandpa and Grandma Hu sat quietly in the corner—usually, when they heard their daughter-in-law cursing their son like this, they would grumble a bit. But this time, they didn't.
After all, they were cursing him in their hearts too.
They knew their son was unruly and liked to fool around outside, but since he hadn't harmed their child before, they pretended not to know. But now, their eldest grandson had been ruined by him!
The Hu family elders were so angry, and Hu Kangliang's biological mother was even angrier. She immediately picked up her phone to call her husband.
"I'm calling your father right now, that bastard!" Hu's mother gritted her teeth.
Just then, Xu Gui suddenly said, "Actually, you two aren't biological siblings, so if you really want to be with her, it's not impossible." "
..."
Hu's mother, who was on the phone, Hu Kangliang, who was about to stop her, and everyone around them all looked at Xu Gui at that moment.
"What did you say?" Hu's mother asked softly, "They're not biological siblings?"
"What's so strange about that?" Xu Gui said, seriously and solemnly, "Don't you humans have a saying: 'Those who cuckold others will always be cuckolded in return'?"
Everyone: We humans don't seem to have that saying!
Meanwhile, everyone in Xu Gui's live stream was stunned:
[This plot is full of twists and turns! At first, I thought this was a scene from "Autumn in My Heart," but now you're telling me it's actually about "You're Being Green-Haired"! Isn't this plot more interesting than current dramas?]
[So, it was the girlfriend's mother who cheated on Mr. Hu's father?]
[Like Mr. Hu, I have a strong sense of morality and can't accept immoral things, but this episode's plot is probably the one I most wanted to see immoral.]
[If they're not siblings, then they can be together without any worries? Lovers will be together in the end! I like this ending.]
[If it weren't for Xu Gui, and Mr. Hu never knew he and his first love weren't siblings, would he have lived a lonely life?]
[Really? Where in the world is there such a devoted man?] [
There are definitely faithful men out there, but they're one in a million, no, maybe even one in a billion. We basically never meet one, and we shouldn't gamble on that probability, because you'll usually only encounter scumbags.]
...
Hu Kangliang was still a little dazed. He stared intently at Xu Gui and asked, "Wenqian and I aren't siblings?"
Xu Gui nodded and said, "The fact that she's your sister is just your father's assumption... Actually, when she was with him, Miss Qi's mother was also seeing other men."
Coincidentally, Hu Wei was a playboy, but Qi Wenqian's mother, Ms. Qi, was also a beautiful, fashionable, and very charming playboy.
This round is a draw.
"So, I can be with Wenqian now? Oh, right!" Hu Kangliang suddenly remembered something. He looked at Xu Gui and asked, "You said before that Wenqian was getting a divorce, what's going on?"
Xu Gui said, "She is getting a divorce. Because your relationship wasn't very close, I could only predict a little, but I can tell... she's your destined partner! And you're her destined partner too."
The meaning of "true love" is that if two people separate, no matter who it is, even if there is a relationship in between, they will end up alone.
"So, if you still like her, you can go and pursue her!" Xu Gui said.
Hu Kangliang was a little dazed, his expression unreadable, a thought flashing through his mind: If only I had known...
But there is no such thing as knowing beforehand.
"No!" Suddenly, a rebuttal came from the side, it was Grandpa Hu with a serious face, he said in an old-fashioned tone and attitude: "How can my grandson marry a divorced woman? This woman even has children... No! Absolutely not!"
Hearing this, Hu Kangliang came back to his senses, but before he could say anything, Hu's mother rolled her eyes.
"Come on, I almost laugh when you say that," Mrs. Hu scoffed. "Your son can hook up with married women, but my son just wants to marry a divorced girl, and it's true love, what's wrong with that?"
"I actually think divorced girls are even better!"
Mrs. Hu clapped her hands together. "Being divorced means you have experience with marriage. As the old saying goes, it's better to do what you know than what you don't. With experience, your second marriage will definitely be better!"
"Having children is good too. That means I can become a grandmother as soon as she marries in…a free grandchild!"
Saying this, Mrs. Hu looked at her son: "I haven't asked you yet, is her child a boy or a girl?"
Hu Kangliang: "Uh, it's a girl…"
"My daughter is wonderful!" Mrs. Hu seemed even happier. "My little sweetheart, once she's with us, I'll take her shopping for clothes every day. You know, your mother has always wanted a daughter! It's a pity your father is useless; he can't have many children."
Grandma Hu muttered under her breath, "My son has so many illegitimate children..."
Mrs. Hu selectively ignored Grandma Hu's words and said to her son, "Son, don't worry, as long as you're happy, no matter what, Mom will support you!"
Hu Kangliang was moved: "Mom..."
Grandpa Hu and Grandma Hu: ...So, nobody's listening to us?
*
"Master Xu, it's all thanks to you! Otherwise, I really wouldn't have known that my son wasn't getting married because he had someone in his heart..."
Mrs. Hu's face beamed with joy after a weight was lifted from her heart. She told Xu Gui and the others, "You don't know, I've always suspected that my son is gay. I've even been thinking about whether I should be an open-minded mother." Xu Gui
looked at her and said earnestly, "You're a good mother."
Hearing this, Mrs. Hu gave a bitter smile and sighed, "I wouldn't call myself a good mother. At the very least, as a mother, I haven't given him a stable and complete family..." She
continued, "I've been thinking that the reason he's so devoted and loyal, and has such a strong sense of morality, is because he's been influenced by his father and me..."
The couple, one promiscuous and the other immoral, perhaps Hu Kangliang saw their flaws and that's why he treats himself so harshly.
Xu Gui looked at her and said, "Even so, the fact that he developed this kind of character at least proves that you've taken good care of him and given him a good education. People are like plants; only with sufficient nutrients and normal love can they grow freely, right?"
Devotion and integrity are two excellent virtues. If what Mrs. Hu said is true, and she has only had a negative influence on Hu Kangliang's upbringing, how could he possibly possess two such good virtues?
"...You have a point." Mrs. Hu smiled, having come to terms with it, and said to Xu Gui and the others, "If my son and that girl really get together, you must come to my house for our wedding banquet!" Xu
Gui nodded.
*
After leaving the Hu family, Xu Gui and the others didn't ask anyone to tell fortunes for him today, enjoying some rare free time.
Just as Xu Gui was pondering whether to set up a fortune-telling stall inside again, as before, Lu Baiyi invited them to his home.
"It's almost noon, time for lunch, why don't we have lunch at my house..." Lu Baiyi said, then added to Xu Gui, "I said I'd make you some snacks, but they're best when they're fresh out of the oven. Now that you're at my house, I can make them for you." "
Xu Gui's eyes lit up when food was mentioned, showing her strong appetite. But thinking about it, it's understandable; after all, for over three hundred years, she ate only seafood, the raw, unprocessed kind. Now that she's become human and tasted all sorts of human food, it's no wonder she's become so craving it.
In just these three months, her face has gotten quite rounder.
Anyway, Lu Baiyi invited her, and it was almost lunchtime, so after a moment's thought, Xu Gui nodded in agreement. The group then changed their destination and headed towards the Lu family home.
Only then did the viewers in the live stream belatedly realize which Lu family they were referring to.
[I suddenly have a terrifying thought: could this Mr. Lu's 'Lu' be the 'Lu' in the Lu's Building?]
[The Lu's? The Lu's Building, the landmark building in our City A? Xu Gui actually knows that kind of family?]"
[Actually, I wanted to say this before. The surname "Lu" is quite uncommon, and his family seems very wealthy... And do you guys remember? This Mr. Lu actually appeared on camera before. Xu Gui was telling fortunes under the overpass, and there was an old man named Lu with a similar stall across from her. This Mr. Lu is the old man's grandson!
Here's the key point: on the first day Xu Gui met that old man, she told him he was a billionaire. You tell me, a billionaire, and surnamed Lu, isn't that old man's identity already obvious?] [
!! I remember!! I remember no one believed it at the time. After Xiao Gui's reputation as a fortune teller spread, no one mentioned it anymore. I've always found it strange.]
[It's not that no one mentioned it. I noticed this old man when I watched Xiao Gui's live stream replay, but when I posted it online, all the messages were blocked. I couldn't post it at all.]
[...So, this Lu really is the Lu family? My god, our Xiao Gui is going to be rich!]
[You guys are exaggerating! This is the Lu family, is it that famous?]
[!!! The Lu family is of course famous! They're a large family with hundreds of years of history, very wealthy. Their assets have been accumulated over generations; they're a truly prestigious family. The Lu family has a presence in many industries both domestically and internationally, but they've always been very low-key, which is why people don't know about them.]
…
Compared to those renowned companies throughout China, the Lu family isn't particularly famous, but in City A, few people don't know about the Lu family.
Leaving aside the Lu family's landmark building in City A, even going back several hundred years, the Lu family was a large family with countless branches throughout City A.
However, it's said that during the war, many members of the Lu family participated, resulting in many deaths, leading to the once large family now being dwindling in size, with only this current branch remaining.
In short, the Lu family is very wealthy, they just keep a low profile.
Many netizens who had seen Xu Gui's previous works couldn't help but agree with this claim of keeping a low profile:
[It's clear the Lu family is really keeping a low profile. After all, even billionaires are setting up stalls under overpasses. Isn't that being low-key?]
[Not only that, billionaires also do square dancing in public squares. I imagined billionaires to be: banquets with clinking glasses and sword fights; the real billionaires are: fortune tellers on overpasses and square dancing.]
[Also, it seems they got beaten up for flirting with some old ladies in the square.]
[Hahaha, I'm going to die laughing at everyone's comments sooner or later. Give billionaires some face! They are billionaires, after all.]
[Billionaire? Isn't that Old Man Lu?]
...
At this moment, the billionaire Old Man Lu, looking at the comments in Xu Gui's live stream, his eyes were practically bulging out.
He angrily threw down his phone and started cursing!