Chapter 111

Chapter 111: Can’t Live Past Thirty

That? What that?

The aunt instinctively turned her head to look at Mother Du for an answer. But Mother Du herself was still confused, so she could only shake her head helplessly.

However, Du An Rao did not keep them guessing and soon gave her answer.

Back at the hospital, Du An Rao had personally seen Zou Heng’s physiognomy change.

Different choices had led to different fates. Because of that, she had received a bit of accumulated merit on the spot and clearly seen a future scene related to Zou Heng.

But after that, she had asked a few other people to try it, and nothing similar ever happened again.

So she was not sure if this thing triggered at random, or if it was tied to her merit value and only worked after she had enough.

No matter which it was, she had no absolute confidence.

But this was about someone’s life. She could only try.

After understanding the whole story, the aunt’s heart started pounding again.

She had not known what the red color meant before, but they had already guessed the general idea.

Red could stand for reunion and celebration. It could also mean blood and bad luck.

If it were the first one, Du An Rao’s expression would not be so serious and her tone would not be this heavy. So it could only be the second.

Because of her job, it was impossible for Du Bi Xiao to stay completely away from danger, and it was even more impossible for her to slack off on purpose.

But if they could know in advance what would put her in danger, then the chance of avoiding it would become much higher.

Since this was about their daughter’s life and death, the couple wanted to grow a second pair of ears and memorize every word Du An Rao said, then analyze it frame by frame.

Du Yu Xi did not know what exact condition her sister needed to trigger her ability, but that did not stop her from secretly helping her sister and filling in the gaps for everyone present.

“So Cousin’s job is like that.” Du Yu Xi gave Du An Rao a playful push and said with a half-smile: “We’d better be careful then. Otherwise, if Cousin gets upset one day, she might arrest us to boost her numbers.”

[Oh right!]

Only now did Du An Rao realize how serious this was. She touched her nose in embarrassment.

[Help, how did I forget? My fake-mystic persona only works sometimes. What if she thinks I am a fraud and hauls me in?]

Everyone: “Pfft…”

The whole Bi Xiao family: “……”

It won’t go that far, surely.

Thankfully, the uncle reacted quickly. He cleared his throat and said: “Yu Xi loves to joke. Your cousin only arrests heinous criminals and violent thugs. You have not done anything wrong. Why would she arrest you?”

[Got it. A small fry like me is not even worth my cousin’s time. You don’t need a bull knife to kill a chicken.]

The corner of Du Bi Xiao’s mouth twitched. She could roughly guess why Du Yu Xi had brought this up at this moment. Half annoyed and half amused, she said: “You little girl, we have not seen each other in a few years, and you already dare to tease your elder sister like this?”

Du An Rao was surprised by how familiar Du Bi Xiao sounded: “Sis, you know her?”

“Mom took me to City B before. I stayed at Cousin’s place for a few days. She took good care of me,” Du Yu Xi said, then suddenly changed the topic. “But she also bullied me a lot. Now things are different. My sister grew up in a temple. I heard that when Second Brother was harassed before, she beat up seven or eight bodyguards who were all a size bigger than her so badly they could not get up. Sis, you might not win against her. You can’t bully me anymore.”

“So amazing? Temples these days still teach self-defense?”

“Of course. My sister has lots of skills. Besides that, her biggest skill is fate inquiry. She can judge good luck and bad luck. Sis, do you want to try?”

The look on Du An Rao’s face stiffened. She was afraid this distant cousin would suddenly flip and arrest her.

“Sure.”

“Huh?” Du An Rao blinked. She almost thought she had misheard.

Her reaction was so obvious that Du Bi Xiao was amused: “I said sure. You can tell my fortune. If you get it right, I will give you another birthday present.”

“And if it is not right?”

“If it is not right, then it is not right. We are just playing around anyway. Why be so serious?”

Du An Rao finally snapped out of it. Her taut nerves relaxed.

[Right, I am just doing a reading for my own family. I am not taking money. It is just for fun. What is there to be scared of? Come on, let me think how to bluff… cough, I mean, how to make things up so Cousin will believe my little joke.]

The crowd of onlookers: “Pfft…”

The soon-to-be-bluffed Du Bi Xiao: “……”

If you mutter like that any more, my hands are really going to itch.

“Since Cousin said so, I will reluctantly help you with a reading.”

The crisp tone, mixed with a bit of pride, was a world apart from how she had just faced Du Ji Zu.

Du Bi Xiao could not help laughing: “All right. Say whatever you want. Even if you get something wrong, I definitely won’t be mad.”

Those words fired up Du An Rao’s desire to win.

“Cousin’s nose bridge is high, and the outer corners of your eyes are long and narrow, but your spouse palace is flat and slightly sunken. That shows you are very career-minded. You are serious, responsible, and decisive, and you have your own opinions. No matter what you do, you are likely to succeed. But because you care too much about your career and cannot balance family and work very well, your marriage will probably be a bit late. Most likely, you will only meet your true peach blossom after you are thirty.”

“Before then, even if you date someone, for all kinds of reasons, you and your partner will keep running into conflicts, and it will be hard to make it to the end.”

When she said this, the expressions of the three members of the Bi Xiao family were all different.

The uncle and aunt thought back to how they had been urging their daughter to get married these past years and felt very complicated.

Du Bi Xiao, however, secretly let out a breath of relief. She had indeed been busy with work these years. She had no mind to date, and she had not met anyone she really liked.

She understood her parents’ worries, but their constant nagging about marriage gave her a huge headache. Now, with what Du An Rao had said, at least she could enjoy two or three years of peace and quiet.

“It is just that…”

“Just that?” The sudden change made everyone forget about the late marriage for now.

[It is just that if we don’t deal with the problem in front of us, I am afraid you won’t even live to thirty, Cousin!]

The uncle and aunt: “!!!”

Du Bi Xiao: “……”

Of course, she only thought that. There was no way Du An Rao would say it straight to her face like that: “Cousin, give me your hand first.”

Du Bi Xiao cooperated and stretched out her right hand. Du An Rao lowered her head to look and pointed at a very obvious line in the center of her palm: “This is your life line.”

The Du family, along with Bi Xiao’s parents, all leaned in without thinking and stared together at her palm.

Du Bi Xiao’s eyelid twitched, but she still did not say anything. She quietly endured everyone’s orderly staring.

“From this line, we can see that Cousin has two tribulations in the first half of her life. One tribulation falls roughly between the ages of six and eight.” Du An Rao pointed at a small sharp bump not far from the starting point of the life line.

As soon as she spoke, the faces of the whole Bi Xiao family changed.