Master, Your Wife Has Become a Super Star Through Fortune-Telling-Chapter 93 - 94: Swindler Master Luo

Mu Wan jolted awake in bed again, but this time, she didn’t fall back asleep.

She was just screaming and flailing her arms. When she saw Cheng Jing’an’s grave and pained expression, she only recoiled in fear.

’He must be that ghost in disguise. He must be!’

Besides Cheng Jing’an, several other people were in the room. Cheng Jing’an, frantic, looked at the two masters he had paid a fortune to hire.

"Master Luo, Master Jin, this is my wife. Masters, please take a look. What on earth is wrong with her? Is she haunted?"

Cheng Jing’an managed to force a rare smile. True love really is something special.

He led a tall, thin man of about fifty forward. The man had the air of a sagely immortal.

A few followers trailed behind him.

The man, Master Luo, suddenly gestured and announced, "There is a Dark Aura. A very strong one!"

"I-Is there? Then, Master, what should we do?" Cheng Jing’an asked hastily.

"Disciples, bring two sticks of Exorcism Incense!" Master Luo commanded.

He then explained to Cheng Jing’an, "My Exorcism Incense is made using special methods and rare materials. It’s expensive, but incredibly effective. Just burning it for over three minutes is enough to exorcise evil and suppress ghosts!"

Master Luo, it seemed, had a few tricks up his sleeve. He made a point of showing off, taking a piece of talisman paper and flicking it with a flashy move, then using the flame from the paper to light the incense.

Master Luo’s professionalism won over Cheng Jing’an.

Cheng Jing’an watched and nodded repeatedly, deciding on the spot to buy a few sticks of incense.

However, the other master, Master Jin, who was standing to the side, saw this. The corner of his mouth twitched into a derisive smirk, as if he and this Master Luo didn’t see eye to eye.

’A common charlatan,’ he thought. ’All smoke and mirrors, just fooling people!’

He muttered it under his breath, so no one heard him.

Master Luo had demonstrated his "professionalism." As for Master Jin, who had remained silent and inconspicuous, Cheng Jing’an paid him little attention.

Cheng Jing’an accompanied Master Luo, who walked several laps around the room before carefully observing Mu Wan’s palms and pupils.

Cheng Jing’an’s heart was in his throat.

But before he could speak, Master Luo cut right to the chase. "Mr. Cheng, your wife definitely has a problem. The Dark Aura is overpowering! I’m afraid she’s been targeted by a malevolent entity. From the moment I saw her, I could tell something was deeply wrong. Her eyes are vacant, her speech is nonsensical... I fear this entity has considerable power."

"Master, I know my wife has been targeted by a powerful ghost. Do you have a way to help her?" Cheng Jing’an’s face paled as he asked, his voice cautious.

For a man as proud as him, this was practically a plea.

Master Luo smiled. "It’s a bit tricky, but you’re in luck. You hired me. Anyone else would be completely helpless. It’s a good thing you found me!"

"I have two methods: one to trick the ghost, and one to capture it. The first is to make a decoy, place your wife’s birth chart on it, and the ghost will go after the decoy instead of her."

"Will that work?" 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Cheng Jing’an wasn’t a complete idiot; the method sounded a little too convenient.

"Of course it will work. But this method has a drawback. If the ghost finds out, then..."

Cheng Jing’an’s expression soured. He asked,

"What’s the second method?"

"The second is to capture it. However, I estimate this ghost’s Dark Aura is so strong that capturing it will be difficult. It will drain my own life force, so... the price, naturally, will be steep."

It all sounded perfectly reasonable to Cheng Jing’an, who was so thoroughly bamboozled he was completely lost.

"Master, do it. As long as you can capture this ghost, I’ll raise your payment to 800,000!"

Cheng Jing’an declared.

Master Jin could no longer contain himself. "PFFT! HAHAHA! You’re nothing but a swindling fraud!"

"And you! You rich fool! You’ll believe anything anyone tells you! HAHAHAHA!!!"

The expressions on Cheng Jing’an and Master Luo’s faces changed instantly. One of Master Luo’s disciples couldn’t stand it.

He stepped forward and shoved Master Jin. "Watch your mouth!"

A conflict was about to erupt. A fight was imminent.

But just then, a knock sounded at the door.

When Mu Wan’s condition worsened, Cheng Jing’an, worried she might affect his mother, had decisively moved her to another one of his apartments.

Only the people present were in the apartment. So why was there a sudden knock at the door?

An eerie dread began to fill the air. At some point, Mu Wan had grabbed Cheng Jing’an’s hand.

"Jing’an, she’s here! She’s really here!"

Cheng Jing’an swallowed hard. He wanted to say something to break the bizarre tension, but the knocking itself sounded profoundly unsettling.

Master Luo’s face had gone pale, but he seemed to recall his "professional ethics." His long Peach Wood Sword, with a few pieces of talisman paper attached to its tip, was pointed at the door, as if he were ready to deliver a fatal blow.

Master Jin’s expression also turned grim.

The knocking was bizarre. Four raps, a pause, then four more. Everyone knows you knock three times.

"Hee hee... Teacher, if you don’t open the door... I’ll just come in..."

CREAK... CREAK...

They could only watch, frozen, as the doorknob began to turn on its own, as if something on the other side was slowly, deliberately twisting it open.

This was an expensive, high-security, blast-proof door, yet it was being opened just like that.

Master Luo was still trying to play the part, but anyone could see it was just a bluff.

"D-don’t worry... I... am a professional!"

In the next instant, the doorknob finished turning. A figure appeared in the doorway, radiating a chilling aura—a long-haired girl in a blue school uniform. She was barefoot, and her face was hidden from view.

A curtain of dark hair concealed her face, but her deathly pale lips moved, forming words one by one.

"Teacher~ I’m here~"

Hearing this, everyone froze, stunned by absolute terror. The room fell deathly silent, so quiet you could hear the whistling of the wind outside.

Mu Wan’s lips quivered as if she were desperately trying to speak, but no words came out. They were utterly bloodless with terror, and her legs wouldn’t stop shaking.

Two seconds later, Master Luo, the "professional," was the first to react. He dropped his so-called Peach Wood Sword, let out a piercing scream, and scrambled deeper into the room.

"MOMMY! GHOSTS ARE REAL!"

His reaction snapped everyone out of their stupor. They, too, began to scramble frantically away from the door.

Master Luo’s two disciples were even more of a spectacle. One of them actually climbed onto the windowsill, apparently intending to jump.

Then, remembering they were on the twentieth floor, he scrambled for the wardrobe instead—only to find his master had already claimed it.

As the ghostly figure drew nearer, Master Jin gritted his teeth and stepped forward.

"By the Three Pure Ones above, by the myriad soldiers below! I summon the Northern Dipper, I call the Seven Stars! By order of Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad, I command you: Freeze!"

As he finished the incantation, Master Jin flicked out a frayed piece of talisman paper.

He clearly had some real power. The girl, who had been advancing with a stiff, unnatural gait, her head lolling onto her chest, froze in place.