"After another 36 days, the time for the ghost door to open will arrive. If you want to reincarnate, that will be your best chance."
She then dropped three copper coins into the turtle shell. When she lifted her eyes up again, it was not the sight of that female wandering ghost that greeted her. Instead, she had been replaced by a dark, gentle beauty of a man.
Su Qing paused in surprise, and then gently shook the turtle shell in her hands a few times,
"Ah, isn't this the pretty little brother I saw just now? Did you come find me because you have unresolved desires or was there something you wanted to ask?"
Looking extremely warm and inviting, Xun Chuan crossed his leg and put an ankle on the opposite knee before suddenly exploding out his resentment and causing all the wandering souls to titter with fear and back up. His pair of phoenix eyes subtly scanned over Su Qing and just like Yan Yu said, she was wearing a full outfit of designer clothes: a rich woman.
Xun Chuan lifted his eyes,
"You moved here for this?"
Su Qing's fingers stroked over the ancient old copper coins,
"I only earn money from the dead. Where there is the most "yin" energy, where there are many lost wandering souls, I will go. If you have unfinished wishes, as long as you give enough money, this lady here can help you finish it hoh~"
Xun Chuan looked at her without a sound.
Su Qing seemed to understand something and she smiled,
"Alright, it's not any unfulfilled desire I can help you bring to life. What other questions do you have, ask them now. This lady still has to do her business."
Xun Chuan did want to leave, but then he remembered something and suddenly said,
"Can you read bagua diagrams?"
He reached up with an overly pale white finger, and used his resentment to draw a six pointed star-shaped array in the air, almost the exact same as the one in the drawer.
Su Qing took a look and then said,
"It's a life divination diagram."
"The end of the year, month and day are all of the pinpoint numbers of 3, 6 and 9, pointing to an opposite balance. The five elements are also opposite of each other. Top is life and bottom is death, "dui" is life, "kun" as empty, one lives, one dies...... it's a diagram for a Sheng Si Ju."1
Xun Chuan silently listened to her, without a single decipherable expression on his face, and then he asked quietly,
"What does it mean?"
Su Qing looked over the array again in greater detail and then pointed to a string of numbers above,
"This person's birth, in the year and the month, isn't great. Their life's too hard."2
And then pointed at the string of numbers at the bottom,
"And this person's life is too weak. All of the five elements are getting held down by the one above, matching perfectly to misfortune. Much like a rabbit who stands in front of a fox, a sheep who fell into the wolves' den......"
The numbers on top were Yan Yu's birthdate and the ones below, were Xun Chuan's.
The night was growing darker, and Su Qing hadn't turned on the lights in her apartment. Only a clay pot quietly stood by her hands, accompanied by a small dish that was filled with about half a year's worth of lamp oil for her eternal flame3. A long black wick was submerged inside, burning with a light about the size of a bean.
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Don't be a Kept Man
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