After reading the script, Liu Zhao became even more convinced that this was a show that used lies to deceive the audience, so he stretched out his hand with a smile and said, “It turns out that what the netizens said was true, you really do rehearse in advance. Little brother, your acting skills are quite amazing, I almost believed you in one episode.”
He slapped his forehead and muttered, “Which episode was it? Let me think about it, oh yeah, it was the second episode, the stone frog one. Damn it, I was dumbfounded at the time. I thought, if you have this ability, then why don’t you go gamble on stones! If you bet on a piece of imperial green jade, you would make a fortune. It would be hundreds of millions, isn’t that better than filming? Once you have money, you can become your own boss, open a company, and raise our own little stars. How fun would that be? Ah, you’d be a winner in life! Your character in this script is too fantastical and obviously does not conform to reality. Please write a more decent one next time. Alas, if I had the kind of character written in your script, I wouldn’t have to do anything else. I could make a lot of money just lying in bed, buying lottery tickets, and gambling on stones. Which one isn’t better than working? That’s what I call a happy life!”
It was not difficult to see Liu Zhao’s outlook on life and values from these few sentences, which could be summed up in two words—making money. In his opinion, everyone in the world was busy working for money. They only lived for money. They had no so-called pursuits and ideals, let alone faith. People like Fan Jialuo, who were obviously capable but still lived a low-key life, were simply existences that he couldn’t understand. Therefore, he took it for granted that Fan Jialuo was a liar because the other party didn’t use this weird ability to make money.
His soul exuded the pungent smell of copper that stung his nose from the inside out.
Fan Jialuo listened to him with a calm expression and did not refute a single word. He only hesitated for a moment before holding his hand. He seemed to finally be able to understand Dr. Song’s habit of wiping his hands with disinfectant wipes after contact with others. Some people’s souls had indeed been contaminated by the filth of the world.
Song Wennuan and others had already retreated to the sidelines, looking at Liu Zhao with complicated eyes. It was difficult for them to believe that such a vulgar person could maintain such a perfect personality for more than ten years. The operation team behind him was also amazing! No wonder he lived such a low-key life and rarely participated in public events. Was this because he was afraid that his true colors would show up if he was exposed?
Thinking of this, Song Wennuan couldn’t help but look at Dong Qin, but the other party just stared at the man beside Liu Zhao with red eyes, only reluctantly looking away when Fan Jialuo spoke.
“I’m going to start.” Fan Jialuo’s voice lost its former clearness and gentleness, and seemed a little hoarse and deep. However, no one at the scene noticed this subtle change except Song Rui, who was in the observation room. His face suddenly darkened, he put on his coat, and left the floor without saying a word.
Liu Zhao, who thought he had figured out the show’s routine, placed his hand on the young man’s open palm with a smile.
Gao Qianqian was looking at Liu Zhao from the beginning to the end, not even glancing at the strange man. The man had no choice but to look away, lowering his eyes and smiling bitterly.
Fan Jialuo didn’t care about the reactions of the people around him. His mind only focused on the person in front of him, spreading out the magnetic field to quietly wrap around the other person. Without any defenses up, he could naturally sense more things and it was easier. If it wasn’t for the current special situation, he would have needed to use a strong attack instead of acting in a play with this person to dispel his psychological defense.
Instead of sensing and narrating at the same time as usual, he lowered his head and closed his eyes, searching for a long time, so long that even the strong-minded Song Wennuan felt something strange.
“What’s going on? Is Teacher Fan asleep?” She bumped the staff member’s shoulder and made a little joke, causing everyone to cover their mouths and laugh.
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For some reason, seeing him like this, the smiles on everyone’s faces suddenly froze, and even Song Wennuan shrank back her neck, showing a bit of timidity. In fact, she had always known that this appearance was her cousin’s true face, but because she had never seen it, she still couldn’t believe it. But now, she seemed to recall her grandfather’s words—Don’t get close to Song Rui, he has no heart and was born a bad seed!
How could a person with a dark heart be called a bad seed? Song Wennuan often felt that her grandfather’s words were ridiculous, but now, she couldn’t laugh at all and could only watch her cousin approach in a daze.
He strode to Fan Jialuo’s side, stared at him with lowered eyes, his sharp eyes searching back and forth along the man’s pale cheeks before sliding down, carefully observing every inch of his body until his sleeve cuffs.
Normally, even if he was in the midst of sensing, Fan Jialuo could control the overall situation and be fully aware of every move of the people around him, but today he was just immersed in reading and did not notice Song Rui’s arrival, much less his scrutiny.
Song Rui slowly took a few steps back and put on his gold-rimmed glasses. No one noticed that the thin frames had been deformed by him, and the sharpness between his eyebrows disappeared instantly, hidden by a wave of calm. He looked at the man quietly, a dark light flashing across his pupils, and his soul, which had not divided for a long time, screamed into the abyss.
He Jinglian, who was sitting elsewhere, suddenly hugged her head and cried out in pain. Ah Huo, who was huddled with her playing mobile games, was startled and quickly held and patted her. He smelled a frighteningly strong smell of sulfur. Was it the devil crawling up to earth from hell?
Yuan Zhongzhou and Zhu Xiya seemed to have sensed it as well, but they just sat cross-legged on the ground and recited scriptures silently.
In the recording room, everyone had been waiting for seven or eight minutes, but Fan Jialuo still held Liu Zhao’s hand without saying a word. Liu Zhao became impatient and tried to pull his hand back, only to find that the other party was very strong and had already firmly grasped him.
“Hey, didn’t we agree to act? You should say your lines quickly! Why are you still holding my hand? Are you fucking gay?” Liu Zhao showed a disgusted expression, struggling harder and harder.
Gao Qianqian stood up and tried to interrupt Fan Jialuo’s reading, but was forcefully pressed down by a big hand.
“No one is allowed to touch Fan Jialuo,” Song Rui warned in a deep voice.
“Who are you…” Gao Qianqian looked back, and the stern expression and impatience on her face instantly disappeared. Song Rui has a lot of power and connections in academia, politics, the police, and business. The Song family was already powerful enough, but he was independent from the Song family and yet had equal or even higher social influence. He was a figure who could not be underestimated.
“Hello, Dr. Song…” Gao Qianqian smiled sweetly and was about to say something apologetic or complimentary when she saw Song Rui raising his index finger to make a silencing gesture.
She subconsciously closed her mouth, unsure of why she was so obedient. On the other end, Liu Zhao was still twitching his hands, swearing continuously. His behavior was not like a well-educated person at all, but more like those low-life people who hung out at the bottom of society.
The man sitting next to him clearly wanted to observe him carefully, but he would always turn his head and look away, as if he couldn’t bear to look at him.
Finally, Fan Jialuo began to speak, “I saw your childhood…”
Very good, this was the first line in the script. After taking advantage of seven or eight minutes, the rehearsal finally began. Liu Zhao no longer struggled, but he let out a snort. His handsome face had a hostile and arrogant expression, which really weakened eight or nine points of his charm.
Dong Qin didn’t even bother to look at him, but Gao Qianqian kept an eye on him the whole time, for fear that he would make a mistake.
Fan Jialuo spoke very slowly and his voice was extremely hoarse as he said, “You were born in a very happy family.”
“That’s wrong, it was an unhappy family. Changing it to happy as soon as we start, what the hell is your program inciting!” Liu Zhao was very proud of his memory.
Fan Jialuo ignored him and continued, “You have three sisters, and they all take good care of you. Your parents treat you as their favorite and dote on you very much. Although your family is not rich, you never lacked food and clothing since you were a child. Whatever you want, your relatives will try their best to fulfill, so much that you always thought that when you lie in bed, food, drink, clothing, and supplies will fall from the sky, because that was the way you grew up.”
Liu Zhao’s relaxed expression suddenly turned into horror, and his face turned from white to green, almost losing his mind. He struggled with all his strength, but was still firmly held in place by those seemingly delicate hands.
“What nonsense are you talking about! I am obviously an only child, where did my sister come from? Director, director, quickly tell him to let go!” Liu Zhao stretched his neck and shouted.
Although Song Wennuan didn’t know what was going on, she would not help an outsider tear down Teacher Fan, so she said perfunctorily, “Teacher Liu, I already said this is a rehearsal, so it doesn’t matter what you guys say. The main thing is to get familiar with the process. Even if you say the wrong lines during filming, it doesn’t matter, we will dub them later.”
“No, no, I won’t record this show anymore. I’ll pay the contract termination. I won’t record it anymore!” Liu Zhao was so anxious that he was covered with cold sweat.
Gao Qianqian also realized what was happening and said decisively, “Director Song, let’s discuss the termination of the contract. We will pay no matter how much it is.”
The performance of the couple made Dong Qin sneer repeatedly, but the strange man looked at Gao Qianqian with extremely complex eyes, with an expression that seemed sad and painful, yet full of struggle.
Song Rui dragged a chair and sat next to Fan Jialuo. He locked his sharp eyes on Liu Zhao and spoke slowly, “It’s just a few lines of nonsense. Why did Teacher Liu react so fiercely? Your expression tells me that you are guilty, timid, and flustered, which are typical signs of a secret being revealed. If these words have nothing to do with you, then you should listen to them as if none of them had happened and then laugh in your heart. To be honest, I am full of curiosity now. Your behavior is full of doubts and contradictions. These assertions made by Teacher Fan do not seem to be baseless, do they?”
Song Rui took off his gold-rimmed glasses and looked at Liu Zhao with a half-smile. His extremely sharp gaze turned into a scalpel at this moment, as if he had peeled off the other person’s skin, bones, and internal organs one by one, and looked at everything clearly.
Even though he didn’t know Song Rui’s background, Liu Zhao was still subdued by his words. Yes! If these assertions really had nothing to do with “Liu Zhao,” then he shouldn’t be so agitated. He just needed to sit and listen and laugh. Why protest? Why should he break the contract and pay for it? Such behavior would only arouse more suspicion!
Liu Zhao immediately froze on the sofa and did not dare to move. He now finally understood what the idiom “unable to dismount after riding a tiger” actually meant.
However, Gao Qianqian knew Song Rui very well and knew what weird abilities he had. Before, she was shouting that she would rather lose money than leave, but now she didn’t even dare to speak. No matter what happened next, as long as Song Rui was here, they could only endure it. Once the other party became suspicious, he would definitely try his best to dig out their secrets.
After Liu Zhao gave up resistance, Fan Jialuo’s tense face softened a lot, and his tone became calmer, “You dropped out of school when you were twelve years old, because studying was too hard, so your three sisters also had to drop out of school, and go work to earn money to support you. At the age of sixteen, you got into the bad habit of gambling and lost all your family’s money. At the age of eighteen, you started drinking. At the age of twenty, you fell in love with a girl and stole all the money from your family, also borrowing a foreign debt to bring her to Beijing. At the age of twenty-one, you separated, but you still had nothing. At the age of thirty, you were still unwilling to find a job to support yourself. At the age of thirty-one, you returned to your hometown and left your seriously ill parents in their old house to starve to death. You also took away the money from your father and fellow villagers and the funeral expenses raised by your three sisters. Your parents’ bodies were placed in the attic for more than 20 days before they were buried, and corpse liquid flowed out from the cracks in the coffin, causing everyone to take a detour. From then on, your reputation in your hometown became as stinky as corpse liquid, and you could not go back. At the age of thirty-two, your three sisters and you cut off contact, and their families were broken up because of your excessive demands. At thirty-three, you were separated from all your relatives. At thirty-four, you didn’t even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. At thirty-five, you were starving to death when you finally found a job growing flowers and grass.”
Liu Zhao’s face turned purple, but he suppressed his inner fear and urge to escape. He finally realized that the man in front of him was not a liar at all, but a genuine psychic! What rehearsal, lines, and scripts, they were all fucking deceptive! This was a real psychic profiling! But could he say these words? Did he dare?
Gao Qianqian seemed calm, but her subconscious actions betrayed her true thoughts. She covered her mouth with her right hand and her stomach with her left hand, as if suppressing the desire to vomit.
Dong Qin looked at Liu Zhao, and then at the man who was supposed to be a stranger. The expression on his face was a little confused, but gradually grew clearer.
Song Wennuan and others were still confused. Teacher Fan’s channeling this time seemed to be completely wrong! Liu Zhao’s life experience was not like this. He was an only son. Although his family was poor, he knew how to get ahead. Although his character was not good, he had ability. His life was completely different from what Teacher Fan said!
So the question was, why did Teacher Fan speak wrong? If he was right, then who was the person he was describing now? With such bad conduct, they were afraid it would be difficult to find someone in this world matching this description!
These people are really hopeless. Fan Jialuo’s character is obvious, he will not lie in such a situation, the things he does have a purpose, yet they still do not understand.
I am also worried about him, I hope Song Rui will provide good aftercare!
Thank you for the chapter~
Oooh interesting!!! Ty for the chapter 🫶
Thanks for the chapter!!!
Can I ask the translator for the update soon? Its already been 8 days since the last chapter was published. Sorry for my demand knowing that its new year,but among all of the ongoing translations this is by far my most fave novel, that I can’t wait to read the remaining chapters. Thank you