"If you were a couple minutes later, you might have ended up alone for the rest of your life," Gu Zhiqi said when Gu Huaijin remained silent, adding another sentence.
Once the hand seal she had made became ineffective, the malevolent energy would have swallowed Gu Huaijin’s only peach blossom destiny.
By then, not only would he be destined to end up alone, but the person he liked would probably meet their demise as well.
"Since when did you start fortune-telling?" Gu Huaijin spoke, his voice filled with annoyance, a rare look of speechlessness appearing on his usually stern face.
"Didn’t I know how before?" Gu Zhiqi’s expression suddenly became very innocent.
Playing dumb was a trick that never failed her with Gu Yuluo, but she didn’t know if it would work on Gu Huaijin.
At her words, Gu Huaijin fell silent.
He did not know if she could fortune-tell before losing her memory, but he did know that after the amnesia, she liked to scam money by pretending to tell fortunes.
"If you don’t refuse, I’ll take it as your consent," Gu Zhiqi said, seeing that Gu Huaijin didn’t respond.
The current situation was that he might have been her brother for fifteen years; she couldn’t just watch him end up alone.
Before Gu Huaijin could gather his thoughts, he saw the girl in front of him move.
She pulled out a yellow talisman from who knows where and slapped it onto his forehead.
Gu Huaijin was dumbfounded on the spot.
What... did she take him for a zombie?
After sticking the yellow talisman on Gu Huaijin’s forehead and trapping the malevolent energy, Gu Zhiqi withdrew her fingers and flicked them lightly before shaping a hand seal in front of her body; as she spread her palm out, Gu Huaijin saw a phantom plane that emitted white light in front of her.
Gu Zhiqi placed one hand below the phantom plane and drew on it with the other.
In an instant, the plane flickered with radiant light.
The white light was so dazzling that Gu Huaijin, still in shock, unconsciously squinted.
Through the haze, he seemed to see a white-light phantom resembling a formation diagram flying toward him.
As it flew closer, the radiant light became increasingly blinding, and Gu Huaijin closed his eyes.
It felt as if the talisman paper on his forehead was being torn off, followed by a slight pain at his third eye, like being bitten by a mosquito.
"Done," the girl’s clear and cool voice rang beside his ear.
Gu Huaijin touched his third eye and opened his eyes, looking at Gu Zhiqi with a complex expression, "What was that just now?"
"Pay up, five million," she said.
"After the payment, I’ll answer all questions."
As she spoke, Gu Zhiqi handed Gu Huaijin her phone, which displayed an especially eye-catching string of numbers.
Without thinking, he knew it must be her bank account number.
Looking at the girl in front of him, who was smiling like a little fox with her eyes and eyebrows slightly curved, Gu Huaijin’s mouth twitched slightly as he pulled out his phone, "Are you that short on cash?"
Short of cash, of course.
How could she not be, when she had to support a dog spiritual pet that needed constant funding?
Ever since she got the dog spiritual pet, the only thing Gu Zhiqi remembered was either making money or being on her way to make money.
She also didn’t know why she had decided to upgrade her Intelligence Brain in the first place.
Gu Zhiqi tried hard to recall the purpose and reason for the upgrade but found no related memories.
Indeed, she was getting old, forgetting many things, even unable to remember the full extent of her memories on the Aquamarine Star.
Seeing as she could even forget that she had been to this world, it didn’t seem so strange after all.
As Gu Zhiqi was lost in thought, a notification sound for a message interrupted her; it was a transfer alert.
It was a notification of a transfer from Gu Huaijin.
One, two, three... seven, seven zeroes.
Although it started with a 2, there were seven zeroes following it.
The look Gu Zhiqi gave Gu Huaijin changed instantly, her lips curving into a lazy and soft smile, "Big brother, feel free to ask me anything."