12: Chapter 12: One I Ching, Two Prophecies

Looking at Xiaoyu's disheveled appearance, it was clear at a glance that she hadn't fully woken up yet.

"Eh? Bro, why are you wearing a suit?" Xiaoyu was a bit surprised. She hadn't expected her brother to be wearing a white long-sleeved Western-style shirt with black trousers. Even though he was wearing slippers, it couldn't hide his scholarly aura and the vibe of a dominant CEO. "So handsome!"

Of course he was handsome!

In his past life, he had been ranked among the top 100 most handsome men in the country.

Moreover, he had even played the male lead in the entertainment industry in his spare time; he was a top-tier celebrity in both culture and sports with five million fans!

"It's nothing, it's just more comfortable to wear this!" Jiang Zhe was a bit puzzled. "What happened? Why bring this up all of a sudden?"

Xiaoyu's eyes flickered evasively. Of course, she wouldn't say—

I secretly started a livestream for a bit after I got up, and I found that the chat was full of comments cursing you, saying you're a fraud and just trying to be mysterious!

Those people were just some super-determined materialist viewers on the internet. Xiaoyu thought for a moment and said, "Oh, it's nothing."

Seeing that Xiaoyu was hiding something from him, Jiang Zhe didn't bother to press further.

It was possible that Xiaoyu had privately posted what he had talked about online and then got into an argument with others.

But that was fine; he could take this opportunity to switch hexagrams directly!

"Understood!" He grinned, flipping through the tui bei tu until he finally reached the 39th hexagram. He then looked up: "Since you think I'm making things up, then I'll tell you about a hexagram related to modern times."

"From when?"

"Something that happened during World War II!"

"Ah?" Even Xiaoyu found it a bit hard to believe. She thought her brother would talk about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he had switched topics entirely, instantly piquing her curiosity.

"Wait, let me brush my teeth, wash my face, and have some porridge first. Wait for me!"

Soon, Xiaoyu was fully ready, still wearing her familiar rabbit pajamas.

She went from a messy girl to a goddess in an instant!

"Do you have to put on makeup even at home?" Jiang Zhe shook his head speechlessly. He then signaled Xiaoyu to sit on the single sofa opposite him. He pushed aside the textbook, and feeling a bit tired of sitting, he lay sideways on the sofa, flipping through the tui bei tu with one hand while narrating:

"Next, I'll talk about the 39th hexagram. It is 100% accurate, and there is no reason to refute it!"

As he finished speaking, Xiaoyu had already quietly pressed the livestream button and started the broadcast.

Almost instantly, many netizens who had set up start notifications flooded in like a tide!

The bullet chat exploded, and in a short while, it covered the entire screen!

"Holy crap, the stream is live! Front row, front row!"

"I came from Weibo. Is this the folk master who interprets the 'tui bei tu'?"

"I came here after hearing the news at the 985 University of History in Shanghai. The master must talk about Hexagram 2.5 today!"

"Eh? What's with this streamer? Why is he just lying on the sofa so casually? Even if you're handsome, you can't be this casual, right?"

"Upstairs, what do you know? He's not the streamer!"

"? What do you mean?"

"The streamer is filming secretly. This handsome guy in the suit is the streamer's brother!"

"Holy crap! That's insane..."

Fifty thousand viewers flooded in almost instantly, and after some bullet chats appeared, the number jumped to a hundred thousand in the blink of an eye.

Many of these viewers were drawn in by Weibo, WeChat, various Tieba forums, and chat groups.

Especially for enthusiasts of Sinology, metaphysics, and the occult, the sudden appearance of a secretly filmed Sinology master in an ordinary livestream was like a gluttonous feast!

...

At this time, inside the dormitory building of Gusu High School.

Teacher Wang, the history teacher, was still brushing his teeth when he received the notification that the stream had started.

"So early?"

He quickly finished brushing and took a moment to look at the livestream—

Seeing the image of Jiang Zhe lying on his side, even if it was casual, Teacher Wang couldn't help but look surprised. "Such a strong scholarly temperament. Is he really a kid who dropped out of high school?"

Putting away his toiletries, he tapped the history teachers of the other classes in the hallway.

"Old Wu, Old Zhao, come to my dorm quickly. Let me open the door to a new world for you."

Old Wu and Old Zhao were history teachers from other classes and also served as class advisors.

"Isn't it supposed to be tonight?"

"So early? Wait for me. I'm very strict; if someone is misleading students, I'll definitely start scolding them on the spot!"

Hearing this, the two quickly put down their toiletries, turned around, and ran all the way back to the fairly large room.

Watching the three old men excitedly run back to Old Wang's dormitory with their arms around each other's shoulders.

The other male and female teachers present were a bit bewildered.

"The door to a new world?"

"Three people?"

"Oh my god, I think I've discovered something!"

...

At this time, at the operations department of the Dougou Platform,

Inside the vast office hall of the tall building.

Operator Wang, who was at work, was leisurely drinking coffee and casually inspecting various livestreams.

Currently on Dougou, the mainstream broadcasters were for online gambling games, extreme sports, and outdoor activities—projects that provided a real dopamine rush.

Things like Sinology and fortune-telling weren't very popular, except for [Da Yu Da Rou].

Suddenly, "Da Yu Da Rou" went live!

"Starting in the morning too?"

Operator Wang clicked in curiously, thinking it was just Xiaoyu livestreaming alone.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered, he saw that handsome man with the scholarly temperament who looked like he had stepped out of a Korean drama lying on the sofa. "Holy crap, is his whole face this handsome?"

"With that nine-head body ratio, his looks could get him a job as a high-end fashion model!"

After being stunned for a while, he finally regained his composure and looked at the livestream's backend.

Suddenly!

Operator Wang rubbed his eyes in disbelief, thinking he was seeing things.

"Holy sh— Supervisor! Come here quickly!"

Supervisor Liu, in his thirties, walked over with a look of confusion. "You want to 'sh—' me right here in the office?"

"No, no, it's that [Da Yu Da Rou], the streamer Xiaoyu. As soon as she went online, in less than 2 minutes, the number of live viewers exceeded 200,000!"

"Look at this graph, it's almost a vertical line!!!"

"This is just too exaggerated!"

Operator Wang had never seen a female streamer stop dancing and switch to secretly filming her brother!

To be able to get such terrifyingly real traffic!

Supervisor Liu leaned forward skeptically and carefully manipulated the mouse to look at the data charts. After zooming in, the charts didn't show the characteristics of bots; it was all natural traffic, not fake!

He couldn't help but swallow hard and took a deep breath. "This is a bit terrifying. I didn't expect so many people to like Sinology?"

“Little Wang, immediately, right now, give it a recommendation!"

"The front row recommendations are already given to other streams. Put Xiaoyu's stream at the bottom of the homepage!"

"By the way, Little Wang, support another Sinology stream to come up, one specifically about this!"

"Don't worry, Supervisor." Operator Wang waved his hand fearlessly. "I don't even need to support anyone. The various streaming guilds will start following the trend in a bit. But in my opinion, no one can beat [Jiang Xiaoyu]'s brother!"

"Are you that certain?" Supervisor Liu was a bit curious. "Where did you see that? Just because he's as handsome as a Korean drama lead?"

"No!" Operator Wang pointed at Jiang Zhe on the screen with a look of certainty. "It's his inner self!"

"Haha! Shallow!"

Supervisor Liu stood up and left, speechless.

On the screen.

Jiang Zhe finally opened the 39th hexagram of the tui bei tu and pointed it at Xiaoyu. "This hexagram is one of the most accurate modern prophecies by Li Chunfeng!"

"What do you see in this picture?"

Xiaoyu leaned in to look and said innocently, "I see some traces of spider silk!"

Jiang Zhe frowned. "Spider silk?"

Xiaoyu blew on the tui bei tu, and a few strands of spider silk fell from it.

When this scene appeared, the originally serious atmosphere in the livestream was instantly made humorous by Xiaoyu's behavior.

"What a talent!"

"Haha, 'clues and traces,' so it was real spider silk!"

"..."

"Be serious!" Jiang Zhe tapped the tui bei tu with a serious face. "Take a careful look at the two verses of the hexagram yourself!"

"The Prophecy says: A bird with no feet, a moon in the mountains; as the sun rises, everyone cries."

"The Ode says: In the middle of the twelfth month, the Qi is not in harmony. A sparrow in the southern mountains, a net in the northern mountains. One morning, the golden rooster's crow is heard; the ocean is deep, and the sun has already passed."

"Jin Shengtan said: This image suggests a foreign tribe disturbing the Central Plains; it must reach the year of the Rooster before peace is obtained."

After reading it, Xiaoyu went back to the sofa with a curious look. "It's a bit mysterious, but I don't understand it at all!"

Jiang Zhe grinned. "Naturally, it's hard to understand, because this hexagram might point to two answers!"

"Two?" Xiaoyu quickly picked up the coffee from the side, looking at Jiang Zhe with burning eyes.

Jiang Zhe held up two fingers. "You'll find out in a moment!"