The Greatest Astrologist

Chapter 083 - “Wuwuwu, is it my fault that I don’t get tired from performing divinations?” (3)

The newest episode of the Cardcaptor Squad was on “This Month’s Financial Trend”. Along with the fame that Chu Qianli had gained recently from private readings online, there had been more barrages * as well as comments in the discussion area.

[Here to collect the good luck! !]

[Both this and last episode are very accurate. I suggest to do meeting the right person for your next episode~]

[The disciple said they would not be doing one on that topic. Think the teacher said that the time span would be too long and would not be accurate.]

[So this account is managed by two persons?]

[Three, I think. I remember a third person who is in charge of the camera.]

[If you want to ask about your romance, you can ask for a private reading. But she would only look at star charts for adults. Teacher’s pricing is very reasonable! Discount for students, even!]

[To be honest, her pricing is reasonable and her reading accurate. I had my readings done by many and this UP**is quite capable. The only downside is that if you reach out to her too often, she will be told that you are too addicted to superstition. Tears.]

[Our teacher is forever god! And she’s finny too!]

[…… Last time when I said she was god from the tarot reading, she told me that she is a Marxist.]

[Free Marxism education with fortuneteller, good deal. I don’t even care if her reading is accurate. I just want to listen to some Marxism philosophy.]

Chu Qianli set her pricing basing on the inquirer’s financial situation. For example, her wealthy classmate could throw out large sum of money easily but those from the village would never been able to make that kind of money no matter how much they plant.

It did not mean that the latter was not respectful of her work, but that they truly could not afford the amount.

Chu Qianli and her grandfather would even accept eggs or food as payment back in the village. They would no offer their services for free; but the payment could be something other than money.

Her pricing depended on her mood, as was her reading. When she ran into someone who requested her reading on everything, she would educate them to be less superstition. Overtime, she was labeled as the divinator with a temper. She was accurate, however. Plus, her pricing was reasonable, so the inquirers did not mind being lectured by her from time to time. In the end, what she said made sense.

Many inquirers in the barrage and comment area were the Cardcaptor Squad’s organic fans. They were basically individuals interested in the subject and had had readings done by many divinators in the past. As such, they were able to make comparison and form their own opinions and started raving about Chu Qianli’s ability in fortunetelling.

There were only a handful of UP masters on the platform and, as the Cardcaptor Squad became more and more raved about, Chu Qianli and her group had, inevitably, cut into other’s pie.

At school, Qiu Qingkong had been watching happily as their number of fans grow on a certain platform recently. Suddenly, she received a clip sent to her from another occult fangirl. It was an update from another UP master. Curious, she followed the link and watched the clip, which subsequently enraged her.

She came over to Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing to share her anger with them not too long after that. She was incredibly angry. She played the video and put the audio on speaker. “Sure enough, being popular would attract unwanted attention. Even these nobody would come and knock on us. Just look at this!”

On the cellphone screen, a female divinator shuffled her deck as she chatted with her viewers. Her ton was moderate but with subtext. “Yeah, there are all types in this field. Many who know nothing will still post videos. The rest of us handle our own recording and editing and some teams now would blatantly pay for advertising. And the team is run by multiple individuals. Could they have stooped any lower? Y’all need to keep your eyes peeled……

“Some people set their price point low but you get what you pay for. Performing readings consume spiritual energy and each divinator has their limit of the number of readings they can perform every day. As such, why would anyone do that for cheap? All the ones they can do many a day are questionable. Or that they are actually a team of multiple individuals!”

Many in the barrage area agreed with the female divinator.

[Directing you to the most recent mksnxfd.*** Whoever loves paying for intellectual tax can go right ahead. Anyone who knows anything at all about this area should know better than that.]

[I have been a fan of Ya Hun for years. Some new UPs are really not all that. All they is to rely on advertising.]

 [Who knows whether it was a human or a dog on the other end of the internet? Judging from next door’s productivity they have to be a team for sure. Maybe all of them were beginners at that.]

Tan Muxing poked his head over curiously. “Whose video is this?”

Qiu Qingkong replied coldly, “Some 18th-tier divinator.”

Tan Muxing looked at their stats and questioned, “But she has more fans than us?”

Qiu Qingkong said angrily, “So what? She is still an 18th tier nonetheless!”

Chu Qianli was baffled, “What she said is true though?”

She did not exactly agree with everything that Ya Hun had said but the logic seemed reasonable overall.

Qiu Qingkong still felt very indignant. “Teacher, you do realize that she was referring to us subtly, don’t you? This person does this all the time. There was another divinator as popular as her in the past and she caused so much of a ruckus that the other divinator had stopped releasing videos. She accused the other divinator of charging too much back then!

“Now she said ‘you get what you pay for’ when we charge less than her. What is she going to say next?!”

Qiu Qingkong had always followed all the divinators on this platform. The female divinator in the video is Ya Hun and her channel was Ya Huh’s Tarot Reading.

Qiu Qingkong was a fan of a little big sister divinator in the past and she had even had her done a reading on her. She felt that the divinator was quite accurate except the pricing was on the high end.

Later on, Ya Hun made comments openly on the little big sister’s pricing and riled up many of her viewers to cause troubles on the little big sister’s channel. She had successfully forced the little big sister out of the circle.

That had saddened Qiu Qingkong, She felt that the little sister had given in to Ya Hun. Since then, Ya Hun had been increasing her charges bit by bit. Her current fees had surpassed that of the little big sister.

Now that Chu Qianli was more accurate than the little big sister and charged less, Ya Hun had flipped to the other side and said one gets what they pay for.

Qiu Qingkong was enraged. Her teacher had exemplary conduct and nobility of character and had no shortage of money. Who did that scam artist think she was to comment on this?!

“Oh, I know that you are mad but mainly I had run into situations like this a lot in the past……” Chu Qianli pretended she was crying with her hands covering her face. “Wuwuwuw, so many of my peers in the field called me a white lotus pretending to be high and mighty. I have no idea why they think I am such a white lotus at all!”

It wasn’t just yesterday when Chu Qianli was attacked by her peers. Truth of the matter was that her peers hated her more so than materialists.

Tan Muxing asked blankly, “Do performing readings really consume spiritual energy?”

Ya Hun had said that a regular divinator could not perform too many readings in one day. Nevertheless, Tan Muxing had, often times, saw Chu Qianli doing that all day long.

Chu Qianli choked back tears in an aggrieved manner. “Wuwuwu, how would I know? That might be the case with a normal person. But that’s not something a genius like me can relate to. I guess it is my fault……

“A normal person would be tired out after 2 or 3 times a day. But I don’t get tired so I thought I can charge less. Wuwuwuwu, it is my fault……”

Tan Muxing, “……”

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Translator's notes:

**Uploader

***Not exactly sure that meant. Maybe a roundabout way to hint at our MC’s team?

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Translator’s rambling:

*In case you didn’t already know, in China, people comments literally popped up ON the screen when you stream live. Audiences, of course, has the options of turning that feature off (so you don’t see the comments). Otherwise, for a super popular streamer, it can get to the a point that the comments will cover up the entire screen.

Google translate said “barrage”, so “barrage” it shall be.

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Teaser:

A challenge from Ya Hun? Accepted!! Would our Qiuqiu dropped the subject with Ya Hun who had openly provoked the Cardcaptor Squad? Of COURSE not!

Chuchu and Qiuqiu will be visiting Tantan’s place!! Woot?!