New Times, New Hell

Ch14 - The Daoist Who Rested on His Laurels

Li Tiantian stared at her best friend in shock. This plot was developing a bit too fast for her to keep up with. She subtly tugged at Chen Siyu and whispered, "Ey, isn't that a little unnecessary?"

Li Tiantian had ultimately received a higher education. Though she constantly liked to talk about astrology and such, she didn't truly believe in superstitions. At least, she wasn't obsessed enough to accept someone raising the price right in front of her.

Only to see Chen Siyu bite her lip and say, "You don't know this, but my dad really hasn't been in great shape recently......"

Li Tiantian didn't imagine this would happen, so made a sudden noise of surprise.

Chen Siyu's family situation was a bit complex. Her mother passed away early on, and her father remarried after. Her stepmother even gave birth to a son. Her relationship with her stepmother and younger brother wasn't so great, but her father had always doted on her.

It wasn't too much to say that the only person she was truly close with in her family was her dad; he was also the most important person in her life.

But in the past two months, her dad suddenly seemed to have terrible luck. Several things went wrong with his business, causing him to lose a lot of money. Perhaps due to this, his health was also taking a rapid downturn. He spent his time in and out of the hospital, but the hospital couldn't determine what was wrong either, only saying that he had an insufficiency in blood and Qi.

Chen Siyu could only watch her father's condition get worse day by day, but couldn't do anything about it. This obviously stressed her out. These days, she had to split her time between working and caring for her father, so became exceptionally busy. This caused her own health to decline too.

At first she was unconvinced by Li Tiantian's suggestion, indifferent about this small company with its luck-changing magnets and luck analyses. But another reason was that she knew her condition was a result of her family situation. It wasn't out of the blue, so she naturally thought that this company was trying to fool her.

But what she didn't expect, was that this boss with his nasty attitude would open his mouth and hit the nail straight on the head.

Because of her family, she rarely spoke up about her home life. She had never even said anything to anyone about her father's situation.

Yet Shang Que could so confidently state that there was something wrong with someone in her family. Just for this, even if he was guessing, she wanted to give them a chance.

Because of the unpleasant atmosphere, Chen Siyu more or less felt awkward now, but still braced for the worst and asked, "May I ask, how did you know that someone in my family wasn't doing so well recently?"

Shang Que looked at her calmly. "Not 'recently'. It started two months ago."

Chen Siyu was truly surprised this time. She stared at Shang Que with wide eyes, the words stumbling out of her mouth, "How, how come you know that too?"

After hearing their exchange Li Tiantian was mindblown. "No way? Is it true?"

Yu Zhengdu chose this time to display his mysterious smile and insert a small advertisement for their company. "We already told you, we're professionals."

Shang Que had accurately described Chen Siyu's family situation in only a couple of sentences. No matter how he had done it, Chen Siyu definitely wanted to give them a chance.

But now that she wanted to buy the magnets, Yu Zhengdu refused to sell them to her so casually. His excuse was that their company worked professionally in health and magnet management, and each magnet had to be uniquely matched to each person, so they needed to see her father's condition personally before deciding which stone to sell her.