Chapter 332 - 334: The Missing Younger Son
Chapter 332 - 334: The Missing Younger Son
Watching the shadow fade away bit by bit, the girl, who had been sitting the whole time, finally couldn’t hold it in any longer.
She sat in her seat and patted her chest.
"Host, I should be safe now, right?"
Su Nian nodded and added a reminder, "Yes, but after you get back, make sure to get plenty of sun to drive out the Dark Aura."
At this point, Su Nian didn’t forget to remind the viewers in her stream.
"When you have free time, you should all get more sun. Sunlight is very good for the body. Even if you haven’t encountered any ghosts or monsters, it can still dispel the cold and dampness from your system."
[Noted, noted!]
[Get more sun, huh? But I’m always wrapped up in sun-protective clothing in the summer. I want to be healthy, but I really, really want to lighten my skin.]
[For skin lightening, you should use this Suya Whitening Cream! It works great, I’m totally not a shill.]
[Can you stop pretending? You’re obviously a shill.]
[Ever since the host got popular, there have been so many people advertising in her stream.]
[I’ve seen ads for this exact brand in several different streams today, and they still pretend they’re not shills.]
[Is this the legendary product placement?]
After Su Nian’s confirmation, the girl nodded excitedly and immediately transferred a little more money to Su Nian.
"Okay, okay, I understand. Thank you, Host!"
The girl gave another bow before turning to leave.
After dealing with the matter, Su Nian lightly pressed the bell.
This time, following the soft chime of the bell, a couple was the first to enter.
Su Nian narrowed her eyes. ’Strange,’ she thought, ’quite a few couples have come today.’
Behind them followed a young son, his face etched with worry as he trailed behind, sighing, lost in thought.
[So many couples today, what’s going on? Could they be having marital problems?]
[Maybe it’s a problem with their kid. Look, the son walking at the back looks so dejected. Something must have happened to him, right?]
[Stop guessing blindly. They must have run into some serious trouble to come to the host. After all, a fortune-telling session with her isn’t cheap.]
Su Nian didn’t speak. After the three entered, she gestured for them to sit on the stools in front of her.
The couple sat down and looked at the beautiful young woman before them, then at each other, momentarily at a loss for words.
It was the son behind them who, as if he understood the procedure, took out his phone and scanned Su Nian’s QR code.
At the same time, he didn’t forget to comfort his parents.
"Mom, Dad, don’t worry. This host is the real deal. She can definitely help us."
Su Nian didn’t reply. She just carefully observed the faces of the three, already deducing a few things from their features.
The moment the payment was received, she began her analysis.
"Your family is missing one person, aren’t you? On your mother’s forehead, in the Children Palace, there should be two. Yet only you are here today. The other line is very faint. Your other son must have met with a mishap."
The moment she heard Su Nian’s words, the middle-aged woman sitting there became agitated.
"Yes, yes, that’s right! Master, please help us! My younger son is missing."
Su Nian nodded.
"Your younger son left in pursuit of wealth, correct?"
Hearing this, the couple both nodded in unison.
"Yes, he said he was going to leave home to work and make money, but now we can’t find him. He’s just... gone! Host, you have to help us."
[The kid’s missing, and he went missing while trying to make big money? Looking at the older son’s age, the younger one can’t be that young, right?]
[The older son looks like he’s in his twenties, so the younger one must be in his early twenties at least.]
[Not necessarily. What if he dropped out of school early?]
[Whenever I hear about a missing kid now, I always think of terrible things.]
[Yeah, isn’t Northern Myanmar supposed to be really chaotic right now?]
[A lot of people have gone over there, all saying they’re going to make big money.]
Just as the comments speculated, the couple began to tell Su Nian their story.
"Our younger son... he’s already 21 this year. He’s always been very impulsive, never thinking about the consequences. A few days ago, he had a huge fight with us."
The mother explained tearfully, "After he graduated from college, he wouldn’t go out and get a job. I got anxious and said a few words to him, and he blew up at us. He blocked all of us and ran off, saying he was going to find a high-paying job."
"He said he was going to make big money. We had a bad feeling about it and kept trying to persuade him, but he just wouldn’t listen."
The woman was being diplomatic. The boy hadn’t just ’not listened’; he had unleashed a torrent of abuse over the phone, cursing out their entire family.
Hearing this, Su Nian shook her head slightly. A faint light shone from within her deep, dark eyes.
She looked at the three people before her. All of them had clear features, upright minds, and kind hearts. They were good people.
And yet, they had a son like that.
"Your karmic bond with this younger son was always shallow. He was never meant to be part of your family; it was only by a twist of fate that he came to you."
Hearing this, the mother nodded again.
"After I had my older son, I didn’t plan on having any more. My husband even had a vasectomy, but I still got pregnant inexplicably. Since it happened, I decided to have the baby."
"Ever since he was little, he was a bit disobedient, with a different personality from his brother. But I thought that was normal. Who knew he would turn out like this when he grew up?"
The woman was truly worried about her son’s safety, but when she recalled the vicious things he had said to the family that day...
...her heart sank. Although the boy was certainly not as outstanding as his older brother, to be honest, if she had shown favoritism when they were growing up, it was always toward him.
She always felt her older son was exceptional, so she was more at ease and didn’t feel the need to supervise him. But her younger son made her heart ache with worry; she was terrified he would be taken advantage of out in the world.
But she never expected that in the end, her younger son would describe her in such unbearable terms.
She remembered the condescending tone he used when he cursed at her, telling her to go die.
A chill went through her. But as a mother, even though her heart was cold, she simply couldn’t let it go.
After trying many methods and failing to find her son, she could only come to Su Nian to try her luck.
At this point, the father couldn’t hold back any longer. He sighed. The words his son had said that day were truly too hurtful.
But now that the boy was missing, all he could do was sigh. ’Truth be told, even if we find him, I don’t plan on acknowledging him as my son anymore.’
Still, he had raised the boy for so many years. He just hoped his child could live a good life.
Su Nian glanced at the three of them.
"This child’s bond with you is shallow. He was never meant to be born."
Su Nian pointed this out once more, and the mother became agitated.
"Master, I just want to know where he is now. I raised him for so many years, after all. I just want him to be alive and well."
Su Nian shook her head.
Her words were ice-cold.
"He is already dead. But his internal organs are still alive."
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