Chapter 159: Chapter 159: She Loves Guanyin

Over time, she couldn’t stop thinking about her dream lover.

Then, three days ago, her college roommate, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time, came to visit.

The moment she opened the door, her roommate jumped in shock. “HOLY SHIT! Luoluo, how did you suddenly get so skinny? Did you hurt yourself dieting or something?”

But Luoluo didn’t think it was a big deal.

Her roommate pulled her in front of a mirror and made her take a good look at herself. “Look at you! Do you even look like a living person anymore? Think hard! What have you been doing lately to make yourself look like a ghost?”

Luoluo stared at her reflection in the mirror—skeletally thin, with sunken cheeks—and finally realized something was wrong. She then told her roommate about what had been happening in her dreams.

Her roommate was stunned. “You… you’re not possessed, are you?! Should we find a Xuanmen master to take a look at you?”

But in this day and age, the Xuanmen had declined. Where could they possibly find a Xuanmen master?

After thinking it over, her roommate recommended a streamer she had been following for a while.

Luoluo asked nervously, “Streamer… the man I’m dreaming about… is he a person or a ghost?”

As she asked this, Luoluo felt a pang of disappointment.

After all, she’d been single her entire life—for over twenty years. She had finally found a partner in her dreams, only for him to turn out to be someone unreal.

Shen Zhiyao replied, “Neither human nor ghost, but a deity.”

“Huh?” Hearing this, Luoluo was completely stunned. “Then why is he pestering me?”

Shen Zhiyao pointed to the Guanyin Statue behind her. “The problem lies with that Guanyin Statue.”

“Huh?” Startled, Luoluo quickly took down the Guanyin Statue from behind her and showed it to Shen Zhiyao. “Is there something wrong with this statue? When I bought it, the seller said it was excavated from the Tang Dynasty. A genuine antique, they said, with great collection value that would appreciate over time. That’s why I’ve kept this Guanyin Statue at home…”

As she spoke, she suddenly remembered the man from her dreams. Every time they met, he would first turn over her palm to look at it, then suck on her body as if confirming something.

He had also said, “You have a very special aura, like something that belongs to me… From now on, you must make offerings to Guanyin every day…”

After that, she moved the Guanyin Statue to a cabinet in her bedroom, making daily offerings with incense.

A girl always pays special attention to the words of her lover.

Now, hearing Shen Zhiyao’s answer, she broke out in goosebumps.

Shen Zhiyao could tell at a glance that she had encountered the deity from within the Guanyin Statue.

Some would say it was something illusory and ethereal; others might call it a manifestation of the living Guanyin.

What Luoluo had encountered, however, was a dreamscape where she met the deity from the Guanyin Statue.

It was an insubstantial deity, not even on the level of a true god. It was just by some twist of fate that it appeared by her side through her dreams, its Spiritual Energy gradually manifesting.

Dreams are manifestations of a person’s will. Thus, a deity will initially recognize its summoner as its master. Even if the deity has slumbered for many years, it can still manifest clearly in a dream.

The deity appearing in Luoluo’s dreams had likely been sealed away for many years and only began to manifest after she brought it home.

At first, the deity was too weak to take form. Later, it grew stronger and eventually began to corrode Luoluo’s body.

Of course, Shen Zhiyao couldn’t go into too much detail about the process of awakening a deity through dreams.

Shen Zhiyao said, “Actually, the way to make the deity leave is simple. You just have to smash the Guanyin Statue, and the deity inside will dissipate.”

Luoluo asked, confused, “What do you mean, dissipate?”

Shen Zhiyao said, “It means that when you wake up, he won’t appear anymore.”

Luoluo was still reluctant. “So… he’ll disappear completely from my world…”

Shen Zhiyao said, “In reality, he never appeared in a physical form. He’s just a man from your dreams. Why are you so attached…?”

Two streams of hot tears fell from Luoluo’s eyes.

To others, this was just a story, something to listen to and forget.

But as the one who had lived through it, she had truly and vividly spent a year with the man in her dreams.

His gentle greetings, his concern—it was all real. Every one of his hugs had truly happened.

Even if everyone told her to let go, she had genuinely loved that man. After all, he was the only person she had ever loved, and she couldn’t bear the thought of him disappearing.

Shen Zhiyao could see her reluctance and said gravely, “You need to think this through. If you continue to be with him, in less than half a year, your vital essence will be completely drained, and you will merge with the Guanyin Statue. Are you sure you still want to be with him? Devotion is a fine thing, but you can’t prove it with your life.”

Luoluo asked, “If I stay with him, will I really die?”

Shen Zhiyao nodded. “I never speak carelessly. So, you need to think it over carefully.”

“I understand. Thank you, Streamer.” With that, Luoluo sent Shen Zhiyao a Douyin Number One and disconnected the call.

[Streamer, I like to buy antiques too. This stream kind of scared me. Should I sell off my antiques?]

[I think it’s so weird how you people like antiques. Aren’t they just burial goods for dead people? Why would you pay a high price for burial goods?]

[Person above me, you’re clueless! Antiques appreciate over time. You can sell them for a much higher price later. It’s a guaranteed way to get rich!]

Shen Zhiyao said, “It’s actually quite common for spirits to attach themselves to antiques. As long as you don’t pay them any mind, they won’t manifest and come looking for you.”

[Damn, now that the streamer said that, I’m even more scared of buying antiques.]

After leaving the live stream, Luoluo stood in front of the mirror for a long time.

She looked at her sunken cheeks and the dark circles under her eyes. Taking a deep breath, she took the Guanyin Statue down from the cabinet.

She stood up and was about to smash the antique on the floor when a familiar voice echoed in her mind: ’Luoluo, if you break the Guanyin Statue, you’ll never see me again. Are you sure you want to break it?’

Instantly, she deflated like a punctured balloon and collapsed to the floor, unsure of what to do.

’If I break the Guanyin Statue, he’ll never appear again…’

She hugged the Guanyin Statue, sat on the edge of her bed, and placed it by her pillow.

’One last time,’ she thought. ’I have to see him one last time, just to say a final goodbye.’

…

In his pod, Zhou Ye had been performing suggestive dances all night. He was panting from exhaustion, certain his viewers would have clipped countless segments from his stream and posted them all over Weibo.

He stopped and pulled out a tissue to wipe the sweat from his face.

He opened Weibo, but there wasn’t a single trending topic about him.

Instead, Shen Zhiyao was all over the trending list with several hot topics.

#Hottest Anti-Superstition Streamer Conglin, Reappears in Shen Zhiyao’s Stream#

Additionally, Meng Xiaoxiao and Sun Yingbin were also trending, but their topics were all related to Shen Zhiyao.

Zhou Ye had danced suggestively all night, and his viewer count had reached 100,000.

The girls in his stream were fawning over him, endlessly calling him ’Big Bro’.

Seeing Shen Zhiyao blow up the trending list, he couldn’t resist clicking into her stream to take a look.

Holy cow, Shen Zhiyao’s stream had as many as 10 million concurrent viewers.

Oh my god, that viewer count was higher than a top-tier celebrity’s.

’This is a viewer count only a superstar celebrity could achieve. How the hell did Shen Zhiyao manage it?’

At that moment, Shen Zhiyao was drawing her third call-in for the day. The connection went through, and a young girl appeared on screen, asking if her current relationship was her ’fated one’.

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