Chapter 24.2

Li Xiao stared at the luck hovering around Li Qianfei’s body and found that once Li Qianfei finished talking, her luck increased ever so slightly. Qianfei took the extra luck surrounding Qu Lian.

Meanwhile, Li Xiao felt an invisible force tugging at her, attempting to steal her luck.

Did someone want to take her luck? No way!

Silently, Li Xiao recited the Misty Cloud View Heart Sutra. The force that pulled her luck disappeared. At the same time, Li Qianfei groaned and leaned against the couch, her face was pale as paper. Although the Heart Sutra didn’t have much killing power, it could deflect malicious power.

Li Qianfei’s expression was somewhat blank as if she didn’t understand the reason for her misery.

Li Xiao’s heart thumped. Was it possible that Li Qianfei was instinctively stealing people’s luck without training?

Having just been countered by Li Xiao, the luck in Li Qianfei’s body was somewhat unstable. It floated around Li Qianfei like clouds of mist, slowly being absorbed into Li Qianfei’s body. No one could see this scene except for Li Xiao. If Li Qianfei was given time, these unstable fortunes would be absorbed by her once again. It was as if she was a black hole, naturally absorbing the luck around her and taking it for herself.

Li Xiao’s heart pounded as the luck near Li Qianfei floated in front of Li Xiao and entered her palm.

Li Xiao didn’t intend to absorb the luck. She wouldn’t take anything that didn’t belong to her. If she wanted to increase her luck, she only needed to do more good deeds, and her luck would naturally increase.

One would eventually have to return the borrowed items.

All this luck added up was equivalent to 10% of Li Qianfei’s original luck.

Typically, Li Xiao wouldn’t take the initiative to destroy Li Qianfei’s luck. After all, she wasn’t good at it. But she couldn’t stand the fact that Li Qianfei had tried to steal luck from her. Unfortunately for Li Xiao, it had backfired, causing her own luck to become unstable instead.

Although Li Qianfei was feeling unwell, she attributed it to being exhausted.

Despite the fact that it was already late, Li Qianfei still made a phone call to her two godfathers. One of them lived in S City, and it would only take two hours to drive over from the Li family. The other was in a meeting abroad, out of her reach.

When she hung up the phone, a bright smile spread across her face. “Uncle Gu says I can go over right now.”

The Uncle Gu she spoke of was the first godfather she recognized. He came from a prominent family and had helped Zhan Jiayin and Li Qianfei solve numerous difficulties.

“I’ll go with you,” Li Nanjue said.

After all, it was late, and it would be way past midnight by the time Li Qianfei reached the Gu family. Even if she was familiar with the Gu family, it was still dangerous for Li Qianfei to be outside alone.

Li Qianfei nodded and left along with Li Nanjue.

Li Xiao, on the other hand, returned to her room and dispersed the luck she just gathered. After she dispersed the luck, it split into strands of different people’s luck. After losing the black hole that was Li Qianfei, the luck returned to its original owner.

***

At the Gu family residence.

“Godfather, please save my brother.” Li Qianfei was in tears as soon as she saw him.

The man sitting in front of her was Gu Qian. He was around fifty years old, with a slightly protruding belly. He exhaled a puff of cigarette, sighed, and said, “Fei Fei, I was anxious when I found out the news, and I also asked people to help me find out. But your brother’s matter is really difficult to handle, and it’s not easy for even me to interfere over there.”

Li Qianfei gnawed her lower lip. It would be her brother’s and her’s coming-of-age ceremony in two months. If her brother wouldn’t be released by then, the whole world would spread rumors about the siblings.

Gu Qian paused for a moment before saying, “It would be helpful if our Gu family worked on a foreign railway project. It would solidify our family’s position. Then, it wouldn’t be that difficult to help.”

Li Qianfei wasn’t a moron, and she noticed the underlying motive. Uncle Gu merely wanted to take advantage of Li Qianfei’s good luck.

Rage filled her heart. Uncle Gu was usually very open about helping her and loved her. He often said she was more considerate than his own daughter. But this time he was taking advantage of the fire. But for the sake of her brother, this was her only option. She could only comfort herself with the fact that Uncle Gu was also her patron. If the Gu family was happy, then it meant that she would benefit.

She nodded and said, “Then I wish Godfather will fulfill his desires.”

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to hold Gu Qian’s hand. In the past, as long as she did this, she could let others take a bit of her luck.

Gu Qian was ecstatic. The project their Gu family had been working on had a 70% certainty of success, but he couldn’t resist wanting a 100% success rate. They wanted to look for Li Qianfei, this Koi, to reinforce their luck. Now it was stable!

What Li Qianfei didn’t know was that her luck wasn’t stable and she needed to draw more from the outside world to make up for the loss. The contact with Gu Qian sucked the luck from Gu Qian’s body instead of giving him more.

When Li Qianfei let go, Gu Qian quivered and big drops of sweat appeared on his forehead.