Over a decade ago, a show called "Dad Is Here" featured several fathers bringing their adorable little girls into a remote mountain village—and a young village Taoist managed to blend in among them.

More than ten years later, a young man who grew up in a Taoist temple but inherited the legacy of a sorcerer descends the mountain and enters the city with an old yellow dog.

Spirit medium rituals? I can do those too, and I dance better than you.

Fortune-telling and face reading? Sorry, my fees are very expensive.

Feng Shui and geomancy? Well, I only read the fate of nations.

Gu techniques? I don’t play with snakes and insects—I keep an old yellow dog at home.

Chapter 1: I Am Not a Taoist

The sun sets in the west, over a remote little village!

Stars twinkle, casting their light on the grass where two small figures sit, surrounded by the chirping of insects and birds.

“Taoist brother, what’s the name of the brightest star in the sky?”

“That one?” The boy lifted his head, gazing at the brightest star, and replied, “That’s Venus, but we call it Taibai. When it appears at dawn, it’s called Qiming; at dusk, we call it Chang Geng. The saying ‘Qiming in the east, Chang Geng in the west’ refers to it.”

“Qiming in the east, Chang Geng in the west—too hard to remember! I’ll just call it the Taoist Star. Hehe, Taoist Star, Taoist Star, it’s as pretty as Taoist brother.”

The boy pursed his lips, looking at the girl’s bright, innocent smile. Some words, in the end, he didn’t say.

Actually, he wasn’t a Taoist.

……

Magic City!

July, scorching sun!

The subway was as crowded as ever, but for many men, they enjoyed this crowding, as it gave them a chance to admire the stylishly dressed women, and sometimes even the thrill of accidental skin contact.

Of course, most men only dared to sneak a few glances, but there was one man who was different.

He was a young man dressed completely out of place—while everyone else wore short sleeves, he stood out in a long robe.

But what the men in the carriage admired wasn’t his outfit, but the fact that this young man kept his gaze fixed on the most beautiful girl in the carriage.

She was a stunning woman in her early twenties, wearing a black, low-cut camisole dress. Her fair, lovely skin was exposed to the air, attracting countless lustful eyes, and most importantly, she had a delicate, exquisite face.

Ashley Cooper’s brows were tightly furrowed. She was already regretting it—if she’d known, she wouldn’t have made that bet with her best friend. Now that she’d lost, she had to dress so revealingly and be ogled by all these perverts.

Especially that man directly in front of her—ever since she got on, his eyes had been glued to certain parts of her body. She couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Have you stared enough?!”

Seeing the girl’s look of disdain, Brian Carter finally realized she probably thought he was a pervert.

“Miss, judging by your face, today you…”

“Today my brow is dark and I’ll suffer a bloody misfortune!” Ashley Cooper directly cut Brian Carter off. Such a cheesy pick-up line was already outdated.

Brian Carter’s expression didn’t change as he replied, “The lady is absolutely right.”

“Next you’ll say you have a way to resolve it, and ask if you can hold my hand to take a look?”

“That won’t be necessary. I can tell just by your face.” Brian Carter shook his head seriously. “Miss, just remember one thing: if you encounter water, turn back, and you’ll avoid this disaster.”

Ding!

At that moment, the subway arrived at the station. Ashley Cooper shot Brian Carter a vicious glare—this pervert was really putting on an act. After cursing “psycho,” she strode out of the subway car in her high heels.

Watching Ashley Cooper’s departing figure, Brian Carter gave a wry smile. He knew she definitely didn’t believe him, but he’d said all he could. Any more, and it would be, as his master said, revealing the secrets of heaven.

……

At the subway platform exit, Ashley Cooper glanced at her waiting best friend and rolled her eyes.

“Yingying, how does it feel to dress like that? Didn’t every man on the subway stare at you?”

“Not talking to you.”

Ashley Cooper gave her best friend a punch and walked straight outside. Her best friend was a blabbermouth who could never keep a secret—if she told her she’d been practically undressed by someone’s eyes in the carriage, the whole circle would know by tomorrow.

“Come on, tell me—what happened on the subway?”

“If you want to know, then swap clothes with me and take a subway ride yourself.”

Bickering all the way out of the subway exit, Ashley Cooper suddenly stopped in her tracks, because at that moment, the fountain in the square ahead was spraying water.

Seeing the fountain, Ashley Cooper suddenly remembered the young man’s words: “If you encounter water, turn back.” She stopped instinctively.

“Yingying, what’s wrong?”

Seeing Ashley Cooper stop, her best friend also stopped and asked curiously.

“It’s nothing, we… ah!”

Ashley Cooper screamed, her eyes fixed on the streetlamp pole that crashed down at the fountain. The spot where it fell was less than three meters from her—if she hadn’t stopped just now…