"Go, go, hurry up!" I waved him away. "Do you think I'm running a taxi service? With passenger refusal complaints? If I don't want to take a job, what's it to you?"

"Li Po!" Zhao Yuezhu was on the verge of tears. "Why are you bullying me? I didn't do anything to you!"

"Alright, alright..." Seeing things were going south, I quickly stood up to placate her. "I was just teasing you! Can't you take a joke?"

"Who wants you to tease me?" Zhao Yuezhu was now crying for real. "You're obviously bullying me on purpose."

Zhao Yuezhu's crying brought Feng Ruoxing and the others rushing in. "Li..."

Feng Ruoxing barely uttered a word before I raised my hand. "Nobody comes in. There's something strange about this girl!"

"Divine Eyes, open!" For the first time, Ye Yang activated his Divine Eyes directly, and so obviously.

Ye Yang only glanced into the room before saying, "Don't go in, everyone. That girl has too much bad luck on her. Entering the room is just asking for trouble."

I comforted Zhao Yuezhu, "See? I saw the bad luck surrounding you earlier. I deliberately provoked you to see if I could weaken it."

Once someone is afflicted with bad luck, it's not impossible to change their fortune.

Changing luck is one of the essential skills for a sorcerer. Most people seek help for this. Among the jobs that ordinary sorcerers take on, changing luck, fortune-telling, and feng shui account for nearly eighty percent, while exorcising evil spirits and sending away ghosts make up only a small fraction.

The most effective, albeit most foolish, method of changing luck is to let the client experience minor misfortunes, gradually exhausting the bad luck until their fortune naturally turns around.

If a sorcerer seeks quick results by forcefully suppressing the bad luck, they might just be postponing it. The client might be temporarily fine, even experiencing some good fortune, but when the bad luck explodes, it could be fatal.

I deliberately provoked Zhao Yuezhu earlier to change her luck, but the bad luck surrounding her was as solid as iron, impossible to shift.

Zhao Yuezhu stopped crying. "Li Po, they've all left. You're so close to me, won't you be affected?"

I smiled and sat down. "This is what I do for a living. Am I just supposed to throw you out? If you weren't my friend, I might have actually done that."

"I've taken your case. Tell me, what exactly happened?"

Zhao Yuezhu blinked. "Aren't you going to name your price?"

"Pay what you feel is right. A hundred isn't too little, and adding ten thousand after isn't too much either." It wasn't that I didn't want to set a price, but I felt somewhat guilty about the Ao Xue Sect incident, which resulted in her and her father being locked up for several days. Helping Zhao Yuezhu was a way of repaying that favor.

Zhao Yuezhu wrung her hands. "I'm sorry, I didn't know things would be so troublesome. If I had known, I wouldn't have come to bother you."

"Actually, this isn't my matter, it's a friend of mine." Zhao Yuezhu quickly added, "We're just ordinary friends. I saw that he was really pitiful, so I wanted to ask you to help him."

I asked directly, "Where is he?"

"He's outside! I didn't let him in." Zhao Yuezhu said, "I wasn't sure if you'd agree to help, so I had him wait."

I called out to Ye Yang and the others, "You guys go back first. Little girl, go bring your friend in."

After Zhao Yuezhu left, Ye Yang said, "We don't need to leave. The bad luck on Zhao Yuezhu is very strange. Normal bad luck would automatically spread outwards. She sat beside you for so long, yet your luck hasn't changed at all."

"It wasn't until you agreed to take on Zhao Yuezhu's business that the bad luck started to converge on you. This case is likely related to something involving curse techniques."

Luck can influence each other. As the saying goes, "sharing the joy" or "encountering misfortune" are both examples of being affected by luck.

If someone with bad luck encounters someone with exceptionally good luck, their fortunes might cancel each other out. Conversely, if someone's luck is just average, encountering bad luck will contaminate them.

If the bad luck on Zhao Yuezhu was a natural phenomenon, I would naturally be affected by her luck when talking to her. However, according to Ye Yang, the bad luck on Zhao Yuezhu was targeted, which could only mean that Zhao Yuezhu had been cursed.

As I tapped the table, recalling the curse techniques I had learned, Zhao Yuezhu brought in a rather handsome-looking boy.

He called out "Brother Li" somewhat shyly, before introducing himself. "My name is Sun Borong, I'm Yuezhu's classmate. You can call me Xiao Sun, or Xiao Rong."

Zhao Yuezhu looked displeased. "Don't call me Yuezhu, we're not that close yet."

Xiao Rong blushed slightly because of Zhao Yuezhu's words. I gestured for him to sit down. "Zhao Yuezhu should have told you about my situation. I won't boast about my abilities. What kind of trouble are you in? Just tell me."

Xiao Rong said, "I've been encountering unclean things lately. I might run into them at any time. For some reason, they want to kill me as soon as they see me. I've had several narrow escapes."

"I know that Zhao Yuezhu majors in folklore, so I found her to see if she could help me exorcise evil spirits. She said that only you can help me."