Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 284 is a melon we've never heard of before.
This is what Xi Jingyue saw when he came out of the house.

Seeing that his parents had turned pale with anger and walked away, his cousins ​​glared at him and his parents with resentment before reluctantly following them away.

The huge courtyard was completely empty. Although it was no longer as lively and bustling as before, Xi Jingyue felt that this was the happiest New Year he had ever had since he was born.

As the large fireworks display outside the courtyard went off, Xi Jingyue couldn't help but take out his phone and send a text message to Du Anrao.

Happy New Year! And thank you.

At that time, Du Anrao was busy lurking around in the family group chat, grabbing red envelopes everywhere, and was full of questions when he saw this message.

"Happy New Year, Mr. Xi! But why are you thanking me all of a sudden?"

"It's alright. Have you gone home yet? Are you at your hometown now?"

On the day he attended Du Desheng's wedding banquet, he was interrogated by Du Anrao's third brother and almost revealed that he could also hear Du Anrao's thoughts.

After a back-and-forth exchange, both sides harbored their own ulterior motives.

Faced with the Du family's tight security, Xi Jingyue knew he had no chance of winning. To make matters worse, a payment issue arose at his company, so he left before the banquet was over.

Therefore, he really didn't know that Du Anrao hadn't left City B, but was spending the New Year with his family in the capital.

Du Anrao briefly explained to him the reason for staying in City B, but Xi Jingyue immediately grasped the key point.

"Mr. Liu and Ms. Qi came to see you? What about their fates and that...?"

“I’ve already sent that little devil away, and I’ve also helped them change their fates back. It’s Mr. Yan, Mr. Liu’s business partner. His son was bewitched by Liu Tianyuan’s family, making him deeply in love with Liu Tianyuan’s sister and devoted to her. I’ll have to help them remove that bewitching curse later. I feel so busy every day.”

I thought I'd been picked up by rich parents as soon as I came down the mountain and could just relax, but one thing after another has happened, which is really upsetting.

Du Anrao sent her last message as a voice message, and Xi Jingyue, even from a thousand miles away, could imagine the tone of her voice and couldn't help but laugh.

"That's because you're capable and can do things that others can't, which is why they like to ask you for help."

Du Anrao was stunned, his face flushing: "Now that you say that, I feel a little embarrassed."

"An'an, who are you talking to?" Du Yihan, who was setting off fireworks not far away, turned her head and saw her younger sister holding a phone, her face flushed, and her alarm bells went off instantly.

The other older siblings also looked over when they heard the noise. Du Anrao felt guilty under their gazes and subconsciously denied it: "No, I wasn't talking to anyone."

"Then why are you face so red?"

"That's the reflection from the fireworks you set off. By the way, Second Brother, the firecracker you just set off was really cool, especially the green one. Can you set off another one?"

Du Hexuan glanced at his sister suspiciously, but didn't ask any more questions. He obediently went to set off the pretty fireworks his sister liked to watch.

Seeing that the others' attention had been diverted, Du Anrao breathed a sigh of relief without making it obvious.

Looking down, she saw that Xi Jingyue had sent another message. "Was that your third brother's voice just now?"

"Yes, Mr. Xi, let me tell you, my third brother is amazing. He was only a junior in college when he was exceptionally admitted to Peking University for postgraduate studies and even got a job in one of their labs. He said that after the New Year, when school starts, he'll take me to visit his lab. I've never been in a lab before, so I'm a little nervous. I hope everything goes well."

When Du Anrao mentioned this, Xi Jingyue subconsciously thought of Du Anrao's previous speculation about that Dr. Du. Could her third brother be the Dr. Du whose identity was blurred?
Even if he weren't, given the previous involvement of Du Anrao's family members, and considering how quick-witted the other party was at the banquet that day, almost uncovering all his secrets in just a few words, Xi Jingyue intuitively felt that this third young master of the Du family was not so simple, and correspondingly, the gossip involving him must be quite significant.

Thinking this, Xi Jingyue suddenly felt a little restless and wanted to fly to City B again. He wondered if he could catch a glimpse of the latest gossip if he flew there after the New Year.

"Don't be nervous. Since it's your third brother who invited you, he'll definitely take good care of you. Just treat it as a trip to have fun and make some friends. It'll be easier to visit your third brother in the future."

"That's true."

Du Anrao felt much more relaxed after receiving comfort from Xi Jingyue.

After the New Year, Du Anrao moved to the large apartment that her parents had just bought, so that she could spend her free time in the next few days shopping with her two elders and Du Yuxi.

However, to everyone's surprise, before the year was even half over, Mr. Liu and his group came knocking on their door again.

Because Du Anrao was moving, the group first went to Jingyu Street, only to find it empty, before remembering to call Du Anrao to inquire about her whereabouts.

At that time, Du Anrao had just gotten up and was eating breakfast at the dining table wearing the panda pajamas her mother had bought for her when her phone suddenly rang, attracting the attention of all her family members nearby.

"Aunt Qiu? Oh right, I moved out of my great-uncle's place. My parents, older brother, and older sister came to City B to spend the New Year with me. They bought a new house, so I moved here to stay with them for a few days. You brought Mr. Yan's son with you? Why don't you just bring him here? My address is..."

After hanging up the phone, Du Anrao continued eating breakfast, stuffing fried dough sticks into his mouth while thinking about how to help that young master Yan remove the Gu poison.

[To be honest, I'd only ever heard my master mention this "Love Poison" before; this is the first time I've ever seen it. I wonder if people afflicted by it really do have minds full of love and romance, as my master described, to the point that they wouldn't even want to eat zombies.]

A love potion?!

We've seen it all, it's a story none of us have heard before! In that case, then...

So Du Anrao watched helplessly as his family members, who had previously said they were going out, sat firmly on the sofa, as if their butts were glued to the cushions, without moving an inch.

Mr. Liu and his group were about to arrive, but the house was still packed with people.

Du Anrao blinked, puzzled, "Big brother, didn't you just say there was a meeting at nine o'clock? Now it's already..."

Du Anrao turned to look at the clock behind him: "It's 9:10. Shouldn't you go back to your room to work?"

Du Junyan, whose name was mentioned, stiffened, but remained seated on the sofa with an unchanged expression: "A director in charge of an important project accidentally blew up the kitchen while cooking this morning, causing the circuit in that area to go out and making it impossible to contact him. My secretary is on her way to his house now, and the meeting originally scheduled for nine o'clock has been rescheduled to the afternoon."

Everyone: Pfft...

Du Anrao: "???" Is this really that outrageous?