Master, Your Wife Has Become a Super Star Through Fortune-Telling

Chapter 290 - 292: Death Knell

"Master! What do I do?"

Lego had already climbed to the roof. Looking down, he felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

But Su Nian just shook her head. "It’s fine. Keep climbing up. Don’t worry."

And so, terrified and cautious, Lego slowly continued his ascent.

Thankfully, the castle had many rooms and numerous protruding ledges, which gave him handholds and footholds all the way to the top.

Meanwhile, the wealthy woman also sensed that something was amiss.

She scanned the room, then wheeled herself to the window.

"Open the window!"

Her breathing was unsteady; just crossing that short distance had left her gasping for air.

Her condition was clearly poor, but her eyes were fixed on the windowsill.

"Find him!!!"

The wealthy woman’s first instinct was that the man had climbed down from the windowsill to escape the manor.

She looked down from above, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary below. Yet, there was no one in the room.

’A person can’t just fly away. If he didn’t go down, he must have gone up!’

The wealthy woman narrowed her eyes, glanced up, and immediately issued an order.

"Find my funerary object at once! Don’t delay the hour of my death!"

Su Nian’s trick had its limits.

Lego soon realized someone was coming after him. He wanted to hide, but his pursuers were far more agile than he was.

Su Nian narrowed her eyes, watching the well-trained bodyguards close in on Lego step by step.

Lego was stunned, his lips trembling nonstop as he watched the men approach.

He couldn’t climb any higher. Above the ledge he was standing on was another ledge, but this final one belonged to a small attic at the very top of the castle.

The attic was too high and too small, and naturally, so was its outer windowsill.

It was like a lifeline he could never reach. His face had gone completely pale, while the viewers in the livestream chat were still casually watching him.

They posted gloating comments.

[Pfft! Isn’t this what he deserves?]

[Ooh! Your ninety-three-year-old little wifey is coming to get you!]

[Your rich old granny is here for you!]

Lego panicked. He wanted to run, but there was nowhere to go!

His eyes darted toward Su Nian.

"Master, what should I do? Master!!"

Su Nian lifted her chin slightly, her voice perfectly calm as she instructed, "Just stand right there and don’t move."

For a moment, Lego thought Su Nian was deliberately messing with him and was furious.

But then, as he stood there, he suddenly heard a chiming sound from within the castle.

DONG...

A heavy, solemn sound rang out.

’Is that... a death knell?’

In the end, the wealthy woman didn’t live to see him captured. Down below, she clutched her heart, closed her eyes in resentment, and slowly passed away in her wheelchair.

The auspicious time of death that the Master had calculated for her had passed, but she had died without capturing Lego.

As for Lego, hearing the death knell brought not just the relief of having survived a disaster, but also a surge of speculative hope.

"Is my name in her will or not?!"

he asked Su Nian, his face flushed with excitement.

"Don’t be too greedy for wealth that doesn’t belong to you, or your end won’t be a happy one."

Then Su Nian added a reminder, "You should leave now. This place isn’t for you. Go back to your country immediately!"

"But I’ll have no money?"

"Mhm, that’s right. And your marriage certificate was a fake, too."

Su Nian stated flatly.

Lego’s grip on the ledge instantly faltered.

His expression soured, but then he remembered that Su Nian was the one who had helped him escape with his life today.

He quickly hid his displeasure and decided to listen to Su Nian and flee the area first.

The moment the bell tolled, the bodyguards who had come to capture him quickly dispersed.

They returned to their posts in an orderly fashion.

This was also part of the wealthy woman’s plan. She had arranged everything, even calculating the exact time of her death. She just hadn’t expected her funerary object to suddenly run off.

Because the wealthy woman’s fortune was so vast, a crowd had already gathered below.

Every single one of them was there to claim a piece of her inheritance.

There was a bald man covered from head to toe in all sorts of tattoos.

There was also a fair-skinned, sunny "little prince" with a head of golden hair.

And there was an artistic boy with long hair. All of them were now gathered in the main hall.

"I’m her real husband!"

"No, I’m her husband!"

"But she told me she loved me the most."

"We even got a marriage certificate!"

This was followed by several people answering in unison.

"I got a certificate, too!"

As Lego was making his way downstairs, he overheard this exchange, and his expression grew even more complicated.

Thinking of his own certificate, he felt a sudden wave of embarrassment.

But he didn’t say anything, instead cautiously slipping out around the corner.

’She’s dead, so there’s no reason for me to stay here anymore.’

Fortunately, he had already managed to get a good amount of money from the wealthy woman. He also believed what Su Nian had said about quitting while he was ahead.

He didn’t dare get entangled any further. He took advantage of the crowd’s presence to quickly leave the chaotic scene.

[I don’t know what to say. After watching all that, I only have one thought: it’s better back home.]

[If he hadn’t been so greedy for the rich woman’s fortune, he never would have gone so far away.]

[Why didn’t he go fight for it?]

[The fact that everyone has a certificate with the rich woman is something I never would have expected.]

[She gave each of her beloved boys a title, but they were all fake!]

[Actually, at this final stage, he might have really been able to get a share of something.]

[Don’t be stupid. Even the streamer told him to give up, so the odds must be against him. If he tries to fight for it, whether he gets anything is one thing, but whether he keeps his life is another!]

[Exactly! I think I saw one of those guys with a gun. That had to be real, right?]

Seeing these comments scroll by, Lego’s face changed, and he finally decided to flee immediately.

He quickly packed his bags and, under the cover of the chaos, boarded a flight back to his home country.

Only when he was seated on the plane did he finally feel himself relax.

Su Nian also disconnected from her call with him and began the second lottery of the day.

[This rich woman’s story was kinda boring. Mainly because, well, I want to be a rich woman myself.]

[Forget it. The streamer isn’t going to tell you the winning lottery numbers.]

[She doesn’t have to tell me that. I’d be happy to ask about other things, too.]

[I’ve been entering the lottery since day one, every single day, but I’ve never won once.]

Someone in the chat had been entering for a long time without a single win.

They were starting to feel a bit rebellious and impatient, but when the next lottery began, they would still obediently reach out with their little hands to enter.

Su Nian saw the viewers’ comments in the chat but didn’t say much. She simply started a new lucky bag giveaway.