The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 117 - 114: The Magical Cape; The Magician’s Secret

Chapter 117: Chapter 114: The Magical Cape; The Magician’s Secret

Qin Zhao: Have you seen my uncle?

Su Xiaotong: [Stunned]

Su Xiaotong: How did you know?!!

Su Xiaotong: Do you know what he said about me today?

Qin Zhao: What did he say?

Su Xiaotong: He said I have strong hands and I’m definitely domesticated, very suitable for housework.

Su Xiaotong: Is he mocking me? Ah!!!

Qin Zhao: Hahahaha.

Su Xiaotong: You’re laughing!

Qin Zhao: He actually wants you to do housework, this man is not a keeper.

Su Xiaotong: Makes sense, but... your uncle is pretty handsome.

Su Xiaotong: If it weren’t for that incident last time.

Qin Zhao: Then why not give it a try with him?

Su Xiaotong: I don’t dare.

Su Xiaotong: Now, whenever I see him, I just feel embarrassed.

Qin Zhao: What’s there to be embarrassed about, this shows you two are meant to be!

After sending that message, it was time to board the plane.

Qin Zhao had switched her phone to airplane mode, so she couldn’t reply to any more messages.

Suddenly, she remembered something really important and turned to Chu Yan, "My Australian lobsters!"

Chu Yan couldn’t help but laugh, "Alright, I’ll cook it for you when we get back."

"What about the ones you bought last time?"

"I ate them myself and also gave some to Ling Yi."

Qin Zhao looked regretful. If only she had known, she would have left home later.

They arrived in Imperial City around three in the afternoon.

Chu Yan had taken time off for this period.

As soon as they got home, Qin Zhao urged Chu Yan to go out and buy Australian lobsters.

Checking her phone, she noticed a bunch of messages from Su Xiaotong.

Su Xiaotong: I feel like he has a bad impression of me.

Su Xiaotong: Definitely no hope now!!

Qin Zhao: Talk to him more and cultivate some feelings.

Su Xiaotong: I sent him a bunch of messages and he hasn’t replied!

Su Xiaotong: Could anyone be more embarrassed than me? [Crying]

Qin Zhao: Then why not ask him out?

Su Xiaotong: Your uncle is the boss of a big company, he won’t have time.

Su Xiaotong: He doesn’t reply to messages, how could he possibly come out if I ask him?

Qin Zhao: Then I’ll ask him out for you!

Su Xiaotong: Just tell him it’s to apologize!

Qin Zhao: What should we do when we meet up?

After a moment of silence, Su Xiaotong sent over a link.

It was to a famous Magic Troupe in Imperial City.

Most of their tricks have not been deciphered to this day.

Su Xiaotong had seen this Magic Troupe’s performance before and found it very interesting.

She had tried several times to spot the flaws but never succeeded.

Online, some had raised a number of questions, but then the Magic Troupe would perform another show, disproving the netizens’ speculations and confusing them all over again.

With such incidents becoming more frequent, the Magic Troupe became even more famous.

Recently, they had a popular magic show where a loophole was found, so the Magic Troupe planned to hold a decrypting performance to let the audience see if the loophole they found was correct.

Su Xiaotong: Do you want to go see some magic?

Qin Zhao: I’ll ask him.

She didn’t mind either way; she didn’t have much else to do.

Mainly, she needed to help Su Xiaotong apologize and needed Qin Yu to be interested.

So, Qin Zhao called Qin Yu, "Uncle, are you free tomorrow? Let’s go see some magic."

"Why all of a sudden are you asking me to a magic show?"

Qin Yu immediately sensed something was off; his niece never asked him to go out for fun.

Qin Zhao found a random excuse, "It’s just out of boredom, you know. After all, I’ve made quite a bit of money off you, so I thought I’d treat you to a magic show to thank you."

"I happen to be free tomorrow."

Qin Yu agreed, but he was thinking he should ask Qin Zhao about her marriage plans.

His elder brother and sister-in-law never cared about their daughter; it had always been him and his sister taking care of her.

Later on, as Qin Yu started his own business and got busy, he couldn’t look out for Qin Zhao anymore.

But when Qin Zhao said she wanted to enter the entertainment industry, Qin Yu still sent resources her way immediately.

Over the years, he had been far too negligent of his niece.

Qin Yu couldn’t stand to watch Qin Zhao get married on a whim, so he planned to find out more.

"Okay, we’ll be in touch on the phone."

Qin Zhao didn’t expect it to be so easy to make arrangements with Qin Yu, so she replied with the news to Su Xiaotong.

Su Xiaotong quickly went to buy the tickets and sent Qin Zhao the timing.

By this time, Chu Yan had also come back with groceries.

Qin Zhao saw the Australian lobsters he had brought back and her eyes lit up immediately, gleefully heading to the kitchen to help so that they could have dinner as soon as possible!

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The next afternoon, Qin Zhao and Su Xiaotong arrived early at the magic troupe’s performance venue.

"Today’s highlight is called the ’Magical Cloak.’ I’ve seen it once before but still can’t figure out how it’s done. The organizer said they would pick an audience member to come onstage and solve the mystery for us. I wonder if any of those people online have guessed it right!"

The ’Magical Cloak’ has a classic segment:

The magician, holding the cloak, shakes it back and forth, and a head rolls around the edge of the cloak.

That’s the magician’s assistant.

But when the magician turns the cloak to another side, there’s absolutely no one behind it.

So, a fierce debate erupted online with everyone guessing where the assistant could be hiding.

Some said the cloak had two layers, and the assistant was hidden inside.

Others suggested that when the magician removed the cloak, the assistant quickly hid behind him.

After Su Xiaotong finished describing the magic trick, Qin Zhao also became quite curious.

"Aren’t all magic tricks just obscuring techniques?"

She had watched some magic trick videos online, and many comments said the same thing.

This ’Magical Cloak’ might use a rather sophisticated obscuring technique.

Qin Zhao was eager to see how impressive this obscuring technique could be.

"Right, that’s what they say, but there are some tricks that you just can’t figure out how they’re done. Ever since I met you, I think some magicians might really be able to do magic."

The way Qin Zhao caught ghosts looked even more impressive than magic!

As the two were chatting, Qin Yu arrived.

Seeing Su Xiaotong next to Qin Zhao, he hesitated in his steps.

Seeing this young lady always inexplicably made his cheeks hurt.

"Mr. Qin, what a coincidence."

Su Xiaotong timidly raised her hand in greeting.

Qin Zhao casually said, "We happened to have three tickets, so I invited my friend along."

Qin Yu glanced coolly at Su Xiaotong, then turned to Qin Zhao and said, "Why didn’t you invite your husband to join us? I’ve never met him since you got married."

"You’ve met him," Qin Zhao responded. "In my aunt’s hospital room."

"My sister’s attending physician?"

Qin Yu suddenly realized, recalling his sister’s exceptional kindness towards that doctor.

Every time she went in for a check-up and saw Dr. Chu, she was always beaming with smiles.

"Why don’t we have dinner together sometime? Now that you’re married, why not bring him to meet the elders?"

Because we’re going to get divorced.

Qin Zhao muttered to herself silently but didn’t say it out loud.

"Alright, I’ll set up a time with you later."

The three of them headed toward the performance venue, with Qin Zhao deliberately slowing down.

Su Xiaotong walked beside Qin Yu, terribly nervous, and dared not initiate a conversation.

"Do you guys want to drink some milk tea? I’ll go buy it for us!"

After holding it in for a while, Su Xiaotong finally blurted out a sentence upon seeing a milk tea stall.

Qin Zhao put a hand to her forehead and stepped forward, saying, "I’ll go buy it. You two go ahead and enter."

"I don’t drink that stuff, just get me a bottle of mineral water."

Qin Yu stated detachedly.

"Zhaozhao, let me do it!"

Su Xiaotong turned and hurried over, her face scrunched up in worry.

"I still don’t dare to speak to him, you guys go in first! I need to calm down!"

Her original intention was to offer a proper apology, but after their matchmaking attempt, seeing Qin Yu had become even more awkward.

However, her having been set up on that date didn’t mean she had to date Qin Yu.

Since Qin Zhao said it was fate, she wanted to first try to change Qin Yu’s attitude.

If it really didn’t work out in the end, she was prepared to give up!

Su Xiaotong, with a dazed expression, went to the milk tea shop and ordered two cups of milk tea.

The mineral water Qin Yu wanted was available from the vending machine next to the staircase.

"I’ll come back to get it."

After speaking to the shop clerk, Su Xiaotong left to buy the mineral water.

At the vending machine, she selected a bottle of mineral water.

"Why are you so distracted? Is something on your mind?"

"Me? No, what could I possibly have on my mind?"

"Then why did you slip up during the last performance? Today we’re getting an audience member on stage; you mustn’t mess up again, or we’re finished."

"I got it; I’ll be careful this time."

Conversations from the nearby staircase caught Su Xiaotong’s attention, and she curiously looked over.

What she saw shocked her to the core.

Descending the stairs was a man dressed in a magician’s performance outfit.

Floating next to him was a human head with long hair!

A human, human head??!

Could the ’Magical Cloak’ trick actually use a real human head?!

Su Xiaotong turned deathly pale, and as the man turned around, she immediately ran off.

She completely forgot about the mineral water and the two cups of milk tea.

Her mind was flooded with the image of that floating head as she stumbled into the venue, frantically looking for Qin Zhao and the others.