The Comeback of the Cannon-Fodder Supporting Actress

Wu Zhichang scared himself half to death with his own imagination.

”Big Brother, what’s up with Second Uncle? Did you send him to the hospital?”

”We did. He still hasn’t woken up, and the doctors can’t figure out what’s going on.”

Wu Zhiwen reported honestly.

Wu Zhichang hurriedly walked out of the café with his phone: ”Big Brother, there’s something I have to make clear to you.”

He told Wu Zhiwen in full detail how he stopped Anning today, how he questioned Anning about why she broke off the engagement with Rong Junhao, and what Anning said to him.

On the other end, Wu Zhiwen was silent for a long time: ”Third, hurry up and go find Mr. Yun. Tell her about Second Uncle collapsing and ask her if she knows what’s going on.”

”What could she possibly know?”

Wu Zhichang really didn’t think Anning had that kind of skill.

Wu Zhiwen was so mad he wanted to punch Wu Zhichang: ”Rong Junhao is not some ordinary guy. Even with that level of cultivation he couldn’t do anything to Mr. Yun. You think Mr. Yun doesn’t have some abilities of her own?”

Well, that’s true.

Wu Zhichang realized it late, breaking out in a cold sweat. He’d rushed in to interrogate Anning like that—thank god Anning has a good temper and didn’t stoop to his level, otherwise...

He touched the back of his head, thinking he might already be dead.

With Second Uncle on the line, no matter how scared he was, Wu Zhichang still had to go find Anning.

Only this time, wanting to see Anning wasn’t so easy.

He blocked her for two whole days before he finally managed to stop Anning.

”Mr. Yun.” By now Wu Zhichang had lost all his former shine. These two days he’d been staking out Anning, unable to eat or sleep well. He looked utterly haggard—stubbled face, dark circles, wrinkled clothes. At a glance he looked like some random beggar.

”Something up?” Anning turned and saw Wu Zhichang.

Wu Zhichang hurried over and respectfully explained his family’s situation: ”Mr. Yun, do you know what’s going on?”

Anning sighed: ”Are you stupid or what? I made it very clear before: your Qi Fortune is leaking out. I even told you to pay attention at home. You really never thought about it more?”

Wu Zhichang froze for a moment: ”You mean, all of this is Rong Junhao’s doing?”

”More or less.” Anning nodded. ”You can have your family find a master to take a look.”

Wu Zhichang rushed to say, ”We did, we did, but it was useless. The master couldn’t see what was wrong at all.”

He begged Anning: ”Mr. Yun, please help us out.”

Anning looked him over: ”It’s not that I don’t want to help, I just don’t have that kind of skill. But I can introduce you to someone.”

”Who?” Wu Zhichang clutched at that like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, peppering her with questions.

Anning said, ”I’ll give you an address. Go check out his livestream. You can ask him directly...”

What the hell is this?

Wu Zhichang still wanted to ask Anning more, but she didn’t give him the chance. She swept past him with her entourage like a gust of wind.

All he could do was grudgingly go back to his hotel. Then he opened that address and sure enough found the supposedly miraculous livestream.

At that moment, the livestream wasn’t on, but there were some previous videos.

Unable to contain his curiosity, Wu Zhichang clicked one. The more he watched, the more excited he got—and the more confused.

This streamer was just too damned incredible.

He looked young, and was pretty handsome, yet somehow knew so much.

From astronomy to geography, from Olympiad Mathematics problems to hard questions in every subject—fine, it’d be impressive enough that he could answer all those. But then some contractor asked him about construction issues and he could answer that too; some housewife asked him about cooking and making soup, and he explained it all in detail; the most unbelievable thing was people consulting him about legal clauses, and he could rattle them off fluently.

The stream hadn’t been running for many days, but the questions asked were insane—covering heaven and earth, every trivial and major issue imaginable.

Wu Zhichang didn’t even know how to describe it.

He waited quite a while and finally the livestream started.

He immediately sent a huge tip, then asked Xiao Yuan: ”Streamer, can we talk privately? I have a question, but it involves personal privacy...”

Xiao Yuan was easygoing and agreed to a private chat, but said they’d talk after the stream.

Wu Zhichang forced himself to finish watching the stream. Afterward, they chatted privately and he poured out his troubles.

Xiao Yuan thought for a bit: ”It should indeed be a Feng Shui issue causing the Qi Fortune to leak. How about this—I’ll go with you to the Capital and take a look.”

”Yes, yes!” Wu Zhichang couldn’t be happier.

So the two of them agreed on a time and flew to the Capital together.

Once there, Wu Zhichang rushed Xiao Yuan over to the Wu Family’s old estate to walk around. Xiao Yuan really did point out a lot of problems, then rearranged the grand Feng Shui formation.

Just as he finished setting it up, the hospital called: ”Second Uncle woke up.”

Wu Zhichang nearly fell to his knees and bowed to Xiao Yuan right there.

Xiao Yuan waved his hand, all calm and breezy: ”It’s not a big deal. Just be more careful in the future. This formation can last for decades. Don’t let anyone sweet-talk you into randomly messing with the Feng Shui again.”

”Definitely. We’ll never let anyone touch the Feng Shui again.” The Wu Family hurried to promise.

Even Mr. Wu came out to thank Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan laughed and said, ”If you really want to thank me, just come to my livestream more often and boost the traffic.”

He didn’t stay long at the Wu Family home; once the problem was solved, he left.

As soon as he left, Wu Zhiwen put his information on the desk. After reading it, Mr. Wu sighed: ”True masters hide among the people.”

Just then, the web drama starring Xiao Yuan premiered, so in order to thank him, the Wu Family not only watched his livestreams, they also bought memberships and followed the series daily.

Then as they kept watching, all the women in the Wu Family became Xiao Yuan’s fans.

On Rong Junhao’s side, he was still waiting for that simple-minded guy Wu Zhichang to stir up trouble for Anning.

Instead, while he waited and waited, Mrs. Rong ran into all kinds of problems, leaving Rong Junhao scrambling.

He didn’t have time to care about Anning and Xiao Yuan; he focused on fixing Mrs. Rong’s issues. Only after things were under control did he spend several days investigating, and finally discovered all of it had been orchestrated by the Wu Family.

Rong Junhao was so furious he almost started cursing out loud.

He thought the Wu Family was really ungrateful. He’d just helped Mr. Wu detox, and even set up a Feng Shui formation for the Wu Family, and then they turned around and started suppressing Mrs. Rong. Totally not the kind of people you can work with.

What he didn’t expect was that it wasn’t just the Wu Family that turned on him—several families whose Feng Shui he’d helped with also started targeting Mrs. Rong.

Rong Junhao felt both wronged and baffled.

No matter how he racked his brains, he couldn’t figure out why those families were acting like this.

Of course, this was Anning’s doing.

While Rong Junhao was bogged down in trivial matters, Anning poured her energy into developing Mrs. Yun.

She led the R&D, upgrading Mrs. Yun’s product lines—not just smarter but also eco-friendly, with top-tier performance across the board.

On top of that, with the home-appliance-to-the-countryside campaigns and smartphone R&D, it didn’t take long for Mrs. Yun’s assets to grow significantly again.

Especially when Anning and her research team came out with an intelligent little household helper—that thing sold like crazy.

That single smart device brought massive profits to Mrs. Yun, and it pushed Anning past last year’s richest person, making her the new richest.

When Xiao Yuan’s web drama aired, things went exactly as he and Anning had anticipated. With the male-second-lead Prince role, Xiao Yuan exploded in popularity, and then fans discovered his livestream. They were blown away by Xiao Yuan’s vast knowledge, and also loved his portrayal of the little Prince. With that double appeal, they started recommending him like crazy, and very soon Xiao Yuan’s follower count broke five million, charging toward eight million and ten million.