I’ve Gone Viral Because of a Money-Saving Variety Show

Zheng He, infuriated, threw the newspaper he was holding fiercely onto the ground and quickly took out his phone, “Report! I’m reporting this now! None of you are getting away! Let me tell you, 3,000 yuan is enough to open a case! You’re committing a crime!”
The legal knowledge that 3,000 yuan was enough to open a case was told to him by the scammer who had tricked him with Ao Long and stolen money from his card before.
Wan Chen gave him a dismissive look: “I think you’re succumbing to illness.”
[Truly entertained! I have watched so many variety shows, but this is the first time I’ve seen a guest sending another guest to the police station, haha!]
[If this show wasn’t labeled as a budget-saving variety show, I might have mistaken it for some legal awareness program. The police station gets its screen time every other day. The cops must be exhausted.]
[Was it really Han Qianyi and Wan Chen who took Zheng He’s money? I didn’t pay attention just now, I was too busy listening to Zheng He bragging.]
[From what I know about Han Qianyi and Wan Chen after all this time, it doesn’t seem likely, right? But I remember Han Qianyi stealthily using Chen Xixi’s cosmetics before, so it’s hard to say…]
[Why do I feel like Zheng He is going crazy?]
[Over 5,000 yuan! Any average Joe would go nuts for a moment.]
Soon, Zheng He and his two companions arrived at the familiar police station and met the familiar police officers.
Now, whenever the cops see Zheng He, they have a unified way of greeting him: “Here you are, take a seat.”
There was a sense of familiarity, as if visiting relatives and friends.
After Zheng He explained the whole situation, the police went to the show’s crew to retrieve the live broadcast playback.
After watching the playback, the police couldn’t help but internally exclaim, “Wow, what a family!”
Nearly eight hours of playback, and more than seven hours were just Zheng He bragging about how exceedingly different he was from ordinary people, how a master praised him for having wisdom, being a rare talent among humans, and that he would certainly become very rich and prosperous in the future…
Had it been unknown that Zheng He had been scammed multiple times, these words might have been slightly persuasive.
The police gave Zheng He a look and couldn’t help saying, “As far as I know, you really don’t know yourself at all.”
Zheng He, puzzled, asked, “What… do you mean?”
“Let’s talk about the master who complimented you for having wisdom first.”
After watching the replay, Han Qianyi and Wan Chen definitely did not touch Zheng He’s money, so the problem had to be traced back further.
After Zheng He recited all the details to the police, the officers took notes and then spoke up, “We’ve got it, you can go back and wait for news.”
Zheng He was still utterly confused, “What is actually going on?”
The police explained earnestly, “You’ve likely encountered a street swindler. The ashes flying into the air that you described is actually a very common physical principle. The burning paper heats the surrounding air, and as the hot air rises, the ashes rise as well, creating the effect you saw.
The ‘master’ you mentioned used this trick to first get your attention, making you think it was miraculous, and then he took the opportunity to switch your money.”
Zheng He: “Then what he said about waiting twenty-four hours…”
Police: “Twenty-four hours is just an excuse he made up to control you, giving him time to get away. Otherwise, if you discovered the scam, he wouldn’t have been able to run.”
At first, Zheng He found it incredibly hard to believe, and it took him a long while before he slowly accepted the reality that he had been scammed again.
Zheng He’s heart felt truly dead this time!
Zheng He held his head in his hands, his face a picture of despair: “I trusted that old man so much! And he’s actually… actually a swindler!”
Just a moment ago, he was bragging to netizens, to Han Qianyi and Wan Chen about his fortune finally turning around, but what’s the result? He’s encountered a huge calamity!!
5,700 yuan gone, only 21 yuan left. Since he couldn’t leave the underpass, he ordered a takeout lunchbox for 19 yuan in the morning, now he only had two yuan left in his pocket.
It was like being thrown back to the days before liberation overnight.
He hadn’t even had the chance to enjoy his overnight riches before he had to declare bankruptcy. What kind of fate is this?!
The policeman sighed, unsure how to comfort Zheng He, as their words of consolation seemed to have been all used up during the previous few occasions.
The policeman patted Zheng He on the shoulder, speaking with earnest compassion, “You have to believe in science. If all else fails, buy a can of peaches to eat. Whether it works or not doesn’t matter; at least it’s not expensive, and you’ll have something in your stomach.”
In the end, Zheng He implored the police to definitely bring the swindler to justice and retrieve his 5,700 yuan for him, before he left the police station, utterly despondent.
[Damn! That master turned out to be a scammer indeed! I had a bad feeling about it. I told Zheng He to check right away last night, but he wouldn’t listen. Now look at him, being scammed into submission!]
[Sigh… A man that not even over a hundred thousand people in the live broadcast could save… No more words needed…]
[Have the scammers of the mortal world become insufficient for Zheng He, now we need celestial immortals to dupe him? If this keeps going, even the underworld will have to send someone.]