Tonight’s article is a bit special — it’s full of sharp, piercing truths. So I don’t recommend it for readers with a soft heart.
The origin of this article comes from a reader’s message:
Student’s Letter:
Dear Master, I’ve been following your articles for a year and a half now, and I’ve genuinely benefited enormously. I still remember how it was my celebrity sister who first recommended your articles to me — she had even sought you out to analyze her life pattern (格局), and came away in absolute admiration of you. After reading several of your articles myself, I was instantly struck with profound awe. I had no idea that such wisdom existed in this world.
I write today with some embarrassment. As my sister’s part-time manager, I’ve now achieved complete financial freedom — but I know perfectly well that everything I have comes from my sister’s tremendous fame. On my own, I’m still quite weak. I know myself clearly: I act with hesitation, always looking ahead and behind, my ambitions exceeding my abilities. And I’ve been deceived in multiple relationships by terrible men, losing both love and money each time.
So I’ll be booking your destiny chart consultation this week. I know how badly I need the guidance of a noble benefactor (贵人) like you. But before that, I’m hoping you can give me a thorough, merciless scolding — to wake me up and give me the psychological strength I need to face what comes next. I’m deeply grateful.
Master Chi’s Response:
Dear girl — the moment you said that, I remembered exactly who your sister is. Please pass along my congratulations to her; I wish her new drama tremendous success right from its very first airing.
Now, since you’ve raised the subject, I genuinely want to thank you for giving me the reason to say what’s been on my mind — in sharp, unsparing terms. Especially when it comes to women. There are far too many of them who need to be jolted awake.
First: as a woman, you must force yourself to expand the framework of your life as far as possible. Stop turning every small setback into a tearful drama, seeking comfort from others with performative fragility.
Life will always bring pain. Pain, more often than not, is exactly the medicine that makes you grow fastest. Especially in the long run — a measured amount of suffering is precisely the nourishment that transforms you from a pampered little princess into a formidable woman who owns her own story.
There’s a particular type of woman who is spectacularly foolish. She works through layers of connections to find me, then opens her mouth to ask for a life with a perfectly smooth road — no suffering whatsoever, just wealth arriving effortlessly and a noble husband falling into her lap. To women like this, I always say plainly: “You have a textbook case of clueless princess syndrome. I can genuinely help you rise — but I cannot make your life free of pain. If all you want is sweet words, go find a low-grade charlatan. Their words are the sweetest of all.”
Remember this: every experience life throws at you is a required course. If you push through it, you grow. If it comes around again, you’re no longer afraid. But if you run from it — the next time it arrives, you’ll fall even harder.
To every woman who comes to me for a destiny chart reading, I always give the same warning: some of life’s suffering is best swallowed early. The more you avoid it, the later you mature — and the weaker you become.
Look around you. Those women who had comfortable early lives, sheltered by parents who smoothed every path for them — they’re usually the ones who end up with the most miserable middle years. Whatever ease they enjoyed early on, whatever roads their parents paved — it all comes back to collect, with interest, in midlife. By then, they’ve faded into anonymity. You wouldn’t even think to follow their story anymore.
And remember this too: as a woman, you must break yourself of soft, performative emotions. In the life of a truly powerful woman, sentiment and romance are genuinely a minor footnote — the kind of topic that draws contempt even in casual conversation.
What cuts deepest for a woman isn’t heartbreak. It’s watching your closest friend putting in the work while you stand still. It’s realizing your ex has gotten his life together. It’s everyone around you moving forward with full force — while you’re still in the same spot, crying over a joke of a relationship that has kept you anchored there for years, with nothing to show for it.
That will only ruin you.
I have never believed in valuing men over women. In my view, men and women both have their own paths upward. Both carry their own burdens of suffering. Both are walking forward under the weight of their lives. But a few things are universal and unchanging:
If you want your life to improve, wealth always leads the way, and career is always the foundation. Manage yourself like a corporation — set aside sentimentality, make decisions with vision, pursue projects with returns, build connections that matter.
Your spare time? Use it to treat yourself as a finely tuned fighting machine. Fuel it with nutritious food, books full of wisdom, and healthy movement under the open sky.
As I’ve said in previous articles: the simpler a person is, the more powerful they become.
Now, back to what you started with — your fear of depending on your sister, your frustration at being deceived by bad men, your dissatisfaction with your own abilities.
I think all of those are good things. The fact that you can see them clearly says everything about how sharp your thinking already is.
It’s never too late to turn back once you’ve recognized the wrong path.
And I believe that after this scolding of mine, you’ll have more than enough courage to sit down and face your destiny chart reading. Because in the end, it’s just a matter of looking at some inevitable suffering head-on. Face it with equanimity, meet it with force — and it will be the one that ultimately surrenders. The one left standing will be you.