As someone who moves through the world of the jianghu, Master Chi once told a woman who came seeking life guidance: A woman must ultimately find a powerful man to lean on — even if she doesn’t need to.
At the time, the young woman didn’t believe a word of it. As one of Shanghai’s most celebrated socialites, she commanded a network of hundreds of women and had carved out serious power and presence in virtually every top-tier establishment across the city.
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In previous comments, a young person eagerly expressed wanting to succeed and move up in life, but didn’t know how to go about it.
For this young person, Master Chi’s response was to first ask themselves one question: All this relentless effort you’re pouring out — who is it really for?
Is it truly for yourself?
If it were only for yourself, do you think you’d push this hard?
As someone who grew up and has lived for many years in Canada and the United States, Master Chi has long been puzzled by a strange phenomenon.
It is the pervasive sense of inferiority that seems to permeate the overseas Chinese student community.
If you have studied or lived abroad, you will certainly recognize what I am describing — particularly the way some female Chinese students idolize white men, which honestly leaves many of us in the Chinese community feeling embarrassed and ashamed.
Foreword
Young woman, if you truly care about your future, this is one article you cannot afford to miss.
For you as a woman, this article is critically important.
This may be the most clarifying piece of guidance you’ve encountered in years — one that offers a systematic blueprint for elevating your life.
In a few thousand words, it covers everything you need to know as a woman: the pitfalls to navigate, the opportunities to seize, and the inner strength to cultivate — laid out completely and in full.
This article was written with special intention for my readers. The only cost is a quiet moment of your evening — yet what you stand to gain is knowledge that can fundamentally overturn your destiny: how to command better wealth fortune, a better marriage, and so much more. The higher game of life calls for exactly four essential capacities. Of course, the premise is that you genuinely belong — or aspire to belong — among the phoenix, snake, deer, or rabbit tier.
Anonymous User: Commander, Commander — if war breaks out, how should ordinary people like us protect our assets? How should we allocate them?
Personal situation: I work in a management role at a private company. Honestly, I have no truly practical survival skills. Through luck, I’ve managed to fully pay off 2 properties in a second-tier city, currently worth around 6 million RMB, along with 300k in savings and 100k in a pension annuity. I’m a woman in my late thirties, currently single — relaxed about marriage and having children. I just want to live out my later years in comfort, not end up destitute in old age. How should I allocate what I have?
This week has been genuinely hectic, so let’s talk about something lighter: vacation.
Personally, I’m someone who loves traveling — so much so that I’ve managed to accumulate a certain brand’s global traveler status purely through leisure trips. That might sound a bit indulgent, but after all these years of exploring the world, I’ve come to realize just how much I’ve gained from it.
Because there are certain ways of seeing that simply cannot be unlocked through screens or photographs. Only by being there in person can you truly acquire them.
Women should never underestimate themselves — there is a lot of serious money out there that only women are truly suited to earn.
Take buying property as an example. Men tend to be the impulsive ones. We see a place that looks decent, no obvious deal-breakers, reasonable value — and we more or less just go ahead and buy it.
Women are different. By nature, they love the process of going around, comparing options, shopping thoroughly. Applied to small things, this looks like penny-pinching — but applied to big decisions, it becomes wisdom and foresight.
Night Watch Commander
Everyone understands the theory, but in practice, most people find it nearly impossible to stay rational when push comes to shove. Instead, they get led around by the nose and are easily controlled by the weaker party. Why does this happen? It comes down to one core issue: what truly gives someone power over you isn’t their tactics — it’s the fear inside you. So the real key to refusing to be manipulated is to identify your inner fears and cut them off at the root.
Date: July 26, 2023 | Author: Commander of the Night Watch
Preface
These hidden constraints and the thresholds used to filter people are woven together like hidden compartments beneath the water. The fish raised in the ocean believe they now possess the entire sea — but in reality, they are still inside the grid. They don’t have much room to move, even though the nets forming that grid are indeed installed within the ocean itself.