This afternoon, despite my repeated polite refusals, Miss E showed up anyway — two boxes of hairy crabs and a box of Cohiba cigars in hand. On one hand, her annual visit to check in has become something of a ritual over the years. On the other, she wanted to use this occasion to have me review her destiny framework for the rest of the year and into next.
Miss E, for those who don’t know, is an ordinary white-collar worker who, two years ago, mustered the courage — at my encouragement — to go all-in on building her personal brand in her spare time.
The night runs deep, yet the mind won’t settle — so let’s talk a little more.
When you’re facing life’s many hardships, feeling lost and without direction is completely normal. After all, no one ever taught you how to handle these moments. So don’t be too hard on yourself. Don’t punish yourself with nights of sleeplessness and anxiety.
The sun always rises. Even the finest fortune eventually runs its course — and equally, even the deepest valleys are slowly climbed out of.
Still sharp and straight to the point — no rambling, no fluff. And the fifth point at the end is the most important awakening of all.
1 — The brutal truth: the women who win in the end are the ones who can hold their composure.
This means that even when the greatest challenges arrive, as long as you can steady your emotions — suppress the impulse of pure feeling, begin analyzing the problem rationally step by step, and calmly work through it — 99% of life’s hardships will not be able to break you.
Let me share a little story — take it as a joke if you like.
I’m in very few WeChat groups. Count them on my fingers and there are maybe seven or eight at most.
I, Master Chi, have a deep aversion to “useless information” — especially the repetitive small-talk of daily life, which is the content I find most insufferable. So the moment any group starts drifting in that direction, I leave without hesitation.
Let me start with something genuinely interesting that happened last week. While I was in Macau taking care of business, I got “ambushed” by a young woman whose destiny chart I had read four years ago.
The whole thing played out in a pretty entertaining way. Before I left for Macau, she had expressed — repeatedly — her enthusiasm about giving me a proper reception. I made my position equally clear: “Your kind intentions are received. Please, spare the expense.”
I’ll be honest — I’ve tried more than once to take a quiet break, but I simply can’t resist the warm expectations you all have for me.
After yesterday’s article, many of you left messages asking me to talk about “how to get through this particular stretch of time.”
So here we are — let’s talk.
But let’s make a deal first: after this piece, give me some peace until after the 11th. These past two years I’ve had precious little time that’s truly my own — fair enough?
Let’s start by talking about what kind of woman is most easily trapped at the bottom — then we’ll get into how to fight back against fate.
One thing to note upfront: today’s article is particularly brutal. It is not suitable for readers with weak personalities or timid, fearful dispositions. I’m telling you this now.
First — this type of woman is generally emotionally unstable. So in daily life, the moment anything trivial comes up — something that could easily be handled in passing — she’ll overreact, panic, or completely fall apart.
This afternoon, a distant cousin of mine suddenly sent me a message, asking if I could spare about fifteen minutes — he had something he wanted to talk through with me.
The moment I heard that, I set aside everything I was working on and told him: whatever was weighing on him, he should just speak freely. We’re family — anything I can do to help, I’ll give it my full effort.
If someone is living a mediocre, colorless life in their twenties, it’s most likely because their family background wasn’t strong — their parents couldn’t provide solid financial support or reliable guidance in life.
But if someone is still achieving nothing in their thirties — no decent income, no respectable life to speak of — then you can no longer blame the heavens or the earth. You need to pump the brakes right now. Sit down, light a cigarette, and seriously ask yourself: how did you end up like this? What did you do wrong? What opportunities did you let slip by?
Among life’s many challenges, I’d rank finding a good romantic match somewhere around fifth or sixth in difficulty.
The advice below draws on esoteric wisdom, but if you study it carefully and truly absorb it, you’ll find — unless your destiny chart is exceptionally unusual — that a quality partner is well within reach in three years. Quite easily, in fact.
1. When you find yourself surrounded by people with terrible character, whose lifestyle choices and social skills leave much to be desired, the problem is probably not them — it’s that you’ve drifted into a social circle that doesn’t belong to you.