Every year-end, it becomes nearly impossible to settle into work — invitations from friends suddenly flood in from all directions. One moment it’s a Feng Shui consultation, the next it’s an annual fortune cycle (流年) reading. These are old friends, so there’s really no way to turn them down.
But over the years, these experiences have given me one deeply-felt conviction: in this life, you truly only need to seize an opportunity and ride one great wave of true wealth fortune — just once — and that is enough.
Hey, has nobody reminded you?
There are only 8 days left until New Year’s Day, and just 5 weeks until the Spring Festival. It’s time to wind down and take stock.
I — Master Chi — hope you’ll use these coming days to slow your pace a little, and give some time back to yourself and your family.
No matter how hard-driven your years of striving have been, every life needs a moment to stop and catch its breath.
Tonight I want to share a few important, heartfelt words with you — if you’ve been exhausted lately, take your time reading this. [hug]
When I was young, I always thought that getting something done meant burning yourself up through sheer brute force. Especially in my early twenties, I would genuinely toss and turn sleeplessly through the night over something that wasn’t progressing the way I wanted.
But as I matured with age, I came to understand: whether a great undertaking succeeds or fails, it has its own predetermined course.
Frankly, I have little patience for people who, even in this day and age, keep serving up endless inspiration — glossing over life’s real difficulties with feel-good platitudes.
Especially over the past two years, whether through messages in my backend or during destiny readings (命理), I’ve felt clearly how much pressure people are carrying from every direction. I myself have been through one upheaval after another, so I want to share something real — advice that can actually help you climb out of your darkest moments faster.
These past couple of days have been hectic in a way I can barely explain — part of it was spending time at the hospital with family, and part of it was the sheer number of year-end dinner gatherings that pile up this time of year.
Those dinners have a way of loosening things up once a few drinks go down. Stories start flowing, especially when you get a room full of middle-aged men who’ve actually made something of themselves. The conversation almost always drifts toward their own rise to success.
Let me start with something that sounds mystical — yet proves uncannily accurate.
If you want your wealth fortune and career to truly flourish, the single most important first step is absolutely not to roll up your sleeves and grind harder.
Instead, you must first — carefully and patiently — purge the sorrow ghosts, misfortune deities, and bad-luck stars from your circle.
As long as these people remain a permanent fixture in your life, no matter how much you achieve in this lifetime, you won’t enjoy a single bit of it.
Let me ask you a question first, and no lying: how long has it been since you last opened up and said out loud everything that’s been weighing you down?
I’m asking because I know — this past year, you’ve quietly endured countless sleepless, anxious nights on your own.
During all of that, even when friends or family reached out to check on you, you’d brush it off with a casual: It’s fine, I’m totally over it.
Let me be very clear upfront: if you are a long-time reader of mine, Master Chi, please — do not impulsively go out and buy, sell, or swap properties before you have read this article in full.
But once you have finished reading, you can confidently take the answers straight from this article on all things property — because what I’m sharing here is textbook-level guidance.
My reason for writing this is simple: the real estate market over the past two years has been treacherously murky — truly impossible to gauge the depths. One wrong step, and a bottomless abyss awaits you.
Master Chi hopes you will read these words every day — whenever you feel lost, anxious, or simply idle.
What’s remarkable is that many brothers and sisters who have read this passage find their Chi fortune (qi yun) truly beginning to flow more smoothly.
In life, encountering difficulties and setbacks is perfectly normal. The world is always changing — seas become mulberry fields, and so do I.
So there is no reason for me to wholesale deny my own wisdom and abilities just because of hardships and obstacles.
There are things you must know first — only then can the results come to you.
Especially when it comes to wealth, money, and financial success.
In truth, this article should have been written long ago, because every word in it was distilled from hard-won wisdom — insights I gathered after finally completing my own wealth accumulation, looking back at everything I had been through.
But then, in the relentless sprint forward, I slowly forgot about this.