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?
Never paint your life too rosy. Because if you want to reach true awakening, you are destined to pass through an extraordinarily brutal low point.
But only by going through that low point — and surviving it — will your life pattern (格局), your vision, and your mindset undergo a genuine leap forward. A life of unbroken smooth sailing produces no real growth at all.
So what does a low point actually look like?
After graduating from university, society demands we master two things: 1⃣ interpersonal relationships and 2⃣ the ability to earn money. Unfortunately, school never teaches either.
Even if you happen to arrive at this insight on your own someday, your parents and teachers will quickly stamp the thought out: “Just focus on your studies — don’t worry about all that!”
So some people never even make it out of academia before being disillusioned by human nature — graduate students get their first hard lesson courtesy of their own supervisors. Those who do enter the working world discover they’re just ordinary people: average technical skills, average emotional intelligence, and even more average self-awareness. The suffering that comes with that realization is immense.
★ - I know that lately you’ve been carrying this feeling of “nothing excites me anymore, and hope is nearly impossible to see.” But don’t be afraid — you’re not alone. Many people far more successful than you feel exactly the same way right now. In fact, their burdens are incomparably heavier than yours, because they also face mountains of debt and endless disputes. Haven’t you noticed? Many of the wealthy figures who once strutted so boldly have gone quiet and invisible. As the saying goes: the tallest tree catches the most wind. What they fear most is trouble coming from every direction.
I must admit — I, Master Chi, am truly a fortunate man. Even at my lowest, when my family had fallen to absolute ruin and I myself was penniless, I still carried an invisible wealth of immense value: the worldly wisdom passed down to me in my youth by the first-generation wealthy uncles who surrounded me.
One of those uncles, who had built his fortune starting from Huanghe Road, once said to me: “Don’t be scared. As long as your mind stays sharp and doesn’t get clogged up with nonsense, no matter how many times you fall, you can always get back up.”
I’ve never been one to call myself a tycoon, but over the years, through Chinese metaphysics (guoxue), I’ve assisted many prominent families and distinguished individuals. Combined with a solid upbringing, I’ve seized quite a few opportunities and seen through to the core of many things.
Honestly, striking it truly rich is incredibly hard to replicate — it requires timing, opportunity, and innate talent.
But if all you want is to make a few million? That’s not so hard. Grasp a few key points and that’s enough:
Tonight I didn’t have time to write anything long — I’d been sharing a few quiet drinks with some friends at an old colonial villa on Fumin Road.
Funny thing is, every time I’m the slightest bit tipsy, I get this strong urge to have a little heart-to-heart with all of you.
So right now, in this moment, I just want to tell you sincerely: this year, don’t voluntarily load yourself down with too much pressure.
1 - Honestly, I feel genuine compassion for the women who come to me seeking a destiny framework (格局) reading. In the vast majority of cases, it’s not that they lack intelligence — it’s that they’ve never had anyone reliable in their corner. No one who could stand at a higher vantage point and help them untangle the knot their life has become.
That is the root of it. Born into an ordinary family, they never developed the awareness needed to navigate a world this complicated and unforgiving.
You must believe this: hidden within your life is a destiny script you have never once read.
Because you’ve never read it, you don’t understand why — despite all your grinding effort — you still can’t see results, noble benefactors (Gui Ren), or wealth on the horizon.
Otherwise, how do you explain it? Why can some people do just a few seemingly effortless things and immediately crack their world wide open?
I just walked out of an intimate private dinner in Gubei — the kind that comes together casually. Even though a few of the guests were well-connected figures from the south, the drinks did their work and everyone loosened up, speaking frankly.
Plenty was said over the clinking of glasses. But sobering up afterward, I realized — a lot of what I shared at that table belongs here too, with all of you.