Things have been busy lately — work, social engagements, all of it — so I’ve kept this one short.
And that’s fine. Short doesn’t mean shallow.
For readers with real discernment, sitting quietly with a few well-chosen words can reveal layers worth savoring long after.
Which brings me to what I want to share tonight: as adults, what we truly need to aim for is the right thing — not the enjoyable thing.
It wasn’t until I had lived through three complete cycles of rise and fall that I truly understood money — my own ultimate awakening.
First, the most essential truth about money: you must have at least enough financial security before you have any right to casually claim you don’t care about it.
Because money has never been just a cold string of numbers.
Its meaning lies in the power it gives you to make more choices.
Student Question: Hello Master. I’ve paid to join some community groups, but after paying, I don’t know how to actually make use of the community or leave an impression on others. How do I solve this?
Master Chi’s Response: Always remember: take initiative. Only by being proactive will you create stories — only then will you be seen. Beyond that, you must know how to conduct yourself well. Online networking is a skill every person trying to earn money online must master.
Today belongs to the sisterhood. I had planned to put together some pretty images with a few warm, sentimental lines — something easy and fitting for the occasion.
But the moment that thought crossed my mind, what came instead was the truth. Something I genuinely want to say to you: Dear girl, I need you to understand.
Life is not meant to be easy. This world will not grant you special privileges simply because you are a woman. And if you’ve enjoyed a brief moment of what people call “gender privilege” — trust me, one day you will pay it back with interest.
Years ago, I shared a thought with a friend: in this day and age, wisdom that is truly valuable is rarely tolerated when it spreads widely — because such wisdom illuminates people’s thinking and transforms them from herbivores into apex predators.
When predators multiply, they create irreversible disruptions to the entire ecosystem — and begin squeezing the survival space of those who were already at the top of the food chain.
Many of my brothers and sisters can’t figure it out — why is it that the people who’ve achieved the most, the ones who’ve reached genuine financial freedom, all seem so calm? So zen? So utterly unruffled?
How does someone keep rising, keep thriving, without the hype, without the war cries, without the constant adrenaline?
There’s a reason for it. And you should know what it is.
Here’s the thing: if you ever get the chance to spend real time up close with someone whose net worth clears the C5 threshold, you’ll understand immediately. The charging-hard, attacking-everything style simply cannot be sustained. Once in a while is fine — but try to keep it going for more than a week, and it doesn’t matter if you’re human or immortal, you will break.
Since I began sharing profile pictures and background images back in February, I’ve lost count of how many readers have written back to say: “It’s incredible — after using the images Master Chi shared, I genuinely feel at ease, and things have been going so much more smoothly.”
Honestly, I feel grateful myself. Because this at least confirms that we, as human beings, do need beautiful and auspicious things to quietly tip the scales in our favor.
A few hours ago, on a flight from Beijing to Shanghai, I came across a reader’s question in my messages: “Master, I really want to know — how did you and people at your level climb so high?”
I was going to write a long piece in response. But after sitting quietly with the thought for a while, a few words came to me.
Simple. Piercing. I’ll share them here:
Some things I’ve witnessed lately have weighed on me.
So I want to offer a few words of honest counsel to the brothers and sisters who’ve come from the countryside, county towns, small cities, and other such places.
First: the vast majority of ordinary people who come from small towns are in no way inferior to their big-city peers. They’re just as sharp, just as naturally gifted.
The problem is that traditional Confucian education runs too deep in these places. So you either get raised by mediocre parents who beat the independence out of you — producing a meek, naive, long-suffering kid who can’t make a single decision for himself — or you get neglected entirely and drift into becoming a directionless street kid who doesn’t care about anything and knows even less.
Brothers and sisters — may this new beginning bring great fortune.
I wonder if you felt it too: the moment the eighth day of the Lunar New Year arrived in the Year of Jiachen (the Wood Dragon year), something quietly stirred inside you — an urge that whispered, “This year, I need to really give it everything.”
If you felt that, your intuition is sharp. You’re the kind of person with genuine natural gifts.