After writing so many insightful articles, I find myself increasingly convinced that the wisdom capable of truly changing a life is rarely complex. It simply needs the right person to deliver it in the right tone.
And if you were my child, these few principles below would be the most heartfelt lessons I’d want to pass on to you.
On Life
Most people in this world place far too much pressure and burden on “life” — as though unless they achieve something notable, their existence has been wasted. It simply doesn’t need to be that way.
This article is dedicated to every woman who has faced a difficult fate, yet has never understood where she went wrong.
Have you noticed? The women who get hurt in entertainment gossip almost always share one thing in common: they lack parents who protect and watch over them.
This isn’t to say they grew up without a mother and father. It’s that their parents clearly never passed down the most fundamental wisdom a woman needs — how to protect herself.
As a man, the most important lesson of your entire life is to understand the difference between cleverness and wisdom. If you never take the time to truly think this through, you will likely never amount to much — and will spend your entire existence as just another cog in the machine.
What is cleverness? Cleverness is knowing what benefits you right now. What is wisdom? Wisdom is seeing the long game.
(Qixi is approaching — republishing a classic)
Before we begin formally, let’s establish a few foundational principles:
1. In this world, there will always be 20% of people who are simply not suitable as marriage partners. As friends, lovers, or even casual companions — perfectly fine. But as husband or wife? That is a suicidal choice. These people must be avoided.
Yes, some people are destined to grow old alone, for their entire lives. Whoever gets entangled with them pays the price of sacrificing another person’s entire life. Master Chi does not want that person to be you.
Drawing from years of reading countless destiny frameworks (格局), Master Chi holds a deep, unwavering conviction in this truth: Chi fortune flows through everything — when your Chi is noble, your destiny is noble; when your Chi sinks low, your destiny turns cold.
So if you want to determine whether a woman has been temporarily struck down by misfortune — or whether she was simply born to linger at the bottom — you only need to look at her bearing. The answer reveals itself.
Introduction: After Master Chi completed Ten Tiers of Human Existence last year, it sparked endless discussion and spread widely. For the first time, people realized that the differences between life’s tiers are not purely about material wealth — the true dividing line lies in the knowledge and mastery of unspoken rules that most people never have access to.
Later, due to its overwhelming reach, Master Chi was compelled to take it down, archiving it within a private community. Now, a year later, the time feels right to put pen to paper once more — to map out the people at each level in this era, writing more where more is due and making necessary adjustments where needed.
In marriage, the more sophisticated partner never obsessively monitors the other — that’s the behavior of bitter, petty people: foolish and undignified.
Take the insecure man who, when his wife doesn’t answer his call right away, immediately grows suspicious and rushes over to investigate. Or the incapable woman who, the moment her husband is slightly slow to respond, feels neglected and assumes something is wrong.
What they fail to realize is that the more they behave this way, the more they expose their own inner insecurity and fear — and the more their partner sees right through them.
For those who can pick up a pen and hold forth brilliantly on national affairs and international currents, Master Chi has always held deep admiration. Though I sometimes feel the itch to jump in with a thought or two, I ultimately know my limitations in the arena of international politics — so looking back across my hundreds of articles, there is barely a single one that seriously tackles “great power competition.”
Like drinking and talking freely with your brothers, Master Chi has no need to over-explain the logic or lay down layers of emotional groundwork — just write out the good, the strong, and the righteous. Like a potent liquor, too much ornamentation turns sentimental. For men without insight, no amount of wisdom is useful anyway — most of them exist purely to argue, and careful analysis just wastes your breath. But for a man of real perception, these refined principles are like aged baijiu: even as they sting and reshape your worldview, you can still savor every note. So when I saw several brothers asking me to write another cultivation guide for real men, I decided to break men down by rank — and capture the bearing, life pattern (格局), and character of each tier on the page. Those who get it will naturally hold themselves to account. Those who don’t will forever be lost. And of course, Master Chi hopes the ladies will also take this in carefully — it will serve you well when reading men in the future.
People must cultivate the habit of always moving upward. Whenever you have an opportunity to glimpse the upper echelons of society, Master Chi sincerely urges you to seize it with both hands — even if it’s just to observe and absorb, it remains excellent self-cultivation.
Take Master Chi’s own experience as an example. Socially, my private circle consists primarily of wealthy families and second- and third-generation heirs from Jiangnan. These are certainly exceptional people — yet whenever I’m introduced through them to members of truly established old families, I’m repeatedly struck by a single truth: life pattern (格局) is revealed through character.