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.
Doesn’t matter if the person who invited me is some second-generation heir, a celebrity, or a big shot — sorry, I genuinely have no interest in participating in those conversations.
The groups I stay in are ones with high-quality exchanges. Even when the topic isn’t money, people share what they’re reading, discuss life wisdom, or talk about running a business.
But these past two weeks, something felt off.
One of the smaller groups — seventy or eighty people — had everyone buzzing about a TV drama called Song of Mortals. And a bunch of well-known Shanghai socialites who are normally quite sophisticated were completely hooked on it, watching and chatting about it together.
Here’s the thing about social dynamics: other people’s enthusiasm can create a kind of pressure on you. Seeing everyone so animated, I started letting it play on the TV when I had nothing to do — purely as background noise, while loosely following along with the story.
Then the editor-in-chief of a major magazine in the group suddenly tagged me: “Master, what do you think of this show?”
That put me on the spot. I genuinely liked it — but I couldn’t just spout opinions freely. What if some “helpful soul” forwarded my comment to another group? That’s just stirring up trouble.
So I said in the group: “Good show — I’m actually thinking of writing a short piece about it.”
Well. Here’s that piece.
Whether it’s you or me — the truth is, most of us are just ordinary mortals. Aren’t we?
Given that, there are some things you’d better be clear about.
1 — Three Things Every Mortal Must Avoid
The three things ordinary people must stay away from in this lifetime are: rotten ventures, toxic bonds, and worthless circles.
Simply put: “a dead-end career with no future, nothing but a swamp dragging you under,” “a relationship that feels like heaven’s punishment for some past sin,” and “a low-level social circle soaked in negativity and offering nothing of value.”
I’ve warned the countless readers who’ve come to me for destiny readings — again and again and again — that you must walk away from these three things immediately and decisively. No appeasement, no compromise, not a moment’s softness.
Because if any one of these gets its hooks into you, no matter how hard you grind, it will consume every last drop of your effort and swallow everything you’ve built.
2 — Of These Three, the Toxic Bond Is the Most Lethal
The truth is, most ordinary people — men and women alike — find their lives getting progressively worse simply because, after years of adaptation, they’ve lost all ability to see how damaging their spouse actually is.
The result? You silently absorb their ignorance, their suppression, their debts, their limitations. And typically, someone who is deeply problematic in a marriage tends to come from a family with serious dysfunction of its own.
Note: I, Master Chi, am not here to tell you to get divorced. I’m reminding you that in life’s major decisions, you cannot afford to be soft-hearted. When it’s time to cut, cut.
3 — One Golden Truth to Understand Before Thirty
Your one and only lifelong mission is this: keep earning money — legally, legitimately, and without stopping.
Nothing else comes close in importance, because earning money represents far more than money itself. It represents your capacity to rise.
Once you’re generating over two million a year on your own terms, you’ll find you’re vastly more capable than the version of yourself who naively punched a clock. You’ll read the world with greater clarity, understand people with sharper instincts, and know precisely what to do at each stage of the game.
4 — The Higher You Rise, the Fewer People You Need
As your level climbs, you’ll realize you never actually needed all those hangers-on.
The people who truly change your destiny aren’t many — they’re few but precisely right. Yet most ordinary people obsess over being liked and validated by the masses. That, frankly, is ignorance.
I’ve analyzed an enormous number of destiny charts, and the deepest insight I’ve gained is this: unless you’re a celebrity or entertainer who depends on fan sentiment, the people who will actually change the course of your life number only a small handful.
So when readers come to me for their destiny framework readings and start rambling on about fractured relationships and difficult friendships, I cut them off: you don’t need validation from people who add nothing to your life. What you need is to sharpen your focus, lower your ego, and invest in building genuine connections with the handful of noble benefactors (Gui Ren) who truly matter.
5 — Society Is a Sieve — Learn to Work With It
I constantly remind myself, and I want to remind you: this world is one giant sieve — cold, indifferent, rational, efficient, ruthless, and pure.
And yet, it is perfectly just. (Note the difference between “fair” and “just” — figure that out yourself.)
It sorts people into unmistakably clear tiers using assets, awareness, ability, character, ambition, luck, and resources.
So don’t complain about how hard you’re working while your life seems to stay stuck. There is always a gap you haven’t yet identified within yourself.
The smart mortals among us sit down at every bottleneck and quietly ask: what exactly am I missing? Then they set about filling it in.
The thick-headed mortals among us complain endlessly, repeat the same old patterns, and spend their whole lives spinning in place.
6 — The Only Thing That Can Actually Stop You Is Your Health
Life only has so many glasses of wine. Drink one, and there’s one fewer left. The future isn’t as long as you think, and the years aren’t as gentle as the poets claim.
Don’t like it? Too bad. That’s just the human world.
My personal philosophy is clear: when I’m awake, I attack with full force. Before sleep, I take full stock of the day. But the moment I actually fall asleep, my mind goes completely blank — deep, restorative rest, nothing more.
When I genuinely need to decompress, I don’t hold back on spending. I take myself and my family on a proper vacation.
Everything — all of it — exists to open up greater ground in my career and build a virtuous cycle.
But most people can’t untangle this logic. They slack off when they should be grinding, and lie awake in anxious suffering when they should be resting — turning their lives into a tangled mess.
7 — The Hardest Truth a Mortal Must Accept
Being an ordinary person means accepting one brutal fact: you are just a mortal, and no matter how fiercely you fight, you cannot overpower the currents of momentum, era, and history.
This is why I, Master Chi, have little sympathy for people who constantly lament, “I work so hard — why aren’t I seeing results?!”
Because before you burn yourself completely, you must first ask: is the platform, the industry, the field, the city you’re burning yourself in even worth your fire?
I’ve seen far too many ordinary people burn for years in meaningless domains — only to come up empty-handed, their spirits completely broken.
And I’ve helped far too many brothers and sisters who, with a small adjustment to their platform or position based on their destiny framework, immediately started seeing real results.
Let me say it one more time: the primary mission of an ordinary mortal is not to charge ahead with blind, unthinking intensity. It’s to recognize that you are a tiny ant against an enormous tree — and that to achieve great things, you must borrow the guidance of noble benefactors (Gui Ren), the tailwind of the era, and the forward push of the greater tide.
So how hard you push? Honestly, that’s not what matters most.
Whether you can see clearly — that is everything.