Deep down, I’ve never been one to actively cozy up to the wealthy and powerful people around me. It’s not that Master Chi has some noble character — I simply know my own limits. When a distinguished guest invites me to examine their fortune (运势), life pattern (格局), or Feng Shui, I won’t decline. But when it comes to business tips or joint ventures? Honestly, I don’t dare take that on. The reason is simple: “I’m grateful for the recognition — but I genuinely can’t catch what’s being thrown at me.”
Those words may sound simple, but they are the most heartfelt summary of my entire life journey. Because I firmly believe that heaven never tosses you a free pie out of nowhere. Absolutely never. Anything that looks beautiful on the surface is almost always a sugar-coated poison — sweet to the taste, devastating in its aftermath. Without exception.
Over the years, I’ve encountered countless wealthy individuals and noble benefactors (贵人, Gui Ren). But the ones who’ve left the deepest impression — and taught me the most — are those who’ve hit rock bottom. The failures. Their stories carry a million different reasons, but stripped to the core it always comes down to one word: greed.
Greed breeds urgency. Urgency breeds mistakes. Mistakes breed the desperate need to recover — and then one mistake compounds into the next.
Don’t believe me? Go look. Anyone stuck in the valley of regret — whether from a failed investment or a stalled career — will say the same thing without exception: “If only I had stayed steady. If only I had done things the right way from the start.”
The root of all that regret is always the same mistake: eyes set too high, hands reaching too low — dragging themselves into a whirlpool they could no longer control.
I’ve met many wealthy people and noble benefactors. But the group I encounter most — and observe with the greatest fascination — are the rising stars still on their way: the future wealthy who haven’t arrived yet. Their backgrounds differ. Their origins differ. But every single one showing genuine signs of future wealth and success shares one trait: they’ve shed illusions for reality, and they keep both feet firmly on the ground.
Shedding illusions for reality means you’re no longer seduced by grand, magnificent blueprints. You’re no longer lured by the boastful stories circulating in your social circle — the ones casually tossing around tens of millions or even billions. “Get-rich-quick destiny changes,” “instant fortunes,” “let a big brother show you how to make it big” — all of it gets dismissed with a smile. Just do what you’re good at, and keep getting better at it. If there’s energy left over, reach for the small, attainable goals within arm’s reach.
Keeping both feet on the ground means being able to say openly: “I wish you well in making your millions. I don’t have that ability — and I’m fine admitting it.” Then, genuinely and quietly, you build your business and small investments piece by piece — a little better every day, one percent better every month. Unhooked by temptation, undistracted by lures. Just eat what’s in your own bowl. Play the hand you’ve been dealt — and play it with clarity.
Don’t you dare call these people timid or lacking ambition. Master Chi tells you with full confidence: in ten years, this is exactly the generation of new wealth. No question about it.
Meanwhile, those who spend their days fantasizing about massive fortunes — who won’t move without tens of millions on the table, or a “big project” to join — in ten years, they’ll still be exactly as they are today: eyes high, hands low, talk bigger than their ability.
Why? Because people who can truly settle their minds and stay grounded have one terrifying quality: their capacity for self-renewal is extraordinary.
Let me give you a real example. Two years ago, a single mother came to me for a destiny reading. At the time, she was a textbook case: one child, one apartment, a modest amount of savings, and completely lost. Beyond knowing how to run a household, she had no particular skill to speak of.
I read her life pattern (格局) and her wealth fortune (财运) was there — but that’s not what mattered. What mattered was that she was genuinely hardworking.
Because she was truly hardworking, she was willing to start doing proxy purchases and small trades for other women — earning one or two hundred yuan at a time. The seed of a snowball. The starting line of a new life. What she did couldn’t be simpler: using Xiaohongshu (China’s lifestyle platform) and a short-video app, she slowly built her first community of fellow mothers, then sold quality baby and maternity products. As sales grew, she earned better discounts. Round by round: two hundred became seven or eight hundred, seven or eight hundred became one or two thousand. A single mother — filming videos every day, sharing her experiences — making forty or fifty thousand yuan a month, and still there for her child.
How good is that? How blessed?
A wealth fortune you can eat well and sleep soundly with — that is real wealth fortune. That is good wealth fortune.
Compare that to some of the young people who come to me for readings, who open every conversation with the same demand: find me that one moment in my destiny that will deliver tens of millions or billions overnight. Truly delusional. They simply don’t understand how the world actually works.
Remember this: wealth fortune is not about seizing a windfall at some single moment in time. That’s called unexpected money (横财) — and when you take it, you will inevitably pay a price.
True wealth fortune means you have the willpower and resilience to build something small, piece by piece, getting better and better at it — until it becomes a long-running, stable money machine, while you yourself grow stronger and sharper. That is legitimate wealth.
The greatest fortune begins with a single cent. The grandest mansion rises from a single brick.
I don’t need you to have extraordinary, sky-high creative genius. I only need you to have the steady, grounded, relentless drive to keep moving forward.
This is the truth I hope you’ll come to understand. Simple. Direct. Sincere.
I also hope you’ll take the following words — written for you by Master Chi — and sit with them slowly. How much you take from them is entirely up to you:
I am an ordinary person. The most ordinary of ordinary people. I don’t have others’ extraordinary intuition. I don’t have others’ exceptional luck. I wasn’t born into wealth or privilege. And I have no one to lean on.
But I don’t envy. I don’t resent. I don’t rage. Most importantly — I don’t give up. I don’t back down. I don’t accept defeat.
I can bear the lessons that time has given me, and I accept them gladly. I can endure the suffering that life has taught me, and I drink it down to the last drop. I will take all of this and forge it into a sharp chisel — and with it, I will courageously carve myself, even if it draws blood, until I am better, more mature, more wise.
I will also cherish everything I have created and earned — for it is by accumulating small steps that one finally travels a thousand miles.
So I will not care when others mock me for moving slowly. I will not mind when others ridicule me for not being clever.
It doesn’t matter. I am an ordinary person. I only want to be my best self. And I will keep walking toward my own future — always striving, never stopping.