I’ve always had a very clear picture of who I’m writing for.
First, ideally, readers should be 30 or older — below that age, it’s nearly impossible to truly grasp lessons that cut to the bone.
Second, ideally, readers should be middle class or above — at a management level or higher. Otherwise, they simply won’t have the depth of understanding to make sense of what I write.
If there’s a third threshold, it’s this: readers need to be strong enough to bear the weight of my insight-heavy, unapologetically gray wisdom — the kind that walks the line between righteous and ruthless.
After all, my writing was never meant for the flock.
So — everything that follows is written for the “predators.” Let’s see how far you can read before you give up.
1 — Don’t doubt it. If you’re trapped in poverty, the problem lies within you.
You just can’t see it yet.
Don’t push back with that tired cliché: “You’ve never been poor — how could you understand my hardship?!”
Sorry, but the truth is: the vast majority of people who’ve achieved financial freedom today started from the ground up — with lower starting points than yours, or far more brutal circumstances.
Because in this era, holding onto what you’ve built without that foundation would be genuinely impossible.
So as harsh as these words are, you need to steady yourself and listen.
2 — You made it to point two? Good. That means you have some real ability.
Here’s something most people don’t know: the most critical skill in this world isn’t intelligence. It isn’t a love of learning. It certainly isn’t being smooth and politically savvy.
None of those are the core skill.
The core skill is this: a terrifying, indestructible life force — the kind that can withstand being pummeled from every direction, have its skin stripped raw, and still refuse to die. With that force, you become the koi that leaps the dragon gate (a symbol of breakthrough and transformation).
Put plainly: you need to be able to absorb the most vicious criticism, endure the most brutal hardships, and survive the most grinding daily struggle — only then do you earn the basic qualification to pursue wealth.
3 — Many people think that getting rich is simply about catching one opportunity and using a little cleverness to make money roll in.
This is the most naive, foolish thinking imaginable — and it almost always comes from mid-level office workers who earn a comfortable enough salary but have never dared to build anything on their own.
Because that thinking proves three things: they’ve never seized a real opportunity, they have no real cleverness, and they’ve never genuinely earned real money.
The brutal, bloody truth is: getting rich requires paying in blood.
Not the watered-down version you see in TV dramas — attending a few dinners, taking a scolding from a senior, then staging some dramatic comeback. That’s shallow.
Real blood currency means clawing your slice of the pie out of someone else’s hands with your teeth, nails, and sweat — arriving reeking and beaten — until the people with real decision-making power can see your commitment.
Only then does that opportunity temporarily belong to you.
Why temporarily? Because in the arena of interests, there are always challengers. You will need to fight defensive battles and title defenses, again and again.
From the day you win, you will never know peace.
4 — These days I constantly see online personalities preaching: “Upgrade your mindset, read valuable books, watch quality videos, and your capabilities will grow.”
Laughable. Absurd. Shallow.
Wake up. For ordinary people, there is exactly one real shortcut to rapidly building inner strength: use real business as your training ground, and charge forward, accumulating battle-tested experience.
Through years of hard-fought campaigns, you’ll naturally shed your skin every two months, completing the evolution: snake → python → boa → serpent-dragon → carp → true dragon.
Of course, at this point, someone who doesn’t meet the criteria from the opening will inevitably chime in: “Don’t you know business requires capital?! Don’t you know there are risks?!”
That person is a textbook mindless creature, completely lacking in logical reasoning.
Everything in this world has a cost. Even lying flat and giving up costs you — in the currency of time, opportunity, and future.
And I’ve said it hundreds of times: in this era, stupidly throwing a lump sum at a business venture is absolutely the wrong move.
Today, there are small businesses everywhere that you can participate in and contribute to.
A relative’s small convenience store. A classmate’s little shop. A colleague’s small personal brand or online store. These are all opportunities where you can offer your help for free.
What you’re after isn’t the insulting part-time wages tossed at you like change to a beggar — it’s understanding how these small businesses actually operate.
5 — Of all the things human beings are least equipped to analyze and understand, the answer is: themselves.
Consider this: when a crowd of ordinary people shout at the top of their lungs that they want to get rich — not one of them has ever paused to seriously ask: Do I actually have what it takes to deserve wealth?
Here’s another blood-soaked reality: 99% of people in this society spend their entire lives with enough ability to do exactly one thing — their small, narrow job. That one little task within their lane.
Perhaps that task is professional. Perhaps it’s specialized. Perhaps it’s even admirable.
But being good at that one thing does not mean you possess a complete, mature ability to organize a business venture and drive a path to wealth forward with momentum.
You can execute one task well. You don’t know how to build and run the whole operation.
Put simply: you’re a precision bolt. Not a decision-making component like a processor or a core engine.
6 — One final point — because what I’ve written above is already enough to overload your mind.
Many people wonder: why is it that great merchants and powerful figures, the further they go in life, the more they come to believe in destiny?
Over the years, I’ve analyzed the life patterns (格局) and fortune cycles for many such people. I have more authority on this than almost anyone.
The reason they believe is simple: after countless bloody battles and life-or-death struggles, they genuinely understood.
That each person truly does carry a heaven-ordained destiny (天命). And different destinies truly do produce entirely different trajectories.
That the vast majority of people are actually quite capable — capable, specifically, of spending an entire lifetime complaining that heaven is unfair, while never daring to take even a single small step toward real, tangible change.
They only know how to complain and envy. Then they roll over in bed, scroll their phones, and laugh it off.
Ask them to give up a weekend to help a friend run a small operation and pick up experience? Not a chance — too tiring, too bothersome, too embarrassing.
Ask them to sit down and seriously think about their career development, or how to better support their leadership? Not happening — too difficult, too risky, too awkward.
Well then — there’s nothing more to say. It turns out destiny isn’t obstructing them. They themselves have chosen this destiny.
Fair and fitting. As heaven intends.
Finally, I want to say something directly to certain readers.
If you’re someone with no ambition, no depth of understanding — someone perfectly content living an ordinary life without accomplishment — then please, do not come to me for a destiny reading. There is no point.
Because if you do, I will inevitably give you my clearest, most direct, most practical guidance across career, wealth, noble benefactors (贵人, Gui Ren), and marriage.
And if you lack ambition, that will put you in an impossible position: on one hand, you won’t have the courage to pursue what you’re capable of; on the other, you’ll feel regret over the future you could have had.
Why create that unnecessary frustration? It’s truly not worth it.
But if you genuinely believe that what’s been missing from your life is a noble benefactor (贵人) — someone of higher standing, status, and life pattern than yourself — to point you in the right direction, then I sincerely welcome you to reach out.