Everyone pursues wealth fortune, and many people work extremely hard at it — yet still come away with nothing to show for their efforts.
If this sounds familiar, you’ve most likely made the mistake of “confusing desire with natural talent.”
And honestly, this kind of person is far more common than you’d think.
Look around at society, scroll through the internet — there are plenty of people who, simply because they feel a burning desire to get rich, convince themselves they’re one-in-a-million prodigies. They resolve to dive headlong into gambling dens like the A-share market to prove their worth.
But the things of this world cannot be forced. Force them, and things go sideways fast.
So this crowd, driven by sheer stubbornness, ends up leading themselves straight into a pit.
Understand this: the major markets are no different from Macau casinos. No matter how much regulation exists inside, when all is said and done — no one can guarantee a sure win.
As the saying goes: a gentleman loves wealth, but acquires it through the right path (Dao).
And that “Dao” here doesn’t just mean the righteous path versus the crooked one. It means your unique and singular path — the one that belongs only to you.
Master Chi has always said: making money looks completely different for every single person. You absolutely cannot chase whatever seems to be generating quick cash or making the most noise. At the end of the day, it comes down to your life pattern (格局) and your natural talent.
Wealth is a desire. Skill is a talent. Burn this into your memory.
So who are the people who genuinely love investing and can actually make a living — even a fortune — from it?
It’s not the people who are good at “placing bets” or “making plays.” It’s the ones who’ve mastered the art beyond the obvious moves.
Take the simplest example: those whose destiny framework falls under Tan Lang (the Greedy Wolf star in Purple Star Astrology). These are the most quintessential, most passionate hands-on market players you’ll find. But are they just obsessed with making money?
Not quite. What drives that obsession is genuine interest — and destiny.
They’re naturally drawn to extracting value from retail investors. They love reading the rhythm of price waves, identifying pumps, and decoding market sentiment. They see the market as a wild horse waiting to be tamed, and they take real pleasure in breaking it.
For these people, “reading the tape” is a genuine hobby. Slaughtering sheep and pigs is their favorite game.
You could even strip away their profits — let them win without getting paid — and they’d still treat the whole thing as entertainment, reveling in every moment.
This kind of person doesn’t necessarily feel joy from the winnings. They feel joy from the victory.
And it’s precisely this kind of person who is truly, properly cut out for this line of work.
Another example: those whose life pattern aligns with Tian Xiang (the Minister star). Tian Xiang is the star most suited to supporting and elevating others.
So naturally, in the process of helping others succeed, these people earn deep gratitude — and quietly become the behind-the-scenes noble benefactors (贵人, Gui Ren) and power brokers, never needing to steal the spotlight.
Take the famous case of “the Dao has no form, but I do.” On the surface, there’s the face of a value-investing patriarch — but everyone knows the real game is riding Chinese concept stocks through network influence.
Chinese concept stocks have never been the darlings of mainstream Western capital. The primary buyers have always been ethnic Chinese investors. So who steps up to be the anchor, the rallying force?
Someone has to do this heavy lifting — and he’s the one.
Because the circle is small and anchors are scarce, rallying the troops is straightforward. And just like that, he becomes legend.
The public can’t read it, of course. They see some kind of supernatural being who never misses a shot.
What they don’t realize is that a true master’s power doesn’t come from uncanny precision in picking winners. Its roots lie in a lifelong spirit of genuine helpfulness.
And of course, help people a few times — and every time becomes a massive success — that’s when it becomes an art form and a science.
Who wouldn’t want to help people? Twenty-odd years ago, if you’d known to help Teacher Ma launch his business in Hangzhou, or help Brother Wang through his hundred-million-yuan crisis, you’d have been set too.
But it didn’t require cleverness. It required a character and temperament etched into the bone — the kind of disposition not everyone is born with.
Or take a more recent example: a certain fintech company’s IPO included a handful of celebrities and public figures among its shareholders. People called them visionaries and savvy investors. Is that really what happened?
Not exactly. They got there through their own authentic passions.
Take Sister Yan, take Mr. Leisurely — each of them is a key figure in social circles spanning every corner of the country. So once the stock officially listed and the price stabilized, naturally they started blowing the horn, pulling in more capital and connections.
It’s the same old story — people underestimate someone just because they used to be a performer. Meanwhile, this person has spent years earning serious standing in Beijing’s elite social circles.
“Follow Yan’s lead, and gold and silver gather in heaps” — that’s not a casual rhyme anymore. That’s a new proverb in the game.
And that is the real reason this group got access to pre-IPO shares at early prices. Did anyone think Boss Wu was a pushover? Why would he ever hand over discounted early-stage shares without calculation? Every move has its own accounting.
So tell me — are these people truly in love with “investing” as a pursuit in itself?
Not really. Investing is just one small operational tool that destiny handed them.
What they genuinely love? The daily art of networking across all directions, rallying people and capital together to get things moving — and the instinct to give someone a hand or nudge someone forward whenever the opportunity arises.
True discernment? Not necessarily that either. Within this particular circle, there was one major opportunity — and everyone rushed for it.
You see — looking at all these examples, it’s not hard to notice that not a single one of these people went in purely for the money. Wealth may have been an important factor, but it was never the decisive reason they entered the game.
If it had been, they never would have gotten in — and nothing would have worked out.
So for you, reading this: remember. If something, when you try to do it, feels not just difficult but wrong — awkward, uncomfortable, like you’re going against your own grain — then that thing is simply not meant for you.
And the “wrong” and “awkward” I’m talking about has absolutely nothing to do with feeling tired or working hard. Those are completely different things.
I mean feeling unnatural. Ill at ease. Out of place. Like you simply don’t fit.
If that’s how something makes you feel, don’t get involved — and don’t keep chasing it with obsession. Otherwise there are only two outcomes: either you force-ripen a fruit that was never sweet to begin with, or you don’t even manage to force it, and it shatters all over the floor.
From the perspective of destiny frameworks, people are genuinely fascinating creatures. This is where the old saying rings true: “Heaven-born talents always find their use.” I’ve truly rarely encountered anyone whose destiny chart is entirely devoid of wealth fortune.
Most people have some degree of wealth fortune — large or small. And as long as you seize it in today’s world, even a modest few hundred thousand to a million is achievable.
So why do so few succeed? The failures all made the same mistake: they fixed their eyes on just a handful of well-worn paths.
Stocks. Real estate. Promotions. As if only three roads exist under heaven.
But in this world, how many more ways are there to earn and build wealth?
Take Master Chi himself — in spare moments, he picks up a brush; when time allows, he helps friends who are fated to cross his path with destiny readings (命理) and Feng Shui consultations. In the process, he meets all kinds of people who each found their own road to wealth.
Some have a remarkable gift for socializing and relationship-building, and they never let it go to their heads. Unlike certain young people fixated on doing only “big things,” these individuals stay grounded in reality — specializing in helping friends worth a few tens of millions find small investment opportunities.
Each one puts in a few hundred thousand. For them, that’s pocket change. When the small venture succeeds, they take a slice of equity. When it doesn’t — so what? There’s no guaranteed win in this world.
Today, this person — now in his early forties — holds small equity stakes in nearly a dozen restaurants, massage parlors, and nail salons across Shenzhen. He clears a six-figure monthly income with ease, and the best part? It’s self-sustaining — no ongoing effort required.
How did he get started?
When you hear it, you’ll probably raise an eyebrow. He was once a sales rep for one of those sketchy pyramid-adjacent financial products. But his defining quality was this: he never killed the goose for its golden eggs.
So when he saw his platform starting to crumble, he went full double-agent — immediately tipping off his own clients, urging them to withdraw even if it meant breaking their contracts. That’s how he forged bonds of real loyalty.
With a person like that, how could they not succeed?
Or consider a friend operating inside a certain system — by all appearances a young person barely past thirty, yet he took a shortcut and still delivered genuine success for himself and his family.
Master Chi has always believed: taking shortcuts is perfectly fine. The main roads are too crowded anyway. But never, ever take the crooked road.
So how did this person rise?
Look — inside the system and outside it, each world has its own sky. Those inside can’t reach into what’s outside without crossing a serious line. Those outside often can’t decode the language of the inside — limited by specialty, bureaucratic phrasing hard to decipher.
This creates a gap. And he stepped into it: let me translate for you — how this works, how to navigate it, how to secure support more effectively, how to access tax exemptions, how to apply for various things — all legitimate, all within the rules.
Don’t underestimate this. Steady drops wear through stone; steady words accumulate wealth. Once those on the outside finally understand, they’ll say: would you be willing to come on as a consultant?
“Consultant” is a fascinating role. You’re brought in on what matters; you don’t have to appear when it doesn’t. Clean, legitimate, and everyone gets what they need.
Of course, space limits what I’ve shared here — these are only examples. There are far more cases, some of which, while perfectly harmless, are better not spoken of to outsiders.
But to bring the conversation back around — Master Chi wants to urge you to do one thing: as long as you have even a little energy to spare, never trap yourself on a single playing field — unless that field truly belongs to you and the returns are extraordinarily rich.
Otherwise, always keep a portion of your energy free to participate in and explore various opportunities and side ventures.
This isn’t about being unfocused or straying from your path. This is genuinely the act of investing in yourself while opening new roads simultaneously.
Because from the perspective of destiny frameworks, a person’s wealth fortune shifts at every stage of life. Take someone who was a performer in youth, living on acting fees and endorsements — then became a social butterfly who married into wealth — then in her prime became a business owner with real pull in Beijing’s elite social circles.
This kind of person appears carefree and unassuming, hardly the scheming type. Yet step by step, she advances steadily and surely. Every turn of fortune she was meant to walk — she walked it with this one life. That is no small cleverness.
If she can do it — what about you?
There’s not much more to say. Master Chi only hopes you find your wealth fortune soon, and step onto your own road to prosperity.