Heavenly Mandate Diviner

Everyone has a fate: three parts are determined by Heaven, and seven by karma. The Ma Yi lineage reads faces, feels bones, calculates the Eight Characters, divines yin and yang, and determines life and death. Though they glimpse the secrets of Heaven, they can never escape the Five Afflictions and Three Deficiencies. Nineteen-year-old Lin Yan is the last orthodox heir of the Ma Yi lineage. His parents died mysteriously when he was a child, and their deaths were ruled an accident. His grandfather exhausted a lifetime’s worth of heavenly secrets and sacrificed years of his life to lock away Lin Yan’s fate, forcibly rescuing him from a death sentence. His three final admonitions were: Do not reveal Heaven’s secrets. Do not alter anyone’s fate. Do not investigate old cases. But the moment his grandfather closed his eyes, the tides of karma came rolling in. He sets up a fortune-telling stall, sees the fortune and misfortune in a person’s life at a glance, and lifts a hand to cut through yin-yang curses. Some are so wealthy they seem blessed by Heaven, yet they have stolen their fortune by borrowing someone else’s life. Others live ordinary lives, yet their virtue brings them blessings. People ask me: Can fate be changed? Lin Yan raises his eyes to survey the fortune of the land and answers calmly: The secrets of Heaven can be defied, and karma can be transcended. With my Ma Yi divination, I dare calculate Heaven, judge fate, and defy all living beings! This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.